Is your library or institution working on a Research Data Management policy, or looking for examples of best practice when it comes to managing research data? If so, join us on 24 April at 1500 CET for a free webinar: The LEARN Tookit – an armoury of best practice for all research performing organisations. The […]
Research data is the new currency of the digital age. From sonnets to statistics, and genes to geodata, the amount of material being created and stored is growing exponentially. For research performing organisations, this deluge of data presents many challenges in areas such as policy and skills development, training, costs and governance. To help address […]
This week data scientists, librarians, computer scientists, and domain scientists will gather in Barcelona for the 9th Research Data Alliance Plenary Meeting, and LEARN will be there! RDA Plenary meetings are special working events that help move the research data community forward, improving data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries. This ethos fits perfectly with […]
Next week, LEARN will release the draft version of its free Toolkit of Best Practice for Research Data Management. The Toolkit takes the issues identified in the LERU Roadmap for Research Data (2013) and provides templates and Case Studies on how success in implementation can be achieved. It contains 23 case studies and a Model RDM Policy, making […]
Research data is the new currency of the digital age. From sonnets to statistics, and genes to geodata, the amount of material being created and stored is growing exponentially. However, the LERU Roadmap for Research Data identifies a serious gap in the level of preparation amongst research performing organisations. This gulf is prominent in areas […]
Dialogue between research funders and Research Performing Institutions (RPIs) is key, but starting this dialogue is not always easy. Questions often asked include: How can RPIs get in touch with funders? Are commonly practised Customer Relation Management (CRM) techniques also valid for the maintenance of relations between RPIs and funders? To what extent can funders be […]
On invitation from the International Council for Science – Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ICSU – ROLAC) and CODATA, the Hernán Santa Cruz Library (ECLAC) — a LEARN Project Partner — participated in the region’s first Open Data meeting, organised in Panama City, Panama on 12-13th January 2017. The purpose of the […]
A year after the first LEARN Workshop in London, Universitat de Barcelona hosted the fifth and last workshop of the Project. The Aula Magna of the university was the chosen venue to hold this final workshop entitled ‘Shaping and Aligning Research Data’. On the morning of 26 January 2017, around fifty people attended the workshop […]
In November 2016, e-Infrastructures Austria organized two major closing events in Vienna: A Data Management Plan (DMP) Workshop (17 November 2016) in cooperation with DCC and the final General Assembly (18 November 2016) of the project. Data Management Plan Workshop with DCC While Kevin Ashley (Director DCC) and Sarah Jones (Senior Institutional Support Officer DCC) […]
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 […]
