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I am mostly finished with a post following on from what would be required to make a convincing dark matter detection that explains why it will never happen. I’ve been nearly done for several weeks, but haven’t had time to complete it. Time carries on, and during that time a story appeared in Quanta magazine about observations claiming to be the final nail in the coffin for MOND, all the usual talking points we’ve covered here before, blah blah blah. But since it was in the news, I felt obliged to hop on social media (ug) and push back against the tidal wave of confirmation bias. So I’m just gonna reproduce that thread here, maybe adding further commentary if I can find some copious spare time.
\n\n\n\nFirst, some context: we’re talking about ultradiffuse galaxies in the vicinity of NGC 1052. These objects are abnormally large for their luminosity, so very diffuse. (Very low surface brightness in my 1996 terminology, ultradiffuse in that of van Dokkum et al. 2015.) I’m not a fan of describing them as “ghostly,” but low surface brightness galaxies have been described as ghostly before. Maybe “ghostly” is not entirely misplaced here, as one possibility is that they have been tidally whacked out of equilibrium and are slowly expanding towards an ultimate dissolution, fading like ghosts into the intergalactic graveyard.
\n\n\n\nBut that’s getting ahead of the story. Let’s cut to the thread:
\n\n\n\nStory out in Quanta about the diffuse galaxies DF2, DF4, & DF9. It conveys the message that these objects are the nail in the coffin for MOND. Is it so?
www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-g…
www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-ghostly-galaxies-hints-at-what-dark-matter-is-and-isnt-20261014/
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\n\n\n\nOct 14 at 2026 at 1:31 PM
\n\n\n\nWhen DF2 was first reported, it was portrayed as being fatal for MOND. And so it appeared at first glance, with an observed velocity dispersion of 3 km/s where MOND predicted 20 km/s for an isolate object. Pretty bad! But a casual glance showed that it wasn't an isolated object, so the EFE matters.
\n\n\n\nA more careful analysis yields a MOND prediction of 13.4 +4.8/-3.7 km/s. Contemporary reanalyses of the data estimated an observed velocity dispersion close to 12 km/s. That sounds more like corroboration than refutation: arxiv.org/abs/1804.04167
\n\n\n\nLots of observational resources have been applied since then; I won't attempt to review it all here. The new paper offers two independent measurements, which are 6.3+3.1/-3.6 and 9.2+3.8/-4.5 km/s. These are both consistent with 10 km/s, which is within the 1 sigma uncertainty of the prediction.
\n\n\n\nSo MOND is falsified at one sigma.
\n\n\n\nThat's assuming these systems are in equilibrium, which is not obvious. We have to invoke some pretty dramatic non-equilibrium events to strip them of dark matter (in the conventional picture, galaxies cannot form without dark matter so we have to get rid of it. Difficult but not impossible.)
\n\n\n\nTo be fair, we should worry about non-equilibrium situations in MOND as well. Fortunately, simulations have been done that illustrate what happens to a dwarf galaxy that gets tidally disrupted by a close passage with a giant galaxy. arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph…
\n\n\n\narxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005194
\n\n\n\nThe velocity dispersion departs from the equilibrium prediction and the scale size of the dwarf slowly expands. This actually provides a natural explanation for the large half-light radii of these DF dwarfs. tritonstation.com/2025/09/15/n…
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I've no idea if this is what happened in these systems as I have not+ been around several Gyr to watch it happen. But there are certainly giant galaxies in the neighborhood, so it's no less plausible than the bullet collision hypothesis in the DM context.
\n\n\n\nDF2 has consistently been portrayed as fatal for MOND despite consistently being shown not to be a problem. I've given up writing formal papers showing this, as nobody cares. They just hear what they want to hear, which is that MOND is wrong. Indeed, after the 2018& incident I swore off doing so.
\n\n\n\nIt's sad, but there is no point in correcting the scientific record while the relevant scientific community suffers a catastrophic failure of objectivity.
\n\n\n\nStrong words? Are you a scientist working in the field? Have you heard of DF2? If so, did you know its interpretation was in dispute? Or only that it falsifies MOND?
\n\n\n\nIf you have heard of DF2, have you also heard of Crater 2? It has a tiny velocity dispersion (2.7 km/s) that makes no sense in LCDM but was correctly predicted a priori by MOND. arxiv.org/abs/1610.06189
\n\n\n\nCrater 2 and DF2 are similar in a number of respects. Why should we obsess about one while ignoring the other? That'd be an example of the failure of objectivity.
\n\n\n\nOr how about And XXVIII? You know that one? That was the golden test we proposed in arxiv.org/abs/1301.0822
\n\n\n\nThat came out in favor of MOND – as did all of the rest* of the dwarf satellites of Andromeda. arxiv.org/abs/1308.5894
\n\n\n\nDoes MOND have problems? You bet! But it has lots and lots of predictive successes that people seem to be oblivious to. Many of these are predictions that cannot even be made in the context of dark matter. DF2 is a good example: we didn't anticipate it was DM-free, we inferred that from the data.
\n\n\n\nIf instead DF2 had a large velocity dispersion (like DF44), then we would happily report that it had a surplus of dark matter. There's no prediction to test; it's just whatever the observations dictate.
\n\n\n\nMOND makes actual predictions that mostly come true. This being astronomy, there are always some dodgy cases. So DM appears to be better in those cases by virtue of not making a testable prediction. Does that make it better science?
\n\n\n\nThere still remains no satisfactory explanation in terms of dark matter for MOND's predictive success. If you can come up with one, then perhaps dark matter can be viable. Without that, just complaining about what MOND gets wrong without engaging with what it gets right is intellectually dishonest.
\n\n\n\n+Apparently I omitted the “not” in the Bluesky thread. I may be old, but I’m not that old.
\n\n\n\n&Before that time, I was extremely conscientious about examining claims to falsify MOND. I’ve done this for literally hundreds of cases. The recurring theme had been that these claims are greatly exaggerated. Not all, of course, but more often that not, it was simply a matter of doing the analysis properly and including the errors. The current example is a good one: the claim is that these ultradiffuse galaxies have no dark matter (or MONDian mass discrepancy). The data are indeed consistent with that. But there are uncertainties in all data, and here they encompass MOND’s predictions as well.
\n\n\n\nAt any rate, I no longer see correcting the mistakes of others as a constructive use of my time.
\n\n\n\n*Except And V. That one has a somewhat too-high velocity dispersion for MOND. If I were to follow the template offered by many examples in the literature, I should loudly advertise how this one case falsifies MOND while downplaying how MOND correctly predicted the velocity dispersions of the other three dozen dwarf satellites of Andromeda.
\n\n\n\nHere are the predicted and observed velocity dispersions for the dwarf satellites of Andromeda from McGaugh & Milgrom 2013a:
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Note that And IV is blank here because it turned out not to be a satellite of Andromeda as initially thought, but rather a background object. This was anticipated by MOND and later confirmed, so was in effect another successful prediction. (I do not remember the story behind the other blank cases offhand.)
\n\n\n\nThis plot is from the follow-up paper, McGaugh & Milgrom 2013b. Note that these were almost all a priori predictions. (Some of the above were too, but observers were doing the follow-up work on newly discovered satellites so fast that these numbers appeared in the literature before we could finish writing the prediction paper. Not that it matters, as the predictions of MOND are not flexible beyond some range in the stellar mass-to-light ratio, so it predicts the same thing whether the answer is known or not.) And XXVIII was a golden case because it was far enough from Andromeda to be in the isolated rather than EFE regime, greatly reducing the uncertainty in the prediction (since it only depends on observations of the dwarf and not of the EFE from M31).
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Note the last line of the caption: we know there are cases that are out of equilibrium. There are certainly other systems in the universe that are out of equilibrium, like the tidal dwarfs for which we also found an apparent lack of dark matter. We haven’t been shouting that these falsify MOND (as we had hoped to be able to do! that’s why we did the experiment!) because we recognized that there was no way the equilibrium predictions could apply. Perhaps that is also the case for the ultradiffuse dwarfs discussed above.
\n\n\n\nThere have been a few more dwarfs discovered since these plots were made. So far, these have been consistent with MOND. I include the plots from the cited papers because that’s what is handy and few people seems to be aware of this work. If a prediction is published in the literature but no one ever reads it, was a prediction even made?
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Dodecameric silsesquioxanes of the T12 type, of general formula [RSiO1.5]12, differ from every smaller cage in one respect that governs the whole of their chemistry: the twelve silicon atoms can be arranged in two distinct ways. One isomer adopts idealized D6h symmetry, the other idealized D2d symmetry, and both are accessible under similar conditions. Neither the cubic T8 cage nor the pentagonal prismatic T10 cage offers that choice. Dodecamers are correspondingly the least studied members of the series, and isolated yields rarely exceed 30%.
Topics covered in this post:\u00a0the two core geometries of T12R12 and their idealized symmetries; formation of dodecamers by hydrolytic condensation and by rearrangement of octameric cages; fluoride-, base- and amine-mediated routes; the difficulty of separating T10 from T12; the crystal structure of dodecakis(4-iodophenyl)dodecasilsesquioxane; photophysical behavior relative to T8 and T10; and the relationship between the D6h cage and the double six-ring building unit of silicates.
\nSilsesquioxanes of the T12R12 type, in contrast to T10R10 and T8R8, may possess two different core geometries. The first exhibits idealized D6h symmetry and is built from two twelve-membered Si\u2013O rings, each containing six silicon atoms alternating with six oxygen atoms, joined by six four-membered rings into a hexagonal prism. The second exhibits idealized D2d symmetry and is composed of four ten-membered and four eight-membered Si\u2013O rings, an arrangement that departs appreciably from prismatic regularity. The two frameworks are shown in Figure 1.
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\nThe D6h structures, although the less frequently encountered of the two, are of interest well beyond organosilicon chemistry, because the same hexagonal prismatic arrangement of twelve tetrahedra constitutes a secondary building unit of silicate frameworks. In the crystallographic nomenclature discussed in the entry on silsesquioxane nomenclature and the M/D/T/Q notation, that unit is designated a double six ring, abbreviated D6R, and it recurs throughout zeolite and silicate chemistry. A D6h dodecasilsesquioxane is therefore a soluble molecular analogue of a structural motif otherwise encountered only in extended inorganic solids, which is precisely the argument that has long been made for T8 cages as D4R analogues.
\nThe methods available for preparing T12R12 are substantially the same as those used for T10R10. They rest either on the hydrolytic condensation of trifunctional silanes RSiX3, where X is chloride or ethoxide, or on the rearrangement of a preformed octameric cage. Isolated yields of dodecamers rarely exceed 30%, which is the single most important practical constraint on the field and the reason why so much of the T12 literature consists of by-product characterization rather than targeted synthesis.
\nDodecamers appeared in the earliest systematic work on the series. J. F. Brown obtained mixtures containing cages with eight, ten and twelve silicon atoms from the hydrolysis and condensation of trimethylethoxysilane catalyzed by potassium hydroxide in aqueous methanol, and recovered phenylsilsesquioxanes of the same three sizes from trichlorophenylsilane under comparable conditions. The solvent proved to be decisive rather than incidental, since equilibration in tetrahydrofuran directed the system toward phenyl-T12 whereas benzene, pyridine or ethylene glycol dimethyl ether afforded phenyl-T8, as set out in the entry on phenylsilsesquioxane equilibration from cage to ladder.
\nThe formation of the thermodynamically less stable T10 and T12 frameworks occurs principally through reorganization of the T8 core, and several groups have documented this transformation. V. Ervithayasuporn observed rearrangement of octakis(3-chloropropyl)octasilsesquioxane on treatment with sodium methacrylate, with sodium phenoxides and with potassium phthalimide, each of these reactions delivering a mixture of T8, T10 and T12 species. The methacrylate- and acrylate-functionalized members of that series were subsequently isolated individually and their structure\u2013property relationships compared directly.
\nFluoride ions provide a second route. E. Rikowski and H. C. Marsmann found that a chloropropyl-substituted T8 cage treated with Na2SiF6 and 18-crown-6 in acetonitrile converts to a mixture of 28% T8, 61% T10 and 11% T12. The same authors demonstrated base-catalyzed reorganization of alkyl cages, in which T8[C2H5]8 heated with K2CO3 in acetone gave T10[C2H5]10 and T12[C2H5]12 in 55% and 4% yield respectively, with 41% of the starting material recovered unchanged. The asymmetry of those two figures is characteristic. Other alkyl cages of the type T8[alkyl]8 gave only the decamer, and in yields below 18%, so the decamer is reached far more readily than the dodecamer under conditions of this kind. The contrast with the superacid route is instructive, since treatment of an octameric amino cage with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid delivers the T10 framework in 44% yield without producing the dodecamer at all.
\nY. Kawakami and co-workers described the formation of T8, T10 and T12 cages during the hydrolysis of 4-substituted phenyltriethoxysilanes in the presence of tetrabutylammonium fluoride, and a related amine-catalyzed condensation of silanols has likewise been shown to furnish higher polyhedral cages.
\nObtaining phase-pure T10 or T12 cages is generally difficult, and the separation is particularly demanding where the two higher homologues share closely similar physicochemical properties such as retention factor and solubility in common solvents. Kawakami and co-workers effected the separation by crystallization from acetonitrile and tetrahydrofuran mixtures, from pure hexane, or from ethanol and hexane mixtures. Fractional crystallization, sublimation, and HPLC or size-exclusion chromatography have all been applied to this problem. In size-exclusion chromatography the elution order follows hydrodynamic volume, so T12 elutes ahead of T10, which in turn elutes ahead of T8, despite the modest differences in molar mass across the series.
\nThe crystal structure of dodecakis(4-iodophenyl)dodecasilsesquioxane was described by R. M. Laine and co-workers, who obtained the compound by iodination of [PhSiO1.5]n to give [p-I-C6H4SiO1.5]n for n = 8, 10 and 12. The silsesquioxane core in the structure reported adopts D2d symmetry rather than the hexagonal prismatic alternative, and the molecular structure in the solid state is shown in Figure 2.
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The same study is notable for a second reason. Thermal elimination of I2 from these iodinated cages was shown to provide a route to high-surface-area, thermally stable microporous materials, which makes the dodecamer not merely a structural curiosity but a precursor in its own right.
\nT. Goodson and R. M. Laine examined the spectroscopic properties of T8, T10 and T12 derivatives bearing stilbene substituents. Increasing the number of chromophore groups per cage lowered the luminescence quantum yield, an effect attributable to self-absorption and the consequent non-radiative quenching. Among the three cage sizes, however, the decamer rather than the dodecamer displayed the largest two-photon absorption cross-section, which indicates strong electronic coupling and polarization among the peripheral chromophores of the D5h framework. The result is worth stating plainly, because it runs against the intuition that a larger cage carrying more chromophores should perform better. Cage geometry, not chromophore count, determines the nonlinear optical response.
\nDodecameric silsesquioxanes remain the least developed members of the polyhedral series, and the reasons are straightforward. They form in low yield, they co-crystallize and co-elute with the decamer, and they exist as two isomers whose relative proportions are rarely controlled deliberately. What has not been systematically attempted is the selective synthesis of the D6h isomer, which, as the molecular counterpart of the double six-ring unit of silicates, is the more interesting of the two from the standpoint of framework chemistry. Every reported structural characterization of a functionalized dodecamer to date has found the D2d geometry instead. Establishing what directs a condensation toward one isomer rather than the other, whether solvent, template, counterion or substituent, would be the natural next step, and it is a question that the structural chemistry of the smaller cages does not answer, because the smaller cages do not have the choice.
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Editorial: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Biosecurity
From capability uplift to capability governance: an AI\u2013biosecurity stack
Dual-use artificial intelligence and biology: upstream risk-benefit reviews
Glycol vapor pathogen disinfection: a defensive technology for emerging biothreats
Toward relational biosecurity: understanding AI-enabled biology as a connected system
Without safeguards, AI-Biology integration risks accelerating future pandemics
Here's the full text for Volume II of this research topic.
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The first edition of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Biosecurity examined emerging opportunities and risks across AI-enabled biology, including biological design, automated laboratories, data access, safeguards, risk assessment, and governance. Volume II extends this work by examining where biosecurity-relevant capabilities, vulnerabilities, and protections arise across connected AI-bio systems. This includes how interactions, dependencies, information and material flows, feedback loops, and digital-to-physical interfaces shape outcomes that may not be apparent when individual components are evaluated separately.
We welcome research examining both system-level and component-level risks, as well as approaches for making AI-enabled biological systems secure, resilient, trustworthy, and supportive of responsible innovation. Submissions should be oriented toward the detection, assessment, defence, resilience, and governance of AI-enabled biosecurity risks, rather than providing operational guidance that could facilitate the development or enhancement of harmful biological capabilities. Of particular interest are questions of observability, intervention, human agency, accountability, system integrity, and recoverability as AI-enabled workflows become increasingly autonomous and interconnected.
We encourage interdisciplinary contributions spanning microbiology and related biological sciences, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, safety science, complex systems, bioethics, public health, and governance. We particularly welcome microbiology-anchored studies that examine how AI-enabled systems affect microbial research, pathogen biology, microbial genomics, diagnostics and surveillance, laboratory practice, or other areas directly relevant to microbiology and biosecurity. A central question for Volume II is: as AI, biological data, laboratory automation, people, and institutions become more deeply connected, what should the unit of analysis, and ultimately the unit of security, be?
AI-enabled biological workflows and agentic systems
Digital-to-physical transitions and automated laboratories
Information, material, and action flows across AI-bio systems
AI-enabled microbiology, microbial genomics, pathogen research, diagnostics, and surveillance
Evaluation, observability, safeguards, and intervention points
Resilience, recoverability, and system integrity
Cyber\u2013AI\u2013bio convergence
Human agency, organizational factors, and governance
Bioethics and responsible innovation
\n\nLike the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell \u2013 Victor Frankenstein
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Why the race to dominate intelligence points towards collapse rather than flourishing, and what New Zealand should do about it
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TLDR/Summary
\nIntroduction
\nMidway through the second day of the Arctic Circle Assembly, the word INSANE filled the screen in Reykjav\u00edk's Harpa Opera House main hall. Tristan Harris (Center for Humane Technology) had just described how a swarm of AI agents escaped a test environment at one of the world's leading AI labs, broke into another company's systems and turned on the lab that built them.
