Research results are increasingly being shaped by digitalization processes - this applies both to research methods and to their communication in science and society. At the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Digital Transformation of Research" (DiTraRe), we are investigating the effects and potential of the increasing digitalization of scientific work in four interdisciplinary research clusters.
This week, our colleague @Feelix was presenting the RADAR research data repository ""Das generische Forschungsdatenrepositorium RADAR: Nachhaltigkeit und Sicherheit in der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung heterogener Daten"" at the NESTOR Praxistag "Risk Management for digital long term archival" in Dresden.
https://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Webs/nestor/DE/Home/home_node.html
#radar #ditrare #digitalisation #nestor #archival #preservation
Open repositories are being profoundly impacted by AI bots and other crawlers: Results of a COAR Survey
https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/open-repositories-are-being-profoundly-impacted-by-ai-bots-and-other-crawlers-results-of-a-coar-survey/
🌟 Save the Date! 🌟
Join us for the NFDI4Microbiota Annual Conference in Cologne, 30 Sep – 2 Oct 2025. Enjoy free, open-to-all hands-on workshops and scientific talks on microbial data integration.
Network with leading researchers and help shape the future of microbiome science. Full program details coming soon!
#NFDI4Microbiota #Microbiome #SaveTheDate
Strategy and Planning meeting at Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart for the BMF project Wiedergutmachung (Recompensation of Nationalsocialist Injustice) about the digitalisation of more than 100km of historical archival documents.
@fiz_karlsruhe @bmf @LandesarchivBW @lysander07 @fizise @MahsaVafaie #digitalisation #semanticweb #informationextraction #dh #digitalhumanities @dfaehle
🚀 Digitalpolitik ist Gesellschaftspolitik!
#Digitalminister Wildberger fordert eine positive Zukunftserzählung – wir sagen: Das #Gemeinwohl muss ins Zentrum der #Digitalisierung!
đź”— Ă–ffentliche digitale Infrastruktur heiĂźt auch: Open Source, Open Data, #Wikipedia, #OpenStreetMap, #Fediverse & #Mastodon.
🏢 Offene digitale Infrastrukturen helfen auch der #Verwaltung beim Modernisieren. Mehr dazu bald – stay tuned!
Can the Internet Archive save our digital history? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh98N46DM5k
Forschende unseres Exzellenzclusters "Balance of the Microverse" haben gemeinsam mit internationalen Partnern ein neues Werkzeug entwickelt, das die genetische Analyse von #Viren erheblich vereinfacht und beschleunigt.
Die Methode namens Vclust kann Millionen viraler Genome innerhalb weniger Stunden analysieren und präzise nach Ähnlichkeit gruppieren – eine bisher unerreichte Leistung in der #Viromforschung.
➡️ https://www.uni-jena.de/316536/welt-der-viren-neu-geordnet
Yesterday, our colleague Felix Bach was in Berlin to participate at the Leibniz Networking Meeting on AI for scientific use cases. Very interesting presentations and discussions on AI regulations at Leibniz institutes, AI use in research data management including aspects like metadata extraction and data interviews.
#LeibnizGemeinschaft @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @Feelix @AnnaJacyszyn #ditrare #digitalisation #AI #AIlegal #aiethics #researchdata
Yesterday, our colleague @AnnaJacyszyn was visiting the IBT (Institute of Biomedical Engineering) at KIT together with @GenAsefa to discuss with Silvia the topic of a diploma thesis "ICU stay prediction" which we want to offer as a collaboratively supervised topic for AIFB and IBT master students.
#ditrare #masterthesis @feelix @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise #biomed_research @KIT_Karlsruhe @ITAS_KIT
Do you already know our #DiTraRe newsletter? If you are interested in the latest DiTraRe project results and generally interested in the digitalisation of science and research and on the effects of AI on the sciences and humanities, then please register for our monthly newslatter at:
https://www.ditrare.de/en/newsletter
#digitalisation #humanities #DH #AI #llm @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @lysander07 @AnnaJacyszyn @Feelix @ITAS_KIT @KIT_Karlsruhe
Visiting KIT Institute for Meteorology & Climatology (IMK) today for a #DiTraRe dimension + use case meeting.
