NFDI4DS Hackathons at ZB Med 2025

Hackathons offer a space to create and develop ideas in a fast-paced collaborative environment during a couple of days. As part of the NFDI4DS project, ZB MED organizes hackathons around subjects related to metadata for research artifacts.

DiscoRSE/NFDI4DS/Quadriga Hackathon - Metadata with Schema.org for Training Materials

When: 2025.06.23-25, from noon to noon

Where: ZB MED Cologne

What:

Day 1 (half day, starting around 13:00)

• Introductions including information on the corresponding training platform and metadata approach in use.
• Finding common grounds across the different platforms and metadata approaches (and possible alignment to FAIR and beyond –e.g., reproducibility, transparency, sustainability)

Day 2 (full day)

• Continuation - Finding common grounds across the different platforms and metadata approaches (and possible alignment to FAIR and beyond –e.g., reproducibility, transparency, sustainability)

• Creating a metadata schema, based on schema.org, for the common core across training platforms. We will use a crosswalk template for this. We intend to publish all crosswalks as a deposition in Zenodo with all participants as co-authors. We aim at presenting these results to NFDI community.

• (Optional) Discussion/work on other topics of interest brought by the participants

Day3 (half day, finishing around 12:00)

• Writing a final report to be deposited in Zenodo.
• Discussion on how to continue with the effort.

Bioschemas hackathon at ZB Med 2025

This hackathon is organized in collaboration with Nick Juty and Phil Reed from the University of Manchester, Helena Schnitzer from Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, de.NBI, Ginger Tsueng from the Su Lab, and Alban Gaignard from the University of Nantes.

• When: 2025.06.25 to 2025.06.27 from noon to noon
• Where: ZB MED in Cologne
• What: Let’s meet together to
• improve Bioschemas and Schemas.science websites based on open GitHub issues
• improve or add tutorials on how to use Bioschemas and its specifications
• improve or propose profiles, for instance there is some interest in reviewing the alignment between ComputationalTool and bio.tools metadata schema, creating a profile for FAIR4ML, creating a profile for Croissant ML
• add Bioschemas/schemas.org markup to your own resource

To participate in this hackathon, please submit your application no later than 2025.06.15 to Oxford Abstracts Webby FDOs. There is limited capacity for participation. Please be aware that you will have to cover your own expenses (travel, food, and so on).