Dear Biodata-IG Members,
Thank you all for your constructive input! The workshop report has now been cleaned up. All feedback has been integrated, and your additions and rephrasing suggestions have been accepted:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fphOZXrhU7RjCN33O7cXbSdz4w058PllyLA1a-8…
There are just two comments left that are waiting for final feedback.
@Christian Schmidt – could you please take a quick look and get back to us on those?
Additionally, while all other consortia have given their approval for the Zenodo publication (provided the feedback was integrated), the official approval for NFDI4Microbiota is still missing.
@Konrad Förstner – could you please give us the green light on this?
A couple of quick administrative updates regarding the current version of the document:
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We have removed the links to internal workshop documents.
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We also removed the Biodata-IG NFDI logo, as it has not yet been officially approved by the NFDI.
Authorship & Action Required: For the final publication, we suggest listing the spokespersons of the consortia alongside the workshop participants as authors. I have added a table in a separate tab within the document listing everyone. Please check this table to ensure your details are correct and add or verify your ORCID if it is still missing.
If we do not receive any objections regarding the authorship list or the content of the report by July 3, we will proceed with publishing it on Zenodo accordingly.
Thank you again for your continued collaboration and hard work on this!
Kind regards,
Mary
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Dr. rer. nat. Mary-Ann Ebeling
Bioinformatics and Information Technology |
Breeding Research |
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
E: ebeling(a)ipk-gatersleben.de W: www.ipk-gatersleben.de
Corrensstrasse 3, OT Gatersleben D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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Dr. rer. nat. Mary-Ann Ebeling
Bioinformatics and Information Technology |
Breeding Research |
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
E: ebeling(a)ipk-gatersleben.de W: www.ipk-gatersleben.de
Corrensstrasse 3, OT Gatersleben D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
Dear colleagues of the Biodata Interest Group,
We agreed on a monthly Jour Fixe, at the first Friday of the month, 1pm.
Our first meeting in this rhythm will be on Friday, July 3rd (so next week).
Find attached a meeting series as a blocker for your calendar (so far, only until December).
See you all next week,
kind regards,
Judith
Biodata IG JF
Geplant: 03.07.2026, 13:00 bis 14:00, MESZ
Ort: https://uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/j/68605178669?pwd=dDCgyehENtCMluPWSycbuA5rAFWV…

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Dr. Judith Engel
NFDI4Biodiversity Cross Community Coordination
MARUM- University of Bremen
PANGAEA Data Publisher
Telefone: +49 421 218 65581
Email: Judith.Engel(a)uni-bremen.de
www.gfbio.org <http://www.gfbio.org/>
www.nfdi4biodiversity.org <http://www.nfdi4biodiversity.org/>
Hi everyone,
In the last meeting we decided to try again to find a day and time for a Biodata IG jour fixe.
Please fill out the survey regarding the meeting frequency and the proposed days and times until 15th June: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/de/e/abb8f532917f10c68a3083cc326a8786-1784369
I used the days and timeslots that were used in our meetings during the last year (but have to admit I skipped the 8am slots).
Kind regards,
Judith
Hi everyone,
Just a quick update that the Biodata-IG master slide deck is now ready to use:
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bhxyu_8XG2iYcyH-WnGmuSpiGGY_-zIjRbA…>
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2026-05-21-biodata-ig-master-slides<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bhxyu_8XG2iYcyH-WnGmuSpiGGY_-zIjRbA…>
docs.google.com<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bhxyu_8XG2iYcyH-WnGmuSpiGGY_-zIjRbA…>
A couple of quick notes:
* Please make a copy: If you plan to use the slides, please make a copy of the presentation for yourself and make any edits there, rather than altering this master document directly.
* The bullet point on publications has been rephrased according to Judith's suggestion.
* I’ve appended a few slides from the "older" version at the very end of the deck, just so we have everything easily accessible in one spot.
If you have any ideas about extending the slide deck, please let me know. I’ll gladly take care of incorporating your ideas so that everything matches the current design.
Cheers, Mary
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Dr. rer. nat. Mary-Ann Ebeling
Bioinformatics and Information Technology |
Breeding Research |
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
E: ebeling(a)ipk-gatersleben.de W: www.ipk-gatersleben.de
Corrensstrasse 3, OT Gatersleben D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
Hi everyone,
Just a quick reminder that the deadline to leave your feedback on the Biodata-IG workshop report is June 15, 2026.
You can access the document here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1txxZJT-Is27G4AMNY1KEdICRnZ1yr2zlSo2goz8…
As agreed during the voting at our last meeting, we are planning to publish the report on Zenodo.
Action required: Please make sure to get the final confirmation for publication from the spokesperson of your consortia.
Additionally, please note that since one consortium vetoed sharing the internal Google Doc links publicly, we will remove those links from the Zenodo version. They will be kept strictly in the internal report.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Cheers,
Mary
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Dr. rer. nat. Mary-Ann Ebeling
Bioinformatics and Information Technology |
Breeding Research |
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
E: ebeling(a)ipk-gatersleben.de W: www.ipk-gatersleben.de
Corrensstrasse 3, OT Gatersleben D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
Good afternoon everyone,
Some members of the NFDI BioData IG will meet online on 16 June from 2 pm to 3 pm to discuss knowledge bases:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84274274711?pwd=z0ahL14901ggy04FFoqScRwYCVEsGJ.1
Meeting ID: 842 7427 4711
Passcode: 871869
We will discuss how to combine our knowledge bases to avoid duplicating relevant information, as well as how to include and cross-link articles in the respective knowledge hubs. If there is anything else you would like to discuss, please let me know and I will add it to the agenda.
