FDM-Dienste und -Infrastrukturen – Chancen nur im Verbund? Bericht zur Podiumsdiskussion auf der BiblioCon 2023

Angebote im Bereich Forschungsdatenmanagement sind als Baustein im Serviceportfolio wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken zusehends etabliert. In einer Podiumsdiskussion auf der BiblioCon 2023 in Hannover wurde diskutiert, wie Bibliotheken diesen Bereich durch Kooperationen gestalten können. Dabei wurde auch diskutiert, welche Rollen sie als Dienstleister mit Bezug auf Forschungsdaten annehmen können.Services in the field of research data management have increasingly become part of university libraries’ portfolio. A panel discussion at the 2023 BiblioCon in Hannover focused on how libraries can cooperate in this field. In doing so, the discussion also touched on what role libraries can take as a provider of services surrounding research data

Forschungsdatenmanagement in der Forschungsförderung

Die Anforderungen an gutes und nachhaltiges Forschungsdatenmanagement steigen stetig, die Angebote, nicht zuletzt durch den Aufbau der NFDI, werden zahlreicher und auch die Forschungsförderer verlangen in der Antragsphase immer detailliertere Angaben. Um die Beratung der Forschenden bei der Antragstellung zu verbessern, haben sich die Mitglieder der Unterarbeitsgruppe „Datenmanagementpläne“ in der DINI/nestor AG Forschungsdaten mit Vertreter:innen der Forschungsförderer zu Hintergrundgesprächen getroffen. Die Ergebnisse der ersten Austauschrunden mit der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, dem Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung zusammen mit dem Projektträger Deutsches Luft- und Raumfahrtzentrum, Vertreter:innen der Generaldirektion der Europäischen Kommission, Research and Innovation zusammen mit der Kooperationsstelle EU der Wissenschaftsorganisationen sowie den Förderreferent:innen der VolkswagenStiftung werden im Artikel dargestellt und anschließend diskutiert

Datenmanagementpläne in der Forschung – von Grundlagen zu Grundfragen

Datenmanagementpläne werden zunehmend als wichtiges Element der guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis verstanden und bei der Beantragung von Fördermitteln eingefordert. Die Workshopreihe „Datenmanagementpläne in der Forschung – von Grundlagen zu Grundfragen“ hatte zum Ziel, die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf Datenmanagementpläne zu beleuchten und einen Austausch zwischen allen am Thema Beteiligten zu ermöglichen. Hierzu wurde im ersten Workshop zunächst ein gemeinsames Verständnis für Definition und Inhalte eines Datenmanagementplans geschaffen. In den zwei folgenden Veranstaltungen wurden die Perspektiven der Forschungsförderer und der Forschenden diverser Fachbereiche beleuchtet. Die abschließende vierte Veranstaltung stellte verschiedene Tools zur Erstellung von Datenmanagementplänen vor. Der vorliegende Artikel informiert über Inhalte und Ergebnisse der vier Workshops und gibt einen Ausblick auf zukünftige Entwicklungen

The Federal State Initiatives for RDM as Intermediaries in a Dynamic Landscape of RDM Infrastructures and Services

A number of German federal states have established initiatives to support the institutionalization of RDM infrastructures and services. They can serve as intermediaries between disciplinary approaches to RDM like NFDI and RDM services in individual research institutions. This presentation gives an overview of the current state of these initiatives and provides an outlook on their role in creating synergies in RDM with a focus on their integrating potential for NFDI

Grammatical variation in standard German, 1900-1999 : a contrastive corpus-linguistic study of Germany and Switzerland

