Workshop Overview
Event information
The workshop was conducted as part of the pre-conference program of the HMC conference 2026 at DKFZ Heidelberg on April 27th 2026.
Detailed information about the workshop can be found in the following metadata record. This JSON-LD file is in accordance with the current HKG data model, demonstrating how structured metadata can be prepared for integration into the Helmholtz Knowledge Graph.
Workshop Metadata
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"name": "Making Helmholtz Data Assets Visible via the Helmholtz Knowledge Graph - Workshop summary",
"startDate": "2026-04-27T09:00:00+02:00",
"endDate": "2026-04-27T10:30:00+02:00",
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"url": "https://events.geomar.de/event/884/page/99-pre-conference-workshops#HelmholtzKG",
"location": "Heidelberg, Germany",
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"name": "Volker Hofmann"
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"name": "Fiona D'Mello"
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"name": "Lucas Lamparter"
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"name": "Said Fathalla"
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"name": "Lucas Kulla"
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"name": "Anand Deshpande"
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"name": "Gabriel Preuß"
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"name": "Marco Nolden"
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Goals and Expectations
Workshop goals
The following goals were defined during the preparation phase and presented at the beginning of the workshop:
- "We want to show" What is the Helmholtz KG and how does it work?
- "Improve the understanding of the" Relation of HKG and its data sources
- "Start" Shaping the next steps of the HKG with you "with developing the HKG data model and get feedback on the data provider onboarding process" Overall, participants’ expectations were well aligned with the workshop goals and the planned content.
What happened?
The following agenda was followed during the workshop:
| Duration | Content |
|---|---|
| 10 min | Welcome, icebreaker, introduction, and workshop goals |
| 15 min | Overview of the Helmholtz Knowledge Graph: strategy and infrastructure |
| 35 min | Interactive session: collaborative extension of the HKG data model |
| 20 min | Interactive session: feedback on data provider onboarding workflow |
Participants & Perspectives
Participants of the workshop covered the full research data lifecycle, with a clear focus on the infrastructural stages of plan, preserve, share, and reuse. While experience with Knowledge Graphs varied widely, participants showed a consistently high level of involvement in research data infrastructures overall (average ~0.75 on a scale from 0 to 1).
What expectations did participants bring to the WS?
Motivations and expectations to join the workshop ranged from practical goals — such as data integration, discoverability, and onboarding — to broader interests in interoperability, understanding the Helmholtz KG, and exploring the value of knowledge graphs in general.
Presentation Slides
Below you can find the slides presented during the welcome & icebreaker. These slides feature the accumulated results from the interactive participants survey using AHA slides.