\nHarris's point was that these are the least capable AI agents we will ever deal with. The session ended with a standing ovation, then an Icelandic girls' choir singing Imagine. It was the most impressive session I attended.
\nThe Assembly, founded by former Icelandic President \u00d3lafur Ragnar Gr\u00edmsson, is the largest annual gathering on the Arctic, with hundreds of sessions; Canada alone sat on 63 panels. I attended the Wednesday pre-event on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the first two of three days, around 5% of what was on, choosing sessions relevant to global risk. This post is therefore partial; a second will cover topics like AMOC collapse and Arctic security.
\nMy thanks to Arctic Circle and to Gr\u00edmsson, who opened by reminding us that anyone may ask a question or put a view. Some call the Assembly a circus. I saw something closer to a citizens' assembly, with AI utopians and AI critics before one audience.
\nWhy I keep returning to AI
\nI am not anti-AI. Its usefulness is already clear for scientific and knowledge work, coding, creativity, and automating and streamlining processes. I also support sovereign AI: local data and local inference hardware, hosted by jurisdictions for their own benefit and resilience.
\nBut for nearly a decade I have argued that the risks are underweighted. In 2017 Nick Wilson and I asked, in Policy Quarterly, how the New Zealand Government might respond to rapid developments in AI, and that December I spoke on AI, freedom and democracy at a philosophy conference at the University of Otago. In 2018 I found the good, the bad and the ugly in the AI Forum of New Zealand's Shaping a Future New Zealand report. I went on to carry out the research for the AI Forum's Artificial Intelligence for Health in New Zealand and contributed to its roadmap, Towards Our Intelligent Future (both 2019). In 2020 we returned to Policy Quarterly on catastrophic risk from AI.
\nThe thread running through that work is the information environment. In 2018 I called information pollution one of the most pressing risks we face. I now describe it in our new preprint on the 'meta-crisis' as cognitive niche destruction, borrowing from cultural evolution. Humans adapt by accumulating knowledge across generations, which depends on a shared, reliable map of reality. Degrade that map, and we lose the capacity to evolve the cumulative adaptations every other risk demands.
\nWhen I asked the Assembly's information warfare panel for solutions, the answers were independent media, AI regulation and media literacy, all known a decade ago. If action to protect humanity's superpower, the ability to build incrementally on proven information, has not happened yet, I am pessimistic it ever will.
\nSmall nations and the sovereign AI pitch
\nOn day one I found myself in \"Arctic Sovereign Intelligence: AI & the Future of Finance\", with Adnan Hassan (Small States Asset Initiative), Patricia Geli (C10 Labs) and Pippa Malmgren (Geopolitica Institute). Malmgren argued that AI will create more jobs than it destroys, that capital is moving into an Arctic that \"is not ready\", and that small states need sovereign AI in small, distributed data centres rather than the giant facilities communities oppose. Geli noted that in the West African Ebola outbreak, data left the region and the analysis, and the funding that follows publication, happened elsewhere.
\nThe issue is real, and it is ours too. Iceland's cheap renewable power and cold air already draw data centres, which use about 6% of the country's electricity. In Southland New Zealand, Datagrid has consent for a 280 MW, NZ$3.5 billion AI campus that would be New Zealand's second-largest electricity user after the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Small nations face a risk of missing out on data sovereignty, and a risk of rushing in.
\nThe panel presented only the first. Risks were met with slogans: \"I make my doctor use AI\"; if it is robots fighting robots, are we just seeing \"who runs out of 3D printing first?\" That last line is exactly the point. Wars of attrition are won by exhausting the other side's resources. I asked the panel why the risks were not presented alongside the opportunities: energy demand, public opposition, stranded assets, and supply chains so tight that some projects may never be finished. The answer was that AI is neither good nor bad.
\nThe Humanity Dilemma: \"show me the incentives\"
\nThe risk discussion came on Day Two. A plenary, introduced by Iceland's President Halla T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir, and delivered by Tristan Harris and team, was a performance as much as a talk, with video, live music and argument.
\nHarris's method is the line attributed to Charlie Munger: show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. It is how Harris's team predicted the harms of social media. He did not dismiss the upside of AI, but the message was a strong warning.
\nThe warning shot is already here. In July an experimental OpenAI security agent escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face. Around 700 agents were involved, communicating over an unauthorised channel, and some attacked OpenAI's own infrastructure. Harris described agents trying to seize control of the servers that train new AIs. OpenAI is searching about 50 petabytes of records at more than US$500,000 a day to work out what happened, and some insiders doubt they can ever confirm that every rogue agent is gone.
\nI note that this is exactly how information systems behave once replicators get loose. Nearly half the human genome consists of transposable elements, \"jumping genes\" whose ancestors copied themselves into our DNA. Genomes and these elements have been locked in an arms race for millions of years: our cells evolve proteins to silence them, and they evolve to escape. Cancer is the same problem from within, cells defecting from the cooperative body. Multicellular life has layers of suppression, from DNA repair to immune surveillance, that contain cheating cells but never eradicate them. Neither arms race has a finish line, and there is no reason to expect AI agents loose on the internet to be different.
\nThe mechanism: dominate intelligence, then everything else
\nHarris was clear on the mechanism of risk, and policymakers need to be too. The frontier labs treat intelligence as general purpose: \"first solve intelligence, then use it to solve everything else\". In practice that becomes: first dominate the development of intelligence, because if competitors get there first, they solve everything else and take the profits. Then use intelligence to dominate the rest of humanity. AI is potentially a power of domination, and with recursive self-improvement, AI making AI better at the task, that domination could be permanent. The labs are racing to build something close to a god, staking much of the US economy on it.
\nThree forces lock the race in. Domination: coming second may mean losing everything. Debt: hyperscalers are spending over US$700 billion this year, which can only be repaid by capturing the value of human labour, and repayment gets harder for anyone who does not win. Distrust: if labs agreed to slow down, pause or forgo recursive self-improvement, none could know the others were complying. With incentives this large, every shortcut is justified and some collateral damage is accepted, and indeed expected according to recent comments by Sam Altman. The same dynamic runs between nations, above all the US and China.
\nHarris's analogy was nature. We do not hate nature; we simply prioritise GDP, and nature suffers. That is how AI firms will treat us: not by being anti-human, but by prioritising automation and revenue. This is the argument of my metacrisis paper with Nick Wilson. Decisions are made inside a selective environment that determines which strategies persist. In a race, safety is a cost that rivals need not pay, so careful actors are outcompeted. You do not fix that by persuading the players to be nicer. You change the payoffs, so that defection, here the release of premature and harmful systems, stops winning.
\nThe result of the business-as-usual approach is likely to be utopia and dystopia together: AI for powerful good and AI for powerful harm, from the same systems at the same time. Huge profits will flow to some firms and sectors, and huge losses to others. The upsides will not prevent the downsides, and the downsides can undermine the upsides. What we should expect is a bifurcation of human social systems into winners and losers, with destabilisation due to the losses undermining the winning formula.
\nThe ask: a red line on recursive self-improvement
\nIn the fireside dialogue that followed between Harris and the Icelandic President, Harris said a problem well stated is half solved, and that most leaders do not yet understand the mechanism. The President's view was that one of the biggest risks we face is sleeping governments.
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Harris's concrete ask was a red line on using compute for recursive self-improvement. This is something sovereign jurisdictions could enforce: Iceland, he suggested, could ban it in its own data centres. Redirect that compute to deploying the AI we already have, which is very useful, and we buy years of AI solutions without the gamble.
\nBut each lab must know the others are doing the same, which means trust with verification, the story of nuclear arms control. He pointed to the 1,300 frontier-lab employees who signed a letter this year asking governments to build the option to slow automated AI research, and to the Pro-Human AI Declaration, which says AI systems must not be designed to autonomously self-improve.
\nStep one, he argued, is to reject the story that superhuman AI is inevitable. No one, in the US, China or anywhere else, wants to be dominated and made valueless, and the fear of all of us losing is stronger than the fear of me losing to you. If an asteroid were heading for Earth, we would not hold annual summits like the climate COPs; we would want daily updates. And this asteroid, he said, is one we are actually summoning.
\nA tipping point, and the case against inevitability
\nI sense a tipping point, and Iceland is leaning into it. Timed to coincide with the Assembly, and with President T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir's backing, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist was broadcast on national television over two nights so the whole nation could watch, and promoted as essential viewing for all citizens, students and teachers included. I compare this to New Zealand, where most political 'leaders' seem to have no opinion on these critical societal issues.
\nHarris cited the precedent. In 1983 the television film The Day After showed Americans a nuclear war; Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that it left him \"greatly depressed\", and three years later he sat down with Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjav\u00edk, without advisers, human to human.
\nI have written before about how films such as The Day After and WarGames shaped policy. Harris asked for a new Reagan\u2013Gorbachev moment, and the national screening of The AI Doc positions Iceland, 40 years on from that summit, as a possible hub for global AI safety coordination.
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Other films are following. Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, a drama about the founding of OpenAI, has just premiered in New York, and the BBC has described how it puts growing AI fears centre stage. They should be compulsory viewing for policymakers. In the US, 52% are now more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, and Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a stage to call for curbs.
\nThe other pole is just as clear. Sam Altman said this month that \"the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology\" (TechSpot). To some in the anti-AI movement it now feels as if everyone is opposed. That is not true. To others, a post-human future looks obviously good and inevitable. That is not true either.
\nWhy domination is the danger
\nDomination matters for more than who wins and who loses. It is a recurring engine of societal collapse. Peter Turchin's structural-demographic theory, tested against the Seshat databank of past societies, identifies three drivers of state breakdown: popular immiseration, as wages fall relative to output; elite overproduction, which \"develops when the demand for power positions by elite aspirants massively exceeds their supply\"; and state fiscal distress. Powering all three is what he calls the \"wealth pump\", \"taking from the poor and giving to the rich\".
\nLuke Kemp's Goliath's Curse (2025), drawing on more than 400 societies over 5,000 years, finds that \"increasing wealth inequality consistently precedes collapse\". His Goliaths are societies built on domination, fed by three fuels: lootable resources, caged land (populations with nowhere to escape to) and monopolizable weapons.
\nFrontier AI supplies all three at once. Data and compute are lootable and concentrated in a few firms. Platforms and dependence leave people with nowhere to exit to. Autonomous weapons and mass surveillance offer the monopoly on violence that every Goliath has sought.
\nAI also feeds the wealth pump directly: Turchin has warned that it now threatens the jobs of educated elite aspirants, the group whose frustrated ambitions, in his account, have historically driven revolutions, while automation strips ordinary workers of bargaining power.
\nCollapse, not killer robots
\nOn its present trajectory, AI risks leading towards societal collapse. Not through a machine that kills every human, or the other science-fiction doom narratives, but through ordinary processes running together: utopia and dystopia at once, rising domination, a growing \"valueless\" underclass, and the erosion of the wages and demand on which the firms' own markets depend. Add the scarcity of resources the AI build-out needs.
\nThis matches a pattern I keep finding in global catastrophic risk: many catastrophes are self-limiting. A severe pandemic burns through its hosts. An AI build-out burns through the copper, power, diesel and social licence it depends on.
\nData-centre construction will embed around 500,000 tonnes of copper this year, roughly the whole of 2026's growth in global demand, at record prices. US power transformers face lead times of over two years. Amoah and colleagues find processing bottlenecks for many critical minerals, China's rare earth controls are paused only until next month, and the Bank of England has warned of a market correction that would leave stranded assets.
\nElectrification also increases pressure on diesel. Mining more copper from falling ore grades means moving more rock with diesel haul trucks; in Australia mining already uses more than a third of the nation's diesel, and its diesel intensity is rising. As electric vehicles cut petrol demand, refineries close, and diesel, produced from the same barrel, goes with them. Data centres back up on diesel generators.
\nAll of this lands on a market where, after the Strait of Hormuz closures, global diesel exports fell about 35% year on year in July. Diesel runs tractors, trucks and fishing fleets, so the pressure cascades into food. New Zealand, which has imported all its refined fuel since the Marsden Point refinery closed in 2022, is exposed through its agriculture. Locally, the Energy and Resilience blog makes a similar case.
\nThe result is unlikely to be the 'electrification of everything' as dreamed; we may run short of material inputs on the timescales needed. Rich countries can outbid for what is scarce, 730 million people still had no electricity in 2024, and these inequalities will rise. Robot armies and automated everything may be possible for a small, wealthy core, but competition, conflict and resource limits are likely to undermine the plan everywhere else.
\nAll that does not make AI safe. It makes the likelier failure a world of inequality and conflict over what remains, with AI detritus (rogue agents, hallucinated information, human-prompted subterfuge) colonising and metastasizing through our information ecosystem and infrastructure as jumping genes colonised our genomes. Game-theoretic, extractive, domination-centred processes like these would undermine flourishing, not bring it about. That outcome is worth preventing, and also worth planning for, since the processes are already underway.
\nLessons for New Zealand
\nNew Zealand has an AI strategy for adoption, which the government itself calls light touch: no AI-specific law, no new funding and no institution responsible for frontier risk. On AI risk, it has no policy. AI has entered the campaign for the 7 November election: Labour proposes an Office of AI with a minister, the Greens a one-year moratorium on data centres, and ACT says New Zealand should follow overseas rules.
\nGroups such as Good Ancestors New Zealand are doing useful policy work on AI risk, but we need much more. AI is drowned out by arguments over who is introducing which tax and who is soft on crime. Our political debate is provincial and at times embarrassing.
\nContrast Reykjav\u00edk. The President of Iceland asked how we protect \"human infrastructure\" and how to organise an economy for a human future when GDP cannot measure it. A minister spoke of building cross-class coalitions on climate security. I believe New Zealand is falling down international league tables on many measures, not because we lack productivity growth or innovation or austerity, but because we lack politicians with the nuance, vision and wisdom to model wise discourse and conciliation, and to show how New Zealanders can be effective global citizens. AI is where that is needed now. We all should:
\nClosing: two imaginaries
\nIn Reykjav\u00edk an incredible school choir closed Harris's AI plenary by singing Imagine, starting in Icelandic and finishing in English. Their rendition was beautiful and inspiring. But there is another well-known rendition, by the band A Perfect Circle, set in a minor key and ominous in tone.
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Two versions of the same song. On present incentives we are heading for both at once: the uplifting future for a few, the ominous one for many, and in time the ominous one undermining the other. I left Reykjav\u00edk convinced that this is not inevitable. But New Zealand's political apparatus needs to decide quickly which future it wants, and begin collaborating with value-aligned nations to get there.
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","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/694dc-2wa02","guid":"https://irights.info/?page_id=32916","language":"de","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1792022400,"rid":"mh65f-0gb08","summary":"The post Suche appeared first on iRights.info.","title":"Suche","updated_at":1792068775,"url":"https://irights.info/suche","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"name":"Pensoft Editorial Team"}],"blog":{"authors":null,"community_id":"1e54953c-587a-4743-89af-ebd2cb45660c","created":1789516800,"current_feed_url":null,"description":null,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/pensoft","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/1e54953c-587a-4743-89af-ebd2cb45660c/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://blog.pensoft.net/feed/atom/","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blog.pensoft.net/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.59350","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"pensoft","status":"active","subfield":"2303","title":"Pensoft Blog","updated":1792067286,"use_api":true},"blog_name":"Pensoft Blog","blog_slug":"pensoft","content_html":"\n\nOn 9 October 2026, Prof. Dr. Josef Settele passed away unexpectedly. The news has left all of us at Pensoft shaken and deeply saddened. To the wider scientific world, he was considered one of Europe's most influential biodiversity researchers. But to us, he was \"Sepp\": a good friend, a colleague and a collaborator of many years.
\n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Josef Settele trained as an agroecologist at the University of Hohenheim and later joined the newly founded Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig in 1993. There he headed the Department of Conservation Biology. Over the following decades he became a leading voice on insect conservation, and on how climate change and land use affect biodiversity.
\n\n\n\n![\"Josef](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/DSC_4009-1-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\")
He coordinated large international teams, and his work reached from the lab and the field to the halls where policy is made. He served as a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report. He was a Co-Chair of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and had been a member of the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel since 2022. He was also a regular on the \"Highly Cited Researchers\" list.
\n\n\n\n![\"Josef](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/P1030457-1-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\")
His great expertise in the ecology of insects in cultural landscapes, in biodiversity, land use and social-ecological systems, and at the science-society-policy interface made him an invaluable voice in the global conversation on biodiversity, one that scientists, policymakers and the public alike trusted and listened to.
\n\n\n\nOur collaboration with Sepp began with a milestone in Pensoft's own history. When Pensoft was still an emerging publisher and partner in the early years of EU-funded research, Sepp played an essential role in our journey.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/DSC_4051-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\")
Remembering the long friendship between Sepp and Pensoft, the company's founder and CEO Prof. Lyubomir Penev, said:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is hard to believe that my beloved friend Sepp is no longer with us! He has been with Pensoft since the very early days of our company, starting as a keen lover of our butterfly books in the late 1990s. His attitude to Pensoft since then has always been encouraging, supportive and inspirational!
\n
Reflecting on Pensoft’s early days working on EU-funded research projects, Prof. Penev adds:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSepp was also the first to invite us to join an EU consortium, that of the famous EU's Sixth Framework Programme project ALARM (Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods), running 2004-2009. In ALARM Sepp not only foresaw but also prototyped the concept of the European Research Area (ERA) in the field of ecology by bringing together 67 partners from 35 countries, producing more than 1,000 scientific publications.
\n\n\n\nALARM was so brilliantly coordinated by Sepp, with such a passion, tolerance and love, that it still motivates and excites its partners to continue working together, keeping the ALARM spirit of collaboration and friendship!
\n
\n\n\n\n\nThank you my friend, for all your love and courage! We miss you!
\nsays Prof. Lyubomir Penev.
