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07.03.2024

Six new HMC projects to be funded

The 4th call for projects has been successfully completed
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08.11.2023

Full Training Course Material: Now available!

If you are looking for educational material to teach the fundamentals of scientific metadata handling, look no further!
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05.09.2023

HMC @ 1st CORDI

We head to Karlsruhe to present HMC to the national RDM community.
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19.07.2023

TEACH 3 - Call for Abstracts is open

Contribute to our next TEACH 3 on December 07/08.
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12.07.2023

HMC Evaluation: First feedback

Three years after its founding, the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, HMC for short, underwent a thorough review by an external, international evaluat …
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28.06.2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE | HMC Conference 2023 - Registration is open

The virtual conference will be from 10 - 12 Ocotober 2023.
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19.06.2023

HMC @ Helmholtz Energy Conference

On June 12 and 13, 2023, the Helmholtz Research Field Energy met at the first Helmholtz Energy Conference "Tackling the Challenges of the Energy Trans …
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14.06.2023

HMC @ Helmholtz AI and Helmholtz Imaging conference

From 12 - 16 June the Incubator platforms Helmholtz AI and Helmholtz Imaging held their respective conferences at DESY in Hamburg.
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12.06.2023

HMC at the 8th Data Science Symposium in Kiel

This year we presented HMC at the 8th Data Science Symposium 2023 at GEOMAR in Kiel on June 8-9, 2023.
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17.05.2023

Best Poster award MaRDA

For the contribution to the Materials Research Data Alliance annual meeting members of HMC received an award for the best poster
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09.05.2023

HMC Project Call 2023 published

Register now: Our 2023 annual call for HMC project proposals has been published and will run until August, 1st 2023.
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20.04.2023

The new HMC Information Portal officially launched

We are excited to announce the official launch of the new HMC Information Portal.
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03.04.2023

Explore Helmholtz Metadata Practices

Use the HMC Survey Data Explorer to investigate the current Metadata Practices in your domain and Helmholtz in general based on the data of the 2021 H …
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17.03.2023

New Tool: base-repo 1.4.0 released

Today, we like to announce the new release v1.4.0 of base-repo. Besides regular dependency updates for security reasons, we’ve added some new nice fea …
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01.03.2023

HMC Dashboard on Open and FAIR Data in Helmholtz officially launched

Hub Matter has officially launched the HMC dashboard on open and FAIR data in Helmholtz.
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01.03.2023

Invitation to Review: Metadata Form for Biodiversity Monitoring

The Biodiversity Monitoring Community is invited to test and revise it.
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09.02.2023

Meet HMC @ MC23

Meet HMC @ Microscopy Conference 2023
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01.02.2023

Meet HMC @ deRSE23

Come and speak to HMC at deRSE23!
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25.01.2023

HMC @ Helmholtz Energy Conference 2023

Come and meet HMC @ Helmholtz Energy Conference 2023 (12-13 June, Koblenz)
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24.01.2023

ExPands closing meeting, EuXFEL and DESY user meeting

Hub matter were happy to be on-site at DESY for the EuXFEL/DESY user meeting 2023 and the ExPANDS closing event.
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20.01.2023

HMC Project@ RDA FAIR DO Fabric IG (26 January, UTC 15:00)

HMC Project FDO-5DI presents @ the RDA FAIR DO Fabric IG, 26 January, UTC 15:00
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09.01.2023

Seven new HMC projects receive funding

The third round of calls for proposals has been successfully concluded. 7 outstanding projects will be funded
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18.10.2022

HMC @ International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects (26-28 October)

Come and meet HMC @ International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects
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17.10.2022

Get your PIDs from HMC's PIDA

Check out our new HMC service PIDA!
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13.10.2022

TEACH II - Registration is open

Join us the virtual TEACH 2 "Open up" on 9 November 2022!
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07.10.2022

First HMC Conference successfully concluded

Packed with the latest metadata topics, the first HMC conference took place virtually on October 5-6 2022.
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29.09.2022

New FAIR Digital Object Viewer and Browser

FAIR-DOscope is an easy-to-use, generic FAIR Digital Object viewer and browser accepting PIDs of FAIR DOs
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11.07.2022

List of identified linked open data vocabularies to be included in IGSN metadata

Using controlled vocabularies is an important step for harmonised metadata
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06.07.2022

