RDA National Event in Italy, 14-15 November 2016. Agenda

10:15– 11:00

Session 1: Welcome and introduction

Chair: Marco Bindi, University of Florence - host institution

Recorded Welcome Message by Mark Parsons, RDA Secretary General
Research Data Alliance Overview. Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI

11:00 – 12:30

Session 2: Setting the Context

Why data sharing and reproducibility is so important? What’s the economic and social value behind a FAIR Data Management Plan?

Chair: Paola Gargiulo, OpenAIRE/Cineca

• Collaborate to share - Susan Reilly, LIBER
• Reproducibility challenges in computational settings: what are they, why should we address them, and how? Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology

Open discussion

13:30 – 14:15

Session 3: Research Data Management design

Chair:  Mauro Guerrini, Univ. Firenze/OA-CRUI

• OpenAIRE and Eudat services and tools to support FAIR DMP implementation - Paola Gargiulo, CINECA
• FAIRness through a novel combination of Web technologies - Erik Schultes, Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences
• The Italian Universities RDM WG:  tools and best practices - Paola Galimberti, University of Milan

14:15 – 15:15

Session 4: Research Data Management in practice #Part 1

How do you design a FAIR Data Management Plan? Why researchers should adopt a DMP? What challenges do they need to foresee?
Answers to these and similar questions will be provided by stories of DMP design and implementation by European research infrastructures

Chair: Claudio Cacciari, CINECA

• ACTRIS - Aerosol, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure - Lucia Mona, CNR-IMAA
• Cultural Heritage: when data are much worst than one can believe - Franco Niccolucci, University of Florence
• INSTRUCT - Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure - Antonio Rosato, CERM

15:15 – 16:15

Session 5: Reuse and reproducibility: challenges and solutions

Data sharing is a difficult and laborious task. Bad use, abuse and misinterpretation of data are always behind the corner, while legal aspects and the lack of incentives at national level contribute to discourage Data sharing.

Chair: Elena Giglia, University of Turin

• Susan Reilly, LIBER - OA Advocate
• Danila Baldessari, Telethon - Funder
• Marco Ciurcina, Nexa Center Fellow/Studiolegale.it  - Legal expert
• Alessandro Sarretta, CNR-ISMAR - researcher

16:30 – 17:30

Session 6: When I grow up I want to become a Data Curator

Data sharing and re-use need new professionals. Which are the skillsets needed and what are the opportunities for young researchers in Italy and Europe today?

Chair: Vittore Casarosa, CNR-ISTI

• Data curator: who is s/he? - Anna Maria Tammaro, IFLA
• Towards a Community-driven Data Science Body of Knowledge – Data Management Skills and Competences - Andrea Manieri, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica
• Educating Data Scientists: the SoBigData master experience - Valerio Grossi, KDD lab, CNR-ISTI

09:30 – 10:30

Session 7: Research Data Management in practice #Part 2

How do you design a FAIR Data Management Plan? Why researchers should adopt a DMP? What challenges do they need to foresee?
Answers to these and similar questions will be provided by stories of DMP design and implementation by European research infrastructures

Chair: Davide Salomoni, INFN

• SoBigData. European Research Infrastructure for Big Data and Social Mining - Fosca Giannotti, KDD lab, CNR-ISTI
• Whole brain optical imaging - Leonardo Sacconi, LENS
• Facing data sharing in a heterogeneous research community: lights and shadows in the RITMARE project - Paola Carrara, CNR-IREA

10:30 – 11:30

Session 8: DMP Technical Services #Part 1

Chair: Costantino Thanos, CNR-ISTI

Metadata are fundamental for access, discovery, storage and re-use of research data. But how can metadata be effectively created to implement a FAIR Data Management Plan?

• "Cool" metadata for FAIR data - Eva Mendez, Carlos III University, Madrid
• Soil Research Data Policies, Data availability and Access, and the Interoperability challenge for CREA Soil Open Data, Italy - Giovanni L’Abate, CRA-ABP
• Handling data and workflows in computational materials science: the AiiDA initiative - Andrea Ferretti, CNR-Nano

12:00 – 13:00

Session 9 : DMP Technical Services #Part 2

Data citation, data versioning and provenance are also elements to be taken into account to effectively implement a FAIR Data Management Plan. What are the current experiences and solutions?

Chair: Costantino Thanos, CNR-ISTI

• Enabling Precise Identification and Citability of Dynamic Data: Recommendations of the RDA Working Group on Data Citation – Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
• CoBRA guideline : a tool to facilitate sharing, reuse, and reproducibility of bioresource-based research  - Elena Bravo, ISS
• Reproducibility for IR evaluation - Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padova

14:00 – 15:30

Session 10: The Italian Way to Data Management Plan

What concrete challenges are eInfrastructure and research infrastructures in Italy  facing to implement DMP in all disciplines? The outcome of this session will be an  overview of the state of the art in Italy, the identification of gaps and needs and a medium term plan of joint actions to be addressed to the Italian funding bodies and policy makers as well as to the Italian research actors.

Chair: Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI

• D4Science Data infrastructure: a facilitator for a FAIR data management - Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI
• Data management experiences in the European projects context: which lessons for us - Claudio Cacciari, CINECA
• A Reference Architecture for a Federated Cloud for Research - Giuseppe Attardi, GARR/University of Pisa
• Efficient and effective: can we combine both to realize high-value, open, scalable, multi-disciplinary data and compute infrastructures? Davide Salomoni, INFN

Open discussion

15:30-16:00

Wrap-up and conclusions