The Library will host two seminars by Prof. Klaus Tochtermann, Director of the German National Library of Economics, on Open Science, Open Educational Resources (OER), and GeRDI - A Generic Research Data Infrastructure in Germany.

Seminar 1:
Open Science and the role of Open Educational Resources

This seminar will introduce what is Open Science, its latest development in Germany, as well as the role played by Open Educational Resources (OER) in Open Science.
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Seminar 2:
GeRDI – A Generic Research Data Infrastructure

This seminar will explore what is digital scientific data, its role in scientific investigation, and the GeRDI, a research data management initiative funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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About the speaker:

Prof. Klaus Tochtermann is a professor in the Institute for Computer Science at Kiel University and the Director of the ZBW – German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, the world’s largest research infrastructure for economic literature, online as well as offline.

For inquiries, please email to lbres@polyu.edu.hk.