AI workshops and workbooks

• Responsible use of AI in publications, grant proposals, and peer review
• Safe and secure use of AI in research projects [Jupyter Book, workbook, GitHub repo]

News

• 20.05.2026 Agentic AI-Chatbot at the Mannheim University Library: From “Made Simple” to “Made Right”
• 04.05.2026 AI and research misconduct
• 12.03.2026 Responsible use of AI in publications, grant proposals, and peer review
• 26.02.2026 Literacy, data, and AI: A keynote on literacy, data literacy, and AI literacy
• 17.02.2026 Good and Questionable Research Practices with AI: A Spectrum of Research Integrity
• 10.02.2026 Safe and secure use of AI in research projects, short awareness version
• 16.12.2025 Safe and secure use of AI in research projects, Jupyter Book, workbook
• 22.10.2025 Responsible use of AI in Research
• 14.10.2025 Questionable Practices in the use of AI
• 07.10.2025 AI for Research Data Management and Open Science
• 15.09.2025 FDZ UB Mannheim: Three challenges in establishing sustainable research data management, data science, and AI services, Data-Science-Community Workshop, paper
• 14.03.2025, Perplexity-inspired metasearch-based alternatives to FAIR GPT: Open-source AI consultants for RDM, E-Science-Tage 2025, paper
• 14.03.2025 LLM4DDC: Adopting Large Language Models for Research Data Classification Using Dewey Decimal Classification
• 13.03.2025, Institutional Data Science Services at FDZ UB Mannheim: Enhancing Research Data Management, E-Science-Tage 2025, paper

🌱 AI

• UBi is an agentic AI-chatbot at Mannheim University Library [code]
• FAIR GPT is a virtual consultant on FAIR RDM in ChatGPT Plus [GitHub]
• FAIR-farfalle is an open-source Perplexity analogue for Research Data Management based on farfalle
• FAIR-Perplexica is an open-source Perplexity analogue for Research Data Management based on Perplexica
• FAIR-sensei is an open-source Perplexity analogue for Research Data Management based on sensei

🌱 Natural Language Processing

• bbw is a tool for entity linking, entity typing and relation extraction using any Wikibase knowledge graph (e.g., Wikidata) and meta-lookup (metasearch over SearX) [docs], [paper]
• spaCyOpenTapioca is a spaCy pipeline for named entity linker OpenTapioca [spaCy Universe], [docs]
• Reichsanzeiger NLP is a NER/NEL corpus & annotation guidelines for the historical German newspaper "Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger" (1819-1945)
• blatt is a NLP-helper for OCR-ed pages in PAGE XML format (it's used to structure data from OCR-ed pages) [docs]
• cas2iob is a converter of UIMA CAS XMI files exported from the INCEpTION annotation platform into IOB TSV files
• madabi is a repo containing ongoing work on building Mannheim Data Bibliography for MADATA

🌱 Knowledge graphs

• Wikibase knowledge graphs is a list of open source tools and resources related to Wikibase knowledge graphs
• RaiseWikibase is a tool for fast knowledge graph creation with Wikibase [docs]
• Aktienführer Knowledge Graph is a (meta)data KG for the German listed stock companies from the Hoppenstedt-Aktienführer from 1956 to 2018 [frontend], [SPARQL], [reconciliation service]
• MaschinenBauIndustrie (MBI) Knowledge Graph is a KG of structured data from the book "Die Maschinen-Industrie im Deutschen Reich" written by Herbert Patschan in 1937 [frontend], [SPARQL] and [reconciliation service]
• kg-enricher is a library for enriching strings, entities and knowledge graphs using Wikibase knowledge graphs

🌱 Research Data Management

• Awesome RDM is a list of awesome RDM resources for researchers and organizations
• FAIR Data Week at Uni Mannheim
  • F for Findable
  • A for Accessible
  • I for Interoperable
  • R for Reusable
• madata is a tool for syncing the metadata of datasets between MADATA OAI-PMH (Mannheim Data Repository) and Wikidata
• ReproResearch is a ready-to-use repository for FAIR reproducible research (data) projects
• AI for Research Data Management and Open Science
• ChatGPT for FAIR Research Data

🌱 NFDI

• Knowledge Graphs - Working Group Charter (NFDI section-metadata)
• Dataset: an overview of knowledge graphs in NFDI
• Knowledge graphs for interoperable NFDI: Digital editions
• Warum brauchen wir Wissensgraphen in NFDI?
• KGI4NFDI: Knowledge Graph Infrastructure for the German National Research Data Infrastructure
• The Case for a Common, Reusable Knowledge Graph Infrastructure for NFDI
• Who is using Knowledge Graphs in NFDI? An overview by the Working Group "Knowledge Graphs"