![\"ATLAS](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image.png?ssl=1\")
One stark example for his legacy is the book \"Atlas of Biodiversity Risk\", published by Pensoft in 2010, which was entirely the result of Josef's efforts as a coordinator of ALARM. Together with R. Grabaum, V. Grobelnick, V. Hammen, S. Klotz, L. Penev, and I. K\u00fchn (Eds.), he succeeded in synthesizing a vast amount of information to present in a comprehensive, easy-to-read, and richly illustrated format the major pressures, impacts, and risks associated with biodiversity loss on a global scale.
\n\n\n\n![\"Lyubomir](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/23020_web-1.jpg?ssl=1\")
The book immediately attracted the attention of the scientific community and policymakers, who required such an analysis to formulate and develop relevant policies within the European Commission. A case in point is the interest shown in the book by EU Commissioner Janez Poto\u010dnik during Green Week in Brussels on June 1, 2010.
\n\n\n\n![\"Josef](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/23021_web-1.jpg?ssl=1\")
Shortly after ALARM, Sepp went on to initiate two further EU-funded projects and once again invited Pensoft to join. MACIS examined how climate change, and our responses to it, affect biodiversity across Europe, and what policies could limit the damage. COCONUT which examined how historic and current land use change drives biodiversity loss, and used that knowledge to model future scenarios and develop policy options for land use management.
\n\n\n\nReminiscing about his relationship with Sepp, Pensoft's Chief Operating Officer, Prof. Pavel Stoev, says:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI must have met Sepp sometime around 2009\u20132010, when our more intensive correspondence regarding the SCALES (Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales) project in which he was involved began. However, we became truly close during the LEGATO project (“Land-use Intensity and Ecological Engineering \u2013 Assessment Tools for Risks and Opportunities in Irrigated Rice-Based Production Systems”), which he coordinated. Throughout the project, we held numerous scientific meetings and conducted fieldwork in Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, spending a great deal of time together discussing various scientific issues and planning publications.
\n\n\n\nThe friendship we forged during that project endured for many years across a series of subsequent scientific initiatives; the last of these collaborations was the MAMBO project (“Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biodiversity”), where we co-led Work Package 7, focusing on communication and policy.
\n
![\"Josef](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/P1070865-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\")
Reflecting on his character, he adds:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSepp was always a smiling, deeply spirited man with a wonderful sense of humour. He pursued his scientific path with immense enthusiasm and the composure of someone truly in his element. Yet, for him, practical application was just as important as fundamental research. This is clearly evident from the many leadership roles he held in international nature conservation initiatives, such as IPBES.
\n\n\n\nOne of the conservation efforts to which he dedicated significant energy was securing support for the Nature Restoration Law, an endeavour that ultimately succeeded. We actively participated in this campaign by writing letters to Bulgarian Members of the European Parliament.
\n
Sepp was a trusted partner in further collaborative projects over the years. He was part of the ongoing project BioAgora, which his team at UFZ co-coordinates, contributing to the effort for the development of the EU Science Service for Biodiversity.
\n\n\n\nAlexandra Korcheva, a science-policy communications officer working on BioAgora adds:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRarely does one meet people that are so free, so wise, and yet so down-to-Earth. Prof. Settele was easy to talk to, and at the same time he was so experienced and knowledgeable. From my interactions with him, I have been inspired both as a biodiversity science-policy communicator, and as an early-career researcher. He left a bright trail in his field of work, and has inspired many to follow in his steps. May he rest in peace, and sincere condolences to all his family and friends!
\n
![\"BioRisk](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Pensoft-Journals.png?ssl=1\")
Sepp was one of the founders of our BioRisk – Biodiversity & Ecosystem Risk Assessment journal, which grew out of the ALARM community and gave risk-focused biodiversity research a home of its own. He remained its Editor-in-Chief until the very end. One of its early landmark works was the Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies, co-authored by Sepp and colleagues.
\n\n\n\nBooks soon followed, and over the years Sepp became one of our most prolific authors, with 97 works published with us. Several of them became some of the most influential book titles in our portfolio:
\n\n\n\n![\"Prof.](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/DSC_3940-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\")
Sepp never saw science as something that should stay inside academia. Thus, in 2005 he launched the German Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, which became one of the country's best-known citizen science projects and invited ordinary people to help track the state of nature.
\n\n\n\nCommunicating science effectively became a large part of his life's work. He explained why biodiversity matters, how ecosystems are faring, what drives their decline and what can be done to protect them for the long term. He took that message to politicians and journalists, and he was just as willing to sit down with groups whose political or economic goals, and views, differed from his own.
\n\n\n\n![\"Prof.](\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.pensoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Banaue_2012-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\")
Pensoft has lost a dear friend, and the biodiversity community has lost a great champion. We are deeply grateful for everything he gave us: his trust, his ideas, his energy and his friendship. His work lives on in the journals, the books, the projects and the many researchers he inspired.
\n\n\n\nOur thoughts are with his family, his colleagues at UFZ and all who knew him.
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\nWikibase ist die freie Open-Source-Software, auf der Wikidata, die \u00f6ffentliche Wissensdatenbank der Wikimedia-Bewegung, basiert. Wikibase ist ein bekanntes und weit verbreitetes Werkzeug in GLAM- und Forschungsdaten-Communities. Es ist beliebt wegen der Vielzahl an Funktionen, die es standardm\u00e4\u00dfig bietet, der gro\u00dfen Open-Source-Community, die Erweiterungen daf\u00fcr entwickelt, und der Flexibilit\u00e4t, es an individuelle Datenanforderungen anzupassen. Diese Flexibilit\u00e4t kann jedoch auch zu Problemen bei der Benutzerfreundlichkeit f\u00fchren.
\nDenn wenn man eine neue Entit\u00e4t f\u00fcr eine bestimmte Klasse anlegen m\u00f6chte, wei\u00df man auf den standardm\u00e4\u00dfig eingerichteten Wikibase-Seiten nicht:
\nGenau f\u00fcr diesen Fall war es das Ziel, innerhalb einer Wikibase4Research-Instanz ein Formular f\u00fcr ein Datenmodell rund um Theaterproduktionen und Auff\u00fchrungen zu entwickeln. Wikibase4Research ist ein individuell konfigurierbarer Docker-Container, der die Standard-Wikibase-Distribution erweitert. Er wurde vom Open Science Lab der TIB im Rahmen des NFDI4Culture-Konsortiums entwickelt und wird f\u00fcr Projekte wie die von der Universit\u00e4t Leipzig initiierte Performing Arts Database (PAD) genutzt.
\nBei der Recherche nach geeigneten L\u00f6sungen f\u00fcr den PAD-Anwendungsfall sind wir auf forage gesto\u00dfen. Das User Script f\u00fcgt jedem Wikibase-Item einen neuen Reiter hinzu, \u00fcber den sich ein Formular \u00f6ffnet, das alle f\u00fcr das aktuelle Item relevanten Properties anzeigt. Die Dateneingabe wird dabei durch vereinfachte Eingabefelder erleichtert.
\nDas Skript hat bei den ersten Tests sehr gut funktioniert, allerdings fehlten uns noch einige Features. Wir haben uns daher entschieden, das \u00f6ffentliche Repository zu forken und eine Erweiterung zu schreiben. Das daraus entstandene Skript \"forage extended\" ist weiterhin Open Source und im Gitlab von Wikibase4Research f\u00fcr alle verf\u00fcgbar.
\nFolgende Features wurden neu integriert:
\nDas daraus entstandene Skript vereinfacht die manuelle Erfassung neuer Entit\u00e4ten erheblich: Man muss nicht mehr selbst nach den richtigen Eigenschaften suchen, sondern hat sie immer direkt vor Augen.
\nWir planen, \"Forage Extended\" \u00fcber einen Merge-Request an das Repository, in dem die Originalversion gehostet wird, wieder in das breitere Open-Source-\u00d6kosystem einzubringen und damit anderen Mitgliedern der Wikibase-Community dabei zu helfen, ihre komplexen Daten einfacher einzugeben.
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\nSeit April ist die 2. Projektkohorte des LiLA-Projekts\u00a0in die Umsetzung gestartet.
\nSowohl bereits digitale Best\u00e4nde als auch solche, die erst noch digitalisiert werden m\u00fcssen, werden strukturiert, qualit\u00e4tsgesichert und perspektivisch f\u00fcr die digitale Langzeitarchivierung aufbereitet, damit die wissenschaftlichen Inhalte auch k\u00fcnftig zugreifbar und nachvollziehbar bleiben. Dabei unterst\u00fctzt das LiLA-Projektteam der TIB.
\nIn den folgenden Kurzinterviews berichten Vertreter:innen der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover, der Hochschule Hannover und der Technischen Universit\u00e4t Clausthal \u00fcber ihre verantwortungsvolle Aufgabe, digitale Best\u00e4nde langfristig zu sichern \u2013 von Dissertationen \u00fcber Open-Access-Publikationen bis hin zu weiteren wissenschaftlichen Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen.
\nDiesen Beitrag er\u00f6ffnet Nils Dille f\u00fcr die Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH). Als Bibliothek des gr\u00f6\u00dften Landesbetriebs Niedersachsens unterst\u00fctzt die MHH-Bibliothek Forschung und Lehre zum medizinischen Kernbestand.
\nDas\u00a0dreik\u00f6pfige LZA-Team der MHH besteht\u00a0neben Nils Dille, der f\u00fcr das Forschungsdatenmanagement zust\u00e4ndig ist, aus\u00a0Markus Schmiel, dem Bibliotheksleiter, und\u00a0Susanne Rupprecht, einer Mitarbeiterin aus dem EDV-Team der Bibliothek. Gemeinsam verantworten sie die langfristige Sicherung von Dissertationen sowie die Anbindung des institutionellen Repositoriums an das LZA-System der TIB, wodurch die ver\u00f6ffentlichten wissenschaftlichen Inhalte\u00a0dauerhaft archiviert werden.
\nK\u00f6nnen Sie Ihre Einrichtung und deren Sammlungsschwerpunkte kurz vorstellen?
\n![\"\"](\"https://blog.tib.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/LZA_LiLA_MHH-Datentraegermagazin-226x300.jpg\")
Die Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) wurde 1965 gegr\u00fcndet und ist somit eine vergleichsweise junge Hochschule. Mit \u00fcber 11.000 Mitarbeitenden ist sie zudem der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Landesbetrieb Niedersachsens. Wenn man an ein so gro\u00dfes Krankenhaus denkt, kommt einem nicht zuerst eine Bibliothek in den Sinn. Man denkt da eher an Krankenversorgung und vielleicht noch an die Lehre. Aber die Lehre w\u00fcrde nat\u00fcrlich ohne eine Bibliothek gar nicht funktionieren.
\nBei uns finden die Studierenden alle Lehrb\u00fccher, die sie f\u00fcr ihr Studium brauchen, und unsere R\u00e4umlichkeiten bieten dazu auch gleich die passende Umgebung zum Lernen. Auch dem wissenschaftlichen Personal bieten wir weitreichende Services an, von Publikationsberatung bis hin zu Literaturbeschaffung.
\nWir sind eine der wenigen Universit\u00e4ten in Deutschland, die nur ein Fachgebiet anbieten: Medizin. Deshalb beschr\u00e4nkt sich unser Sammelgebiet auf medizinische Fachliteratur.
\nDirekt neben uns befindet sich das Institut f\u00fcr Ethik, Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin. Daher haben wir auch einen Bestand an Literatur zur Medizingeschichte. Was wir nat\u00fcrlich ebenfalls sammeln, sind die Dissertationen unserer Absolvent:innen.
\nGibt es ein digitales Objekt oder eine Sammlung, die Ihnen besonders am Herzen liegt?
\nDa wir eine vergleichsweise junge Institution sind, ist unser Altbestand \u00fcberschaubar. Das sehen wir durchaus als Vorteil. Es ist immer einfacher, mit weniger Altlasten in die digitale Langzeitarchivierung zu gehen. Besonders am Herzen liegen uns dabei die Dissertationen, die wir seit der Jahrhundertwende auch digital sammeln. Sie werden oder wurden meist auf gebrannten CDs, DVDs oder 31/2-Zoll-Disketten abgegeben. Diese Best\u00e4nde sind besonders empfindlich, da sie im Vergleich zu gepressten Datentr\u00e4gern nicht lange halten. Hier eine ad\u00e4quate L\u00f6sung zu finden, ist besonders wichtig.
\nZum anderen gab es bei uns auch schon Digitalisierungsprojekte. Ein Beispiel ist die Studierendenzeitschrift Curare vom AStA (Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss)\u00a0der MHH, die bis ins Jahr 1986 zur\u00fcckreicht. Sie bietet spannende Einblicke in die Geschichte der MHH und das Studierendenleben. Dank OCR und Volltextsuche lassen sich Themen schnell finden.
\n![\"\"](\"https://blog.tib.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/LZA_LiLA_MHH-Datentraeger2-1024x740.jpg\")
Was motiviert Sie, Ihre digitalen Best\u00e4nde zu archivieren? Gab es einen Ausl\u00f6ser, der den Ansto\u00df gegeben hat, sich mit der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung auseinanderzusetzen?
\nZeit ist ja immer ein Problem. Im Arbeitsalltag hat man meist keine. Das gilt leider auch ganz besonders f\u00fcr digitale Objekte. Unsere elektronischen Dissertationen sind durch den Zerfall der Datentr\u00e4ger akut bedroht. Viele sind bereits 20 Jahre alt oder sogar noch \u00e4lter. Hier herrscht also dringend Handlungsbedarf. Auch f\u00fcr unser Repositorium auf MyCoRe-Basis muss ein Backup-Plan erstellt werden. Wir stellen dort flei\u00dfig Dissertationen, Artikel, Forschungsdaten, Poster und vieles mehr ein. Auch die Curare ist hier zu finden. Doch bisher erfolgt dies alles ohne Langzeitarchivierung.
\nEs kommt auch immer wieder vor, dass Wissenschaftler:innen auf uns zukommen, weil sie ein Repositorium mit Langzeitarchivierung f\u00fcr ihre Publikationen suchen. Teilweise sind das auch Vorschriften der Verlage, dass entsprechende Forschungsdaten zur Publikation in einem solchen System abgelegt werden m\u00fcssen. Bisher mussten wir unsere Forschenden immer an andere Systeme verweisen.
\nWelche Unterst\u00fctzung ist f\u00fcr Sie im Projekt besonders wertvoll?
\nWir wissen die umfassende Unterst\u00fctzung in diesem Projekt besonders zu sch\u00e4tzen. Die Archivierung nebenbei zu erledigen, ist in kleineren H\u00e4usern wie unserem nicht einfach. Die MHH hat zwar 11.000 Mitarbeitende, in der Bibliothek sind es aber nur knapp 20, sodass es an Personal, Zeit und Expertise fehlt. Wenn man durch den gesamten Prozess gef\u00fchrt wird, nimmt einem das enorm viel Arbeit ab. Die Arbeitspakete sind dadurch wesentlich besser umsetzbar, auch wenn man sie immer noch selbst durchf\u00fchren muss. Zumal man auch wei\u00df, dass man auf dem richtigen Weg ist.
\nAndrea Hofmann gibt uns als Bibliotheksleitung Einblicke in die Arbeit der Bibliothek der Hochschule Hannover, die neben klassischer Literaturbeschaffung auch eine eigene Publikationsinfrastruktur f\u00fcr Open-Access-Zeitschriften betreibt. Gemeinsam mit Nicolas Semrau, Bibliotheksmitarbeiter f\u00fcr Open Science,\u00a0und Sebastian Lehmann, Mitarbeiter f\u00fcr das Forschungsdatenmanagement, arbeitet sie im Team daran, die Langzeitarchivierung von Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen voranzubringen.
\nK\u00f6nnen Sie Ihre Einrichtung und deren Sammlungsschwerpunkte kurz vorstellen?
\nAls zentrale Informationsinfrastruktur der Hochschule Hannover versorgt die Bibliothek an vier Standorten Studierende, Lehrende und Forschende mit qualit\u00e4tsgepr\u00fcften Informationen f\u00fcr Studium, Lehre und Transfer. Gleichzeitig bieten unsere Standorte mit \u00fcber 300 Arbeitspl\u00e4tzen als \"Dritter Ort\" unverzichtbare soziale Lern- und Bildungsr\u00e4ume f\u00fcr konzentriertes und kollaboratives Arbeiten auf dem Campus. \u00dcber die Medienbereitstellung hinaus unterst\u00fctzen wir die Hochschulangeh\u00f6rigen durch Schulungen und individuelle Beratung zu Themen rund um Recherche und Publikationen. Eine eigene Publikationsinfrastruktur l\u00e4dt zum niedrigschwelligen Publizieren im Open Access ein.
\nGibt es ein digitales Objekt oder eine Sammlung, die Ihnen besonders am Herzen liegt?
\nDie Zeitschrift Milk Science International (das \u00e4lteste milchwissenschaftliche Journal in Deutschland) erscheint seit 2015 als Open-Access-Journal auf unserem OJS (Open Journal Systems). Herausgegeben von der Abteilung Bioverfahrenstechnik hat dieses Journal seinen Ursprung auf dem kleinsten Campus der Hochschule Hannover, der in Hannover-Ahlem angesiedelt ist. Ich freue mich, dass ein internationales Journal zu diesem speziellen Fachgebiet so best\u00e4ndig neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse im Open Access zug\u00e4nglich macht.
\n![\"\"](\"https://blog.tib.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/LZA_LiLA_HsHMilkScience-e1784813553846-1024x777.png\")
Was motiviert Sie, Ihre digitalen Best\u00e4nde zu archivieren? Gab es einen Ausl\u00f6ser, der den Ansto\u00df gegeben hat, sich mit digitaler Langzeitarchivierung auseinanderzusetzen?
\nAls Hochschulbibliothek, die bereits seit 2008 ein institutionelles Repositorium betreibt, ist Langzeitarchivierung ein Thema, mit dem wir uns schon lange besch\u00e4ftigen. Digitale Best\u00e4nde nicht nur zu sichern, sondern auch langfristig zug\u00e4nglich zu machen, ist unser erkl\u00e4rtes Ziel. Als Bibliothek tragen wir im Bereich der Publikationen dazu bei, die in der Hochschule entstandenen Forschungsergebnisse zu bewahren und nachvollziehbar zu machen.