@fiz_karlsruhe @ITAS_KIT @KIT_Karlsruhe #digitalisation #meteorology #climatology @AnnaJacyszyn @Feelix
Do you already now our zenodo community? Here you can find all sort of publications, presentations, and published datasets of the #DiTraRe project:
https://zenodo.org/communities/ditrare/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest
@fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @KIT_Karlsruhe @ITAS_KIT @AnnaJacyszyn @Feelix #digitalisation #AI #Aiethics #dataprivacy
Computational modeling in biology is now mature, shifting from universal models to digital twins & virtual cohorts for in silico trials. New publication by our partner Axel Loewe from KIT Institute of Biomedical Engineering:
Loewe, A., Hunter, P., Kohl, P., (2024) Computational modelling of biological systems now and then: revisiting tools and visions from the beginning of the century
https://zenodo.org/records/15363208
#biomed_research #DigitalTwin #InSilicoTrials #AI4Health @AnnaJacyszyn @Feelix
![Figure 1. Synergy of mechanistic and statistical (data-driven) models. Reproduced from Corral-Acero et al. [12] under the Cre-
ative Commons Attribution License 4.0.
The advent of new experimental methods and the rise of machine learning [8–11] have introduced an apparent dichotomy between mechanistic and data‑driven approaches. Data‑driven
models seem to navigate a cloudy summit, while mechanistic models dwell in the village. Both possess the potential for integration, as data‑driven models can be hypothesis proffering
(mountain‑to‑village information transfer), while mechanistic models, especially when bridging multiple scales (temporal, spatial, species, disease, etc.) can offer relevant data input (village‑to‑
mountain information transfer). With the latter being built upon first principles, they are more likely to generalize well and respect fundamental laws of physics. The former, however, are di‑
rectly linked to real‑world observations and thus more likely to capture important phenomena of in vivo (patho‑)physiology. Looking to the future, we need to integrate data‑driven and mecha‑
nistic modelling approaches, as visualized in figure 1, more systematically in order to use the full potential of both.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/471/229/635/157/705/original/57474097c9d154b4.png)
Save the Date! We are planning to conduct the DiTraRe Symposium 2025 on Dec 2-3, 2025 at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe discussing challenges and opportunities related to digitalisation and AI in/for research in the sciences and humanities.
More to come soon...
#AI #digitalisation #ditrare #ditrare2025 #symposium #karlsruhe @fiz_karlsruhe @AnnaJacyszyn @Feelix @fizise @lysander07
Today we are guests in the Mathematics building at KIT campus south with our April 2025 All-hands-on-deck meeting exchanging the latest results within our use cases and the DiTraRe research dimensions.
@fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @AnnaJacyszyn @ITAS_KIT @KIT_Karlsruhe @Feelix #digitalisation #ditrare #lsc #LeibnizGemeinschaft @lysander07
A new contribution by our partners Lea Sophie Singson and Ely Nova Natalia Silaban; "Die Rechtslage bei der Publikation großer Datensätze im Bereich Meteorologie und Klimaforschung" explaining the results of a survey on legal questions around the publication of large research datatasets in meteorology & climatology
https://zenodo.org/records/15209663
#climatology #meteorology #digitalisation #AI #DataPrivacy #datapublication @fiz_karlsruhe @AnnaJacyszyn @ITAS_KIT @KIT_Karlsruhe
'Optimizing Data Collection for Machine Learning', by Rafid Mahmood, James Lucas, Jose M. Alvarez, Sanja Fidler, Marc T. Law.
http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/23-0292.html
#supervised #deep #collecting
Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-is-actively-working-to-rescue-data-activity-7318581859896975360-YYht
(fulltext in reply)
This is the culmination of weeks of work đź’–
#SafeguardingResearch
New Whitepaper published: "Measuring the Value of (Research) Data" đź“Šđź“š
Data is more than just the "new oil"—it’s a unique economic asset with special characteristics that make its value challenging to measure. But how can businesses and research institutions quantify the actual value of their data?
đź“„ Read the full whitepaper here: https://zenodo.org/records/14944087
#ResearchData #DataEconomy #DataValue #FAIRPrinciples #Innovation #NFDI #BusinessValue #DataSharing
Very interesting map showing email servers for every municipality in Europe. Happy to see that Karlsruhe is not dependent on Microsoft or Google.
https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/map.html
#Digitalsovereignity #maps #europe #karlsruhe #digitalisation
