FDO Conference 2026 – Full Program

3rd FAIR Digital Objects Conference

Program Details

Pre-Conference Training Day – 24.3. (separate registration required)

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09.00

Welcome & Registration

09.30

Sven Bingert (GWDG, FDOF)

Data Types, Handle Based PIDs, DOIP

11.00

Coffee break

11.30

Stian Soiland-Reyes (University Manchester)

RO-Crate

13.00

Lunch break

14.00

Tobias Kuhn (KnowledgePixels)

Nanopublications

15.30

Coffee break

16.00

Sara El-Gebali (DataCite) & Ivonne Anders (DKRZ), Christine Kirkpatrick (FDOF), Christophe Blanchi (DONA), Peter Wittenburg (FDOF)

Newcomer Session

17.30

End

18.00

Ice Breaking Party for all conference participants!

Day 1 – 25.3. Trust Day

Session 1 – Welcome & Keynotes – Chair: Andreas Rauber

09.00

Jens Schneider (Rector of TUW)

Welcome and Directions

09.15

Christine Kirkpatrick (Cochair FDOF)

FDO Forum Welcome and Directions

09.30

Stefan Hanslik (BMFWF)

Data Challenges – views from the Austrian Administration

09.45

Thomas Hahn (Pres. BDVA)

International Manufacturing‑X: Make Data Work

10.15

Cathrin Stöver (CCO Geant)

Data Challenges – views from a Networking Perspective

10.45

Coffee break

Session 2 – Trust dimensions – Chair: Paolo Budroni (TU Wien)

11.15

Filippo Fratini (Erste Group Bank,Quantum safety and technology expert )

Banking and FDOs – an integration example

11.30

Tshiamo Motshegwa (Pres. AOSP)

AOSP’s Reflections on Data TRUST Dimensions

11.45

Noburo Koshizuka (Prof. U Tokyo)

Views on Data Trust dimensions from Asia

12.00

Ed Pentz (Exec. Director Crossref)

Ensuring trustworthy scholarly communications

12.15

Laura Biven (CDO Jefferson Lab)

Data and Computing Ecosystems- perspectives from the US

12.30

Lunch break

Session 3 – Technologies improving Trust – Chair: Daniel Alonso Román (BDVA)

13.30

Markus Spiekermann (Huawei, Chair of IDSA Architecture WG)

IDSA Architecture

13.45

Dominik Rohrmus (Siemens)

Factory X Architecture

14.00

Noburo Koshizuka (Prof. U Tokyo)

Dataspace Approach in Japan

14.15

Cheng Chi (CIC)

DS Architectures in China

14.30

Peter Koen (Microsoft, Chair of IDSA Rulebook WG)

Global Standardisation Efforts

14.45

Sven Bingert (GWDG)

Bridge building by FAIR DOs

15.00

Coffee break

Session 4 – Moving towards a Wien Recommendation – Chair: Sverker Holmgren (SciLifeLab, Sweden)

15.30

Stefan Hanslik (BMFWF)

Summary of Impressions and Suggestion

15.45

Panel on Perspectives and Recommendation, moderator Sverker Holmgren

Eva Maria Holzleitner (Austrian Minister of Science), Jens Schneider (TU Wien), Thomas Hahn (BDVA), Cathrin Stöver (GEANT), Erik Schultes (FDOF, GO FAIR), Laura Biven (JL, US), Tshiamo Motshegwa (AOSP), Xihui Zhen (CDI, China), Sanzio Bassini (CINECA, Italy), Noburo Koshizuka (U Tokyo)

16.30

Open Discussion with the audience

17.00

Conclusions by Stefan Hanslik

17.30

End

Day 2 – 26.3.