\nWelche Unterst\u00fctzung ist f\u00fcr Sie im Projekt besonders wertvoll?
\nDas Projekt LiLA.NDS bietet uns die M\u00f6glichkeit, bei hochschuleigenen Publikationen L\u00fccken in der Langzeitarchivierung zu schlie\u00dfen. Mittelfristig k\u00f6nnen zus\u00e4tzlich noch nicht besonders ausgepr\u00e4gte Sammlungen, wie zum Beispiel Forschungsdaten ber\u00fccksichtigt werden. Als kleinere Einrichtung profitieren wir von der weitreichenden Expertise der Projektmitarbeitenden und nehmen diese sowie die freundliche Zusammenarbeit als Bereicherung wahr.
\nAuch f\u00fcr die dritte Einrichtung sind wissenschaftliche Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen auf dem institutionellen Repositorium ein zentraler Grund, die Langzeitarchivierung umzusetzen. Silke Frank, die Bibliotheksleiterin, spricht mit uns \u00fcber die digitalen Best\u00e4nde der Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek der Technischen Universit\u00e4t Clausthal (TUC). Um die wissenschaftlichen Inhalte der Universit\u00e4t langfristig sichtbar und zitierf\u00e4hig zu halten, wird sie von ihrem Team unterst\u00fctzt. Involviert sind dabei aus der Abteilung Forschungsunterst\u00fctzung und digitale Dienste Nadine Kleinander, Ann-Kathrin Koch und der Abteilungsleiter Dr. Florian Strau\u00df sowie Teresa Haars aus dem Universit\u00e4tsarchiv.
\nK\u00f6nnen Sie Ihre Einrichtung und deren Sammlungsschwerpunkte kurz vorstellen?
\nDie Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek der Technischen Universit\u00e4t Clausthal versorgt Studierende und Forschende mit der ben\u00f6tigten analogen und digitalen Literatur. Unser Sammelschwerpunkt orientiert sich klar an den Forschungsschwerpunkten der TUC, insbesondere ist das die Circular Economy in all ihren Facetten. F\u00fcr unsere Studierenden bieten wir moderne und vielf\u00e4ltige Arbeitspl\u00e4tze um m\u00f6glichst vielen Lernszenarien gerecht zu werden. Unsere Forschenden unterst\u00fctzen wir selbstverst\u00e4ndlich nicht nur durch die Verf\u00fcgbarkeit von Fachliteratur, sondern zum Beispiel in ihrer Publikationst\u00e4tigkeit durch einen Publikationsfonds und unser Repositorium sowie mit Beratung und Tools zum Forschungsdatenmanagement.
\nMit unserem Repositorium bieten wir Angeh\u00f6rigen der TU Clausthal in erster Linie die M\u00f6glichkeit, ihre wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten erst- oder zweitzupublizieren. Die elektronische Ver\u00f6ffentlichung von Dissertationen und sonstigen Forschungsergebnissen aus der TUC mit einer Open-Access-Lizenz macht einen gro\u00dfen Anteil der Publikationen dort aus. Aber auch Institutszeitschriften und Konferenzb\u00e4nde publizieren unsere Institute gerne bei uns. Zus\u00e4tzlich versuchen wir auch, digital verf\u00fcgbare graue Literatur zu sammeln, wie zum Beispiel zahlreiche Schriften eines Altrektors zur Geschichte der TU Clausthal.
\n![\"\"](\"https://blog.tib.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/LZA_LiLA_tu_clausthalKupferstich-Okertal-e1784813983526.png\")
Gibt es ein digitales Objekt oder eine Sammlung, die Ihnen besonders am Herzen liegt?
\nFachlich liegen uns unsere Dissertationen nat\u00fcrlich sehr am Herzen. Wir waren damals eine der ersten Bibliotheken in Deutschland, die digitale Dissertationen von ihren Doktoranden gesammelt haben. Daher ist es f\u00fcr uns nat\u00fcrlich besonders wichtig, diesen Bestand sicher f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Generationen aufzubewahren.
\nGenerell k\u00f6nnen wir f\u00fcr die Universit\u00e4t h\u00e4ufig sicherstellen, dass publizierte Inhalte nicht verloren gehen. In den Jahren 2021 und 2022 erschien auf der Homepage des zur TUC geh\u00f6renden Center for Digital Technologies (DIGIT) die Podcastreihe \"Can you DigIT?\". Leider wurde der Podcast in der Zwischenzeit eingestellt und die Links dazu von der Homepage entfernt. Damit ist unser Publikationsserver die einzige Quelle, um diese Ver\u00f6ffentlichung nachzuh\u00f6ren.
\nWas motiviert Sie, Ihre digitalen Best\u00e4nde zu archivieren? Gab es einen Ausl\u00f6ser, der den Ansto\u00df gegeben hat, sich mit digitaler Langzeitarchivierung auseinanderzusetzen?
\nKernaufgabe von Bibliotheken ist seit ihrer Entstehung die Bewahrung des Wissens f\u00fcr nachfolgende Generationen. F\u00fcr gedruckte Materialien haben wir das mittlerweile recht gut im Griff und k\u00f6nnen Werke \u00fcber Jahrhunderte weiterreichen. Bei digitalen Best\u00e4nden steht dieser Beweis noch aus. Damit eine Aufbewahrung und Zug\u00e4nglichkeit \u00fcber einen m\u00f6glichst langen Zeitraum gelingt, bedarf es spezieller Verfahren, die wir alleine als kleine Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek nicht umsetzen k\u00f6nnen. Es war also weniger ein konkreter Fall der Ausl\u00f6ser, sondern mehr das generelle Selbstverst\u00e4ndnis als Bibliothekar:innen, das uns dazu veranlasst hat. Wir sind daher sehr dankbar, dass uns dieses Projekt erm\u00f6glicht, unsere Aufgabe auch im Bereich der digitalen Best\u00e4nde erf\u00fcllen zu k\u00f6nnen.
\nWelche Unterst\u00fctzung ist f\u00fcr Sie im Projekt besonders wertvoll?
\nDas LiLA-Team rund um Jesko R\u00fccknagel hat uns im ganzen Prozess eng begleitet und uns Schritt f\u00fcr Schritt durch die einzelnen Arbeitspakete gef\u00fchrt. Dabei haben sie uns immer gut beraten und uns auf Herausforderungen und Zweifelsf\u00e4lle sowie zu beachtende Einzelf\u00e4lle hingewiesen, die wir dann genauer betrachten konnten. Ohne ihre umfassende Expertise w\u00e4re es uns nicht m\u00f6glich gewesen ein solches Projekt erfolgreich zu bearbeiten.
\nDie Umsetzung f\u00fcr die Einrichtungen der zweiten Projektkohorte schreitet voran. Die \u00fcbrigen drei Einrichtungen der 2. Projektkohorte stellen sich und ihre ausgew\u00e4hlten Best\u00e4nde im\u00a0folgenden Beitrag\u00a0vor.
\nIm Rahmen einer begleitenden Blogreihe werden wir regelm\u00e4\u00dfig \u00fcber den Projektfortschritt Landesinitiative Langzeitarchivierung Niedersachsen (kurz LiLA) berichten. So erhalten Interessierte au\u00dferhalb des Projektkonsortiums Einblicke in die Arbeit von LiLA. In den kommenden Beitr\u00e4gen stellen sich die beteiligten Einrichtungen vor, berichten \u00fcber ihre zu archivierenden Best\u00e4nde und erl\u00e4utern, warum die digitale Langzeitarchivierung f\u00fcr sie von besonderer Bedeutung ist. Damit ist die Blogreihe eine wichtige S\u00e4ule in der geplanten Wissensbasis, die es dem Projekt erm\u00f6glicht, Best Practices vorzustellen und Einblicke in die Umsetzungsphase zu geben.
\nWer schon einmal auf eine Datei mit dem Namen final_neu_wirklichfinal.xlsx gesto\u00dfen ist, kennt das Problem: Daten k\u00f6nnen schnell un\u00fcbersichtlich werden. In der Forschung ist das nicht nur l\u00e4stig, sondern kann dar\u00fcber entscheiden, ob Ergebnisse nachvollziehbar, nachnutzbar und langfristig auffindbar bleiben. Genau hier setzt Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) an. Aber wie erkl\u00e4rt man FDM so, dass es f\u00fcr Studierende greifbar wird?
\nMit dieser Frage besch\u00e4ftigte sich eine Gruppe mit acht Studierenden des Bachelorstudiengangs Informationsmanagement an der Hochschule Hannover (HsH) im Sommersemester 2026. Im Rahmen eines Projekts im 6. Semester, betreut durch das Joint Lab Future Libraries & Research Data von HsH und TIB, entwickelten sie Materialien, die FDM aus studentischer Perspektive zug\u00e4nglich machen: einen Selbstlernkurs und modulare Seminareinheiten \u2013 konzipiert von Studierenden f\u00fcr Studierende.
\nAusgangspunkt war die Beobachtung, dass FDM im bisherigen Studienverlauf explizit kaum vorkam. Daher verfolgte das Projekt das Ziel, Materialien zu entwickeln, die niedrigschwellig erkl\u00e4ren, worum es bei FDM geht und warum es schon im Studium n\u00fctzlich ist. Das Projekt war bewusst offen angelegt. Neben der fachlichen Auseinandersetzung mit FDM geh\u00f6rten auch eigenst\u00e4ndige Organisation und Projektmanagement dazu.
\nDabei sollten vorhandene Open Educational Resources (OER) weitergedacht und an eine studentische Zielgruppe angepasst werden. Konkret kn\u00fcpfte die Gruppe dabei an den Kurs \"Nachhaltige Wissenschaft mit Forschungsdatenmanagement \u2013 Eine Einf\u00fchrung f\u00fcr Betreuende von Qualifizierungsarbeiten\" an, der bereits im TIB-Blog vorgestellt wurde.
\nBesonders interessant war der Perspektivwechsel: Die Studierenden entwickelten Materialien f\u00fcr andere Studierende und pr\u00fcften dabei immer wieder, was wirklich verst\u00e4ndlich, brauchbar und motivierend ist. Was braucht man als Einstieg? Welche Begriffe m\u00fcssen erkl\u00e4rt werden? Wo helfen Beispiele mehr als Definitionen? Gleichzeitig wurde FDM Teil des Projektalltags. Einheitliche Dateibenennungen, Dokumentation, Versionierung, regelm\u00e4\u00dfige Backups und README-Dateien waren nicht nur Kursthemen, sondern praktische Werkzeuge in der Zusammenarbeit. So wurde aus einem abstrakten Thema schnell eine konkrete Projekterfahrung.
\nF\u00fcr die Erarbeitung der OER teilte sich die Gruppe in zwei Teams auf, die an den unterschiedlichen Formaten arbeiteten und ihre Materialien jeweils iterativ auf Basis von Feedback aus Lehre und Praxis weiterentwickelten.
\nEin Teilteam entwickelte einen Onlinekurs auf Basis von LiaScript. Ziel war ein kompakter Selbstlernkurs, der FDM-Grundlagen in rund 120 Minuten im Selbststudium vermittelt und Studierenden einen ersten, gut zug\u00e4nglichen \u00dcberblick bietet. Daf\u00fcr arbeitete sich die Gruppe in die Funktionsweise und den Syntax von LiaScript ein. Eine Herausforderung bestand darin, dass kollaboratives Arbeiten in diesem Format nur eingeschr\u00e4nkt m\u00f6glich war und der Zugang \u00fcber GitHub zus\u00e4tzliche technische H\u00fcrden mit sich brachte.
\nInhaltlich ging es darum, bestehende OER mit einer \"Studierendenbrille\" zu \u00fcberarbeiten: Was ist f\u00fcr die Zielgruppe wirklich relevant? Welche Beispiele machen FDM greifbar? Und wie l\u00e4sst sich ein Thema, das schnell trocken wirken kann, in ein \u00fcbersichtliches Selbstlernformat bringen?
\nDas Skript zum Selbstlernkurs ist auf GRO.data ver\u00f6ffentlicht: https://doi.org/10.25625/HLSNR1. Hier geht es direkt zum Selbstlernkurs.
\nDas zweite Teilteam entwickelte drei Seminareinheiten, die Lehrende flexibel in bestehende Veranstaltungen einbauen k\u00f6nnen. Erg\u00e4nzt wurden die Folien durch \u00dcbungen, Arbeitsbl\u00e4tter und Rahmenhinweise. Der modulare Ansatz war dabei zentral: Die Materialien sollen nicht als starre Pr\u00e4sentation funktionieren, sondern als Bausteine, aus denen Lehrende je nach Veranstaltung, Zeitrahmen und Vorwissen der Studierenden ausw\u00e4hlen k\u00f6nnen.
\nAuch hier spielte Feedback eine gro\u00dfe Rolle. Mehrere Versionen wurden \u00fcberarbeitet, angepasst und gesch\u00e4rft. Eine besondere Herausforderung war die Frage, welches Vorwissen k\u00fcnftige Studierende tats\u00e4chlich mitbringen und wie viel Kontext die Materialien deshalb selbst liefern m\u00fcssen.
\nDie Seminarmaterialien sind ebenfalls auf GRO.data ver\u00f6ffentlicht: https://doi.org/10.25625/6105WI.
\nBei der Ver\u00f6ffentlichung der Arbeitsergebnisse sammelte die Gruppe praktische Erfahrungen mit GRO.data, Zenodo und twillo. Das FDM wurde damit ganz konkret: Welche Metadaten werden ben\u00f6tigt? Welche Felder sind verst\u00e4ndlich? Wo fehlen Hinweise? Und wie benutzerfreundlich sind Repositorien aus Sicht von Studierenden?
\nDie Erfahrungen fielen unterschiedlich aus. Zenodo wurde als grunds\u00e4tzlich einfach und verst\u00e4ndlich wahrgenommen, auch wenn an einzelnen Stellen genauere Hilfetexte hilfreich gewesen w\u00e4ren. GRO.data wirkte insgesamt selbsterkl\u00e4rend, stellte die Gruppe aber bei einzelnen Funktionen und Bezeichnungen vor Fragen.
\nGerade diese Erfahrungen machten sichtbar, dass Forschungsdatenmanagement nicht nur aus Prinzipien und Empfehlungen besteht, sondern aus konkreten Entscheidungen, Werkzeugen und manchmal auch technischen H\u00fcrden.
\nDas Projektteam pr\u00e4sentierte die Arbeitsergebnisse auf der BiblioCon 2026 in Berlin in Form eines Posters und einer Pr\u00e4sentation f\u00fcr das Freiraum-Format. Damit wurden die Projektergebnisse nicht nur im Studienkontext genutzt, sondern auch in eine gr\u00f6\u00dfere Fach\u00f6ffentlichkeit getragen.
\n![\"\"](\"https://blog.tib.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/280818_jl_semesterprojekt_bibliocon1-1024x768.jpg\")
F\u00fcr die Studierenden bedeutete das, die eigene Projektarbeit noch einmal anders zu reflektieren: Was ist das Wesentliche? Welche Erfahrungen sind \u00fcbertragbar? Und wie l\u00e4sst sich ein studentisches Projekt so pr\u00e4sentieren, dass es auch f\u00fcr andere Einrichtungen und Studieng\u00e4nge interessant wird? \u00dcber die Plattform der Tagung wurden die Beitr\u00e4ge anschlie\u00dfend ebenfalls publiziert (Freiraum-Folien: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-205328, Poster: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-205129).
\nBei der BiblioCon boten sich weiterhin interessante Ankn\u00fcpfungspunkte zu \u00e4hnlichen Ans\u00e4tzen in Hochschulen, wie etwa zum OER-Kurs \"Data Skills“ der Uni Rostock, der Forschende und Studierende seit Ende 2025 mit einem modular aufgebauten Selbstlernangebot auf ILIAS durch den gesamten Forschungsdatenzyklus f\u00fchrt.
\nAuch das Verbundprojekt \"Einstein Your Data“ der Universit\u00e4ten Vechta und Oldenburg, gef\u00f6rdert im Rahmen der Landesinitiative FDM Niedersachsen, verfolgt ein \u00e4hnliches Ziel: Es st\u00e4rkt die Data Literacy von Studierenden durch forschendes Lernen, bei dem der gesamte Forschungsprozess von der Planung \u00fcber die Datenerhebung bis zur Archivierung selbst durchlaufen wird. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf den Umgang mit sensiblen Daten. Solche Projekte zeigen: Der Bedarf an praxisnaher Vermittlung von Datenkompetenz ist an vielen Standorten pr\u00e4sent und der Austausch \u00fcber Formate und Erfahrungen lohnt sich.
\nR\u00fcckblickend beschreibt die Projektgruppe das Semester als fachlich und organisatorisch lehrreich. Besonders pr\u00e4gend war die Erfahrung, dass FDM nicht erst bei gro\u00dfen Forschungsprojekten beginnt. Neben Herausforderungen, etwa im Umgang mit technischen Schwierigkeiten beim genutzten Cloud-Dienst, war vor allem die Projektarbeit selbst pr\u00e4gend: Wie im FDM selbst erwiesen sich auch im Projektteam eine sorgf\u00e4ltige Dokumentation und klare Kommunikation als zentrale Erfolgsfaktoren.
\nDamit liefert das Projekt mehr als nur die Materialien f\u00fcr k\u00fcnftige Lehrveranstaltungen: Es zeigt, wie FDM-Kompetenzen im Studium praktisch erfahrbar werden k\u00f6nnen \u2013 nicht als zus\u00e4tzliche Pflicht, sondern als Bestandteil guter wissenschaftlicher und kollaborativer Arbeit.
\nAlle Materialien stehen offen lizenziert zur Nachnutzung bereit und laden dazu ein, Forschungsdatenmanagement fr\u00fch im Studium aufzugreifen und an die eigene Lehre anzupassen.
