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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

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.

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The LOM for RDM and the unevenly distributed knowledge

There is a quote by William Gibson, science fiction author, that goes: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”The same is true in the research landscape with

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

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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 “Mapping learning resources and identifying gaps in data competence portfolios.” We brought together participants from data

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

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Who cares (hopefully)?

My main task at WiNoda is to create self-study courses on various topics that we want to make available via Moodle.The range of courses on research data management is already

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Hello World!

When someone asks me what I currently do for a living, I answer: I mainly create eLearning materials for a data competence center.At this point, my counterpart’s eyes glaze over