THD celebrates Love Data Week

30.1.2026 |

Love Data Week (LDW) is an international week of action focusing on research data and research data management (RDM). Under the motto “Where's the Data?”, Love Data Week will be celebrated worldwide from February 9 to 13, 2026, with numerous events on a wide variety of topics. At THD, extensive information on RDM can be found on the library's website under Open Science, in the Open Data and Research Data Management (RDM) section, and in the wiki.

THD is participating in Love Data Week with two events:

Zenodo Community Curation Policies: Cornerstones for Strategy-Driven Design of Institutional Communities

The THD will also soon have its own institutional Zenodo community. Zenodo is a generic (i.e., non-subject-specific) open science repository operated by CERN in Switzerland that allows a wide range of publications by researchers worldwide (not limited to CERN members). Use is free of charge. In order to map and bundle the publication output of a specific community (a community can be, for example, a project or research group, but also entire institutes, departments, or universities or colleges), so-called communities can be created in Zenodo.

In the LDW event “Zenodo Community Curation Policies: Cornerstones for Strategy-Driven Design of Institutional Communities”, we outline the path to a transparent and clear curation policy—from defining target groups and documents to issues of data access and quality assurance to organizational anchoring. Based on the 5W2H method, we discuss workflows, stakeholder constellations, and strategic options that support universities in setting up their own institutional communities.

The presentation is aimed at stakeholders from research, FDM, libraries, and university strategy who want to use Zenodo as a building block for an open and FAIR publication landscape.

Date & time: February 12, 2026, 4:00 p.m.
Organizer & access: Library of the Deggendorf Institute of Technology – via Teams
Speaker & function: Markus Putnings, Head of the Library

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Show your data some love: Bundle your work with ORCiD

In addition to institutional-level "bundling" options, such as organizing research outputs through institutional Zenodo Communities, researchers can also bundle their research data publications at an individual level. One effective way to achieve this is by creating a unique author identifier, such as an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCiD). This free, persistent identifier allows researchers to connect their research activities, pubications, datasets, grants, awards, and institutional affiliations in one place, ensuring accurate identification, improved discoverability and correct attribution of their works.

In this LDW webinar, we will explore what an ORCiD is, how to register for your free identifier, and how to manage your research identity with ORCiD. We will also look at some practical use cases that demonstrate how ORCiD can support your research workflow.

Date & Time: February 13, 2026 at 10:00 am (in English)
Organizer & access: Library of Deggendorf Institute of Technology - via Teams
Speaker & function: Ana Munandar, Librarian, Open Science