11th Soiree: NFDIxCS in conversation with the data competence centers DKZ.2R and QUADRIGA
How can data literacy become part of everyday research practice — and what role do regional data competence centres play alongside national research data infrastructures? The next NFDIxCS Soiree brings together perspectives from QUADRIGA and DKZ.2R to explore how researchers can be supported in developing sustainable data practices and how regional and national initiatives can complement each other.
Description
Excellent, reproducible research requires broadly established research data literacy and open, long-term support infrastructures. This mission drives not only the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and, with it, NFDIxCS, but also the 11 nationwide data literacy centers.
We will be speaking with two of them – the Berlin-Brandenburg (QUADRIGA) and Rhine-Ruhr (DKZ.2R) Data Competence Centers – at the next NFDIxCS Soiree. We want to know what measures and offerings the two DKZ researchers use to support the development and improvement of their individual data-related competencies, what differences exist between them and also with the NFDI, and how we can strengthen synergies for greater data literacy and FAIR research data management.
We are very much looking forward to two keynote presentations followed by a discussion with:
Prof. Vivien Petras, Director of the QUADRIGA Learning Centers and Professor of Information Retrieval at the Institute for Library and Information Science at HU Berlin.
Alicia Janz, Senior Coordinator of DKZ.2R and Scientific Officer at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Moderator: Mpho Mathelemuse (Education & Society Advisor at GI and Project Staff Member at QUADRIGA and Civic Data Lab)
Please note: The Soiree will be held in German.
Join via Zoom: https://meetgi.zoom.us/j/68171013194?pwd=XaXwcjnk9oKKhcW0TOORHNiGkii2mo.1
DKZ.2R is one of eleven data literacy centers in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (formerly BMBF) for a period of three years. The goal is to support early-career researchers in developing their data and methodological skills and to promote holistic data literacy that combines high-performance computing, machine learning, and research data management competencies.
The QUADRIGA Data Competence Center creates meeting places for society, politics, and administration to collect, process, use, and analyze data in an increasingly digitized world, while providing researchers at all career stages with resources for confident data handling. To this end, it brings together the four disciplines of Digital Humanities, Public Administration, Computer Science, and Information Science around the data types of text, tables, and moving images at the Berlin-Brandenburg research hub.