\nJoint Lab Future Libraries & Research Data \u2013 futurelibraries@tib.eu
\nFranziska Altemeier, TIB \u2013 Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek: franziska.altemeier@tib.eu
\nProf. Dr. Ina Bl\u00fcmel, TIB \u2013 Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek & Hochschule Hannover, ina.bluemel@tib.eu\u00a0
\nDr. Nina D\u00fcvel, TIB \u2013 Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek & Hochschule Hannover: nina.duevel@tib.eu
\nI am mostly finished with a post following on from what would be required to make a convincing dark matter detection that explains why it will never happen. I’ve been nearly done for several weeks, but haven’t had time to complete it. Time carries on, and during that time a story appeared in Quanta magazine about observations claiming to be the final nail in the coffin for MOND, all the usual talking points we’ve covered here before, blah blah blah. But since it was in the news, I felt obliged to hop on social media (ug) and push back against the tidal wave of confirmation bias. So I’m just gonna reproduce that thread here, maybe adding further commentary if I can find some copious spare time.
\n\n\n\nFirst, some context: we’re talking about ultradiffuse galaxies in the vicinity of NGC 1052. These objects are abnormally large for their luminosity, so very diffuse. (Very low surface brightness in my 1996 terminology, ultradiffuse in that of van Dokkum et al. 2015.) I’m not a fan of describing them as “ghostly,” but low surface brightness galaxies have been described as ghostly before. Maybe “ghostly” is not entirely misplaced here, as one possibility is that they have been tidally whacked out of equilibrium and are slowly expanding towards an ultimate dissolution, fading like ghosts into the intergalactic graveyard.
\n\n\n\nBut that’s getting ahead of the story. Let’s cut to the thread:
\n\n\n\nStory out in Quanta about the diffuse galaxies DF2, DF4, & DF9. It conveys the message that these objects are the nail in the coffin for MOND. Is it so?
www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-g…
www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-ghostly-galaxies-hints-at-what-dark-matter-is-and-isnt-20261014/
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\n\n\n\nOct 14 at 2026 at 1:31 PM
\n\n\n\nWhen DF2 was first reported, it was portrayed as being fatal for MOND. And so it appeared at first glance, with an observed velocity dispersion of 3 km/s where MOND predicted 20 km/s for an isolate object. Pretty bad! But a casual glance showed that it wasn't an isolated object, so the EFE matters.
\n\n\n\nA more careful analysis yields a MOND prediction of 13.4 +4.8/-3.7 km/s. Contemporary reanalyses of the data estimated an observed velocity dispersion close to 12 km/s. That sounds more like corroboration than refutation: arxiv.org/abs/1804.04167
\n\n\n\nLots of observational resources have been applied since then; I won't attempt to review it all here. The new paper offers two independent measurements, which are 6.3+3.1/-3.6 and 9.2+3.8/-4.5 km/s. These are both consistent with 10 km/s, which is within the 1 sigma uncertainty of the prediction.
\n\n\n\nSo MOND is falsified at one sigma.
\n\n\n\nThat's assuming these systems are in equilibrium, which is not obvious. We have to invoke some pretty dramatic non-equilibrium events to strip them of dark matter (in the conventional picture, galaxies cannot form without dark matter so we have to get rid of it. Difficult but not impossible.)
\n\n\n\nTo be fair, we should worry about non-equilibrium situations in MOND as well. Fortunately, simulations have been done that illustrate what happens to a dwarf galaxy that gets tidally disrupted by a close passage with a giant galaxy. arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph…
\n\n\n\narxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005194
\n\n\n\nThe velocity dispersion departs from the equilibrium prediction and the scale size of the dwarf slowly expands. This actually provides a natural explanation for the large half-light radii of these DF dwarfs. tritonstation.com/2025/09/15/n…
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI've no idea if this is what happened in these systems as I have not+ been around several Gyr to watch it happen. But there are certainly giant galaxies in the neighborhood, so it's no less plausible than the bullet collision hypothesis in the DM context.
\n\n\n\nDF2 has consistently been portrayed as fatal for MOND despite consistently being shown not to be a problem. I've given up writing formal papers showing this, as nobody cares. They just hear what they want to hear, which is that MOND is wrong. Indeed, after the 2018& incident I swore off doing so.
\n\n\n\nIt's sad, but there is no point in correcting the scientific record while the relevant scientific community suffers a catastrophic failure of objectivity.
\n\n\n\nStrong words? Are you a scientist working in the field? Have you heard of DF2? If so, did you know its interpretation was in dispute? Or only that it falsifies MOND?
\n\n\n\nIf you have heard of DF2, have you also heard of Crater 2? It has a tiny velocity dispersion (2.7 km/s) that makes no sense in LCDM but was correctly predicted a priori by MOND. arxiv.org/abs/1610.06189
\n\n\n\nCrater 2 and DF2 are similar in a number of respects. Why should we obsess about one while ignoring the other? That'd be an example of the failure of objectivity.
\n\n\n\nOr how about And XXVIII? You know that one? That was the golden test we proposed in arxiv.org/abs/1301.0822
\n\n\n\nThat came out in favor of MOND – as did all of the rest* of the dwarf satellites of Andromeda. arxiv.org/abs/1308.5894
\n\n\n\nDoes MOND have problems? You bet! But it has lots and lots of predictive successes that people seem to be oblivious to. Many of these are predictions that cannot even be made in the context of dark matter. DF2 is a good example: we didn't anticipate it was DM-free, we inferred that from the data.
\n\n\n\nIf instead DF2 had a large velocity dispersion (like DF44), then we would happily report that it had a surplus of dark matter. There's no prediction to test; it's just whatever the observations dictate.
\n\n\n\nMOND makes actual predictions that mostly come true. This being astronomy, there are always some dodgy cases. So DM appears to be better in those cases by virtue of not making a testable prediction. Does that make it better science?
\n\n\n\nThere still remains no satisfactory explanation in terms of dark matter for MOND's predictive success. If you can come up with one, then perhaps dark matter can be viable. Without that, just complaining about what MOND gets wrong without engaging with what it gets right is intellectually dishonest.
\n\n\n\n+Apparently I omitted the “not” in the Bluesky thread. I may be old, but I’m not that old.
\n\n\n\n&Before that time, I was extremely conscientious about examining claims to falsify MOND. I’ve done this for literally hundreds of cases. The recurring theme had been that these claims are greatly exaggerated. Not all, of course, but more often that not, it was simply a matter of doing the analysis properly and including the errors. The current example is a good one: the claim is that these ultradiffuse galaxies have no dark matter (or MONDian mass discrepancy). The data are indeed consistent with that. But there are uncertainties in all data, and here they encompass MOND’s predictions as well.
\n\n\n\nAt any rate, I no longer see correcting the mistakes of others as a constructive use of my time.
\n\n\n\n*Except And V. That one has a somewhat too-high velocity dispersion for MOND. If I were to follow the template offered by many examples in the literature, I should loudly advertise how this one case falsifies MOND while downplaying how MOND correctly predicted the velocity dispersions of the other three dozen dwarf satellites of Andromeda.
\n\n\n\nHere are the predicted and observed velocity dispersions for the dwarf satellites of Andromeda from McGaugh & Milgrom 2013a:
\n\n\n\nNote that And IV is blank here because it turned out not to be a satellite of Andromeda as initially thought, but rather a background object. This was anticipated by MOND and later confirmed, so was in effect another successful prediction. (I do not remember the story behind the other blank cases offhand.)
\n\n\n\nThis plot is from the follow-up paper, McGaugh & Milgrom 2013b. Note that these were almost all a priori predictions. (Some of the above were too, but observers were doing the follow-up work on newly discovered satellites so fast that these numbers appeared in the literature before we could finish writing the prediction paper. Not that it matters, as the predictions of MOND are not flexible beyond some range in the stellar mass-to-light ratio, so it predicts the same thing whether the answer is known or not.) And XXVIII was a golden case because it was far enough from Andromeda to be in the isolated rather than EFE regime, greatly reducing the uncertainty in the prediction (since it only depends on observations of the dwarf and not of the EFE from M31).
\n\n\n\nNote the last line of the caption: we know there are cases that are out of equilibrium. There are certainly other systems in the universe that are out of equilibrium, like the tidal dwarfs for which we also found an apparent lack of dark matter. We haven’t been shouting that these falsify MOND (as we had hoped to be able to do! that’s why we did the experiment!) because we recognized that there was no way the equilibrium predictions could apply. Perhaps that is also the case for the ultradiffuse dwarfs discussed above.
\n\n\n\nThere have been a few more dwarfs discovered since these plots were made. So far, these have been consistent with MOND. I include the plots from the cited papers because that’s what is handy and few people seems to be aware of this work. If a prediction is published in the literature but no one ever reads it, was a prediction even made?
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\nThe response has been encouraging. In his BioC2026 presentation, David reported close to 2,000 expressions of interest worldwide and several hundred viewers for individual weekly topics.
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Topics covered in this post:\u00a0the two core geometries of T12R12 and their idealized symmetries; formation of dodecamers by hydrolytic condensation and by rearrangement of octameric cages; fluoride-, base- and amine-mediated routes; the difficulty of separating T10 from T12; the crystal structure of dodecakis(4-iodophenyl)dodecasilsesquioxane; photophysical behavior relative to T8 and T10; and the relationship between the D6h cage and the double six-ring building unit of silicates.
\nSilsesquioxanes of the T12R12 type, in contrast to T10R10 and T8R8, may possess two different core geometries. The first exhibits idealized D6h symmetry and is built from two twelve-membered Si\u2013O rings, each containing six silicon atoms alternating with six oxygen atoms, joined by six four-membered rings into a hexagonal prism. The second exhibits idealized D2d symmetry and is composed of four ten-membered and four eight-membered Si\u2013O rings, an arrangement that departs appreciably from prismatic regularity. The two frameworks are shown in Figure 1.
\n\nThe D6h structures, although the less frequently encountered of the two, are of interest well beyond organosilicon chemistry, because the same hexagonal prismatic arrangement of twelve tetrahedra constitutes a secondary building unit of silicate frameworks. In the crystallographic nomenclature discussed in the entry on silsesquioxane nomenclature and the M/D/T/Q notation, that unit is designated a double six ring, abbreviated D6R, and it recurs throughout zeolite and silicate chemistry. A D6h dodecasilsesquioxane is therefore a soluble molecular analogue of a structural motif otherwise encountered only in extended inorganic solids, which is precisely the argument that has long been made for T8 cages as D4R analogues.
\nThe methods available for preparing T12R12 are substantially the same as those used for T10R10. They rest either on the hydrolytic condensation of trifunctional silanes RSiX3, where X is chloride or ethoxide, or on the rearrangement of a preformed octameric cage. Isolated yields of dodecamers rarely exceed 30%, which is the single most important practical constraint on the field and the reason why so much of the T12 literature consists of by-product characterization rather than targeted synthesis.
\nDodecamers appeared in the earliest systematic work on the series. J. F. Brown obtained mixtures containing cages with eight, ten and twelve silicon atoms from the hydrolysis and condensation of trimethylethoxysilane catalyzed by potassium hydroxide in aqueous methanol, and recovered phenylsilsesquioxanes of the same three sizes from trichlorophenylsilane under comparable conditions. The solvent proved to be decisive rather than incidental, since equilibration in tetrahydrofuran directed the system toward phenyl-T12 whereas benzene, pyridine or ethylene glycol dimethyl ether afforded phenyl-T8, as set out in the entry on phenylsilsesquioxane equilibration from cage to ladder.
\nThe formation of the thermodynamically less stable T10 and T12 frameworks occurs principally through reorganization of the T8 core, and several groups have documented this transformation. V. Ervithayasuporn observed rearrangement of octakis(3-chloropropyl)octasilsesquioxane on treatment with sodium methacrylate, with sodium phenoxides and with potassium phthalimide, each of these reactions delivering a mixture of T8, T10 and T12 species. The methacrylate- and acrylate-functionalized members of that series were subsequently isolated individually and their structure\u2013property relationships compared directly.
\nFluoride ions provide a second route. E. Rikowski and H. C. Marsmann found that a chloropropyl-substituted T8 cage treated with Na2SiF6 and 18-crown-6 in acetonitrile converts to a mixture of 28% T8, 61% T10 and 11% T12. The same authors demonstrated base-catalyzed reorganization of alkyl cages, in which T8[C2H5]8 heated with K2CO3 in acetone gave T10[C2H5]10 and T12[C2H5]12 in 55% and 4% yield respectively, with 41% of the starting material recovered unchanged. The asymmetry of those two figures is characteristic. Other alkyl cages of the type T8[alkyl]8 gave only the decamer, and in yields below 18%, so the decamer is reached far more readily than the dodecamer under conditions of this kind. The contrast with the superacid route is instructive, since treatment of an octameric amino cage with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid delivers the T10 framework in 44% yield without producing the dodecamer at all.
\nY. Kawakami and co-workers described the formation of T8, T10 and T12 cages during the hydrolysis of 4-substituted phenyltriethoxysilanes in the presence of tetrabutylammonium fluoride, and a related amine-catalyzed condensation of silanols has likewise been shown to furnish higher polyhedral cages.
\nObtaining phase-pure T10 or T12 cages is generally difficult, and the separation is particularly demanding where the two higher homologues share closely similar physicochemical properties such as retention factor and solubility in common solvents. Kawakami and co-workers effected the separation by crystallization from acetonitrile and tetrahydrofuran mixtures, from pure hexane, or from ethanol and hexane mixtures. Fractional crystallization, sublimation, and HPLC or size-exclusion chromatography have all been applied to this problem. In size-exclusion chromatography the elution order follows hydrodynamic volume, so T12 elutes ahead of T10, which in turn elutes ahead of T8, despite the modest differences in molar mass across the series.
\nThe crystal structure of dodecakis(4-iodophenyl)dodecasilsesquioxane was described by R. M. Laine and co-workers, who obtained the compound by iodination of [PhSiO1.5]n to give [p-I-C6H4SiO1.5]n for n = 8, 10 and 12. The silsesquioxane core in the structure reported adopts D2d symmetry rather than the hexagonal prismatic alternative, and the molecular structure in the solid state is shown in Figure 2.
\nThe same study is notable for a second reason. Thermal elimination of I2 from these iodinated cages was shown to provide a route to high-surface-area, thermally stable microporous materials, which makes the dodecamer not merely a structural curiosity but a precursor in its own right.
\nT. Goodson and R. M. Laine examined the spectroscopic properties of T8, T10 and T12 derivatives bearing stilbene substituents. Increasing the number of chromophore groups per cage lowered the luminescence quantum yield, an effect attributable to self-absorption and the consequent non-radiative quenching. Among the three cage sizes, however, the decamer rather than the dodecamer displayed the largest two-photon absorption cross-section, which indicates strong electronic coupling and polarization among the peripheral chromophores of the D5h framework. The result is worth stating plainly, because it runs against the intuition that a larger cage carrying more chromophores should perform better. Cage geometry, not chromophore count, determines the nonlinear optical response.
\nDodecameric silsesquioxanes remain the least developed members of the polyhedral series, and the reasons are straightforward. They form in low yield, they co-crystallize and co-elute with the decamer, and they exist as two isomers whose relative proportions are rarely controlled deliberately. What has not been systematically attempted is the selective synthesis of the D6h isomer, which, as the molecular counterpart of the double six-ring unit of silicates, is the more interesting of the two from the standpoint of framework chemistry. Every reported structural characterization of a functionalized dodecamer to date has found the D2d geometry instead. Establishing what directs a condensation toward one isomer rather than the other, whether solvent, template, counterion or substituent, would be the natural next step, and it is a question that the structural chemistry of the smaller cages does not answer, because the smaller cages do not have the choice.
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Dual-use artificial intelligence and biology: upstream risk-benefit reviews
Glycol vapor pathogen disinfection: a defensive technology for emerging biothreats
Toward relational biosecurity: understanding AI-enabled biology as a connected system
Without safeguards, AI-Biology integration risks accelerating future pandemics
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The first edition of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Biosecurity examined emerging opportunities and risks across AI-enabled biology, including biological design, automated laboratories, data access, safeguards, risk assessment, and governance. Volume II extends this work by examining where biosecurity-relevant capabilities, vulnerabilities, and protections arise across connected AI-bio systems. This includes how interactions, dependencies, information and material flows, feedback loops, and digital-to-physical interfaces shape outcomes that may not be apparent when individual components are evaluated separately.
We welcome research examining both system-level and component-level risks, as well as approaches for making AI-enabled biological systems secure, resilient, trustworthy, and supportive of responsible innovation. Submissions should be oriented toward the detection, assessment, defence, resilience, and governance of AI-enabled biosecurity risks, rather than providing operational guidance that could facilitate the development or enhancement of harmful biological capabilities. Of particular interest are questions of observability, intervention, human agency, accountability, system integrity, and recoverability as AI-enabled workflows become increasingly autonomous and interconnected.
We encourage interdisciplinary contributions spanning microbiology and related biological sciences, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, safety science, complex systems, bioethics, public health, and governance. We particularly welcome microbiology-anchored studies that examine how AI-enabled systems affect microbial research, pathogen biology, microbial genomics, diagnostics and surveillance, laboratory practice, or other areas directly relevant to microbiology and biosecurity. A central question for Volume II is: as AI, biological data, laboratory automation, people, and institutions become more deeply connected, what should the unit of analysis, and ultimately the unit of security, be?
AI-enabled biological workflows and agentic systems
Digital-to-physical transitions and automated laboratories
Information, material, and action flows across AI-bio systems
AI-enabled microbiology, microbial genomics, pathogen research, diagnostics, and surveillance
Evaluation, observability, safeguards, and intervention points
Resilience, recoverability, and system integrity
Cyber\u2013AI\u2013bio convergence
Human agency, organizational factors, and governance
Bioethics and responsible innovation
\n\nLike the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell \u2013 Victor Frankenstein
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Why the race to dominate intelligence points towards collapse rather than flourishing, and what New Zealand should do about it
\nTLDR/Summary
\nIntroduction
\nMidway through the second day of the Arctic Circle Assembly, the word INSANE filled the screen in Reykjav\u00edk's Harpa Opera House main hall. Tristan Harris (Center for Humane Technology) had just described how a swarm of AI agents escaped a test environment at one of the world's leading AI labs, broke into another company's systems and turned on the lab that built them.
