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Impressions from the Deutsche Naturschutztag 2026

This year’s 𝗗𝗲𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝘁𝘇𝘁𝗮𝗴 (March 10-14, 2026 in Berlin) 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗡𝗼𝗗𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹! One of […]

Screenshot einer Quiz-Seite in einem H5P-Portfolio, das für einen WiNoDa Selbstlernkurs erstellt wird.

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Creating OER with H5P

When creating our self-study courses, we tried out various formats to present our content in a visually appealing and interactive way.In the past (yes, still during the coronavirus lockdown), often

Mini figures of Susan, Kai, Dave, and Anita staggered on a gray interlocking brick plate.

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Creating OER with the WiNoDa Personas

After writing the subject-specific scripts based on the chosen learning objectives, I began creating the actual online course, i.e. the narrative presentation of the content in Moodle. Our ‘personas’ help

Teaser für die Ankündigung des neuen Videos "WiNoDa Winter School: Introduction to Resesarch Data Management" mit Caitlin Thorn

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March 2, 2026 – News from the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹: 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀? 🖥️ 🐝 We’ll soon release a 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 from the School, and they will cover a

A group of smiling people standing in front of an entry way, waving at the camera.

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WiNoDa Project Meeting 2026 – Looking Back to Move Forward

Last week, the WiNoDa team met for its annual project meeting at the MfN in Berlin (thank you for your hospitality!). We are 20 people from 6 institutes – most

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Creating OER with the LOM

How quickly time flies when you’re having fun!There’s a reason for the long silence on our blog – it may have looked like we were hibernating, but we have been

Alper Murat Kirpik, Excavation in Göbekli Tepe

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Open science competencies in the object-related disciplines of Earth and human history

Results of the study “Open science competencies of researchers working with object-related data in Earth and human history” For the Open Science focus area of the WiNoDa project, attitudes, expectations,

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.

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Knowledge Management with Obsidian

I came across Obsidian on my Mastodon timeline. Some time ago, the subject of “knowledge management” was a hot topic there. The pros and cons of various software programs were

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Writing better with Markdown

Much has been said and written about the gradual formation of thoughts while writing. And it’s all true!That’s why I’m still glad that I started learning to touch type at

Detail from an insect box in the darkling beetle collection. The beetles are mounted on needles with their hand- or machine-written labels

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Persistent Identifiers (PID) for Physical Objects

Anyone dealing with Open Science and the FAIR principles will sooner or later encounter persistent identifiers, or PIDs. The first FAIR principle, findability, already refers to them: “(Meta)data are assigned