About the ELIXIR-UK RDM Club

The UK RDM club (run by our wonderful project partners ELIXIR-UK) is a monthly meeting held over zoom on the first Tuesday of every month, with a focus on ELIXIR-UK activities that help people manage their life science research data. They welcome participation from data stewards, support staff and researchers interested in Research Data Management (RDM) in the life sciences.

Description

In this RDM Club Call, Gavin Farrell (ELIXIR Ireland), a contributor to ELIXIR’s AI Ecosystem Focus Group work, will introduce the concept of Open and Sustainable AI (OSAI). Grounded in the ELIXIR Europe Machine Learning Focus Group work that culminated in the 2025 preprint Open and Sustainable AI: challenges, opportunities and the road ahead in the life sciences, the talk presents nine OSAI guidelines for ensuring AI datasets and models can be reused and reproduced while also supportingenvironmental sustainability.

The session will also highlight a living landscape of 300+ supports available for community application, designed to help implement OSAI guidelines in practice.

Speaker

Gavin Farrell – ELIXIR Ireland & ELIXIR Italy,  contributor to ELIXIR’s AI Ecosystem focus group

Who should attend

This session is designed for professionals across the research, including but not limited to:

• Research Data Managers and Research Software Quality Managers: those looking to standardise AI workflows and integrate asset management into institutional/network-wide infrastructure.
• AI Experimenters and Researchers: individuals who need practical frameworks to make their AI code and datasets more reusable, reproducible, sustainable, and open.
• Data Stewards: professionals interested in applying community vetted guidelines and contributing new domain-specific implementations to the wider ecosystem.