Upcoming Next: Colloquium with Allard Oelen on 2 October "AI-Supported Scholarly Research with ORKG Ask and TIB AIssistant"
Join us for our next Colloquium about AI and LLMs in ORKG with Allard Oelen, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Leibniz University Hannover. Our special guest will introduce ORKG Ask, a scholarly search and exploration platform, and TIB AIssistant, a platform for an AI-supported research assistant. Register now for the event.
CALL FOR POSTERS for the DiTraRe Symposium: upcoming deadline!
Make sure to showcase your research in the form of a poster and attend our Symposium on Digitalisation of Research! The Symposium will feature a dedicated poster slam and a poster session. We accept poster papers, describing the contents of your poster, which will be later included in the Symposium proceedings.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: 17.10.2025 end of the day AOE.
- Acceptance notice: 5.11.2025.
- Symposium: 2-3.12.2025.
- Proceedings submission: 17.12.2025.
Find extensive info on our CfP on EasyChair portal.
CALL FOR PAPERS of the Second AAAI Bridge on AI for Scholarly Communication AI4SC
The 2nd Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication (AI4SC) of which our coordinator Anna Jacyszyn is the main chair will be co-located with one of the largest AI conferences in the world - the Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The next edition will take place in January 2026 in Singapore. The call for papers is out now and we accept submissions from interdisciplinary researchers. Submission deadline is 31 October. Find more info on the AI4SC 2026 website and join our LinkedIn group!
Topics of special relevance for the bridge include, but are not limited to:
Best practices and lessons learned in applying AI to scholarly communication
Intertwining knowledge graphs and neural approaches (neurosymbolic systems)
Design and development of scholarly methodologies and tools for knowledge extraction and organization
Ethics, responsibility, and trust in AI-driven scholarly communication
Measuring and evaluating the impact of AI in scientific research
Upcoming: DiTraRe interdisciplinary team at the Open Science Conference
Next week an interdisciplinary team consisting of:
- Anna Jacyszyn, DiTraRe coordinator, dimension Exploration and Knowledge Processes
- Felix Bach, DiTraRe coordinator, dimension Tools and Processes
- Tobias Kerzenmacher, DiTraRe use case Publication of Large Datasets (in climate research)
- with a special guest, Mahsa Vafaie, AI and LLM expert from FIZ Karlsruhe (Wiedergutmachung project)
will lead a discussion session Streamlining Data Publication: Automatic Metadata and Large Datasets in the Age of AI at the Open Science Conference in Hamburg! The session will consist of:
- Ice-breaker panel
- Experts' pitch-talks
- Fishbowl discussion with an active participation from the audience
During the session we will collaboratively collect notes with the audience to later write them in the form of a report, which will be published as proceedings.
Previous Colloquium: 4 September with Arman Khalatyan
Last month Arman Khalatyan from Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) presented a talk on "Research Automation with Agentic LLMs" during our Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Digitalisation of Research. Arman introduced us a secure, open-source AI platform that features an agentic LLM assistant capable of autonomously generating and executing complete, reproducible scientific workflows (REANA). Check out the presentation slides here and the video recording on DiTraRe YouTube channel.
Publication "Charting the Future of Scholarly Knowledge with AI: A Community Perspective"
A collaborative paper with participation of one of the DiTraRe coordinators, Anna Jacyszyn, has been published on arXiv. The publication presents a community perspective on different aspects of AI with a focus on scholarly communication. The manuscript identifies ways to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue, identify shared challenges, categorize new collaboration and shape future research directions in scholarly knowledge and organization.
This publication is a result of a collaboration started in the first AAAI Bridge on AI for Scholarly Communication (AI4SC) which took place in February in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Ania presented there a paper "AI4DiTraRe: Towards LLM-Based Information Extraction for Standardising Climate Research Repositories" which is a collaboration between the dimension Exploration and Knowledge Organisation and use case Publication of Large Datasets (in climate research). See the paper and the presentation on Zenodo.
Recent: DiTraRe sports use case at Hochschultag der Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft (dvs) in Münster
Katja Keller and Chris Rose presented their use case "Sensitive Data in Sports Science" at the 27th Hochschultag der Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft (dvs) in Münster.
Here's what Katja shared about the event:
I was particularly pleased by the packed hall (in the morning after the conference dinner ;)) in our working group on current developments in research data management in sport science ❤️ Thanks to all the speakers, co-authors, and participants🙏🏻 the "sporty" RDM is moving forward 💪🏻🔝
Recent: DiTraRe biomedical engineering team at the CinC 2025 in Brasil
✨ 4 exciting days have come to an end at Computing in Cardiology in São Paulo!
🇧🇷 It was a fantastic opportunity to exchange ideas, connect with colleagues from all over the world, and get inspired by the vibrant discussions.
Our team members Axel and Silvia have presented multiple talks including Computational Modelling and Simulation of Cardiac Function Now and Then summarizing our recent opinion paper published in RSTA.
Recent: DiTraRe tools and processes team at the Open Science Fair in Geneva
Our team members Felix Bach and Christian Bonatto Minella attended the OSFair in CERN with a DiTraRe poster "DiTraRe – Towards Trusted Digital Research Workflows".
Here's what they say about attending the event:
OSFair 2025 reminded us that Open Science thrives on collaboration without borders. With DiTraRe, we translate this spirit into practice - developing secure, transparent, and reusable digital workflows that strengthen trust in research.
Upcoming: DiTraRe team at the Sci-K workshop @ ISWC 2025 in Nara, Japan
We are excited to announce that two DiTraRe contributions were accepted to the 5th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K) 2025! The workshop takes place this November in Nara, Japan and is co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2025. 🗾
Articles accepted for publishing:
⚗️ AI4DiTraRe: Building the BFO-Compliant Chemotion Knowledge Graph
by Ebrahim Norouzi, Nicole Jung, Anna Jacyszyn, Jörg Waitelonis, and Harald Sack (FIZ Karlsruhe + KIT IBCS)
🏃♀️➡️ Ontologies in Motion: A BFO-Based Approach to Knowledge Graph Construction for Motor Performance Research Data in Sports Science
by Sarah Rebecca Ondraszek, Jörg Waitelonis, Katja Klemm, Dr. Claudia Niessner, Anna Jacyszyn, and Harald Sack (FIZ Karlsruhe + KIT IfSS)
The Sci-K workshop is co-organised by Anna Jacyszyn, one of the DiTraRe coordinators.