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Rob Baxter

Dr Rob BAXTER is National Digital Infrastructure Technical Lead at DARE UK. Originally a physicist, then a programmer of high-performance computers, he now works on developing architectural blueprints for the UK's federated network of secure data and trusted research environments.

Interoperability: the ENTRUST Blueprint
Hi all, I’m Rob Baxter, co-chair and lead on the “interoperability” strand of work here in the group. Apologies for silence since we kicked off late last year, but I was waiting in part for the formal publication of this: https://zenodo.org/records/18299343 . This is the second-year blueprint for the interoperation and federation of TREs from […]
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Date Modified: April 1, 2026
TRE Survey
Hi folks, A project I’m involved in, EOSC-ENTUST, is surveying TRE service providers within Europe and beyond. This survey is based a previous one by HDR UK*, as well as the 2024 survey** by the EOSC-ENTRUST project. Please read the questions carefully before answering. If you want to browse the questions before submitting responses, you […]
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Date Modified: June 10, 2025
Workstream 2 Interoperability — questions and thoughts for P25 discussions
Some initial ideas on the nature of interoperability between TREs (and related services). Landscape assumptions Different TREs are run by different organisations independently of each other (different IT administrative domains). Different sensitive datasets are provided for research by different organisations independently of each other (different data governance domains). Some researchers want to work with multiple […]
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Rob Baxter
Date Modified: May 20, 2025
New WG on Trusted Research Environments
Hi folks, Apologies for cross-posting. There is a new working group on Trusted Research Environments (TREs, SREs, SPEs, SDEs, … etc.!) starting up which may be of interest to some folk here. After three BoFs over the last couple of years, our first official meeting as an endorsed group will be at P25 in Brisbane. […]
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Rob Baxter
Date Modified: April 22, 2025
Re: [rda-legalinterop-ig] RE: EU´s definition of research data plus addtl comments …
Hi folks, I seldom, if ever, have anything useful to contribute to this group, but I follow it with great interest. Just a comment on this issue of defining research data: in the data management plan for EUDAT2020 we’ve written this: ‘Research data is interpreted broadly to mean “data regarded by the EUDAT CDI’s partner […]
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Date Modified: August 21, 2015