FAIR image data from research cruise M182

HMC project FDO-5DI is currently out at sea in the Atlantic Ocean to test tools and workflows for the acquisition and publication of FAIR marine image …
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01.07.2022

HMC Conference 2022 - Registration open

We invite you to be part of the virtual HMC Conference 2022 taking place 05 and 06 October 2022
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28.06.2022

HMC Hub Erde und Umwelt startet Mini Roadshow

The HMC Earth and Environment Mini Roadshow was successfully used for the first time at the 7th Data Science Symposium in Geesthacht.
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20.06.2022

Call for abstract open for TEACH 2

Share your training and networking experience.
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31.05.2022

HMC’s Scientific Advisory Board provides valuable advice for further development

In the already third meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the incubator platform HMC, the SAB members were given a review of the activiti …
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27.04.2022

Start of HMC Project HARMONise

HMC project HARMONise started its work
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26.04.2022

HMC @ SEMANTiCS Conference 2022

come and meet HMC @ SEMANTiCS Conference 2022
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20.04.2022

Now Open: Project Call 2022

The annual call for proposals from the Incubator platform Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) has been published on April 20, 2022 and will be clos …
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13.04.2022

AI-HERO Hackathon for energy-efficient AI

The first AI-HERO Hackathon, organised by HMC and other Helmholtz Incubator Platforms, has raised awareness for the energy consumption of modern AI re …
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22.03.2022

New Tool: METADOR

NEW tool: METADOR can be used to comfortably share data in collaborations while ensuring submission of relevant and valid metadata
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01.03.2022

Get involved in the world of FAIR data!

Upcoming HMC FAIR Friday with Dr Janine Felden (PANGAEA Group Leader, AWI Bremerhaven)
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16.02.2022

SECoP@HMC project starts with kick-off meeting

First HMC community project of the 2021 cohort officially started its work
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10.02.2022

HMC supports pioneering research on pollen nanofoam with data protocols

Interdisciplinary study has been published yesterday in the journal Science Advances
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07.02.2022

HMC Projects | Welcome Meeting Projects 2021 - postponed

Unfortunately, the HMC Projects Welcome Meeting has to be postponed
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26.01.2022

HMC project HERMES publishes first concept paper

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18.01.2022

Six projects successful in second HMC project call

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06.12.2021

HMC’s Scientific Advisory Board provides valuable advice for further development

Much praise for the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration at SAB meeting on December 3
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28.10.2021

RDM Challenges@FZJ - Call for Proposals

Deadline extended - apply now!
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22.09.2021

How is research data documented in the Helmholtz Association?

- Survey on the handling of metadata in Germany's largest scientific organization -
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22.09.2021

Community Workshop: Metadata in Electron Microscopy (EM)

Save the date!Monday 11th October 14h00 - 16h00!
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22.09.2021

HMC @ HiDA Data Science Career Day on 22 September 2021

The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) will present itself and open positions in several of its subject-specific hubs at the HiDA Data Science Car …
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23.07.2021

Fighting future wildfires with data - HMC at the ESIP Summer Conference 2021

Pier Luigi Buttigieg and Emanuel Söding of the HMC Hub Earth and Environment presented the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration and the potential to use m …
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24.06.2021

Scientific Advisory Board of the HMC constituted

The Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration met online for its inaugural meeting on 23 June 2021. The members discussed init …
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10.06.2021

HMC at EOSC Symposium 2021

The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) – Making Helmholtz data FAIR // Constanze Curdt // Session: FAIR metrics and data quality on Friday, 18th J …
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10.06.2021

Second HMC Project Call published

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01.05.2021

FAIR together – Collaboration between the NFDI DataPLANT and the HMC Hub Informa …

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31.03.2021

HMC Project Call – Nine Projects funded

Nine projects are funded in the first round of the Helmholtz Incubator Platform Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) with a total of 3.45 million Eu …
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18.02.2021

Call for project proposals "Helmholtz Enterprise"

Helmholtz Enterprise (HE) aims to support scientists to work entrepreneurial and start a well-thought-out business.Deadlines are March 31, 2021 and Oc …
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27.01.2021

2nd edition of Research Data Management Guide launched by Science Europe

"The guide presents core requirements for DMPs, criteria for the selection of trustworthy repositories, and guidance for researchers to comply with or …
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