Official Kick-off Meeting of the Project Knowledge-Base for “Fair data usage and supply” of the Date Literacy Alliance (DALIA)

On 20 March 2023, the Head of the Institute of Fluid Systems Engineering and Vice President for Digitalization, Sustainability and Infrastructure at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Prof. Dr. Peter Pelz, along with Prof. Dr. rer.-nat. Sonja Herres-Pawlis from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University, opened the two-day event at the darmstadium – Wissenschafts- und Kongresszentrum in Darmstadt. Both welcomed the other project partners of the Data Literacy Alliance (DALIA) from the University and State Library Darmstadt, the Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB Hannover).

The interdisciplinary spectrum of expertise in DALIA consisting of teaching, research, infrastructure and knowledge management - combined with the close links between the project partners and the NFDI e.V., the sections Training & Education, ELSA Ethical, Legal & Social Aspects with Prof. Ulrich Sax and the section (Meta)data, Terminologies, Provenance with Prof. Torsten Schrade ensures that the project is sustainably integrated and embedded into the national and international community for data literacy and research data management.

To develop the first functional iteration of the DALIA Knowledge Base, the project team has established various working groups to define and determine the technology stack of the DALIA infrastructure, the quality criteria of the content and materials and the workflows for the community.

Exciting news and current project results are published via the project newsletter, the social media channels Bluesky and Mastodon and via the news category on the project website. Further information on the DALIA project and contact details can be found on the project website. DALIA will go through various prototype development stages until October 2025 and will then be continued by TIB Hannover. Ideas and feedback on errors are always welcome.