Recent Activity: Education and Training on handling of research data IG

Dear IG ETHRD Members and All,
The workshop agenda will be built around discussion of the the received
comments and the required updates to the four EDSF documents and content
of the new documents (what is a subject of volunteer editors):
https://github.com/EDISONcommunity/EDSF
As a part of the agenda, we currently have few topics for the general
discussion at the workshop:
1) defining general skills group (possibly describing them in a separate
document):

Dear IG ETHRD Members,
This is to announce the EDSF (EDISON Data Science Framework) design
workshop will take place on 18-19 July 2018 at UvA, Science Park 904
Amsterdam
The workshop will start at 11:00 on the first day and finish 17:00
second day.
The exact agenda and co-organising parties will be announced next week.
The following timeline for the EDSF Release 3 is set to allow wider
contribution:
18-19 July 2018 EDSF Design workshop: review of comments, discussion of

Dear IG ETHRD Members,
During the last IG ETHRD meeting at RDA11 I made update on the
after-EDISON activities to maintain and update the EDISON Data Science
Framework (EDSF, https://github.com/EDISONcommunity/EDSF/wiki/EDSFhome)
that is carried out by a group of volunteers and supported by UvA under
umbrella of the EDISON Initiative.
I also mentioned that we are planning to update the EDSF and publish the
next Release 3 that would incorporate almost a year of experience in

Thank you for your interest in the Data Skills Curricula Framework Implementation Webinar, cohosted by the Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data Management project, the ESIP TAG-C Working Group, and the FAIR Data initiative. The webinar recording and slideset is now available on the Belmont Forum YouTube channel at the following link: http://www.bfe-inf.org/info/data-skills-curricula-framework-implementation-webinar

The Digital Preservation Oxford and Cambridge (DPOC) project in collaboration with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has developed a short survey intended to gather information from collecting and research organisations around the world who have a remit to manage digital content. The survey has a particular focus on staffing resources, but also briefly covers policy, strategy, and maturity modelling.

Dear all,

For all members who were attending the meeting of the IG Education and Training on Handling of Research Data, thank you all for your attention this morning.

As promised, here is the link to the Case Statement, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CdS8-40sX4EpIuEW-KfUUtWamXf2h73xQtOMvzEhqDg/edit?usp=sharing

ONE WEEK TO GO! The deadline of 22 December is approaching for abstract submissions for papers to be presented at the Göttingen-CODATA Symposium 2018 on ‘the critical role of university research data management infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge’.

Dear RDA ETHRD-IG members,
I am happy to announce the appointment of a new co-chair to the group, Rob
Quick. Rob serves as the manager of the High Throughput Computing at
Indiana University, Research Technologies and has spent much of the last 15
years in providing training to researchers in the access and use of compute
resources. Rob has further demonstrated his interest in education and
training on the handling of research data through his participation as
co-organizer and lecturer in the African School of Fundamental Physics

Hi, all,
Many thanks to those who attended and contributed to Thursday's session for
ETHRD-IG. You should be able to find all of the materials linked through
here:
https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-education-and-training-handling-research-...
This includes slides, notes, pictures of breakout group notes, and the
co-chair election process.
Thank you for all of your enthusiasm! The breakout groups came up with some