Dates for winter semester 2025/26
13 November – Reproducibility in automated corpus compilation: Challenges of dynamic workflows.
Amalia Canes-Nápoles (Romance Studies, UoC)
Recommended reading: Sandve Geir K., Anton Nekrutenko, James Taylor & Eivind Hovig. 2013. Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research. PLOS Computational Biology 9(10): e1003285. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003285
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, 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
All information about this workshop and the registration can be found here.
23 January – Quarto Workshop – Day 2
10.00 – 12.30 Quarto for teaching and Open Education
14.00 – 16.00 Using Quarto with git
All information about this workshop and the registration can be found here.
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