01
Feb
2018
RDA Names Hilary Hanahoe as Secretary General
RDA announced today that longtime leader Hilary Hanahoe was selected as the organisation’s new Secretary General.
30
Jan
2018
Summary of recommendations and Calls for Action
Data localisation restrictions are a too narrow focus for building a Data Economy - instead, interoperability on all levels should be systematically promoted:
29
Jan
2018
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary 11 will take place in Berlin, Germany from 21–23 March 2018. The theme of the plenary is “From Data to Knowledge”.
26
Jan
2018
Data Management Engagement Award
A competition has been launched by the University of Cambridge, SPARC Europe and JISC to elicit new and imaginative ideas for engaging researchers in the practices of good research data management (RDM).
This builds on the Engaging Good Data Management Conference that took place at the University of Cambridge in November last year. One submision will be chosen as the winner and up to £1750 will be awarded to bring it to life.
The deadline for applications is 12pm, Feb. 28, 2018 GMT.
19
Jan
2018
19 - 22 February 2018, Barcelona www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc18
With only a week left until the early bird registration closes, now is the time to sign up to attend this year’s IDCC conference!
12
Jan
2018
Empowering Open Science: Kick Off of the OpenAIRE-Advance H2020 project
A pillar of the European Open Science Cloud
10
Jan
2018
RDA Seeking Council Nominations by February 5
At this time, the 2018 Council Nomination Committee is accepting nominations through February 5 for three open Council positions.
RDA Council maintains the vision of RDA and is responsible for the overall oversight, success, strategy and sustainability of the organization. Council Members are nominated by a Nomination Committee and approved by the general RDA membership to serve three-year terms.
Eligibility for Council positions include the following:
22
Dec
2017
In response to a number of requests from colleagues who have already started their holidays and with the agreement of other members of the organising committee, the deadline for abstract submissions to the Göttingen-CODATA Symposium 2018 on ‘the critical role of university research data management infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge’ has been extended to 15 January 2018.
21
Dec
2017
F11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI 2018) - Call for Course Proposals
Call for Course Proposals - FSCI 2018 FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute
DEADLINE: January 8, 2018
20
Dec
2017
OECD & WDS Policy Paper on Co-ordination and support of international research data networks
International research data networks are critical for progress in many scientific domains and underpin efforts to promote Open Science. At the same time, many of these networks are fragile and the responsibilities for their support and performance are frequently distributed across a variety of different actors. This report explores the challenges and enablers for the effective functioning of international research data networks. It analyses the diversity and complexity of these networks, and issues such as governance and funding, in a selection of 32 cases.