Society
In dialogue with society, we highlight the role of research libraries in the digital transformation of science and society. We provide a vivid illustration of the issues that concern us by actively maintaining media relations, directly involving the public in our citizen science projects, and presenting our research activities in public exhibitions and dialogues.
A selection of our activities:
- Initiation and promotion of the Technik-Salon (since 2014)
- Organisation of events such as the Coding da Vinci Lower Saxony 2020 cultural hackathon and the “Digital Salon” series of events
- Participation in formats such as the November of Science in Hannover , the Day of Lower Saxony and the Leibniz Association’s Book a Scientist event
- In a nutshell: an overview of activities and projects in the “What if ...?” format
- MS Wissenschaft and Deutsches Museum Bonn: presentation of the geolocation exhibit
- Citizen science projects: Remember Me!, “Places of Gestapo terror in present-day Lower Saxony”
Science
TIB hosts many international conferences, specialist forums and workshops, providing opportunities for networking and information sharing within the scientific community. In addition, TIB staff give scientific presentations across the world to share their findings.
A selection of our activities:
- Organisation of national and international events: the Thirteenth International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, Open-Access-Tage (Open Access Days), the 21st International Conference on Grey Literature, the “Digitizing Cultural Heritage and its Innovative Usage” symposium, the 24th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), the Open Science Festival, Open up – the twillo conference and many other scientific events
- Publications and presentations by TIB staff
- Regular active participation in the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and the SEMANTiCS conference
- NextGen Books: handbooks on a wide variety of topics, available as Open Educational Resources
- Training, workshops and webinars for the scientific community
Media and outreach
Would you like to learn more about open access to knowledge, what tomorrow’s open science might look like, or what AI has to do with libraries? By initiating new projects and services, explaining research topics in a readily understandable manner, and hosting interesting cultural events, we provide media representatives, opinion leaders and other interested parties with information and help them to understand the latest developments.
A selection of our activities:
- The latest news and developments at TIB can be found on the TIB website, in the TIB Report and in our newsletters TIB News, Deine UniBib and Open Access News , as well as in other specialist newsletters and mailing lists
- TIB Blog: posts from TIB staff on all kinds of topics related to the library
- TIB on Mastodon and Instagram
- Expert positioning with in-house video formats: TIB Pitch, TIB Themencast
- Our TIB experts are happy to provide you with data, facts and background information
Library community
TIB uses its leading role in the library community to actively support the digital transformation of the information infrastructure. Our initiation and development of open digital formats creates platforms for discourse with other stakeholders in society.
A selection of our activities:
- Involvement and active participation in consortia, alliances, networks and committees
- Establishment of new formats such as #vBIB and the Open Science Festival
- Organisation of Open-Access-Tage (Open Access Days) and the 111. BiblioCon, as well as involvement in open-access.network
- Awards: “Library of the Year”, Open Library Badge , the TOTAL E-QUALITY award for equal opportunities and diversity, “Digitaler Ort Niedersachsen” (Digital Place Lower Saxony) for various projects
- Development and provision of infrastructure services such as DataCite, TIB DOI Consortium and the ORCID Germany Consortium for the scientific community
- Involvement in “Agilität in Bibliotheken” (Agility in libraries)
Policy
TIB contributes its expertise to committees and working groups and provides advice to policy-makers on issues such as open science, knowledge graphs, the online education system, and AI. It actively supports the goals of Germany’s federal and state governments within the framework of the Pact for Research & Innovation, as well as initiatives such as the Excellence Strategy and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).
A selection of our activities:
- Member of the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (Professor Dr Sören Auer)
- Member of the “Open Science/Open Access” committee of experts of the State Ministry of Science and Cultural Affairs of Saxony (Professor Dr Sören Auer)
- German Council of Science and Humanities: evaluation of the higher education system in the Federal State of Brandenburg
- Consultation of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence in the German Bundestag
- Collaboration in Leibniz Strategy Forums such as Open Science, Technological Sovereignty, and Digital Transformation
- Science meets Parliament: participation in formats such as Leibniz in the Bundestag and Leibniz in the State Parliament of Lower Saxony
- Participation in delegations, delegation visits (Deutscher Frühling in Estonia) and ministerial tours (Great Britain, Finland and Estonia) for the development and strengthening of collaboration at home and abroad
- Participation in series of events organised by the Leibniz Association and various ministries
Business and industry
TIB and the L3S research center combine their wide range of research and technology competencies in the areas of big data analytics, machine learning and semantic data networking that are central to digitization. Various formats are used to sustainably strengthen collaboration between research and industry for successful digitization in the Hannover Region and beyond.
A selection of our activities:
- Business events
- IDSA competence center
- Projects in the "Innovation & Technology Management" team: MediaFutures, PLATOON, TRUSTS
- Presentations at the joint stand of the State of Lower Saxony at CEBIT and Hannover Messe