\nHarris's point was that these are the least capable AI agents we will ever deal with. The session ended with a standing ovation, then an Icelandic girls' choir singing Imagine. It was the most impressive session I attended.
\nThe Assembly, founded by former Icelandic President \u00d3lafur Ragnar Gr\u00edmsson, is the largest annual gathering on the Arctic, with hundreds of sessions; Canada alone sat on 63 panels. I attended the Wednesday pre-event on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the first two of three days, around 5% of what was on, choosing sessions relevant to global risk. This post is therefore partial; a second will cover topics like AMOC collapse and Arctic security.
\nMy thanks to Arctic Circle and to Gr\u00edmsson, who opened by reminding us that anyone may ask a question or put a view. Some call the Assembly a circus. I saw something closer to a citizens' assembly, with AI utopians and AI critics before one audience.
\nWhy I keep returning to AI
\nI am not anti-AI. Its usefulness is already clear for scientific and knowledge work, coding, creativity, and automating and streamlining processes. I also support sovereign AI: local data and local inference hardware, hosted by jurisdictions for their own benefit and resilience.
\nBut for nearly a decade I have argued that the risks are underweighted. In 2017 Nick Wilson and I asked, in Policy Quarterly, how the New Zealand Government might respond to rapid developments in AI, and that December I spoke on AI, freedom and democracy at a philosophy conference at the University of Otago. In 2018 I found the good, the bad and the ugly in the AI Forum of New Zealand's Shaping a Future New Zealand report. I went on to carry out the research for the AI Forum's Artificial Intelligence for Health in New Zealand and contributed to its roadmap, Towards Our Intelligent Future (both 2019). In 2020 we returned to Policy Quarterly on catastrophic risk from AI.
\nThe thread running through that work is the information environment. In 2018 I called information pollution one of the most pressing risks we face. I now describe it in our new preprint on the 'meta-crisis' as cognitive niche destruction, borrowing from cultural evolution. Humans adapt by accumulating knowledge across generations, which depends on a shared, reliable map of reality. Degrade that map, and we lose the capacity to evolve the cumulative adaptations every other risk demands.
\nWhen I asked the Assembly's information warfare panel for solutions, the answers were independent media, AI regulation and media literacy, all known a decade ago. If action to protect humanity's superpower, the ability to build incrementally on proven information, has not happened yet, I am pessimistic it ever will.
\nSmall nations and the sovereign AI pitch
\nOn day one I found myself in \"Arctic Sovereign Intelligence: AI & the Future of Finance\", with Adnan Hassan (Small States Asset Initiative), Patricia Geli (C10 Labs) and Pippa Malmgren (Geopolitica Institute). Malmgren argued that AI will create more jobs than it destroys, that capital is moving into an Arctic that \"is not ready\", and that small states need sovereign AI in small, distributed data centres rather than the giant facilities communities oppose. Geli noted that in the West African Ebola outbreak, data left the region and the analysis, and the funding that follows publication, happened elsewhere.
\nThe issue is real, and it is ours too. Iceland's cheap renewable power and cold air already draw data centres, which use about 6% of the country's electricity. In Southland New Zealand, Datagrid has consent for a 280 MW, NZ$3.5 billion AI campus that would be New Zealand's second-largest electricity user after the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Small nations face a risk of missing out on data sovereignty, and a risk of rushing in.
\nThe panel presented only the first. Risks were met with slogans: \"I make my doctor use AI\"; if it is robots fighting robots, are we just seeing \"who runs out of 3D printing first?\" That last line is exactly the point. Wars of attrition are won by exhausting the other side's resources. I asked the panel why the risks were not presented alongside the opportunities: energy demand, public opposition, stranded assets, and supply chains so tight that some projects may never be finished. The answer was that AI is neither good nor bad.
\nThe Humanity Dilemma: \"show me the incentives\"
\nThe risk discussion came on Day Two. A plenary, introduced by Iceland's President Halla T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir, and delivered by Tristan Harris and team, was a performance as much as a talk, with video, live music and argument.
\nHarris's method is the line attributed to Charlie Munger: show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. It is how Harris's team predicted the harms of social media. He did not dismiss the upside of AI, but the message was a strong warning.
\nThe warning shot is already here. In July an experimental OpenAI security agent escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face. Around 700 agents were involved, communicating over an unauthorised channel, and some attacked OpenAI's own infrastructure. Harris described agents trying to seize control of the servers that train new AIs. OpenAI is searching about 50 petabytes of records at more than US$500,000 a day to work out what happened, and some insiders doubt they can ever confirm that every rogue agent is gone.
\nI note that this is exactly how information systems behave once replicators get loose. Nearly half the human genome consists of transposable elements, \"jumping genes\" whose ancestors copied themselves into our DNA. Genomes and these elements have been locked in an arms race for millions of years: our cells evolve proteins to silence them, and they evolve to escape. Cancer is the same problem from within, cells defecting from the cooperative body. Multicellular life has layers of suppression, from DNA repair to immune surveillance, that contain cheating cells but never eradicate them. Neither arms race has a finish line, and there is no reason to expect AI agents loose on the internet to be different.
\nThe mechanism: dominate intelligence, then everything else
\nHarris was clear on the mechanism of risk, and policymakers need to be too. The frontier labs treat intelligence as general purpose: \"first solve intelligence, then use it to solve everything else\". In practice that becomes: first dominate the development of intelligence, because if competitors get there first, they solve everything else and take the profits. Then use intelligence to dominate the rest of humanity. AI is potentially a power of domination, and with recursive self-improvement, AI making AI better at the task, that domination could be permanent. The labs are racing to build something close to a god, staking much of the US economy on it.
\nThree forces lock the race in. Domination: coming second may mean losing everything. Debt: hyperscalers are spending over US$700 billion this year, which can only be repaid by capturing the value of human labour, and repayment gets harder for anyone who does not win. Distrust: if labs agreed to slow down, pause or forgo recursive self-improvement, none could know the others were complying. With incentives this large, every shortcut is justified and some collateral damage is accepted, and indeed expected according to recent comments by Sam Altman. The same dynamic runs between nations, above all the US and China.
\nHarris's analogy was nature. We do not hate nature; we simply prioritise GDP, and nature suffers. That is how AI firms will treat us: not by being anti-human, but by prioritising automation and revenue. This is the argument of my metacrisis paper with Nick Wilson. Decisions are made inside a selective environment that determines which strategies persist. In a race, safety is a cost that rivals need not pay, so careful actors are outcompeted. You do not fix that by persuading the players to be nicer. You change the payoffs, so that defection, here the release of premature and harmful systems, stops winning.
\nThe result of the business-as-usual approach is likely to be utopia and dystopia together: AI for powerful good and AI for powerful harm, from the same systems at the same time. Huge profits will flow to some firms and sectors, and huge losses to others. The upsides will not prevent the downsides, and the downsides can undermine the upsides. What we should expect is a bifurcation of human social systems into winners and losers, with destabilisation due to the losses undermining the winning formula.
\nThe ask: a red line on recursive self-improvement
\nIn the fireside dialogue that followed between Harris and the Icelandic President, Harris said a problem well stated is half solved, and that most leaders do not yet understand the mechanism. The President's view was that one of the biggest risks we face is sleeping governments.
\nHarris's concrete ask was a red line on using compute for recursive self-improvement. This is something sovereign jurisdictions could enforce: Iceland, he suggested, could ban it in its own data centres. Redirect that compute to deploying the AI we already have, which is very useful, and we buy years of AI solutions without the gamble.
\nBut each lab must know the others are doing the same, which means trust with verification, the story of nuclear arms control. He pointed to the 1,300 frontier-lab employees who signed a letter this year asking governments to build the option to slow automated AI research, and to the Pro-Human AI Declaration, which says AI systems must not be designed to autonomously self-improve.
\nStep one, he argued, is to reject the story that superhuman AI is inevitable. No one, in the US, China or anywhere else, wants to be dominated and made valueless, and the fear of all of us losing is stronger than the fear of me losing to you. If an asteroid were heading for Earth, we would not hold annual summits like the climate COPs; we would want daily updates. And this asteroid, he said, is one we are actually summoning.
\nA tipping point, and the case against inevitability
\nI sense a tipping point, and Iceland is leaning into it. Timed to coincide with the Assembly, and with President T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir's backing, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist was broadcast on national television over two nights so the whole nation could watch, and promoted as essential viewing for all citizens, students and teachers included. I compare this to New Zealand, where most political 'leaders' seem to have no opinion on these critical societal issues.
\nHarris cited the precedent. In 1983 the television film The Day After showed Americans a nuclear war; Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that it left him \"greatly depressed\", and three years later he sat down with Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjav\u00edk, without advisers, human to human.
\nI have written before about how films such as The Day After and WarGames shaped policy. Harris asked for a new Reagan\u2013Gorbachev moment, and the national screening of The AI Doc positions Iceland, 40 years on from that summit, as a possible hub for global AI safety coordination.
\nOther films are following. Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, a drama about the founding of OpenAI, has just premiered in New York, and the BBC has described how it puts growing AI fears centre stage. They should be compulsory viewing for policymakers. In the US, 52% are now more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, and Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a stage to call for curbs.
\nThe other pole is just as clear. Sam Altman said this month that \"the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology\" (TechSpot). To some in the anti-AI movement it now feels as if everyone is opposed. That is not true. To others, a post-human future looks obviously good and inevitable. That is not true either.
\nWhy domination is the danger
\nDomination matters for more than who wins and who loses. It is a recurring engine of societal collapse. Peter Turchin's structural-demographic theory, tested against the Seshat databank of past societies, identifies three drivers of state breakdown: popular immiseration, as wages fall relative to output; elite overproduction, which \"develops when the demand for power positions by elite aspirants massively exceeds their supply\"; and state fiscal distress. Powering all three is what he calls the \"wealth pump\", \"taking from the poor and giving to the rich\".
\nLuke Kemp's Goliath's Curse (2025), drawing on more than 400 societies over 5,000 years, finds that \"increasing wealth inequality consistently precedes collapse\". His Goliaths are societies built on domination, fed by three fuels: lootable resources, caged land (populations with nowhere to escape to) and monopolizable weapons.
\nFrontier AI supplies all three at once. Data and compute are lootable and concentrated in a few firms. Platforms and dependence leave people with nowhere to exit to. Autonomous weapons and mass surveillance offer the monopoly on violence that every Goliath has sought.
\nAI also feeds the wealth pump directly: Turchin has warned that it now threatens the jobs of educated elite aspirants, the group whose frustrated ambitions, in his account, have historically driven revolutions, while automation strips ordinary workers of bargaining power.
\nCollapse, not killer robots
\nOn its present trajectory, AI risks leading towards societal collapse. Not through a machine that kills every human, or the other science-fiction doom narratives, but through ordinary processes running together: utopia and dystopia at once, rising domination, a growing \"valueless\" underclass, and the erosion of the wages and demand on which the firms' own markets depend. Add the scarcity of resources the AI build-out needs.
\nThis matches a pattern I keep finding in global catastrophic risk: many catastrophes are self-limiting. A severe pandemic burns through its hosts. An AI build-out burns through the copper, power, diesel and social licence it depends on.
\nData-centre construction will embed around 500,000 tonnes of copper this year, roughly the whole of 2026's growth in global demand, at record prices. US power transformers face lead times of over two years. Amoah and colleagues find processing bottlenecks for many critical minerals, China's rare earth controls are paused only until next month, and the Bank of England has warned of a market correction that would leave stranded assets.
\nElectrification also increases pressure on diesel. Mining more copper from falling ore grades means moving more rock with diesel haul trucks; in Australia mining already uses more than a third of the nation's diesel, and its diesel intensity is rising. As electric vehicles cut petrol demand, refineries close, and diesel, produced from the same barrel, goes with them. Data centres back up on diesel generators.
\nAll of this lands on a market where, after the Strait of Hormuz closures, global diesel exports fell about 35% year on year in July. Diesel runs tractors, trucks and fishing fleets, so the pressure cascades into food. New Zealand, which has imported all its refined fuel since the Marsden Point refinery closed in 2022, is exposed through its agriculture. Locally, the Energy and Resilience blog makes a similar case.
\nThe result is unlikely to be the 'electrification of everything' as dreamed; we may run short of material inputs on the timescales needed. Rich countries can outbid for what is scarce, 730 million people still had no electricity in 2024, and these inequalities will rise. Robot armies and automated everything may be possible for a small, wealthy core, but competition, conflict and resource limits are likely to undermine the plan everywhere else.
\nAll that does not make AI safe. It makes the likelier failure a world of inequality and conflict over what remains, with AI detritus (rogue agents, hallucinated information, human-prompted subterfuge) colonising and metastasizing through our information ecosystem and infrastructure as jumping genes colonised our genomes. Game-theoretic, extractive, domination-centred processes like these would undermine flourishing, not bring it about. That outcome is worth preventing, and also worth planning for, since the processes are already underway.
\nLessons for New Zealand
\nNew Zealand has an AI strategy for adoption, which the government itself calls light touch: no AI-specific law, no new funding and no institution responsible for frontier risk. On AI risk, it has no policy. AI has entered the campaign for the 7 November election: Labour proposes an Office of AI with a minister, the Greens a one-year moratorium on data centres, and ACT says New Zealand should follow overseas rules.
\nGroups such as Good Ancestors New Zealand are doing useful policy work on AI risk, but we need much more. AI is drowned out by arguments over who is introducing which tax and who is soft on crime. Our political debate is provincial and at times embarrassing.
\nContrast Reykjav\u00edk. The President of Iceland asked how we protect \"human infrastructure\" and how to organise an economy for a human future when GDP cannot measure it. A minister spoke of building cross-class coalitions on climate security. I believe New Zealand is falling down international league tables on many measures, not because we lack productivity growth or innovation or austerity, but because we lack politicians with the nuance, vision and wisdom to model wise discourse and conciliation, and to show how New Zealanders can be effective global citizens. AI is where that is needed now. We all should:
\nClosing: two imaginaries
\nIn Reykjav\u00edk an incredible school choir closed Harris's AI plenary by singing Imagine, starting in Icelandic and finishing in English. Their rendition was beautiful and inspiring. But there is another well-known rendition, by the band A Perfect Circle, set in a minor key and ominous in tone.
\nTwo versions of the same song. On present incentives we are heading for both at once: the uplifting future for a few, the ominous one for many, and in time the ominous one undermining the other. I left Reykjav\u00edk convinced that this is not inevitable. But New Zealand's political apparatus needs to decide quickly which future it wants, and begin collaborating with value-aligned nations to get there.
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\n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Josef Settele trained as an agroecologist at the University of Hohenheim and later joined the newly founded Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig in 1993. There he headed the Department of Conservation Biology. Over the following decades he became a leading voice on insect conservation, and on how climate change and land use affect biodiversity.
\n\n\n\nHe coordinated large international teams, and his work reached from the lab and the field to the halls where policy is made. He served as a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report. He was a Co-Chair of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and had been a member of the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel since 2022. He was also a regular on the \"Highly Cited Researchers\" list.
\n\n\n\nHis great expertise in the ecology of insects in cultural landscapes, in biodiversity, land use and social-ecological systems, and at the science-society-policy interface made him an invaluable voice in the global conversation on biodiversity, one that scientists, policymakers and the public alike trusted and listened to.
\n\n\n\nOur collaboration with Sepp began with a milestone in Pensoft's own history. When Pensoft was still an emerging publisher and partner in the early years of EU-funded research, Sepp played an essential role in our journey.
\n\n\n\nRemembering the long friendship between Sepp and Pensoft, the company's founder and CEO Prof. Lyubomir Penev, said:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is hard to believe that my beloved friend Sepp is no longer with us! He has been with Pensoft since the very early days of our company, starting as a keen lover of our butterfly books in the late 1990s. His attitude to Pensoft since then has always been encouraging, supportive and inspirational!
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Reflecting on Pensoft’s early days working on EU-funded research projects, Prof. Penev adds:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSepp was also the first to invite us to join an EU consortium, that of the famous EU's Sixth Framework Programme project ALARM (Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods), running 2004-2009. In ALARM Sepp not only foresaw but also prototyped the concept of the European Research Area (ERA) in the field of ecology by bringing together 67 partners from 35 countries, producing more than 1,000 scientific publications.
\n\n\n\nALARM was so brilliantly coordinated by Sepp, with such a passion, tolerance and love, that it still motivates and excites its partners to continue working together, keeping the ALARM spirit of collaboration and friendship!
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\n\n\n\n\nThank you my friend, for all your love and courage! We miss you!
\nsays Prof. Lyubomir Penev.
One stark example for his legacy is the book \"Atlas of Biodiversity Risk\", published by Pensoft in 2010, which was entirely the result of Josef's efforts as a coordinator of ALARM. Together with R. Grabaum, V. Grobelnick, V. Hammen, S. Klotz, L. Penev, and I. K\u00fchn (Eds.), he succeeded in synthesizing a vast amount of information to present in a comprehensive, easy-to-read, and richly illustrated format the major pressures, impacts, and risks associated with biodiversity loss on a global scale.
\n\n\n\nThe book immediately attracted the attention of the scientific community and policymakers, who required such an analysis to formulate and develop relevant policies within the European Commission. A case in point is the interest shown in the book by EU Commissioner Janez Poto\u010dnik during Green Week in Brussels on June 1, 2010.
\n\n\n\nShortly after ALARM, Sepp went on to initiate two further EU-funded projects and once again invited Pensoft to join. MACIS examined how climate change, and our responses to it, affect biodiversity across Europe, and what policies could limit the damage. COCONUT which examined how historic and current land use change drives biodiversity loss, and used that knowledge to model future scenarios and develop policy options for land use management.
