@nfdi4earth
Thank you so much for the kind words and thoughtful reflection on #HMC_CON2025! We're thrilled to hear that the spirit of collaboration, exchange, and practical insights came through. It was a pleasure to bring the community together in Cologne — and we’re grateful to everyone who helped make it such a memorable event.
Let’s keep the dialogue going — metadata matters more than ever!
@Alejandro_P
You can find many contributions to #HMC_CON2025 in our #Zenodo Community:
https://zenodo.org/communities/hmc-conference-2025
A big thank you to the @helmholtz_hmc team and everyone involved for the great organisation of #HMC_CON2025 !
The conference shows: Metadata is not just a technical topic, but a central basis for transparent, sustainable and reusable research.
❓ Who else was there? What were your highlights?
#HMC2025 #RDM #ResearchData #FAIRdata #Metadata #OpenScience #Interoperability
What was the #HMC_CON2025 really about?
✅ Specific insights into metadata solutions and standards that already work in practice
🔗 Linking theory & application through use cases, lightning talks and poster sessions
💬 Valuable discussions on common challenges and new approaches
🤝 Community feeling: the personal interaction complemented and deepened the mostly digital exchange
A look back at the HMC Conference 2025 #HMC_CON2025 in Cologne - More than just a meeting about the metadata world!
The @helmholtz_hmc Conference took place in Cologne from 12 to 14 May. It featured an interesting programme covering all aspects of metadata, interoperability and FAIRness in research. In addition, the conference offered one thing above all: space for dialogue, networking and inspiration.
#HMC2025 #RDM #ResearchData #FAIRdata #Metadata #OpenScience #Interoperability
Thank you for being part of #HMC_CON2025 and for sharing your valuable contributions @indiscale !
We're excited to see so many inspiring materials already available on Zenodo – including your work on data management with LinkAhead and ELN integration. A big thank-you to everyone who helped make this event such a rich exchange of ideas.
🔗 Explore all contributions here: https://zenodo.org/communities/helmholtz-metadatacollaboration
🚀 The #HMC Conference materials are now online!
We had a great time exchanging ideas at #HMC_CON2025! Many exciting contributions are now online, have a look!
Our poster & slides on #datamanagement with LinkAhead and integration with #ELNs can be found here:
📌 Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/15422485
🎤 Presentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15462329
@helmholtz_hmc
Great to see such a strong and diverse presence of @NFDI at #HMC_CON2025 !
The range of contributions highlights the depth and collaborative spirit of the community. Many thanks to you and Stefanie and all other NDFI presenters for driving forward research data management in such a meaningful way.
#NFDI #ResearchData #OpenScience #RDM #Metadata #MetadataMatters
At #HMC_Con2025, @NFDI was present with several projects:
* NFDI Metadata Workshop results, talk by Emanuel Södig
* SciCat, talk by Tim Wetzel @daphne
* Kadi4Mat, talk by Johannes Steinhülb, NFDI-Matwerk, @nfdi4ing
* PID4NFDI, talk by Sara El-Gebal, @pid4nfdi
* Keynote by Konrad Förstner, @NFDI4Microbiota
* NFDI booth by Stefanie Fuchsloch and Cord Wiljes, @NFDI
After three days of exciting talks, lively discussions and shared passion about metadata, #HMC_Con2025 came to a close. Thank you for the perfect organization and the warm welcome in the @helmholtz_hmc@helmholtz.social community. We had a great time and are travelling home with lots of useful information and new ideas.
Absolutely – what a great discussion after the keynote! So many important points came up.
We definitely need more time and space for conversations like that. Let’s keep it going! 🔄🗣️
Thank you so muc @kuf – we're truly glad you could join us!
Your talk and the exchange afterward were a real highlight. Let’s keep the conversation going – and thank you again for being part of #HMC_CON2025! 💬✨
A day later and still inspired by #HMC_CON2025!
Day 3 wrapped up with sessions on Human Actors, FAIR Metrics & Metadata Management – showing again: good metadata needs both people and tech.
Big thanks to all speakers & participants for 3 days full of insights, tools & connection.
Let’s keep making metadata matter – beyond the conference! 🧩
Against the background of recent shutdowns of many research data services in the US @kuf bemoans in his #hmc_con2025 keynote that services are often not open sourced.
In order to make it easier for others to pick up on the provision of a service in case it is shut down, he suggests running all as infrastructure as code by providing the service code, data and e.g. Ansible scripts for the server configuration.
🎤 We’re closing #HMC_CON2025 with a keynote from Konrad Förstner, (@kuf) joint professor for Data and Information Literacy at @ZBMED and @th_koeln.
As a champion of open science and metadata literacy, Konrad brings deep insight from research, teaching, and community work – including @thecarpentries and @NFDI4Microbiota
A great finale ahead!
Interesting case of research data management software, LinkAhead, being presented by Florian Spreckelsen at #hmc_con2025 : https://getlinkahead.com/ Originally developed at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, it is published as FOSS under AGPL and @indiscale GmbH provides professional support.
I got the feeling that there are not as many librarians at #hmc_con2025 as I had expected for it being a conference focused solely on research metadata. @helmholtz_hmc , do you have some statistics on the background/roles of conference participants?
Or does anybody know about some published numbers on the general involvement of libraries/librarians in research data management initatives?
I had to skip day 2 of Helmholts Metadata Collaboration Conference but am now back for day 3. There already was an interesting talk by two fellow librarians about data accessibility statements (DAS), how the lack of standardized, machine-readable DAS in publications hinders findability and automatic analysis of published datasets and what they did about this at bris.data. #hmc_con2025
There and back again. Photo taken on my way back from #hmc_con2025 across the Rhine, with a spectacular look at Cologne Cathedral.
Indeed, we did. And in this workshop at #hmc_con2025, I wrote down in my notes: "#CDIF is very relevant for us. Take a closer look at the CDIF Handbook (http://bit.ly/CDIF-Book)!"
