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ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas

The meeting place for science and exchange - over a delicious cup of tea.

Would you like to network with other humanities scholars and learn more about open science, the reproducibility of data and good scientific practice? Then our event series “ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas” is the right place for you!

Come along, exchange ideas and become part of our growing community!

Overview

  • Dates: on selected Thursdays from 16:00 - 17:30 CEST, the workshops are full-day events.
  • Target group: Students, researchers at all career levels and anyone interested in humanities research
  • Location: Room 4.006 in the University and City Library of Cologne (4th floor, entrance via Kerpener Str.).
  • Zoom: You will receive a link if you subscribe to this mailing list: Mailinglist
  • Language: English

Structure of the session

  • Each session begins with a 20-30 minute presentation.
  • This is followed by an exchange and discussion over an aromatic cup of tea and cookies.
  • Before each session, you will receive a recommended reading that will serve as a basis for the discussion.

We have been a member of the Reproducibility Network since October 2025.

Dates for winter semester 2025/26

13 November  – Reproducibility in automated corpus compilation: Challenges of dynamic workflows.
Amalia Canes-Nápoles (Romance Studies, UoC) 

20 November  – Language data publication using TROLLing.
Lukas Sönning (English Linguistics, University of Bamberg)

Recommended reading: Andreassen, Helene N. 2022. Archiving research data. In Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller & Lauren B. Collister (eds.), The open handbook of linguistic data management. MIT Press, 2022 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0011
 

11 December – Research integrity and reproducibility in the age of generative AI.
Mark Dingemanse (Language and Communication, Radboud University Nijmegen) 

Recommended reading: Dingemanse, Mark. “Generative AI and Research Integrity.” OSF Preprints, https://osf.io/preprints/osf/2c48n_v1https://osf.io/preprints/osf/2c48n_v1

18 December – What can we do with what data? 
Maryam Mohammadi  (SFB 1646: Sprachliche Kreativität in der Kommunikation/Department of Linguistics, University Bielefeld) 

Recommended reading: Jorschick, Annett, Schrader, Paul, and Buschmeier, Hendrik. “What can I  do with this data point? Towards modeling legal and ethical aspects of linguistic data collection and (re-)use”. Proceedings of the Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies at LREC-COLING 2024. ELRA and ICCL, 2024. 47–51. https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2988446#details

15 January  – Universities and research integrity – much ado about nothing?
Stephan Rixen (Institut für Staatsrecht, UoC and former research integrity ombudsperson of the German Research Foundation (DFG))

Recommended reading: Rixen, Stephan. "Regeln sind nichts Wissenschaftsfremdes: Wissenschaftliche Integrität an Universitäten", Forschung & Lehre, 7, 2025

22 January – Quarto Workshop – Day 1

10.30 – 12.00 Intro to Quarto – Papers and Slides
14.00 – 15.30 Themes, templates, pandoc – style your Quarto
16.00 – 17.30 ReproducibiliTea: Quarto/RMarkdown for reproducible research and academic writing 

23 January – Quarto Workshop – Day 2

10.00 – 12.30 Quarto for teaching and Open Education
14.00 – 16.00 Using Quarto with git

29 January – Why and how to repeat research.
Lukas Röseler (Münster Center for Open Science, University of Münster) 

Recommended reading: Schöch, C. Repetitive research: a conceptual space and terminology of replication, reproduction, revision, reanalysis, reinvestigation and reuse in digital humanities. International Journal for Digital Humanities 5, 373–403, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-023-00073-y

09–11 February  – Love Data Week

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