Workshop: Building Open Science: Exploring Research Data with LEGO®

Open Science starts with your own data – and sometimes with a LEGO® brick
Transparent, traceable, and reusable research data are a central foundation of good scientific practice – and a key enabler of Open Science. At the same time, research data management remains abstract or difficult to grasp. This workshop addresses this issue: it provides guidance, lowers barriers to entry, and shows why it is important to handle research data consciously from an early stage.
You will explore key aspects of research data management – supported by LEGO® workshop elements. Through joint building, explaining, and discussing, topics such as reproducibility, documentation, metadata, data organization, and storage become visible and easy to reflect on. LEGO® serves as a thinking and communication tool to make complex relationships tangible and open up new perspectives on one’s own research practices.
You will also gain insight into the support services available at HZDR that can facilitate the handling of research data. However, the focus is on reflection, exchange, and awareness: How do structures emerge in one’s own work? Where are the challenges? What steps make research comprehensible and open in the long term? A special focus is placed on the publication of data and software via RODARE – the central step in making research transparent, reusable, and open data-compatible.
The workshop does not provide ready-made solutions, but invites you to critically question your own handling of research data and to take away ideas and first practical skills for more conscious, well-structured practices.
Date: May 6, 2026 | 9:15am to 4:45pm
Location: in-person, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, 114/203
Trainer: Maik Fiedler (HZDR), Oliver Knodel (HZDR), Alina Bastian (SaxFDM), Robert Müller (Kontaktstelle TUD)
Language: English
Method: interactive
Target group: For doctoral researchers who not only recognize open science as a goal, but are also curious about how they can shape their own path toward it – step by step.
Please register by April 23, 2026.

https://events.hifis.net/event/3499/