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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.

The BITS project and the NFDI4Earth IG FAIRESST organised two workshops co-located with the NFDI4Earth Plenary 2024 in Dresden. The first workshop "Terminologies in Earth System Sciences - State of the Art and Existing Applications" was attended by 40 participants and the second workshop "Gaps and Desired Applications" by 18 participants.

We are looking forward to meeting all interested Earth System Science colleagues at the two workshops in Dresden. You can still register if you want to join us: projects.tib.eu/bits/events/registration

Both posters were presented at the EGU in the Earth & Space Science Informatics Session:

1. Wolodkin, A.,  et al.: "BITS: BluePrints for the Integration of Terminology Services in Earth System Sciences". https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11084446
2. Löhden, A., et al.: "Benefits of Ontologies in Earth System Science". https://zenodo.org/doi/10.52…

How can Terminologies increase the FAIRness of Research Outcome? What´s the status quo of their usage in Earth System Sciences? Which Best Practises exist? And how can we learn from other domains? As part of the BITS Project we are offering two Workshops for discussing and answering these questions during the NFDI4Earth Plenary in Dresden, on May…

For the development of our Terminology Service for the Earth System Sciences, BITS needs input from the community. This is why we are aiming for a close connection with NFDI4Earth. We are pleased to announce that a first step in this direction has been taken: NFDI4Earth has provided us with a web adress: https://terminology.nfdi4earth.de

The IG FAIRESST will collect and investigate the use of semantic artefacts in the NFDI4Earth network. It will also serve as a community for proposing new terminologies and developing new tools for the ESS collection in the TIB Terminology Service. Although it is an NFDI4Earth Interest Group, it will be open to anyone interested in the topic.