Sebastian Zug and André Dietrich presented LiaScript, a Markdown-based tool for creating interactive, open and interoperable educational content. By extending Markdown with functions such as multimedia, quizzes, animations and interactive programming, a wide range of learning materials can be created even without extensive programming knowledge. These can be exported in various formats and imported into different learning management systems. In addition, the content created can be shared as Markdown documents in Git repositories to ensure its readability and editability and to enable easy reuse. Instructions for LiaScript are available on its own YouTube Channel .

As part of the NFDI4Memory consortium, Task Area 4 Data Literacy is working on the development of services, handouts and innovative teaching and learning formats to improve data literacy (DL) and active research data management (RDM) in the disciplines working in history. The development of a historically-oriented DL competence profile is the basis for a DL model curriculum as well as epoch- and area-specific curricula. It will also be used to classify the courses in the DL training catalog. The work began with the planning and implementation of the data literacy needs assessment, for which a questionnaire design had to be developed. For this purpose, a mapping of competence matrices was carried out with the aid of the Forschungssoftware FuD which allows the representation of the whole research process, from inventorisation of primary data through analysis and publication until archiving. In several mapping iterations, the individual competence profiles were mapped to each other, so that after each mapping phase an extended profile was created, which in turn became the starting point for the subsequent mapping. The aim of the comparison was to generate a merged, specialized competency matrix for the historical sciences from the individual DL competency profiles.

The various consortia within the NFDI have made impressive progress in the area of Training & Education (EduTrain), either formulating personas or identifying discipline-specific use cases to meet the needs of their target groups. DALIA pursued this approach together with Britta Petersen lead of AP1 of the EduTrain section and took it up during a side event at CoRDI 2023 and further expanded it during the community event on October 10, 2023. Looking at the NFDI shows that the consortia address the needs of their target groups with three basic persona concepts: content provider, trainer and learner. These are now being adopted and further characterized by DALIA. For each of these target groups, contact persons will be available in the section Training and Education in the future to further refine the specific needs and transfer them to the DALIA project. We look forward to following up on these developments together with the existing variety of training courses within the NFDI and offering them in the DALIA portal. A detailed report on the workshop is currently being prepared as a white paper.

The harmonization of metadata is an important part of the DALIA project for the scientific community. This involves the standardization of terms and their definitions as well as the linking of metadata classes from different standards. In this community workshop, scientists from DALIA, NFDI consortia, the DINI AG KIM, the SODa (Center for Collections, Objects, Data Competencies), the Trier Center of Digital Humanities and other institutions came together to discuss the current status. Various presentations formed the introduction to the topic area: Petra Steiner (DALIA) gave an introduction to DALIA’s minimal metadata sets and their description in the form of Tabular Application Profiles (TAPs), which are not only an efficient and transparent means of describing metadata standards, but also serve to formally validate RDF graphs. Katharina Bergmann and Andrea Polywka from NFDI4Culture presented the project’s terminology and Educational Resource Finder Susanne Arndt from the NFDI WG Cookbooks, Guidance, and Best Practices gave an overview of the WG’s metadata categories and material collections. Mark Fichtner presented the three ways in which the Data Competence Centre plans to use application-oriented teaching methods to promote interdisciplinary skills: onboarding, analogue and digital. The training materials on metadata and terminology have a large overlap with the subject area of DALIA. After compiling this general information, three parallel groups discussed their joint ideas on minimal metadata sets for teaching and learning resources. This resulted in numerous metadata categories, but also definitional issues. This workshop initiated several further meetings and had a major impact on the development of DALIA’s minimal metadata set.

In the last workshop of the year, the DALIA team presented the initial results of the DALIA portal development to the FDM community and discussed the front end of the education platform under development with participants. On November 28, 2023, the DALIA project team invited participants to jointly test and evaluate the interface of the DALIA portal in a three-hour workshop. In close collaboration with the design agency Blue World Studios the project group had spent the previous two months developing the homepage, including the keyword search function, the results view for resources and the profile and community pages, which now required feedback from the community. In joint discussions on the individual frames of the resulting website, new ideas and perspectives were introduced that gave the team a deeper understanding of how the functions and layout of the interface can be optimized for future users. The feedback was then carefully evaluated by the team and incorporated into further development. We would like to thank all the participants who took part in the workshop and whose enthusiasm and ideas are driving the completion of the platform and making it a better place for teaching and learning. We look forward to sharing the results of our work with the community this year.