Research Data Management
In our current project, we support the development of RDM through the following activities:
- Since the beginning of 2024, the Joint Lab has been working on the revision of the learning objectives matrix on research data management (DINI/nestor-AG Forschungsdaten/UAG Schulungen/Fortbildungen, DALIA). In the development of the recently published version 3, the Joint Lab supported two working groups in the content-related revision of subject areas and is active in public relations work to promote the matrix (see V3 of the matrix on Zenodo). The Joint Lab is also currently working with other partners on the English translation of the matrix.
- Together with FDM-ndsHAW, the Joint Lab has been organising the Lower Saxony Data Steward Roundtable since summer 2024, which takes place informally on a monthly basis.
- It's clear to everyone that RDM expertise needs to be strengthened. But can you actually measure RDM expertise? The employees of the Joint Lab formulated this idea in a blog post. Perhaps it is suitable for a research project?
- Working together with the HsH data steward, the Joint Lab employees have started to develop an RDM training course for HsH researchers and teaching staff. The first implementation is planned for the winter semester 2025/2026.
Future Libraries and training the next generation of information scientists
- Supervision of BA theses related to current topics of the Joint Lab in the Information Management degree programme at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts (BIM and BIB degree programmes)
- Student project “Critical Cataloguing - Bias in library cataloguing systems”
- Investigation of the status of RDM in information science curricula, outlining of RDM-specific curricula for possible subsequent use at the HsH
- Students @ TIB - Write your Bachelor's or Master's thesis at or in cooperation with TIB
Events and publications
We presented the Joint Lab and our work at the following events:
- Kick-off state initiative (Pillar 2) in Hanover (10 April 2024) (short presentation on the concept of the Data Steward Stammtisch, report)
- Opening celebration of the intitute Data|H at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts (16 April 2024) (poster presentation)
- 112th BiblioCon in Hamburg (04 to 07 June) (workshop)
- Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology in Munich (6 to 8 September 2024) (pre-registration, poster presentation)
- Data Stewardship goes Germany 2024 in Aachen (11 and 12 September 2024) (poster presentation)
- FDM@Campus in Göttingen (23 to 25 September 2024) (workshop and poster presentation)
- Data Days Lower Saxony 2024 in Hanover (13 and 14 November 2024) (design of the closed session: Data Steward networking meeting)
- Theme week: ‘Digital skills in science’ in Hanover (2 to 4 December 2024) (short presentation on the Data Steward Network in Lower Saxony)
- Fellowship of the Data - International RDM Community Meeting 2025 in Jena (1 to 2 April 2025) (poster presentation)
- Info-Termin 2025-06-16: FDM-Lernzielmatrix (recording, slide set)
- 9th Library Congress (113.BiblioCon) 2025 in Bremen (24 to 27 June 2025) (talk)
Peer-reviewed publications from our Joint Lab:
- Düvel, N., & Altemeier, F. (2025) Publikation von Forschungsdaten an der Hochschule Hannover: Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Untersuchung der bisherigen Praxis auf dem Schriftenserver SerWisS. Bausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement, (1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.17192/bfdm.2025.1.8774
Further outcomes of the cooperation between TIB and HsH
- OERcamp Hannover 2025
- Cooperation project Automated comprehension testing of learning videos (VidQA) by HsH, LUH and TIB (2023-2026)
- TIP (Team Information Professionals) Award 2023
- Close integration of the Information Management degree programme with the training offered at the TIB, particularly in the practical phases in the 4th and 7th semesters
- As part of an internship by HsH students at the TIB, a bibliometric study was developed and published, which was subsequently selected as the ‘Research Metrics and Analytics Editors’ Pick 2021": Are Conference Posters Being Cited?
- This book was produced as part of a seminar at the HsH in close cooperation with the TIB Open Science Lab as part of the TIB Book Sprint R&D: The Open Science Guide of Guides
- Project to implement the DigAMus knowledge graph
- Re-use of OA images (NOA), joint research project, 2016 to 2019, see also this conference paper on Figures in Scientific Open Access Publications
- Collaboration of HsH student Cedrik Zellmann on the OpenBiblioJobs skills monitor (2019)
- Collaboration of HsH students in the Bachelor of Information Management on the project Places of Gestapo Terror in present-day Lower Saxony (2021 and 2022)
- Cooperation within the framework of the Remember Me! project (2022)
Cooperation with other projects
In relation to our activities in the field of RDM, we currently work together with the following projects and initiatives:
