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Which information helps you choose the right scientific terminology? Let us know in a quick survey!

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.

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…