𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙥: 𝙐𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙨

On January 22nd, 2026, KODAQS, AI-HUB@LMU, and BERD@NFDI hosted a one-day workshop at LMU Munich on unstructured data and the need for quality metrics.

Laura Young, Research Associate at KODAQS, captured the highlights in a blog post - read her take here: https://www.berd-nfdi.de/data-quality-workshop-unstructured-data-and-the-need-for-quality-metrics/

𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗗𝗙𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮, led by Jack Collins
Online course starting April 14, 2026

Learn how to extract data from documents using 𝘄𝗲𝗯 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗢𝗖𝗥 & 𝗡𝗟𝗣 (incl. Selenium, RAG, data quality).

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟳: https://www.berd-nfdi.de/berd-academy/pdfs-2026/

We invite you to the new webinar series of our #NFDI section #ELSA. From exploring “What is (research) ethics?” to “Should we care about the CARE principles?”, the series addresses researchers, research data professionals, ethics committee members and everyone with an interest in ethics.

➡️ More information and dates: https://www.nfdi.de/section-elsa/webinar-series-research-ethics/

🗓️ The first talk will be an "Introduction to Research Ethics" on 5 February at 4 p.m..

#rdm #fdm #researchdata #researchethics

🤖 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸?

Join “How to Get the Best of AI Tools in Research”

📅 March 3 & 10, 2026
💻 Online

Learn how to use AI (LLMs & more) for planning, literature reviews, analysis, and communication. Includes hands-on practice.

- Free of charge (evaluation required)
- Open to all researchers (priority: business & economics)
- Apply by 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝟯𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

🔗 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://www.berd-nfdi.de/berd-academy/ai-tools-research-2026/

More participants → richer discussions - registration is still open👥🚀

https://eveeno.com/econ-data-workshop

Do you have data that sometimes drives you crazy - or a question you have never had the right space to ask?

Join the EconData Workshop @ IAB Nürnberg - a hands-on, participant-driven event to share ideas, explore tools, and tackle real data challenges.

📅 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟲 (13:00–17:00) & 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟳 (09:00–17:00)
📍 𝗜𝗔𝗕, 𝗡𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴
💻 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽 & 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀
🆓 R𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: https://eveeno.com/econ-data-workshop

We are looking forward to connecting, learning, and building ideas together!

🌟❄️"Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells, na na na naaaa……🔔, Run, run, Rudolph.... 🎸🫎, laaaast Christmas, hmhmhmhmhmm… 🎶"

It is not even Christmas yet, all cookies are already gone, and your brain is still looping the same old carols on repeat?

The 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 (𝗣𝗗𝗠𝗫) to the rescue: 250,000+ copyright-free MusicXML scores - perfect for remixing the classics, composing new carols, or training AI to finally write a last-minute original Christmas tune.

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/public-domain-music-dataset/

✨📱𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟯: Curious about how festive cheer turns into measurable influence?

This 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 unwraps 33,935 influencers and 10+ million posts across beauty, food, travel, pets & more - captions, hashtags, likes, comments, and millions of images included. A dataset for analyzing how influence works at scale.

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/instagram-influencer-marketing-dataset/

🛷🗣️ 𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟮: Looking forward to long Christmas debates at the dinner table?

Then try SpeakGer - 74 years of German parliamentary speeches, broken down into individual speeches and rich metadata. All the festive monologues, interruptions, and party lines you could wish for - fully transcribed, structured, and ready for analysis.

🎁 https://berd-platform.de/records/g3225-rba63

🎶🍬𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟭: Driving home for Christmas and searching for the perfect playlist?

The 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 gives you metadata + audio features for 1 million tracks - tempo, loudness, key, mode, time signature - a data-driven way to decide what actually works for long winter drives ❄️🚗

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/million-song-dataset/

🎬🍿 𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬: 𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙖 𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 or 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚? The annual Christmas debate returns .. -

Let data speak: the 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺𝗧𝗩 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 delivers 40,000+ films with genres, ratings, countries, directors, and votes.

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/filmtv-movies-dataset

👼📚 𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟵: Still trying to find the perfect holiday book?

The 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 combine 2.3 million books, 229 million reader interactions, and millions of reviews - ideal for analyzing reading habits, recommendation systems, and why your “to-read” list grows faster than your vacation time.

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/goodreads-datasets/

In our latest 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁, Cristina Rujan and Sebastian Wichert report from the one-day workshop “𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵: 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀” hosted by 𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗗 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 and the 𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲’𝘀 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 at LMU Munich.

📖 Read the 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 here and explore the 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀: https://www.berd-nfdi.de/novel-financial-data-for-research-access-and-applications-2/

🧣𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟴: Even Santa knows: engagement is the real measure of belief🎅📈

With 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 + 𝗔𝗣𝗜, you can track what gets ❤️, 😂, 😡, or ignored across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in near real time.

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/meta-content-library/

🌟📰𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟳: Ever wondered what capitalism asked for Christmas in 1843 - and how its wishlist evolved ever since?

Behind today’s door: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 - 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 - 512,599 ads from 1843-2014, spanning 8,840 issues. A time machine for marketing trends 🕛🪄

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/the-economist-historical-advertisements-master-dataset/

🎄🌍 𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟲: Today’s treat is the 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅 (𝗦𝗖𝗜): a tiny dataset with big insight 👀 showing how strongly places are socially linked based on anonymized Facebook friendship networks.

🎁 https://openbigdata.org/resource/facebook-social-connectedness-index/

⛄🗺️𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟱: Where can we legally sprinkle more Christmas markets across Bavaria?🤔

The 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱-𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮set (35,669 entries, 1934–2024) provides the legal and spatial context for municipal planning decisions.

🎁All mapped and ready for analysis: https://berd-platform.de/records/88xd7-k1885

✨ Featured in a screencast demonstrating BERD’s integration with Galaxy, OpenAIRE, and the EOSC EU Node, turning planning documents into FAIR, reusable research data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unxW6RNAIao

🕯️🕯️🕯️𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟰: Today we unwrap a gift for dreamers and crushing realists:

𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 is a massive web-scraped dataset of Kickstarter & Indiegogo projects - thousands of projects, creators, goals, pledges, backers, and outcomes.

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/crowdfunding-datasets/

🎀❄️𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟯: Saturday morning, your neighbors have already noticed you peeking through the blinds, but your hope of spotting Grace Kelly never dies?

Then peek into the 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀: 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲+ 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 - 107,614 anonymized profiles, 13.6 million connections, and ego networks. Harmless voyeurism, all the social circles, all the secrets, none of the consequences.

🎁https://openbigdata.org/resource/social-circles-google/

🔔✈️ 𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟭𝟮: Fasten your seatbelts… it is sentiment turbulence!

Today’s dataset delivers pure airline chaos - safely packaged in 14,640 tweets: complaints, compliments, and “WHAT is my luggage doing in Hawaii?!” moments aimed at major U.S. airlines.

🎁🤙https://openbigdata.org/resource/twitter-us-airline-sentiment/