All posts by Veronica Haas

Libraries already operate institutional or specialist repositories for research data, license research data or make them openly available and impart data management skills to scientists. The ZBW and Mannheim University Library are involved in the consortium BERD@NFDI for the establishment of a Germany-wide infrastructure for the management of non-standardized and unstructured data for economics and related disciplines. BERD@NFDI services and tools are supplemented by corresponding training courses in the field of data literacy. At the Bibliohekskongress 2022 in Leipzig, Klaus Tochtermann and Sabine Gehrlein offer an overview of the range of library activities.

The Mannheim University Library offers various services via its research data center (FDZ) according to research needs, operates an institutional research data repository and assumes a pilot function in the entire RDM process. Find out more insights about “Forschungsdatenservices für nicht-STM-Fächer“, needs and implementation in the library presented from Annette Klein and Irene Schumm at Bibliothekskongress 2022 in Leipzig.

Have a look to the iVA poster by Markus Herklotz and Lars Oberländer. It shows how iVA was created as an openly available and self-paced learning module that can be extended to further support data collaboration and FAIR principles.

You would like to know more about iVA or just try it? It is openly available on our website.

CONNECT is an annual Data Science conference that addresses students, young professionals, researchers, practitioners and others interested in the field of Data Science and Survey Research. On 9th-10th June the MCDS invites you to the Academic Speed Dating on Data Science and the Data Science Conference which will take place at the Mannheim Business School.

The BERD team worked intensively with the ELSA section of the NFDI on the NFDI’s official statement on the EU Data Act Proposal. This has now been submitted and is available online.

as a Postdoc / Senior Researcher for Information Retrieval & Knowledge Graphs
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100%, limited to September 2026, with a potentially permanent future position). Just apply until 4th May 2022!

The International Conference on Economics and Business Information held from 17th until 19th May 2022 provides both a live and asynchronous conference program which participants can access at any time via the conference platform after free registration.

Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (TU Munich) will open this year’s conference with the keynote entitled “The next chapter for research information: decentralised, digital”. In addition, the panel discussion is dedicated to the question “Potential of AI for Libraries: A new level for knowledge organization?”

Together with a presentation of the BERD@NFDI consortium, our young scientists Markus Herklotz and Lars Oberländer are represented with a poster on iVA the Interactive Virtual Assistant – Enabling Data Collaboration by Conveying Legal Knowledge.