Data Science Center

The funded project examines how African and Afrodescendant people in Romance-speaking Europe engage with digital platforms to articulate narratives and build diasporic identities. The SQL database system will support the documentation and analysis of Afrodiasporic online presences.

As part of the DSC's DataNord subproject, Serafin Arhelger will be working as a data journalist in residence over the coming months to share practical skills in communicating data-based research and to promote exchange between researchers and data journalists.

Sarah Büker and Annika Nolte contributed a hands-on workshop as part of the BMFTR-funded DataNord project, focusing on the topic “From Data to Interactive Maps.”

At the PIP Summer School, the DSC introduced FAIR data principles as part of its DataNord activities. Through an interactive LEGO® workshop, Sarah Büker and Annika Nolte demonstrated how data skills can be taught early on in a practical and engaging way.

Together with the Digital Science Center of Kiel University, the DSC once again hosted the Community Workshop at the INFORMATIK Festival 2025 on September 16. The event aims to foster interdisciplinary exchange and sustainable networking among data science initiatives across Germany.

The newly published NomosHanduch includes a chapter by Dr. Susanne de Vogel entitled “Prä-Docs und Promotion”. The structural challenges discussed in the publication also provide an important context for the work carried out at the DSC and within the DataNord project.

At the international early-career conference ICYMARE 2025, the DSC supported young marine researchers through expert inputs, dedicated exchange formats, and targeted data skills development — from a keynote to the newly introduced Data Corner.

The marine science conference is aimed specifically at young marine researchers and offers participants the opportunity to gain conference experience while learning about recent re-search findings. The DSC Seed Grant was awarded to fund a poster session as well as several workshops.

The workshop aims to bring together social scientists to teach them the basics of research data management (RDM). The goal is to support participants in publishing their research data according to FAIR principles.

Organized by DSC member Prof. Dr. Sebastian Siebertz, the PACE Challenge brought together teams from around the world to tackle two particularly challenging computational problems. The DSC provided the technical infrastructure that ensured fair and reliable conditions for all participants.