Events

Petabyte Scale Data Storage at the University of Glasgow

Online

The University of Southampton Research Data team have organised a range of fantastic online events for this year's International Love Data Week. This event features a talk by Matt Spitz Mahon at the University of Glasgow. The University of Glasgow has recently implemented petabyte scale, long-term storage for research data. In this talk, we present the features of the new storage and the timeline of implementation, and discuss considerations for our research data management service and open research agenda. 

Free

Perspectives on Engagement and Impact: a UK Data Service event for Early Career Researchers’

People's History Museum Leftbank, Leftbank, Leftbank, United Kingdom

The UK Data Service (UKDS) is running a free in-person event, held in The Engine Room at the People's History Museum in Manchester. This event will support ECRs to develop their skills in communicating their research for translation into policy. This workshop offers practical tools and inspiring perspectives to help you take the next step, with attendance from stakeholders interested in policy engagement. Through sessions such as 'Stakeholder Speed-Dating', Panel Discussions, and Lightning Keynotes, this interactive workshop looks like a great opportunity for ECRs to learn how to translate their data into impact through policy.

Free

Love Research Data 2026

The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

Join us in the Sheldonian Theatre on Wednesday 11 February 2026 and find your perfect match when it comes to storing and sharing your research data. To coincide with the annual International Love Data Week, Research Data Management (RDM) support colleagues and services from the University of Oxford will be on hand for anyone wanting to learn more about how the University provides love and care for its valuable data collections. We will also be welcoming special guests to this year's event, and we will be joined by members of both the Trusted Research Environments Software Stewardship (TRESS) research project and the Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) network. This event will provide a valuable opportunity for Academic Researchers, Students, IT and Research Support teams, and any other interested parties, to be introduced to colleagues from the Bodleian Libraries, IT Services and Academic Division and beyond who are responsible for delivering the various Research Data Management services and platforms used at Oxford and support good practice in the UK sector more widely.

Free

Credibility, integrity and intent in research: The role of research data – Jen Gibson, Dryad

Online

The University of Southampton Research Data team have organised a range of fantastic online events for this year’s International Love Data Week. In this event Jen Gibson from Dryad will present on Credibility, integrity and intent in research: The role of research data. Jen’s talk will introduce Dryad, an open data publishing platform and a community committed to the open availability and routine re-use of all research data. Jen will touch upon credibility, integrity and intent in research and the role that research data play in these. 

Free

Where’s the data? Discovering Collections as Data at the University of Southampton Library – Matthew Phillips, University of Southampton Library

Online

The University of Southampton Research Data team have organised a range of fantastic online events for this year’s International Love Data Week. In this event Matt Phillips will talk about Discovering Collections as Data at the University of Southampton Library. Discover the Library Data Lab, the University of Southampton Library’s new collections as data service. In this talk we’ll consider what “collections as data” means and explore the APIs, datasets and other features of the Library Data Lab, as well as the standards and formats we use and why. We’ll see some of the work people have been able to do with our data and share Jupyter Notebooks that can help you get started using the Library Data Lab in your research.

Free

Evaluating FAIRness of Training Resources

Online

CHARTED  is organising a session to engage with the dRTP community (research software, research data and research computing infrastructure professionals) in a discussion on what it means for training resources to be FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable - and to gather feedback on the questionnaire created to evaluate FAIRness of existing training resources. Once completed the questionnaire will also be linked to a set of recommendations and practical guides to help improve existing training resources.

Free

International Digital Curation Conference

Esplanade Zagreb Hotel Mihanovićeva ul. 1, Zagreb, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)

The 20th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC26) will take place in Zagreb, Croatia between 16-18 February 2026. The main theme for the conference is AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation. The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice. 

£600

UKeIG Online CPD course ‘Research Data Management for information professionals – from researcher need to effective service

Online

To fulfill the role of supporting Research Data Management (RDM) librarians need to build an understanding of the policy context in which managing data has become important and gain a good grasp of researchers’ activities, motives, perceptions and feelings around their research and their data. This online course explains the need for research data services, how to find out about users and their needs and then how to apply this knowledge to create a portfolio of research data services that they will want to use.

£80