\n\n\n\nReminiscing about his relationship with Sepp, Pensoft's Chief Operating Officer, Prof. Pavel Stoev, says:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI must have met Sepp sometime around 2009\u20132010, when our more intensive correspondence regarding the SCALES (Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales) project in which he was involved began. However, we became truly close during the LEGATO project (“Land-use Intensity and Ecological Engineering \u2013 Assessment Tools for Risks and Opportunities in Irrigated Rice-Based Production Systems”), which he coordinated. Throughout the project, we held numerous scientific meetings and conducted fieldwork in Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, spending a great deal of time together discussing various scientific issues and planning publications.
\n\n\n\nThe friendship we forged during that project endured for many years across a series of subsequent scientific initiatives; the last of these collaborations was the MAMBO project (“Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biodiversity”), where we co-led Work Package 7, focusing on communication and policy.
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Reflecting on his character, he adds:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSepp was always a smiling, deeply spirited man with a wonderful sense of humour. He pursued his scientific path with immense enthusiasm and the composure of someone truly in his element. Yet, for him, practical application was just as important as fundamental research. This is clearly evident from the many leadership roles he held in international nature conservation initiatives, such as IPBES.
\n\n\n\nOne of the conservation efforts to which he dedicated significant energy was securing support for the Nature Restoration Law, an endeavour that ultimately succeeded. We actively participated in this campaign by writing letters to Bulgarian Members of the European Parliament.
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Sepp was a trusted partner in further collaborative projects over the years. He was part of the ongoing project BioAgora, which his team at UFZ co-coordinates, contributing to the effort for the development of the EU Science Service for Biodiversity.
\n\n\n\nAlexandra Korcheva, a science-policy communications officer working on BioAgora adds:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRarely does one meet people that are so free, so wise, and yet so down-to-Earth. Prof. Settele was easy to talk to, and at the same time he was so experienced and knowledgeable. From my interactions with him, I have been inspired both as a biodiversity science-policy communicator, and as an early-career researcher. He left a bright trail in his field of work, and has inspired many to follow in his steps. May he rest in peace, and sincere condolences to all his family and friends!
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Sepp was one of the founders of our BioRisk – Biodiversity & Ecosystem Risk Assessment journal, which grew out of the ALARM community and gave risk-focused biodiversity research a home of its own. He remained its Editor-in-Chief until the very end. One of its early landmark works was the Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies, co-authored by Sepp and colleagues.
\n\n\n\nBooks soon followed, and over the years Sepp became one of our most prolific authors, with 97 works published with us. Several of them became some of the most influential book titles in our portfolio:
\n\n\n\nSepp never saw science as something that should stay inside academia. Thus, in 2005 he launched the German Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, which became one of the country's best-known citizen science projects and invited ordinary people to help track the state of nature.
\n\n\n\nCommunicating science effectively became a large part of his life's work. He explained why biodiversity matters, how ecosystems are faring, what drives their decline and what can be done to protect them for the long term. He took that message to politicians and journalists, and he was just as willing to sit down with groups whose political or economic goals, and views, differed from his own.
\n\n\n\nPensoft has lost a dear friend, and the biodiversity community has lost a great champion. We are deeply grateful for everything he gave us: his trust, his ideas, his energy and his friendship. His work lives on in the journals, the books, the projects and the many researchers he inspired.
\n\n\n\nOur thoughts are with his family, his colleagues at UFZ and all who knew him.
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\nWikibase ist die freie Open-Source-Software, auf der Wikidata, die \u00f6ffentliche Wissensdatenbank der Wikimedia-Bewegung, basiert. Wikibase ist ein bekanntes und weit verbreitetes Werkzeug in GLAM- und Forschungsdaten-Communities. Es ist beliebt wegen der Vielzahl an Funktionen, die es standardm\u00e4\u00dfig bietet, der gro\u00dfen Open-Source-Community, die Erweiterungen daf\u00fcr entwickelt, und der Flexibilit\u00e4t, es an individuelle Datenanforderungen anzupassen. Diese Flexibilit\u00e4t kann jedoch auch zu Problemen bei der Benutzerfreundlichkeit f\u00fchren.
\nDenn wenn man eine neue Entit\u00e4t f\u00fcr eine bestimmte Klasse anlegen m\u00f6chte, wei\u00df man auf den standardm\u00e4\u00dfig eingerichteten Wikibase-Seiten nicht:
\nGenau f\u00fcr diesen Fall war es das Ziel, innerhalb einer Wikibase4Research-Instanz ein Formular f\u00fcr ein Datenmodell rund um Theaterproduktionen und Auff\u00fchrungen zu entwickeln. Wikibase4Research ist ein individuell konfigurierbarer Docker-Container, der die Standard-Wikibase-Distribution erweitert. Er wurde vom Open Science Lab der TIB im Rahmen des NFDI4Culture-Konsortiums entwickelt und wird f\u00fcr Projekte wie die von der Universit\u00e4t Leipzig initiierte Performing Arts Database (PAD) genutzt.
\nBei der Recherche nach geeigneten L\u00f6sungen f\u00fcr den PAD-Anwendungsfall sind wir auf forage gesto\u00dfen. Das User Script f\u00fcgt jedem Wikibase-Item einen neuen Reiter hinzu, \u00fcber den sich ein Formular \u00f6ffnet, das alle f\u00fcr das aktuelle Item relevanten Properties anzeigt. Die Dateneingabe wird dabei durch vereinfachte Eingabefelder erleichtert.
\nDas Skript hat bei den ersten Tests sehr gut funktioniert, allerdings fehlten uns noch einige Features. Wir haben uns daher entschieden, das \u00f6ffentliche Repository zu forken und eine Erweiterung zu schreiben. Das daraus entstandene Skript \"forage extended\" ist weiterhin Open Source und im Gitlab von Wikibase4Research f\u00fcr alle verf\u00fcgbar.
\nFolgende Features wurden neu integriert:
\nDas daraus entstandene Skript vereinfacht die manuelle Erfassung neuer Entit\u00e4ten erheblich: Man muss nicht mehr selbst nach den richtigen Eigenschaften suchen, sondern hat sie immer direkt vor Augen.
\nWir planen, \"Forage Extended\" \u00fcber einen Merge-Request an das Repository, in dem die Originalversion gehostet wird, wieder in das breitere Open-Source-\u00d6kosystem einzubringen und damit anderen Mitgliedern der Wikibase-Community dabei zu helfen, ihre komplexen Daten einfacher einzugeben.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.65527/nb4k5-zjd43","guid":"https://blog.tib.eu/?p=32878","image":"https://blog.tib.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/teaser_neu.png","language":"de","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1785110400,"rid":"xbdxx-yw233","summary":"read this article in English Datenmodelle k\u00f6nnen komplex sein und viele Klassen sowie Properties (oder Eigenschaften) enthalten, die miteinander verbunden sind \u2013 da verliert man schnell den \u00dcberblick. Gerade wenn man l\u00e4nger keine Daten mehr in einem Daten-Management-System wie Wikibase angelegt hat, kann es leicht passieren, dass man erst wieder die Datenmodell-Dokumentation lesen muss, bevor man loslegen kann.","tags":["OPENNESS","FORSCHUNG & PROJEKTE","Lizenz:CC-BY-4.0-INT","Wikibase","Wikibase4NFDI"],"title":"Vereinfachte Eingabe von komplexen Daten in Wikibase","updated_at":1792055732,"url":"https://blog.tib.eu/2026/07/27/vereinfachte-eingabe-von-komplexen-daten-in-wikibase/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"family":"Altemeier","given":"Franziska"}],"blog":{"authors":null,"community_id":"db0d8909-9e37-46d0-b16c-0551f575e86b","created":1749772800,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"Das Blog der TIB \u2013 Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek","doi":"https://doi.org/10.65527/tib","favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/db0d8909-9e37-46d0-b16c-0551f575e86b/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://blog.tib.eu/feed/atom/","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://blog.tib.eu/","issn":null,"language":"deu","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":"10.65527","relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"tib","status":"active","subfield":"1802","title":"TIB-Blog","updated":1792055691,"use_api":true},"blog_name":"TIB-Blog","blog_slug":"tib","content_html":"ein Beitrag von Nils Dille (MHH), Silke Frank (TU Clausthal), Andrea Hofmann (Hochschule Hannover) und Jesko R\u00fccknagel (TIB).
\nSeit April ist die 2. Projektkohorte des LiLA-Projekts\u00a0in die Umsetzung gestartet.
\nSowohl bereits digitale Best\u00e4nde als auch solche, die erst noch digitalisiert werden m\u00fcssen, werden strukturiert, qualit\u00e4tsgesichert und perspektivisch f\u00fcr die digitale Langzeitarchivierung aufbereitet, damit die wissenschaftlichen Inhalte auch k\u00fcnftig zugreifbar und nachvollziehbar bleiben. Dabei unterst\u00fctzt das LiLA-Projektteam der TIB.
\nIn den folgenden Kurzinterviews berichten Vertreter:innen der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover, der Hochschule Hannover und der Technischen Universit\u00e4t Clausthal \u00fcber ihre verantwortungsvolle Aufgabe, digitale Best\u00e4nde langfristig zu sichern \u2013 von Dissertationen \u00fcber Open-Access-Publikationen bis hin zu weiteren wissenschaftlichen Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen.
\nDiesen Beitrag er\u00f6ffnet Nils Dille f\u00fcr die Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH). Als Bibliothek des gr\u00f6\u00dften Landesbetriebs Niedersachsens unterst\u00fctzt die MHH-Bibliothek Forschung und Lehre zum medizinischen Kernbestand.
\nDas\u00a0dreik\u00f6pfige LZA-Team der MHH besteht\u00a0neben Nils Dille, der f\u00fcr das Forschungsdatenmanagement zust\u00e4ndig ist, aus\u00a0Markus Schmiel, dem Bibliotheksleiter, und\u00a0Susanne Rupprecht, einer Mitarbeiterin aus dem EDV-Team der Bibliothek. Gemeinsam verantworten sie die langfristige Sicherung von Dissertationen sowie die Anbindung des institutionellen Repositoriums an das LZA-System der TIB, wodurch die ver\u00f6ffentlichten wissenschaftlichen Inhalte\u00a0dauerhaft archiviert werden.
\nK\u00f6nnen Sie Ihre Einrichtung und deren Sammlungsschwerpunkte kurz vorstellen?
\nDie Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) wurde 1965 gegr\u00fcndet und ist somit eine vergleichsweise junge Hochschule. Mit \u00fcber 11.000 Mitarbeitenden ist sie zudem der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Landesbetrieb Niedersachsens. Wenn man an ein so gro\u00dfes Krankenhaus denkt, kommt einem nicht zuerst eine Bibliothek in den Sinn. Man denkt da eher an Krankenversorgung und vielleicht noch an die Lehre. Aber die Lehre w\u00fcrde nat\u00fcrlich ohne eine Bibliothek gar nicht funktionieren.
\nBei uns finden die Studierenden alle Lehrb\u00fccher, die sie f\u00fcr ihr Studium brauchen, und unsere R\u00e4umlichkeiten bieten dazu auch gleich die passende Umgebung zum Lernen. Auch dem wissenschaftlichen Personal bieten wir weitreichende Services an, von Publikationsberatung bis hin zu Literaturbeschaffung.
\nWir sind eine der wenigen Universit\u00e4ten in Deutschland, die nur ein Fachgebiet anbieten: Medizin. Deshalb beschr\u00e4nkt sich unser Sammelgebiet auf medizinische Fachliteratur.
\nDirekt neben uns befindet sich das Institut f\u00fcr Ethik, Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin. Daher haben wir auch einen Bestand an Literatur zur Medizingeschichte. Was wir nat\u00fcrlich ebenfalls sammeln, sind die Dissertationen unserer Absolvent:innen.
\nGibt es ein digitales Objekt oder eine Sammlung, die Ihnen besonders am Herzen liegt?
\nDa wir eine vergleichsweise junge Institution sind, ist unser Altbestand \u00fcberschaubar. Das sehen wir durchaus als Vorteil. Es ist immer einfacher, mit weniger Altlasten in die digitale Langzeitarchivierung zu gehen. Besonders am Herzen liegen uns dabei die Dissertationen, die wir seit der Jahrhundertwende auch digital sammeln. Sie werden oder wurden meist auf gebrannten CDs, DVDs oder 31/2-Zoll-Disketten abgegeben. Diese Best\u00e4nde sind besonders empfindlich, da sie im Vergleich zu gepressten Datentr\u00e4gern nicht lange halten. Hier eine ad\u00e4quate L\u00f6sung zu finden, ist besonders wichtig.
\nZum anderen gab es bei uns auch schon Digitalisierungsprojekte. Ein Beispiel ist die Studierendenzeitschrift Curare vom AStA (Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss)\u00a0der MHH, die bis ins Jahr 1986 zur\u00fcckreicht. Sie bietet spannende Einblicke in die Geschichte der MHH und das Studierendenleben. Dank OCR und Volltextsuche lassen sich Themen schnell finden.
\nWas motiviert Sie, Ihre digitalen Best\u00e4nde zu archivieren? Gab es einen Ausl\u00f6ser, der den Ansto\u00df gegeben hat, sich mit der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung auseinanderzusetzen?
\nZeit ist ja immer ein Problem. Im Arbeitsalltag hat man meist keine. Das gilt leider auch ganz besonders f\u00fcr digitale Objekte. Unsere elektronischen Dissertationen sind durch den Zerfall der Datentr\u00e4ger akut bedroht. Viele sind bereits 20 Jahre alt oder sogar noch \u00e4lter. Hier herrscht also dringend Handlungsbedarf. Auch f\u00fcr unser Repositorium auf MyCoRe-Basis muss ein Backup-Plan erstellt werden. Wir stellen dort flei\u00dfig Dissertationen, Artikel, Forschungsdaten, Poster und vieles mehr ein. Auch die Curare ist hier zu finden. Doch bisher erfolgt dies alles ohne Langzeitarchivierung.
\nEs kommt auch immer wieder vor, dass Wissenschaftler:innen auf uns zukommen, weil sie ein Repositorium mit Langzeitarchivierung f\u00fcr ihre Publikationen suchen. Teilweise sind das auch Vorschriften der Verlage, dass entsprechende Forschungsdaten zur Publikation in einem solchen System abgelegt werden m\u00fcssen. Bisher mussten wir unsere Forschenden immer an andere Systeme verweisen.
\nWelche Unterst\u00fctzung ist f\u00fcr Sie im Projekt besonders wertvoll?
\nWir wissen die umfassende Unterst\u00fctzung in diesem Projekt besonders zu sch\u00e4tzen. Die Archivierung nebenbei zu erledigen, ist in kleineren H\u00e4usern wie unserem nicht einfach. Die MHH hat zwar 11.000 Mitarbeitende, in der Bibliothek sind es aber nur knapp 20, sodass es an Personal, Zeit und Expertise fehlt. Wenn man durch den gesamten Prozess gef\u00fchrt wird, nimmt einem das enorm viel Arbeit ab. Die Arbeitspakete sind dadurch wesentlich besser umsetzbar, auch wenn man sie immer noch selbst durchf\u00fchren muss. Zumal man auch wei\u00df, dass man auf dem richtigen Weg ist.
\nAndrea Hofmann gibt uns als Bibliotheksleitung Einblicke in die Arbeit der Bibliothek der Hochschule Hannover, die neben klassischer Literaturbeschaffung auch eine eigene Publikationsinfrastruktur f\u00fcr Open-Access-Zeitschriften betreibt. Gemeinsam mit Nicolas Semrau, Bibliotheksmitarbeiter f\u00fcr Open Science,\u00a0und Sebastian Lehmann, Mitarbeiter f\u00fcr das Forschungsdatenmanagement, arbeitet sie im Team daran, die Langzeitarchivierung von Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen voranzubringen.
\nK\u00f6nnen Sie Ihre Einrichtung und deren Sammlungsschwerpunkte kurz vorstellen?
\nAls zentrale Informationsinfrastruktur der Hochschule Hannover versorgt die Bibliothek an vier Standorten Studierende, Lehrende und Forschende mit qualit\u00e4tsgepr\u00fcften Informationen f\u00fcr Studium, Lehre und Transfer. Gleichzeitig bieten unsere Standorte mit \u00fcber 300 Arbeitspl\u00e4tzen als \"Dritter Ort\" unverzichtbare soziale Lern- und Bildungsr\u00e4ume f\u00fcr konzentriertes und kollaboratives Arbeiten auf dem Campus. \u00dcber die Medienbereitstellung hinaus unterst\u00fctzen wir die Hochschulangeh\u00f6rigen durch Schulungen und individuelle Beratung zu Themen rund um Recherche und Publikationen. Eine eigene Publikationsinfrastruktur l\u00e4dt zum niedrigschwelligen Publizieren im Open Access ein.
\nGibt es ein digitales Objekt oder eine Sammlung, die Ihnen besonders am Herzen liegt?
\nDie Zeitschrift Milk Science International (das \u00e4lteste milchwissenschaftliche Journal in Deutschland) erscheint seit 2015 als Open-Access-Journal auf unserem OJS (Open Journal Systems). Herausgegeben von der Abteilung Bioverfahrenstechnik hat dieses Journal seinen Ursprung auf dem kleinsten Campus der Hochschule Hannover, der in Hannover-Ahlem angesiedelt ist. Ich freue mich, dass ein internationales Journal zu diesem speziellen Fachgebiet so best\u00e4ndig neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse im Open Access zug\u00e4nglich macht.
\nWas motiviert Sie, Ihre digitalen Best\u00e4nde zu archivieren? Gab es einen Ausl\u00f6ser, der den Ansto\u00df gegeben hat, sich mit digitaler Langzeitarchivierung auseinanderzusetzen?
\nAls Hochschulbibliothek, die bereits seit 2008 ein institutionelles Repositorium betreibt, ist Langzeitarchivierung ein Thema, mit dem wir uns schon lange besch\u00e4ftigen. Digitale Best\u00e4nde nicht nur zu sichern, sondern auch langfristig zug\u00e4nglich zu machen, ist unser erkl\u00e4rtes Ziel. Als Bibliothek tragen wir im Bereich der Publikationen dazu bei, die in der Hochschule entstandenen Forschungsergebnisse zu bewahren und nachvollziehbar zu machen.
