[Biodata-Interest-Group] BioData MOU Status & Signing - Publication update

Dear Speaker of the Biodata IG consortia, dear Biodata Colleagues, We made it and just published the MoU on Zenodo! Ebert, B., Ewert, F., Förstner, K. U., Glöckner, F. O., McHardy, A. C., von Rummel, P., von Suchodoletz, D., Weidtkamp-Peters, S., Ebeling, M.-A., Engel, J., Hoffmann, C., Keller, C., Lange, M., Magel, M., Moore, J., Mühlhaus, T., Scholz, U., Specka, X., & thor Straten, M. (2026). Memorandum of Understanding between the NFDI consortia DataPLANT, NFDI4Microbiota, NFDI4Biodiversity, FAIRagro, NFDI4Objects, and NFDI4BIOIMAGE. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18694155 If you are wondering why no signature was required just yet: We decided to publish the document now, so that the consortia writing their reports at the moment can already reference the MoU in their texts. However, we shortly discussed not to take any action to communicate the new MoU until our Biodate Interest Group Meeting in Berlin (15./16. April, register here: https://eveeno.com/160211483 ), where it can officially be signed (and photographed and taken for newsblogs, social media etc). If the speakers do not attend the meeting, maybe the signing can be delegated to an attending colleague of the consortium. Thank you all for the effort to set up this new MoU, Kind regards, Judith for the Biodata IG __________________________________ 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/>