Open training at ZB MED
Workshops, lessons and training materials from ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences for research, libraries and research data management. Find upcoming workshops and openly licensed materials that you are free to reuse.
Introduction to Git and Codeberg
Learn how to track changes in your files with the version control system Git and how to collaborate with others on Codeberg.
Introduction to Python for Libraries and Research Data Management
A hands-on introduction to Python for complete beginners: from the basics of the language to analysing article processing charges with pandas and retrieving publication metadata from the DataCite API.
Introduction to the Unix Shell
Learn to work with files and folders on the command line, combine commands with pipes, automate repetitive tasks with loops, and count and mine words in text and data files.
Creating FAIR and Open Educational Resources with FLOSS tools
Learn how to create open educational resources that are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, using plain-text Markdown, open licences, metadata and free tools such as Pandoc, LiaScript and Quarto.
Arbeiten mit lokalen Sprachmodellen (Local LLMs)
Run large language models locally on your own computer, independent of cloud services: use them to analyse your own files, work reproducibly with AI-generated code, and assess opportunities, limits and ethical issues.
Kurzeinführung in GNU/Linux als Arbeitsdesktop-System
Get to know GNU/Linux as a productive alternative to proprietary systems: the desktop and file system, differences to Windows, and free everyday applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird and LibreOffice.
What participants say
From our workshop feedback and a long-term survey of former participants.
8.7 out of 10 would recommend our workshops
2 of 3 would probably not have learned these skills without the workshop
11 of 23 have since written scripts, set up repositories or used the skills in a thesis
Wir konnten Tausende Datensätze für verschiedene Projekte in unser Katalogisierungssystem einspielen! […] Die uns zur Verfügung gestellten Daten waren grauenhaft, wir mussten da sehr viel Vorarbeit leisten und konnten dann sehr schöne Datensätze mit den erlernten Python-Kenntnissen […] erzeugen.
Library Carpentry (Shell, Python, Git) Long-term feedback, 2026
Very good introduction to a new topic – I learned a lot!
Introduction to Wikidata Workshop feedback, 2025
Begleiteter Einstieg in allererstes Programmieren – habe ich sonst nirgendwo so gefunden.
Library Carpentry (Shell, Python, Git) Long-term feedback, 2026
Auch als absoluter Neuling alles verstanden, sehr gut nachvollziehbar dadurch, dass man live mitmachen konnte. Und man kam sich nicht „blöd“ vor, wenn man nachgefragt hat.
Introduction to Python Workshop feedback, 2023
Keiner wird abgehängt, sehr viel Zeit für Probleme und Fragen. Ich habe mich super abgeholt gefühlt, auch mit Vorkenntnissen war einiges neu.
Library Carpentry Workshop feedback, 2024
Figures: long-term feedback survey 2026, n = 24. Quotes are anonymous and verbatim.