\nWelche Unterst\u00fctzung ist f\u00fcr Sie im Projekt besonders wertvoll?
\nDas Projekt LiLA.NDS bietet uns die M\u00f6glichkeit, bei hochschuleigenen Publikationen L\u00fccken in der Langzeitarchivierung zu schlie\u00dfen. Mittelfristig k\u00f6nnen zus\u00e4tzlich noch nicht besonders ausgepr\u00e4gte Sammlungen, wie zum Beispiel Forschungsdaten ber\u00fccksichtigt werden. Als kleinere Einrichtung profitieren wir von der weitreichenden Expertise der Projektmitarbeitenden und nehmen diese sowie die freundliche Zusammenarbeit als Bereicherung wahr.
\nAuch f\u00fcr die dritte Einrichtung sind wissenschaftliche Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen auf dem institutionellen Repositorium ein zentraler Grund, die Langzeitarchivierung umzusetzen. Silke Frank, die Bibliotheksleiterin, spricht mit uns \u00fcber die digitalen Best\u00e4nde der Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek der Technischen Universit\u00e4t Clausthal (TUC). Um die wissenschaftlichen Inhalte der Universit\u00e4t langfristig sichtbar und zitierf\u00e4hig zu halten, wird sie von ihrem Team unterst\u00fctzt. Involviert sind dabei aus der Abteilung Forschungsunterst\u00fctzung und digitale Dienste Nadine Kleinander, Ann-Kathrin Koch und der Abteilungsleiter Dr. Florian Strau\u00df sowie Teresa Haars aus dem Universit\u00e4tsarchiv.
\nK\u00f6nnen Sie Ihre Einrichtung und deren Sammlungsschwerpunkte kurz vorstellen?
\nDie Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek der Technischen Universit\u00e4t Clausthal versorgt Studierende und Forschende mit der ben\u00f6tigten analogen und digitalen Literatur. Unser Sammelschwerpunkt orientiert sich klar an den Forschungsschwerpunkten der TUC, insbesondere ist das die Circular Economy in all ihren Facetten. F\u00fcr unsere Studierenden bieten wir moderne und vielf\u00e4ltige Arbeitspl\u00e4tze um m\u00f6glichst vielen Lernszenarien gerecht zu werden. Unsere Forschenden unterst\u00fctzen wir selbstverst\u00e4ndlich nicht nur durch die Verf\u00fcgbarkeit von Fachliteratur, sondern zum Beispiel in ihrer Publikationst\u00e4tigkeit durch einen Publikationsfonds und unser Repositorium sowie mit Beratung und Tools zum Forschungsdatenmanagement.
\nMit unserem Repositorium bieten wir Angeh\u00f6rigen der TU Clausthal in erster Linie die M\u00f6glichkeit, ihre wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten erst- oder zweitzupublizieren. Die elektronische Ver\u00f6ffentlichung von Dissertationen und sonstigen Forschungsergebnissen aus der TUC mit einer Open-Access-Lizenz macht einen gro\u00dfen Anteil der Publikationen dort aus. Aber auch Institutszeitschriften und Konferenzb\u00e4nde publizieren unsere Institute gerne bei uns. Zus\u00e4tzlich versuchen wir auch, digital verf\u00fcgbare graue Literatur zu sammeln, wie zum Beispiel zahlreiche Schriften eines Altrektors zur Geschichte der TU Clausthal.
\nGibt es ein digitales Objekt oder eine Sammlung, die Ihnen besonders am Herzen liegt?
\nFachlich liegen uns unsere Dissertationen nat\u00fcrlich sehr am Herzen. Wir waren damals eine der ersten Bibliotheken in Deutschland, die digitale Dissertationen von ihren Doktoranden gesammelt haben. Daher ist es f\u00fcr uns nat\u00fcrlich besonders wichtig, diesen Bestand sicher f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Generationen aufzubewahren.
\nGenerell k\u00f6nnen wir f\u00fcr die Universit\u00e4t h\u00e4ufig sicherstellen, dass publizierte Inhalte nicht verloren gehen. In den Jahren 2021 und 2022 erschien auf der Homepage des zur TUC geh\u00f6renden Center for Digital Technologies (DIGIT) die Podcastreihe \"Can you DigIT?\". Leider wurde der Podcast in der Zwischenzeit eingestellt und die Links dazu von der Homepage entfernt. Damit ist unser Publikationsserver die einzige Quelle, um diese Ver\u00f6ffentlichung nachzuh\u00f6ren.
\nWas motiviert Sie, Ihre digitalen Best\u00e4nde zu archivieren? Gab es einen Ausl\u00f6ser, der den Ansto\u00df gegeben hat, sich mit digitaler Langzeitarchivierung auseinanderzusetzen?
\nKernaufgabe von Bibliotheken ist seit ihrer Entstehung die Bewahrung des Wissens f\u00fcr nachfolgende Generationen. F\u00fcr gedruckte Materialien haben wir das mittlerweile recht gut im Griff und k\u00f6nnen Werke \u00fcber Jahrhunderte weiterreichen. Bei digitalen Best\u00e4nden steht dieser Beweis noch aus. Damit eine Aufbewahrung und Zug\u00e4nglichkeit \u00fcber einen m\u00f6glichst langen Zeitraum gelingt, bedarf es spezieller Verfahren, die wir alleine als kleine Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek nicht umsetzen k\u00f6nnen. Es war also weniger ein konkreter Fall der Ausl\u00f6ser, sondern mehr das generelle Selbstverst\u00e4ndnis als Bibliothekar:innen, das uns dazu veranlasst hat. Wir sind daher sehr dankbar, dass uns dieses Projekt erm\u00f6glicht, unsere Aufgabe auch im Bereich der digitalen Best\u00e4nde erf\u00fcllen zu k\u00f6nnen.
\nWelche Unterst\u00fctzung ist f\u00fcr Sie im Projekt besonders wertvoll?
\nDas LiLA-Team rund um Jesko R\u00fccknagel hat uns im ganzen Prozess eng begleitet und uns Schritt f\u00fcr Schritt durch die einzelnen Arbeitspakete gef\u00fchrt. Dabei haben sie uns immer gut beraten und uns auf Herausforderungen und Zweifelsf\u00e4lle sowie zu beachtende Einzelf\u00e4lle hingewiesen, die wir dann genauer betrachten konnten. Ohne ihre umfassende Expertise w\u00e4re es uns nicht m\u00f6glich gewesen ein solches Projekt erfolgreich zu bearbeiten.
\nDie Umsetzung f\u00fcr die Einrichtungen der zweiten Projektkohorte schreitet voran. Die \u00fcbrigen drei Einrichtungen der 2. Projektkohorte stellen sich und ihre ausgew\u00e4hlten Best\u00e4nde im\u00a0folgenden Beitrag\u00a0vor.
\nIm Rahmen einer begleitenden Blogreihe werden wir regelm\u00e4\u00dfig \u00fcber den Projektfortschritt Landesinitiative Langzeitarchivierung Niedersachsen (kurz LiLA) berichten. So erhalten Interessierte au\u00dferhalb des Projektkonsortiums Einblicke in die Arbeit von LiLA. In den kommenden Beitr\u00e4gen stellen sich die beteiligten Einrichtungen vor, berichten \u00fcber ihre zu archivierenden Best\u00e4nde und erl\u00e4utern, warum die digitale Langzeitarchivierung f\u00fcr sie von besonderer Bedeutung ist. Damit ist die Blogreihe eine wichtige S\u00e4ule in der geplanten Wissensbasis, die es dem Projekt erm\u00f6glicht, Best Practices vorzustellen und Einblicke in die Umsetzungsphase zu geben.
\nWer schon einmal auf eine Datei mit dem Namen final_neu_wirklichfinal.xlsx gesto\u00dfen ist, kennt das Problem: Daten k\u00f6nnen schnell un\u00fcbersichtlich werden. In der Forschung ist das nicht nur l\u00e4stig, sondern kann dar\u00fcber entscheiden, ob Ergebnisse nachvollziehbar, nachnutzbar und langfristig auffindbar bleiben. Genau hier setzt Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) an. Aber wie erkl\u00e4rt man FDM so, dass es f\u00fcr Studierende greifbar wird?
\nMit dieser Frage besch\u00e4ftigte sich eine Gruppe mit acht Studierenden des Bachelorstudiengangs Informationsmanagement an der Hochschule Hannover (HsH) im Sommersemester 2026. Im Rahmen eines Projekts im 6. Semester, betreut durch das Joint Lab Future Libraries & Research Data von HsH und TIB, entwickelten sie Materialien, die FDM aus studentischer Perspektive zug\u00e4nglich machen: einen Selbstlernkurs und modulare Seminareinheiten \u2013 konzipiert von Studierenden f\u00fcr Studierende.
\nAusgangspunkt war die Beobachtung, dass FDM im bisherigen Studienverlauf explizit kaum vorkam. Daher verfolgte das Projekt das Ziel, Materialien zu entwickeln, die niedrigschwellig erkl\u00e4ren, worum es bei FDM geht und warum es schon im Studium n\u00fctzlich ist. Das Projekt war bewusst offen angelegt. Neben der fachlichen Auseinandersetzung mit FDM geh\u00f6rten auch eigenst\u00e4ndige Organisation und Projektmanagement dazu.
\nDabei sollten vorhandene Open Educational Resources (OER) weitergedacht und an eine studentische Zielgruppe angepasst werden. Konkret kn\u00fcpfte die Gruppe dabei an den Kurs \"Nachhaltige Wissenschaft mit Forschungsdatenmanagement \u2013 Eine Einf\u00fchrung f\u00fcr Betreuende von Qualifizierungsarbeiten\" an, der bereits im TIB-Blog vorgestellt wurde.
\nBesonders interessant war der Perspektivwechsel: Die Studierenden entwickelten Materialien f\u00fcr andere Studierende und pr\u00fcften dabei immer wieder, was wirklich verst\u00e4ndlich, brauchbar und motivierend ist. Was braucht man als Einstieg? Welche Begriffe m\u00fcssen erkl\u00e4rt werden? Wo helfen Beispiele mehr als Definitionen? Gleichzeitig wurde FDM Teil des Projektalltags. Einheitliche Dateibenennungen, Dokumentation, Versionierung, regelm\u00e4\u00dfige Backups und README-Dateien waren nicht nur Kursthemen, sondern praktische Werkzeuge in der Zusammenarbeit. So wurde aus einem abstrakten Thema schnell eine konkrete Projekterfahrung.
\nF\u00fcr die Erarbeitung der OER teilte sich die Gruppe in zwei Teams auf, die an den unterschiedlichen Formaten arbeiteten und ihre Materialien jeweils iterativ auf Basis von Feedback aus Lehre und Praxis weiterentwickelten.
\nEin Teilteam entwickelte einen Onlinekurs auf Basis von LiaScript. Ziel war ein kompakter Selbstlernkurs, der FDM-Grundlagen in rund 120 Minuten im Selbststudium vermittelt und Studierenden einen ersten, gut zug\u00e4nglichen \u00dcberblick bietet. Daf\u00fcr arbeitete sich die Gruppe in die Funktionsweise und den Syntax von LiaScript ein. Eine Herausforderung bestand darin, dass kollaboratives Arbeiten in diesem Format nur eingeschr\u00e4nkt m\u00f6glich war und der Zugang \u00fcber GitHub zus\u00e4tzliche technische H\u00fcrden mit sich brachte.
\nInhaltlich ging es darum, bestehende OER mit einer \"Studierendenbrille\" zu \u00fcberarbeiten: Was ist f\u00fcr die Zielgruppe wirklich relevant? Welche Beispiele machen FDM greifbar? Und wie l\u00e4sst sich ein Thema, das schnell trocken wirken kann, in ein \u00fcbersichtliches Selbstlernformat bringen?
\nDas Skript zum Selbstlernkurs ist auf GRO.data ver\u00f6ffentlicht: https://doi.org/10.25625/HLSNR1. Hier geht es direkt zum Selbstlernkurs.
\nDas zweite Teilteam entwickelte drei Seminareinheiten, die Lehrende flexibel in bestehende Veranstaltungen einbauen k\u00f6nnen. Erg\u00e4nzt wurden die Folien durch \u00dcbungen, Arbeitsbl\u00e4tter und Rahmenhinweise. Der modulare Ansatz war dabei zentral: Die Materialien sollen nicht als starre Pr\u00e4sentation funktionieren, sondern als Bausteine, aus denen Lehrende je nach Veranstaltung, Zeitrahmen und Vorwissen der Studierenden ausw\u00e4hlen k\u00f6nnen.
\nAuch hier spielte Feedback eine gro\u00dfe Rolle. Mehrere Versionen wurden \u00fcberarbeitet, angepasst und gesch\u00e4rft. Eine besondere Herausforderung war die Frage, welches Vorwissen k\u00fcnftige Studierende tats\u00e4chlich mitbringen und wie viel Kontext die Materialien deshalb selbst liefern m\u00fcssen.
\nDie Seminarmaterialien sind ebenfalls auf GRO.data ver\u00f6ffentlicht: https://doi.org/10.25625/6105WI.
\nBei der Ver\u00f6ffentlichung der Arbeitsergebnisse sammelte die Gruppe praktische Erfahrungen mit GRO.data, Zenodo und twillo. Das FDM wurde damit ganz konkret: Welche Metadaten werden ben\u00f6tigt? Welche Felder sind verst\u00e4ndlich? Wo fehlen Hinweise? Und wie benutzerfreundlich sind Repositorien aus Sicht von Studierenden?
\nDie Erfahrungen fielen unterschiedlich aus. Zenodo wurde als grunds\u00e4tzlich einfach und verst\u00e4ndlich wahrgenommen, auch wenn an einzelnen Stellen genauere Hilfetexte hilfreich gewesen w\u00e4ren. GRO.data wirkte insgesamt selbsterkl\u00e4rend, stellte die Gruppe aber bei einzelnen Funktionen und Bezeichnungen vor Fragen.
\nGerade diese Erfahrungen machten sichtbar, dass Forschungsdatenmanagement nicht nur aus Prinzipien und Empfehlungen besteht, sondern aus konkreten Entscheidungen, Werkzeugen und manchmal auch technischen H\u00fcrden.
\nDas Projektteam pr\u00e4sentierte die Arbeitsergebnisse auf der BiblioCon 2026 in Berlin in Form eines Posters und einer Pr\u00e4sentation f\u00fcr das Freiraum-Format. Damit wurden die Projektergebnisse nicht nur im Studienkontext genutzt, sondern auch in eine gr\u00f6\u00dfere Fach\u00f6ffentlichkeit getragen.
\nF\u00fcr die Studierenden bedeutete das, die eigene Projektarbeit noch einmal anders zu reflektieren: Was ist das Wesentliche? Welche Erfahrungen sind \u00fcbertragbar? Und wie l\u00e4sst sich ein studentisches Projekt so pr\u00e4sentieren, dass es auch f\u00fcr andere Einrichtungen und Studieng\u00e4nge interessant wird? \u00dcber die Plattform der Tagung wurden die Beitr\u00e4ge anschlie\u00dfend ebenfalls publiziert (Freiraum-Folien: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-205328, Poster: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-205129).
\nBei der BiblioCon boten sich weiterhin interessante Ankn\u00fcpfungspunkte zu \u00e4hnlichen Ans\u00e4tzen in Hochschulen, wie etwa zum OER-Kurs \"Data Skills“ der Uni Rostock, der Forschende und Studierende seit Ende 2025 mit einem modular aufgebauten Selbstlernangebot auf ILIAS durch den gesamten Forschungsdatenzyklus f\u00fchrt.
\nAuch das Verbundprojekt \"Einstein Your Data“ der Universit\u00e4ten Vechta und Oldenburg, gef\u00f6rdert im Rahmen der Landesinitiative FDM Niedersachsen, verfolgt ein \u00e4hnliches Ziel: Es st\u00e4rkt die Data Literacy von Studierenden durch forschendes Lernen, bei dem der gesamte Forschungsprozess von der Planung \u00fcber die Datenerhebung bis zur Archivierung selbst durchlaufen wird. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf den Umgang mit sensiblen Daten. Solche Projekte zeigen: Der Bedarf an praxisnaher Vermittlung von Datenkompetenz ist an vielen Standorten pr\u00e4sent und der Austausch \u00fcber Formate und Erfahrungen lohnt sich.
\nR\u00fcckblickend beschreibt die Projektgruppe das Semester als fachlich und organisatorisch lehrreich. Besonders pr\u00e4gend war die Erfahrung, dass FDM nicht erst bei gro\u00dfen Forschungsprojekten beginnt. Neben Herausforderungen, etwa im Umgang mit technischen Schwierigkeiten beim genutzten Cloud-Dienst, war vor allem die Projektarbeit selbst pr\u00e4gend: Wie im FDM selbst erwiesen sich auch im Projektteam eine sorgf\u00e4ltige Dokumentation und klare Kommunikation als zentrale Erfolgsfaktoren.
\nDamit liefert das Projekt mehr als nur die Materialien f\u00fcr k\u00fcnftige Lehrveranstaltungen: Es zeigt, wie FDM-Kompetenzen im Studium praktisch erfahrbar werden k\u00f6nnen \u2013 nicht als zus\u00e4tzliche Pflicht, sondern als Bestandteil guter wissenschaftlicher und kollaborativer Arbeit.
\nAlle Materialien stehen offen lizenziert zur Nachnutzung bereit und laden dazu ein, Forschungsdatenmanagement fr\u00fch im Studium aufzugreifen und an die eigene Lehre anzupassen.
\nJoint Lab Future Libraries & Research Data \u2013 futurelibraries@tib.eu
\nFranziska Altemeier, TIB \u2013 Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek: franziska.altemeier@tib.eu
\nProf. Dr. Ina Bl\u00fcmel, TIB \u2013 Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek & Hochschule Hannover, ina.bluemel@tib.eu\u00a0
\nDr. Nina D\u00fcvel, TIB \u2013 Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek & Hochschule Hannover: nina.duevel@tib.eu
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