Our NFDI4DS Lecture Series continues with Lecture 15 on 28. April 2026 9:00 online.
Title: GESIS Methods Hub - the collaborative online portal for finding and sharing computational methods in the social sciences
Computational methods are increasingly central to social science research, yet they often remain difficult to understand, reuse, and reproduce. The Methods Hub is an open, community-driven web service designed to support open science practices by helping researchers present their methods in a transparent, accessible, and reusable form. This talk introduces the Methods Hub and shows how it enables method developers to make their work easier to understand and use for social scientists by integrating documentation and interactive execution environments in a single platform. By facilitating hands-on exploration and reproducible workflows, the Methods Hub lowers barriers to methodological reuse and contributes to more open, sustainable, and collaborative research.
Speaker: Johannes Kiesel
Dr. Johannes Kiesel is Co Service Manager of the Methods Hub and the lead of team BDA at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. He is a computer scientist working in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. His latest research has focused on conversational AI, computational argumentation, human value detection, and user simulation in information retrieval. He has so far released more than 30 datasets and organized eleven international shared tasks on these topics. He is the main organizer of the Touché lab on argumentation systems since 2024.
Registration: Registration via https://events.hifis.net/event/3998/.