Ute Welty interviewed me on 21.2.2026 for Deutschlandfunk Kultur to save US research data through my new DFG project SHIELD at the TIB. Briefly but compactly, the interview touches on the following topics:
- "The fodder of science" – what research data is involved, what is threatened?
- The challenge of selecting which data will be saved – the ecosystem of data usage, the size of data sets
- The example of gender-specific medical research – the "cancellation" of terms endangers human lives
- The networking of research infrastructures with each other and with volunteer groups such as Safeguarding – the innovation of BitTorrent
- Why this project is about keeping public data available to everyone – with a cross-reference that some research results are behind paywalls
- Why Trump could accelerate a long-needed change – with approaches such as BitTorrent away from the bottlenecks that enable monitoring and censoring research results (especially through commercial platforms, including for journals)
- Why this change is working – we need to work together on free software, open data models, standards and formats.
The interview is part of the series "Europe’s Freedom Struggle – How the continent is becoming digitally more independent", and is now available. Retrieval in the media library of Deutschlandfunk.
The "Studio 9" can also be subscribed to wherever podcasts are available. I would like to end this blog post with another current podcast tip on the topic: my much appreciated colleague Ulrike Wuttke with Renke Siems and Yuliya Fadeeva about Data tracking in science.
