The 25th Annual Con­fer­ence of the Ger­man Ini­tia­tive for Net­work Infor­ma­tion (DINI) will take place from Sep­tem­ber 18 to 19, 2024 at the Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam under the motto “Shared Infra­struc­tures for Open Sci­ence”. The pro­gram is avail­able here.

About the DINI

The Ger­man Ini­tia­tive for Net­work Infor­ma­tion sup­ports the devel­op­ment of mod­ern infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nolo­gies that bring about a change in infor­ma­tion infra­struc­tures at uni­ver­si­ties and research insti­tu­tions. DINI was founded to pro­mote infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion ser­vices and the nec­es­sary devel­op­ment of infor­ma­tion infra­struc­tures at uni­ver­si­ties — both region­ally and nation­ally. DINI focuses on agree­ments, coop­er­a­tion, stan­dards and rec­om­men­da­tions in order to improve the range of ser­vices.

One prac­ti­cal exam­ple is the Gen­eral Meta­data Pro­file for Edu­ca­tional Resources (AMB). It was devel­oped by the OER meta­data group and twillo activists have also been involved in this open group since 2019.

Goals of DINI:

• Pub­li­ca­tion of exem­plary solu­tions and rec­om­men­da­tions for sub­se­quent use
• Pro­mo­tion and fur­ther devel­op­ment of stan­dards and their appli­ca­tion
• Sup­port and pro­mo­tion of com­pe­tence cen­ters using mod­ern tools
• Improv­ing the com­pre­hen­sive exchange of expe­ri­ence through con­fer­ences, work­shops and expert dis­cus­sions
• Announce­ment and sug­ges­tion of new fund­ing pro­grams

Dur­ing the annual con­fer­ence, the topic of Open Sci­ence in the field of infor­ma­tion infra­struc­tures, aca­d­e­mic libraries, IT cen­ters and media insti­tu­tions will be dis­cussed together with invited experts. Keynotes, lec­tures, work­shops and poster ses­sions will shed light on a broad spec­trum of Open Sci­ence in prac­tice.