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From 22 to 25 September 2025, the NFDI4Earth Plenary and the NFDI4Biodiversity Joint Plenary will bring together Earth System and Biodiversity research communities to discuss shared challenges and solutions in research data management.

On September 26, BITS contributed to the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CORDI 2025) in Aachen with a poster presentation on:

“Enhancing Interoperability in Earth System Sciences: The BITS Project and the Role of the TIB Terminology Service”
(Anette Ganske, Alexander Wolodkin, Angelina Kraft, Hannes Thiemann)

The poster highlighted how…

The BITS annual meeting, bringing together all project partners for in-person collaboration, was held from 2nd to 4th July at the Jügelhaus of Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main.

Following our successful short course at the EGU General Assembly 2025 in Vienna, we are pleased to announce that the presentation slides for "The Inverse Butterfly Effect: From Chaos to FAIR" are now accessible online.

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If you will be attending the EGU 2025 in Vienna and want to learn about the purpose and use of terminologies, then come to our short course "The inverse Butterfly effect: from chaos to FAIR” for Earth System scientists.

The Earth System Sciences collection (ESS) is part of the TIB Terminology Service. Therefore we are excited to announce the system upgrade of the TIB TS from OLS3 to the advanced OLS4 Backend System. OLS4 features significant improvements, enhanced performance, and a more intuitive user experience. Nevertheless, you may experience missing…

The BITS project is closely connected to the Nationale Forschungsdaten Infrastruktur (NFDI), in particular  NFDI4Earth and TS4NFDI. Therefore, we presented a poster at the BASE4NFDI User Conference (UC4B) in Berlin:

Martens, C., Ganske, A., & Wolodkin, A. (2024):  BITS - a Use Case for Terminologies in Earth System Science. https://doi.org/10.5281…

Apart from the regular virtual Project Meetings, all BITS Project Partners meet once a year in person. This year the Annual Meeting took place from 17.10.-18.10. 24 in Hamburg at the DKRZ. We had 2 half days of interesting discussions, good food, lots of cookies, tea and coffee, which ended with a guided tour of the DKRZ supercomputing centre.

Climate and Forecast Standard Names (CF) has been added to the TIB TS and the ESS collection.