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<p data-start="132" data-end="206">Liebe Mitglieder, Freundinnen und Freunde des NFDI4Biodiversity-Netzwerks,</p>
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<p data-start="208" data-end="660">im Rahmen des NFDI4Biodiversity Topic Tables zum Thema
<b>„AI tools for metadata extraction and enrichment in sequence databases“</b> laden wir Sie herzlich zu einem ersten Workshop am
<b>25. und 26. Juni 2026</b> ein. Ziel des Topic Tables ist es, Akteur:innen aus Forschung, Dateninfrastrukturen und Tool-Entwicklung zusammenzubringen, um aktuelle Ansätze zum KI-gestützten Extrahieren und Anreichern von Metadaten aus Sequenzdaten zu diskutieren
und gemeinsame Perspektiven zu entwickeln.</p>
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<p data-start="662" data-end="1093">Der Workshop wird von Kolleg:innen des Leibniz-Instituts für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW) organisiert und bildet den Auftakt einer Reihe von drei Veranstaltungen über das kommende Jahr hinweg. Neben Impulsvorträgen steht
insbesondere der Austausch über bestehende Tools, offene Herausforderungen und mögliche gemeinsame Standards im Fokus. Als Ergebnis des Topic Tables ist unter anderem ein gemeinsames White Paper geplant.</p>
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<p data-start="1095" data-end="1169">Im Folgenden finden Sie die Einladung mit allen organisatorischen Details.</p>
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<p data-start="1095" data-end="1169">Beste Grüße</p>
<p data-start="1095" data-end="1169">Katharina Frohne</p>
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<div style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as part
of an NFDI4Biodiversity Topic Table on “</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AI tools for metadata extraction
and enrichment in sequence databases</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”, we would like to invite you
to our first workshop (out of three that will happen over the next year):</span></i></div>
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(full day) & 26.06.2026 (morning)</i></span></div>
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Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) & online</i></span></div>
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link:</i></span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><a href="https://forms.gle/cYb1XKNswdRLpjcR6" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://forms.gle/cYb1XKNswdRLpjcR6</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></i></div>
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deadline:</i></span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>30.04.2026
(in person) | 31.05.2026 (online)</i></span></div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Machine-readable,
standards-compliant metadata are the foundation for the automated reuse of scientific data. In recent years, petabytes of sequencing data have been generated worldwide and made available through public archives. For biodiversity research, these data hold enormous
potential—yet the associated metadata are often minimal and not interoperable. Crucial contextual information is frequently available only in free-text descriptions, making it difficult to access and process automatically. At the same time, advances in AI
models open up new possibilities for systematically analyzing such unstructured text and extracting or enriching metadata. Numerous projects are developing corresponding tools, but often without close coordination. This Topic Table aims to foster exchange,
create synergies, advance common standards, and address key challenges such as quality assurance, interoperability, and long-term sustainability.</i></span></p>
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agenda for the first workshop:</i></span></div>
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Stephanie Jurburg (UFZ) & Frank Krüger (Hochschule Wismar)</i></span></div>
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Status quo - Current tools and ongoing developments for AI-assisted extraction of machine-readable standard-compliant metadata from unstructured sources of text. </i></span></div>
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Joana Pauperio (EMBL EBI) & TBD</i></span></div>
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Quo vadis – Which tools are missing? What are the pitfalls and problems of current approaches? What do we need and where should it be implemented?</i></span></div>
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paper is planned as the output of this topic table. This wrap-up session is about setting up the structure of the paper and assigning tasks in preparation for the second topic table.</i></span></div>
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information:</i></span></div>
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procedure includes a short survey to help us prepare the workshop. It should take ~ 5 minutes to complete it. In person participation is limited to 12 people. Places will be assigned first come, first served. Online participation will be more flexible. Participation
is possible for both days of the workshop or only for the first day depending on how active you would like to contribute to the white paper. </i></span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For accommodation,
a contingent of rooms has been reserved at a WIROtel in Warnemünde (</span><a href="https://wirotel.wiro.de/wirotel-warnemuende.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://wirotel.wiro.de/wirotel-warnemuende.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)
until 31.03.2026 (110 - 140€ per night, minimum 2 nights). Alternative accommodation may be available in the youth hostel (</span><a href="https://www.jugendherberge.de/jugendherbergen/warnemuende/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.jugendherberge.de/jugendherbergen/warnemuende/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)
or in the City of Rostock.</span></i></div>
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have any questions about the workshop, please contact Christiane Hassenrück (</span><a href="mailto:christiane.hassenrueck@iow.de" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">christiane.hassenrueck@iow.de</span></a></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>).</i></span></div>
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