This study examines the development of grammatical variation in German and Swiss Standard German during the 20th century in the framework of German as a pluricentric language, i.e. as a language with multiple regional or national standard varieties. Starting from features seen as specific for Swiss Standard German at the beginning of the 21st century, it traces the development of these features back to the beginning of the 20th century using written corpora of Standard German. The dissertation builds on a review of the history of the concept of and research on German as a pluricentric language, as well as a discussion of the concept of standard language. It then focuses on diglossia in German-speaking Switzerland, i.e. the contextspecific use of dialect and standard language, with a focus on the 20th century, and discusses the relevance of language in the construction of Swiss identity. Subsequently, the composition of the corpora used is discussed. In this context, the relevance of the use of different text types is discussed. The following analysis draws the following conclusions: (1) The data show no uniform development across the features investigated. (2) The Swiss corpus appears toshow more variation than the German corpus. (3) It is an exception that forms that are only used rarely in Switzerland in the beginning of the 20th century become dominant over the course of the 20th century. (4) Text type appears not to influence the use of variants in the Swiss corpus. The findings add to previous research and complicate the understanding of the development of variation in Standard German. In numerous instances, Swiss Standard German appears already distinct from German Standard German at the beginning of the 20th century. Comparison with recent studies further raises theoretical questions on the conception of standard language that may have consequences for future corpus designGermanic Studie

Language production experiments as tools for corpus construction: A contrastive study of complementizer agreement

Abstract The investigation of linguistic phenomena in corpora of spontaneous speech is sometimes hindered by corpus size or by the complexity of the factors influencing their occurrence. Language Production Experiments (LPEs) can specifically elicit such phenomena and can therefore be used to build corpora that allow for their investigation. Yet experiments are a wide category that covers very different tasks, and there is little empirical research that compares speakers’ response behavior to different task types. In this paper, we compare the responses of a group of 22 speakers to a translation task and a completion task, both of which target the syntactic phenomena complementizer agreement (CA). The results indicate that both experimental methods offer legitimate ways to investigate the phenomenon with specific advantages and disadvantages. However, a comparison of results from both tasks allows for insights that a single task could not have provided.</jats:p

Variation and dynamics of “complementizer agreement” in German

Abstract To date, there has been limited empirical research on complementizer agreement (CA). We investigate CA drawing on a corpus of 144 speakers from 13 locations across Austria that was elicited through computer supported language production experiments and recorded in conversations. We investigate the linguistic factors that govern the occurrence of CA, as well as its areal distribution. We further explore the role of CA in speakers’ linguistic repertoires. The study finds evidence for the hypothesis that the (non-)occurrence of CA is strongly dependent on the structure of its hosting C-elements and finds regional patterns. It also identifies CA as a phenomenon which speakers place in a non-standard register. We use the collected data to test a theory of the emergence of CA from clitic pronouns for Bavarian varieties of German.</jats:p

"What makes this so complicated?" On the value of disorienting dilemmas in language instruction

This contribution considers how challenging moments arising in social pedagogies can serve as powerful learning opportunities for learners and teachers. Drawing on transformative learning theory (Johnson, 2015; Mezirow, 1994, 1997), which sees “disorienting dilemmas” as catalysts for reflection and changes in viewpoint, the study chronicles the experiences of four participants (coordinator, pedagogical designer, teacher, and student) involved in a “Reacting to the Past” game (Carnes, 2014) on German–Comanche relationships in 1847 Texas, a game that was planned for—but ultimately not carried out in—a collegiate intermediate German course. Although the game was successfully played in previous semesters, in fall 2015, a formal complaint was issued shortly before it was to be performed in class. The game was cancelled; in its place teachers discussed the content material with students and problematized the activity itself. This chapter describes how the four participant groups responded to this crisis moment and discussed the multifaceted, interconnected learning opportunities that “disorienting dilemmas” in social pedagogies can result in

Das muss noch in Wikidata rein

Mit wachsender Zahl der Akteure wird die Landschaft des Forschungsdatenmanagements (FDM) zunehmend unübersichtlich. Obwohl es einige einschlägige Ressourcen und Anlaufstellen gibt, sind Informationen zu FDM-Strukturen bisher zumeist verstreut und unstrukturiert. Wikidata bietet eine Infrastruktur, in der diese Informationen als Linked Open Data strukturiert gespeichert werden können. Der Beitrag illustriert die Möglichkeiten, wie man Einträge in Wikidata anlegt, editiert und auswertet, am Beispiel von FDM-Servicestellen und den Konsortien der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur