Screenshot of my Obsidian Graph View. Pink nodes are documents related to my Moodle courses, with thicker nodes for documents containing module planning. Blue nodes are people, light blue are institutions, green are data competence centers, orange are NFDI sections, red are open science, and turquoise nodes refer to my blog posts, etc. The thickest nodes represent a collection document that serves as a kind of index.
Knowledge Management with Obsidian
I came across Obsidian on my Mastodon timeline. Some time ago, the subject of “knowledge...
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Writing better with Markdown
Much has been said and written about the gradual formation of thoughts while writing....
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Persistent Identifiers (PID) for Physical Objects
Anyone dealing with Open Science and the FAIR principles will sooner or later encounter...
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Slide showing the CAREFUL principles, explaining the acronym in English. On the left, the initial letters, then an icon, then an explanatory text: Title line: Be CAREFUL Subtitle: when dealing with research that may be ideologically compromised List: C - magnifying glass - Contextualization. Place all sources, objects, and data within their proper historical, political, and ideological context. Avoid dehistoricized use. A - yellow triangle with exclamation mark - Awareness. Be alert to the origins and potential misuse of materials - is it shaped by fascist or racist ideology? R - handshake - Responsibility. Take active responsibility for the ethical handling and communication of ideologically sensitive research. E - Scales - Ethics. Apply strict ethical standards - especially when dealing with human remains, racialized data, or victim narratives. F - Microscope - Factual Rigor. Maintain scholarly integrity; examine biased assumptions or inherited classifications critically. U - Brain - Understanding. Deepen the historical and disciplinary understanding of how academia can be influenced by ideology. L - Heart - Legacy Sensitivity. Acknowledge the lasting impact of research materials on individuals, communities, and contemporary discourse.
The magic of acronyms. Part 3: CAREFUL
In the first two parts of this series, I discussed two well-established and widely...
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From Repositories to Data Journals
On September 30, 2025, 11:00 a.m. CEST, we will have a webinar about data journals...
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A look into the still empty event room. On the wall, you can see the slide with the logos of the participating organizations.
Three days of DataLad-Workshop & Hackathon in Aachen
In everyday research, a lot of mostly heterogeneous data is generated, which is often...
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Screenshot of the Zenodo page for the "Learning Objectives Matrix for Research Data Management (RDM)", Version 3, published on March 24, 2025. In addition to the title and list of authors, it shows that the LOM has had over 15K views and over 14K downloads to date.
The LOM for RDM and the unevenly distributed knowledge
There is a quote by William Gibson, science fiction author, that goes: “The future...
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Dark textbox with rounded corners displaying in mint green letters the Acronym CARE, below each capital letter in white the explanation: C for Collective Benefit, A for Authority to Control, R for Responsibility, E for Ethics. The textbox is bordered to the left and above by a geometric pattern.
The magic of acronyms. Part 2: CARE
This blog post is part of a series. Part 1 can be found here: https://winoda.de/en/2025/08/13/the-magic-of-acronyms-part-1-fair/...
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Graphic of the FAIR data Principles. The acronym is written out in full in the first line, with a magnifying glass for Findable, a hand placing a finger on a dot for Accessible, cogwheels for Interoperable and the recycling symbol for Reusable as symbols below it
The magic of acronyms. Part 1: FAIR
Do you recognize this?You read something and then you think something else because...
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The many forms of knowledge transfer
The communication of knowledge requires different forms for different formats –...
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Pie chart displaying the participants at the online workshop "Mapping learning resourcese and identifying gaps in data competence portfolios". They are: DALIA, WiNoDa, SODa, Come2Data, HERMES, de.KCD, RDMTraining4NFDI, RDM State Initiative Lower Saxony, NFDI4Earth, AquaINFRA
Mapping RDM training resources in data competence portfolios: A success story
June 26, the WiNoDa and DALIA teams hosted a dynamic three‑hour online workshop on...
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"Data Clues" - a material knowledge graph
For the Bremen Research Data Day, our WiNoDa colleagues from gfBio had registered...
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Four circles with cartoon figures: upper left, a blue circle shows a woman with long black hair and a blue sweater, titled Anita, Academic. upper right, a pink circle with the head of a bespectacled man, titled Kai, Collection Curator. lower left, a green circle with a bearded man, titled Dave, Data Enthusiast. lower right, a woman with a blue headscarf and a lab coat titled Susan, Senior Scientist
Who cares (hopefully)?
My main task at WiNoda is to create self-study courses on various topics that we...
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"FAIR future skills" - Research Data Day in Bremen, June 11 2025
In June 2023, I stumbled into the Research Data Day at the University of Bremen somewhat...
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social-media-hype
How could data competency go viral?
I’m currently writing a social media concept for WiNoDa. You would think this...
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Special stamp Europe with a value of 95 cents. Inscription left: UNESCO World Heritage Caves and Ice Age Art of the Swabian Jura, Germany 2025 | €. The stamp and the 8 additional fields adjacent to the perforated edge of the actual stamp show Stone Age ivory carvings in the form of animals (e.g. mammoth, horse, lion) and humans (Venus, lion-man) as well as some flutes.
Ice age art (digital)
Speaking of the digitization of objects, the German Europa stamp 2025 was issued...
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Someone is holding an antelope skull with slightly twisted horns in their left hand, while their right hand holds the label. A handwritten catalog with object entries and a computer screen are visible in the background.
Why do we even need data literacy?
In order to compare or analyze poems data sets, they need to be put into a structure....
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Close-up of a preserved honey bee against a white background. The bee is impaled on a needle. Below it on the needle are three data labels, one of which has a QR code.
What is this “data literacy” anyway?
This question can hardly be answered in one sentence.In English, we speak of “data...
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A yellowed stack of files, bound together with black ribbon and with the word “Acta” in bold letters on the title page. Two white-gloved hands examine the cover page with a strong magnifying glass.
Hello World!
When someone asks me what I currently do for a living, I answer: I mainly create...
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An owl specimen from the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin_(c) Ben Kaden
Open Access for Objects: Challenges and Opportunities
On November 20, 2024, the second event in the “Quo Vadis Open Science in Berlin and...
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Team WiNoDa (c) Eran Wolff
Start of the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab
It’s here – the WiNoDa data competence center is now online! The development of the...
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