Featured sessions

AI Meets Data
🤖 Case studies from Kenya to Kazakhstan on governing agentic AI → Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation (AIDV) WG
🧬 Nearly 3 years of multi-omics metadata work wraps up → Multi-Omics Metadata Standards Integration (MOMSI) WG
🖥️ New group standardising the environments AI models run in → FAIR Run Time Environments
🧠 Should your ML model come with a management plan? → FAIR for Machine Learning (FAIR4ML) IG

Data Lifecycles
📏 Climate, ocean and biodiversity science compare notes on shared variables → Essential Variables: case studies in FAIR commensurability and interoperability
❓ A fragmented field asks: what even is “data quality”? → Data Quality: Towards Cross-domain Harmonisation…
🔐 Fewer than 200 of ~25,000 repositories hold trust certification → Community-based catalogue of requirements for trustworthy Technical Repository Providers WG

Semantics, Ontology, Standardisation
🔄 A dormant group returns, tied to the EU’s “Digital Twin of the Earth” → Advancing scientific use of digital twins through open science and FAIR data
🌍 A roadmap to save critical datasets from disasters, funding cuts and geopolitics before they’re lost → Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Data
🌐 A rare look inside China’s national PID strategy, via CNIC → National PID Strategies IG

Data Infrastructures and Environments
🗄️ What happens to environmental data when a repository shuts down? → RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG
🌉 Persistent identifiers were meant to connect systems, where do they fail? → PID IG

Ethical Data
⚖️ CODATA, WDS and the Ethical Data Initiative join RDA to reconcile tensions between FAIR, CARE and TRUST → Research Data Management Ethics

FAIR, CARE, TRUST
📜 One forum, every side of the data policy table: funders, publishers, institutions, infrastructure providers → Research Data Policy IG

Other
🔬 From astronomy to linguistics: how do disciplines actually evaluate research? → Evaluation of Research IG

Training, Stewardship, and DMP
🧑‍💼 A new persona methodology puts data steward roles, training and career tracks into a shared framework → Data Steward Career Tracks WG / Professionalising Data Stewardship IG

Data Infrastructures and Environments
🏛️ Why federated research infrastructure fails on governance, not tech → Federation by Necessity? Governing Research Commons Beyond Interoperability
📊 Early results are in on how research infrastructure actually gets used → Uptake of Digital Research Infrastructure IG
🏁 A working group closes out. Final report on its international commons deliverables → GORC International Implementations WG (GORC II)

Training, Stewardship, and DMP
🎓 How do you actually teach “research data skills”? A competency framework answers → Education and Training on Handling of Research Data IG
🏫 Institutional vs. disciplinary data stewardship. Do the two models even mesh? → Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions IG
🖼️ Cultural heritage catalogues, reimagined as interoperable data → Collections as Data IG

AI Meets Data
🌐 Digital research infrastructures compare notes on AI-assisted data curation, across disciplines and regions → Harnessing automation and AI tools to advance data
🧪 10-20 life science infrastructures surveyed on one question: are we actually “AI-ready”? → Life Science Data Infrastructures IG

Data Lifecycles
🗣️ A UK Environmental Data Service-led conversation returns: what do data users actually need? → Understanding user needs: how data experts learn from each other?
🔢 What do we even mean by “version”? An IG running since 2021 has actionable guidelines → Data Versioning IG

Semantics, Ontology, Standardisation
🧫 What makes a sample collection trustworthy? Physical samples get their own metadata standards → Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem IG
🔧 The PIDINST schema (an RDA Recommendation since 2022) gets its next version previewed, plus real adoption stories → Persistent Identification of Instruments WG

Ethical Data
🧬 NHS-led work on integrating genomic and clinical trial data for precision medicine, at scale → Interoperable Pharmacogenomics: Enabling Trusted Genomics–Clinical Trial 

Other
🔒 Trusted Research Environments: a decade of balancing data protection with controlled access → Trusted Research Environments for Sensitive or Confidential Data IG

Research Software
🔗 Connecting research software to libraries, OSPOs, and archives; closing the duplication gap → Software Source Code IG

FAIR, CARE, TRUST
🌍 UNESCO and CODATA compare notes on data policy for crisis response, beyond the SDG 2030 horizon → RDA/CODATA Data Systems, Tools, and Services for Crisis Situations WG