Archives under pressure – invitation to a participatory forum on the 18th May 2026 in Berlin
The forum will take place in the framework programme of BiblioCon 2026 on 18 May at the Bodo Uhse Library in Berlin. Details...
My interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur on the rescue of US research data
Ute Welty interviewed me on 21.2.2026 for Deutschlandfunk Kultur to save US research data through my new DFG project SHIELD...
We are looking for new colleagues for TIB’s Open Science Lab – Help us secure endangered research data from the US
Worth knowing: For the dissemination of the secured data we use, among other things, Bittorrent – and the entire project is...
My appointment to the Advisory Board of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
The Board of Trustees of the Weizenbaum Institute (@Weizenbaum_Institut) has appointed me to the Advisory Board of the Institute for the period 2026 to 2030....
Interview with Sat.1 on 25. Birthday of Wikipedia
A filming team from Sat.1 Regional had made recordings with me – at the location of TIB’s TechNat,...
Expert on behalf of the Netherlands in the "Open Science Infrastructure" funding programme
This was an expert role that once again gave me a deep insight into the latest developments in the field of open science infrastructure....
Resilience of research data and archival activism: my lecture at the "Zugang gestalten!" 2025
In the German National Library Leipzig I stopped at the "Designing Access!" 2025 my third invited lecture in this...
Guest and Consultant on Vancouver Island, Canada: My Visiting Fellowship at UVic KULA, Summer 2025
From July to September 2025 I was a guest and consultant at the invitation of the University of Victoria (UVic)...
Data Ethics and Open Science – a short lecture for WiNoDa Knowledge Lab
From the WiNoDa Webinar "Data Science" announcement: Why is research data often less accessible than expected? What happened...
How do we save research data from the USA at TIB? – An interview with NDR Fernsehen
Topic of the article: How do we save research data from the USA at TIB? The sequences of the contribution are...
Open Science and Artificial Intelligence in Science – Panel discussion and policy paper with me at the Weizenbaum Institute
I participated in this discussion as an invited member of the panel. Afterwards I was co-author of a Weizenbaum Policy...
As a jury member at the "Enter Award" – the Open Access Award 2024
The award was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). After the first implementation in 2024...
Provenance loves Wiki 2024: A panel discussion with Bénédicte Savoy, Larissa Borck, Meike Hopp et al
Discussion participated: Larissa Borck, Meike Hopp, Tobias Matzner, Lynn Rother, Bénédicte Savoy Introduction: Waltraud by...
My participation in the expert panel of the Volkswagen Foundation’s "Pioneer Project" funding programme since 2023
Since 2023 I am one of the eight invited experts*Inside. As a group, we are responsible for assessing the...
My essays in "Tagesspiegel Background" Digitalization & AI
Finally: Learning from Mastodon for a more open research infrastructure and cultural collections as a digital reflection of the city – a lot...
Places in Lower Saxony 1933–1945: Participatory culture of remembrance – for the first time with Wikidata
Between 2020 and 2026 I initiated and led the first major Wikidata participation project in the culture of remembrance in Germany. This...
Podcast: Interview with Lambert Heller about Open Science
Available here or anywhere there are podcasts.
Wiener Schnitzel eating with Hedy Lamarr – "Science in Dialogue" asks about Lambert Heller
The questionnaire I completed is here: https://wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/blog/enquired-bei-lambert-heller/
Science communication – a thing only for communication professionals? A technical discussion started by me in 2021
After I triggered a controversial discussion on the then Twitter, Wissenschaftskommunikation.de invited me to express my opinion....
Co-author of the first NFDI4Culture application: National Research Data Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage
I was one of the co-authors*Inside the original NFDI4Culture proposal in 2020. This led to one of the first...
EU funding under the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative for human-centred solutions: ConDIDi
Together with the Berlin startup Jolocom, we received funding within the framework of the highly competitive NGI funding line. This is...
With open processes and OER to the goal - How the free textbook "Crisis Management" emerged
Together with Dr. Ute Teichert (Retired Ministerial Director, today Head of Department Public Health at the Federal Ministry of Health) I was invited to participate in the OER podcast....
Advisor to the ISCC Foundation (the creator of the ISO 24138:2024 standard)
Since its founding in 2020, I have been a member of the advisory board of the ISCC Foundation. Why ISCC is an important part of the future...