Session 5 – Keynote & Panel, Chair: Dimitris Koureas

09.00

Sanzio Bassini (Director SCAI Cineca)

Keynote

09.30

Panel 1: FDO Motivation (Details)

Chair: Laura Biven (JF-DoE), Panellists: Dimitris Koureas (DiSSCo), Karsten Peters-von Gehlen (DKRZ), Joy Owango (Africa PID Alliance), Sven Bingert (GWDG)

10.30

Carole Goble

Poster Spotlight Presentation

10.45

Coffee Break & Posters, late breaking results/demo session (see poster list)

Session 6 – FDO Papers, Chair: Nicolas Blumenröhr

11.15

Willem Elbers

Implementation of Fair Digital Objects in the CLARIN Infrastructure

11.30

Wouter Addink

From Physical Specimen to FAIR Digital Object: Building DiSSCo’s Infrastructure Vision

11.45

Ivonne Anders

Making spatio-temporal data spaces FDO-ready: concept and implementation for interoperable STAC catalogues

12.00

Theodor Strauch

Digital Shadows to Orchestrate Cross Institutional, Souvereign, Multiomics Dataflows in Plant Research

12.15

Martin Etzrodt

From Content Fingerprint to FAIR Digital Object: The ISCC Protocol as a Content-Based Discovery Layer for the FDO Ecosystem

12.30

Wim Fremout

Harmonizing Heritage: Towards FAIR Digital Objects in KIK-IRPA’s Intervention Dossiers

12.45

Lunch break

Session 7 – FDO Papers, Chair: Willem Elbers

13.45

Esteban González

Fair Digital Object Enrichment: Integrating Nanopublications with RO-Crates

14.00

Sven Bingert

FDO and Dataspaces for the Distributed Digital Era

14.15

Henrik tom Wörden

Operations As a Service: Implementation of FDO Operations for a Commercial Use-Case in a Data Space

14.30

Andreas Pfeil

Facilitating the Creation of FDO Records With Tangible FDO Designs: Introducing the FAIR DO Designer, a Visual Tool to Design FDOs and Generate Code

14.45

Tobias Kuhn

Aligning and globally indexing diverse FDOs with nanopublications

15.00

Heinrich L. Weil

ARC as a FAIR Digital Object: Declarative Provenance Annotation for Scalable Research Data Management

15.15

Coffee Break & Posters Session

Session 8 – FDOF & Interoperability Panel, Chair: Sven Bingert

16.15

Sven Bingert (FDOF), Christine Kirkpatrick (FDOF)

FDO Forum Activities (Services, Interaction, Legal Entity, etc.)

16.25

Haibin Long (CIC)

Global Developments in Data Interoperability and an Outlook on Future Trends

16.35

Panel 2: Interoperability (Details)

Chair: Robert Hanisch (ex-NIST), Panellists: Vivien Bonnazi (CDO Inari), Carole Goble (U Manchester), Mikiko Tanifuji (NII), George Rodriguez (CCS ExxonMobil)

17.35

End Day 2

19.00

Conference Dinner

Day 3 – 27.3

Session 9 – Trust & Security Aspects, Chair: Stian Soiland-Reyes

09.00

Christophe Blanchi (FDOF, DONA), Jana Böhm (GWDG)

New Harmonised FDO Specification Document

09.10

Christian Backe & Veit Briken

Comparing FDO Flavors: Transformation of a Conventional Data Monolith with Ad-Hoc Semantics into Three FDO Networks Based on Nanopublications, Handles, and RO-Crates/Signposting

09.20

Jael Castro, Jana Böhm, Ivonne Anders

A detailed comparison between different FDO Approaches (Handle-based, URI-based, Nano-Pubs)

09.30

Panel 3: FDO Security & Data Spaces (Details)

Chair: Stian Soiland-Reyes, Panellists: Christophe Blanchi (DONA, FDO Forum), Xihui Zhen (Director CDI), Dominik Rohrmus (Siemens), Timm Fitschen (CTO Indiscale), Peter Koen (Microsoft)

10.30

Coffee Break & Posters

Session 10 – FDO Papers, Chair: Leyla Jael Castro

11.00

Ulrich Schwardmann

Types and Operations for FDOs: A Conceptual Study for a Type Theoretical Basis of FDOs

11.15

Joy Owango

Integrating the Digital Object Identifier Container (DOCiD) into the FDO Ecosystem: FAIR and CARE Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Heritage through Integrating and Interconnecting Distributed Systems by Using FDOs

11.30

David Schimmel

Implementation of FAIR Digital Objects in Research Data Management