Please feel free to invite anyone who might be interested.
Best wishes,
Justine
Dear Biodata IG Members,
It was wonderful collaborating with so many of you at our recent workshop at the Julius Kühn Institute in Berlin! We have put together a draft report summarizing our many discussions.
You can find the document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AT0IOKq_ZsI35Mg8W1iFoxaJhGMkb7H25qp-lUn…
To keep things organized, the document is split into two tabs:
* Tab 1: Contains the draft report itself for your review.
* Tab 2: Contains a matrix to collect your consortium's feedback and approvals.
In the second tab, please let us know your consortium's position on the following three points:
1. Approval of the report's content.
2. Approval to publish a finalized version of the report on Zenodo.
3. Your feedback on including view-only links to the original workshop documents within the report.
Could you please provide your input by Monday, May 18th? This will give us plenty of time to prepare a revised version before our next meeting.
Thank you so much for your continued support and collaboration!
Warm regards,
Mary & Uwe
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Dr. rer. nat. Mary-Ann Ebeling
Bioinformatics and Information Technology |
Breeding Research |
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
E: ebeling(a)ipk-gatersleben.de W: www.ipk-gatersleben.de
Corrensstrasse 3, OT Gatersleben D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
Dear all,
thank you for filling in the survey!
Please find attached raw and aggregated data for a first overview. on
Thursday, there will be neat figures. The pdf contains figures based on
raw data.
Best wishes,
Juliane
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Dr. Juliane Röder
Projektmitarbeiterin | Project assistant
NFDI4BioDiversity Task Area 1 Measure 4 – Education and Training
www.nfdi4biodiversity.org
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Servicezentrum digital gestützte Forschung www.uni-marburg.de/eresearch
HeFDI — Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen www.hefdi.de
Biegenstraße 36
35032 Marburg
Tel.: +49 6421-28-25022
juliane.roeder(a)uni-marburg.de
Röder, J., Signer, J., Scherreiks, P., Figueiredo, L., Kusch, E.,
Linares Gómez, J., Müller, W., Nozik, A., Schellenberger Costa, D.,
Scherer, C., Schindler, U., & Tschink, D. (2025). Template for the
NFDI4Biodiversity & iDiv Seasonal School on Data Management in Ecology
and Environmental Science 2024 (1.0). Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15585748
Röder, J. (2025). A (very brief) introduction to research data
management. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641467
Röder, J., Frohne, K., & Tschink, D. (2024). Research Data Scary
Tales—Biodiversity Edition. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14237417
Röder, J., Scherreiks, P., Dröst, F., Dworczyk, C., Gemeinholzer, B.,
Reiners, T. E., Schwartz, A. L., Tschink, D., & Brand, O. (2024).
Workshopbericht Trainingsdatensätze und FDM-Trainingsmaterial. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.11620702
Fischer, M., Röder, J., Signer, J., Tschink, D., Weibulat, T., & Brand,
O. (2023, 2024). NFDI4Biodiversity Self-Study Unit - Research Data
Management for Biodiversity Data.
LiaScript course. https://github.com/NFDI4Biodiversity/nfdi4biodiversity-sle
Ilias course. https://ilias.uni-marburg.de/goto.php/crs/3219917
Text. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10377867
Import files Ilias & Moodle. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17582795
Dear members of the Biodata Interest Group,
please complete the survey below no later than *Monday, 13 April 2026!*
https://redcap.kks.uni-marburg.de/surveys/?s=RYF83YXJRX3XRW3H
We will share the results with all of you before our in-person meeting
in Berlin 15-16 April 2026.
These results will be an important part of the discussions on training
in the Biodata IG on Thursday morning. We only have a time slot of 90
mins, and we will need this time for discussions, rather than for
collecting details on our consortias' training strategies.
Thank you!
Juliane
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Dr. Juliane Röder
Projektmitarbeiterin | Project assistant
NFDI4BioDiversity Task Area 1 Measure 4 – Education and Training
www.nfdi4biodiversity.org
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Servicezentrum digital gestützte Forschung www.uni-marburg.de/eresearch
HeFDI — Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen www.hefdi.de
Biegenstraße 36
35032 Marburg
Tel.: +49 6421-28-25022
juliane.roeder(a)uni-marburg.de
Röder, J., Signer, J., Scherreiks, P., Figueiredo, L., Kusch, E.,
Linares Gómez, J., Müller, W., Nozik, A., Schellenberger Costa, D.,
Scherer, C., Schindler, U., & Tschink, D. (2025). Template for the
NFDI4Biodiversity & iDiv Seasonal School on Data Management in Ecology
and Environmental Science 2024 (1.0). Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15585748
Röder, J. (2025). A (very brief) introduction to research data
management. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641467
Röder, J., Frohne, K., & Tschink, D. (2024). Research Data Scary
Tales—Biodiversity Edition. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14237417
Röder, J., Scherreiks, P., Dröst, F., Dworczyk, C., Gemeinholzer, B.,
Reiners, T. E., Schwartz, A. L., Tschink, D., & Brand, O. (2024).
Workshopbericht Trainingsdatensätze und FDM-Trainingsmaterial. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.11620702
Fischer, M., Röder, J., Signer, J., Tschink, D., Weibulat, T., & Brand,
O. (2023, 2024). NFDI4Biodiversity Self-Study Unit - Research Data
Management for Biodiversity Data.
LiaScript course. https://github.com/NFDI4Biodiversity/nfdi4biodiversity-sle
Ilias course. https://ilias.uni-marburg.de/goto.php/crs/3219917
Text. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10377867
Import files Ilias & Moodle. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17582795