Happy New Year from everyone at the LEARN Project! We’re working hard to deliver a number of interesting reports and events related to Research Data Management in 2017. Below we list five things that you can expect from us in the coming months. Barcelona Workshop – On January 26th, the last of our RDM Workshops will be held at the University of Barcelona. It promises […]
Over forty participants from the Caribbean joined the Third LEARN ECLAC Mini Workshop, held on 24 November 2016 and organised by LEARN project partner ECLAC at its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Mini Workshop reunited regional experts and a diverse audience from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, Curaçao, Saint Lucia and Guyana, many of whom followed and […]
Ninety participants from around the world came together on 27 October in Santiago, Chile for the fourth Research Data Workshop of the LEARN project, titled “Implementation of policies and strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean”. The workshop was organised by LEARN project partner UN ECLAC, at its headquarters in Santiago. The international audience — which included people not only from Chile but also from […]
When it comes to delivering on Research Data Services, collaboration among Europe’s academic research libraries is key, according to one recent survey. The survey, which was conducted by a group of internationally renowned researchers in collaboration with LIBER’s Scholarly Communication & Research Infrastructures Committee and DataONE, showed that almost all European academic research libraries work with colleagues inside and outside of their institutions, to ensure that today’s scientific […]
11 October saw the publication of the Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which can be found here. The Recommendations provide a solid starting point for further reflection and engagement of scientific user communities, research funders and Member States in the making of this global initiative. The EOSC aims to accelerate and support the current transition to more effective […]
A key publication of the LEARN Project will be a Toolkit of case studies illustrating best practices in relation to Research Data Management. The process of commissioning the case studies began in July, and so far 16 prospective authors from across Europe and Latin America have agreed to contribute a total of 22 individual papers. First drafts of these contributions are due to be edited by early […]
Between July 2015 and June 2016, the LEARN Project partner team at the University of Vienna (UNIVIE) collected and analysed over 40 RDM policies from across Europe. As previously announced (in our first blog post), UNIVIE more closely examined 20 of these policies from selected universities and research organisations, based on format and content criteria. Using an analysis grid, eleven RDM policies from the United […]
In February 2016 the LEARN Project launched a survey for research institutions particularly, but not exclusively, in Europe and Latin America to: a) use as a tool to assess their own readiness in relation to research data management (RDM), and b) help the Project to build a general picture of the state of play in this area. The survey is based on the issues posed to […]
From 6th until 9th of July 2016, the LEARN project partner UNIVIE organised a four-day “Training seminar for research data stewardship and e-infrastructures” within the project e-Infrastructures Austria. This seminar was targeted at representatives from libraries, research services and IT services that build repositories and research support services at their institutes. The aim of the event was to provide knowledge sharing in research data management […]
(This post is also available in Spanish / Este post también está disponible en castellano: Mini Talleres y próximas actividades de la CEPAL en el proyecto LEARN ) As we shared in one of our previous blog posts, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), has been working on a series of Mini Workshops during 2016 that will help us to create […]
