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  "raw_xml": "<entry>\n    <id>http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24087v1</id>\n    <title>Shaping the Digital Future of ErUM Research: Sustainability &amp; Ethics</title>\n    <updated>2026-02-27T15:24:13Z</updated>\n    <link href='https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24087v1' rel='alternate' type='text/html'/>\n    <link href='https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.24087v1' rel='related' title='pdf' type='application/pdf'/>\n    <summary>This workshop report from \"Shaping the Digital Future of ErUM Research: Sustainability &amp; Ethics\" (Aachen, 2025) reviews progress on sustainability measures in data-intensive ErUM-Data research since the 2023 call-to-action on resource-aware research. It evaluates short-, medium-, and long-term actions around monitoring and reducing CO2 emissions, improving data and software FAIRness, optimizing workflows and computing infrastructures, and aligning operations with low-carbon energy availability, including concepts such as \"breathing\" computing centers, long-term data storage strategies, and software efficiency certification. The report stresses the need for systematic teaching, training, mentoring, and new support formats to establish sustainable coding and computing practices, particularly among students and early-career researchers, and highlights the importance of dedicated steering and funding instruments to embed sustainability in project planning. Ethical discussions focus on the transformative use of AI in ErUM-Data, addressing autonomy, bias, transparency, explainability, attribution of responsibility, and the risk of deskilling, while reaffirming that accountability for scientific outcomes remains with human researchers. Finally, the report emphasizes that sustainable transformation requires not only technical measures but also targeted awareness-building, communication strategies, incentives, and community-driven initiatives to move from awareness to action and to integrate sustainability and ethics into everyday scientific practice.</summary>\n    <category scheme='http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom' term='physics.comp-ph'/>\n    <category scheme='http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom' term='astro-ph.IM'/>\n    <category scheme='http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom' term='hep-ex'/>\n    <category scheme='http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom' term='physics.soc-ph'/>\n    <published>2026-02-27T15:24:13Z</published>\n    <arxiv:comment>32 pages, no figures, report for workshop \"Shaping the Digital Future of ErUM Research: Sustainability &amp; Ethics\", 28 July to 1 August 2025, Aachen, Germany, see https://indico.desy.de/event/47133/</arxiv:comment>\n    <arxiv:primary_category term='physics.comp-ph'/>\n    <author>\n      <name>Luca Di Bella</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Jan Bürger</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Markus Demleitner</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Torsten Enßlin</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Johannes Erdmann</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Martin Erdmann</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Benjamin Fischer</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Martin Gasthuber</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Gabriele Gramelsberger</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Wolfgang Gründinger</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Prateek Gupta</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Johannes Hartl</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Maximilian Horzela</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Vijay Kartik</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Stefan Krischer</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Eva Kröll</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Thomas Kuhr</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Katharina Kürschner</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Inga Lakomiec</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Valerie Lang</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Kristin Lohwasser</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Thomas Metcalf</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Martin Möller</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Saskia Nagel</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Susanne Pfalzner</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Rebecca Redlin</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Christopher Schrader</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Kathrin Schulz</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Markus Schumacher</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Kilian Schwarz</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Fabian Sigler</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Dwayne Spiteri</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Achim Stahl</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Judith Steinfeld</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Wim Vanderbauwhede</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Cyrus Walther</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Angela Warkentin</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Peter Wissmann</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Eoin Woods</name>\n    </author>\n  </entry>"
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