Save the Date: NFDI4Biodiversity meets NFDI4Earth – Joint Plenary 2025

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.

BITS is excited to contribute with three presentations:

22 September:
Poster: FAIRenrich: Empowering FAIR and Scalable Annotation Workflows in Earth System and Biodiversity Sciences
This poster, created by Alexander Wolodkin, Jonas Grieb and Claus Weiland, highlights the modular and configurable architecture of FAIRenrich and its impact on sustainable, FAIR-compliant workflows.

24 September:

  • Barcamp: Semantics in Science – Help or Pain?
    Scientific progress depends on shared knowledge, yet semantics can act as both a bridge and a barrier. This interactive session invites participants to share their experiences and frustrations relating to diverse terminologies, metadata translation and the adoption of standards, while exploring ways in which semantics can serve scientists rather than hinder them.
  • Software & Tools Marketplace: FAIRenrich – FAIR Enrichment and Curation for ESS and Biodiversity Data
    Alexander Wolodkin will present this open-source tool, which supports the FAIR and scalable annotation of large, multilingual datasets by combining NLP models and terminology services. FAIRenrich enables researchers to transparently and reproducibly enrich complex data, thereby fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and open science.

    📌 Mark your calendars and join us in September to exchange ideas, explore tools, and strengthen collaborations across disciplines.