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SUMMARY:DCC / RDA Europe - Self-assessing Research Data Management and FAIR-enabling Capabilities
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nThe Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity\, co-hosted with RDA Europe\, designed specifically for professionals in research support roles. Our half-day workshop taking place next month will equip you with the skills and knowledge to assess and improve your organisation’s research data management (RDM) and FAIR-enabling capabilities. \nThis interactive workshop will introduce you to the concept of self-assessment\, providing you with practical guidance on how to evaluate your organisations’ capabilities to support RDM and the production and reuse of FAIR data.  Through hands-on activities and real-world scenario discussions\, you will gain essential skills in conducting these assessments and learn how to implement\, interpret\, and use the results to drive organisational improvements. \nWho should attend?\nThis training is highly beneficial for professionals involved in research support roles\, such as:\n\n\nResearch Data Management Professionals\n\n\nLibrarians\n\n\nData Stewards\n\n\nResearch Administrators\n\n\nResearch Technical Professionals\n\n\nSenior Management\n\n\nRegistration and fees\nTo secure your spot\, please visit our Eventbrite page.  We encourage multiple representatives from each organisation to participate and offer reduced rates for group registration. \n\n\nIndividual participant: £275\n\n\nOrganisation rate for two participants: £425\n\n\nOrganisation rate for three participants: £550\n\n\nSpecial LMIC rate available (details on the registration page)\n\n\nWe look forward to helping your organisation improve its research data management and FAIR data capabilities.
URL:https://casdar.ac.uk/event/dcc-rda-europe-self-assessing-research-data-management-and-fair-enabling-capabilities/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Project Partner Events,Training Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260528T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260528T170000
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SUMMARY:ELIXIR-UK FAIR Contentathon #2
DESCRIPTION:The ELIXIR-UK RDM Club has been awarded a BioFAIR Pathfinder grant for a project called The FAIR-in-action Bridge. \nIn summary\, many UK research-performing organisations have FAIR data policies.  Many have guidance documents. What’s often missing is the middle layer: the practical\, ready-to-use materials that let RDM professionals in the life sciences turn that guidance into something researchers actually engage with. \nThe FAIR-in-action Bridge is a BioFAIR Pathfinder project\, led by coordinators of the ELIXIR-UK RDM Club\, that sets out to fill this gap. \nThe project will produce two FAIR-in-action playbooks for life science RDM professionals: \n\nHow to approach FAIRification: practical activities and templates for FAIRifying data.\nHow to communicate and advocate FAIR: talking points\, FAIR games and advocacy materials for different audiences\n\nBoth will be roughly 80% ready-to-use\, aggregating open FAIR material in the public domain\, with placeholders (20%) for your local context (eg institutional repositories and guidance). Both will be openly licensed and indexed. And both will be tested through one-day in-person rollouts at six UK RPOs. \nWe’re running three online Contentathons\, and we’d love you to join the ones that fit. This second Contentathon is a full day event\,  on how to approach FAIRification. Hands-on\, structured in sections so you can join the bits relevant to you. \nThere will also be one further Contentathon: \n\n1st July – Contentathon #3 Playbook 2 content creation – How to communicate and advocate FAIR. Same format as 28 May.
URL:https://casdar.ac.uk/event/elixir-uk-fair-contentathon-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Project Partner Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260512T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260512T120000
DTSTAMP:20260619T020749
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SUMMARY:ELIXIR-UK FAIR Contentathon #1
DESCRIPTION:The ELIXIR-UK RDM Club has been awarded a BioFAIR Pathfinder grant for a project called The FAIR-in-action Bridge. \nIn summary\, many UK research-performing organisations have FAIR data policies.  Many have guidance documents. What’s often missing is the middle layer: the practical\, ready-to-use materials that let RDM professionals in the life sciences turn that guidance into something researchers actually engage with. \nThe FAIR-in-action Bridge is a BioFAIR Pathfinder project\, led by coordinators of the ELIXIR-UK RDM Club\, that sets out to fill this gap. \nThe project will produce two FAIR-in-action playbooks for life science RDM professionals: \n\nHow to approach FAIRification: practical activities and templates for FAIRifying data.\nHow to communicate and advocate FAIR: talking points\, FAIR games and advocacy materials for different audiences\n\nBoth will be roughly 80% ready-to-use\, aggregating open FAIR material in the public domain\, with placeholders (20%) for your local context (eg institutional repositories and guidance). Both will be openly licensed and indexed. And both will be tested through one-day in-person rollouts at six UK RPOs. \nWe’re running three online Contentathons\, and we’d love you to join the ones that fit. This first Contentathon is a scoping session. Drop-in. Help us define what each playbook needs to contain and what FAIR resources you use already in the life sciences. \nThere will also be two other Contentathons: \n\n28th May – Contentathon #2 Playbook 1 content creation – How to approach FAIRification. Hands-on\, structured in sections so you can join the bits relevant to you.\n1st July – Contentathon #3 Playbook 2 content creation – How to communicate and advocate FAIR. Same format as 28 May.
URL:https://casdar.ac.uk/event/elixir-uk-fair-contentathon-1/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Project Partner Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260311T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260311T150000
DTSTAMP:20260619T020749
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SUMMARY:DCC's Digital Research Infrastructure webinar series: Getting to know BioFAIR
DESCRIPTION:About the Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Webinar Series\nStarting in February 2026\, DCC are launching a series of webinars to showcase the digital research infrastructure projects and communities in the UK and beyond in collaboration with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Join DCC to learn about state-of-the-art initiatives that aim to advance research tools and techniques\, foster collaboration and data sharing\, and accelerate discoveries across a range of academic disciplines and sectors. And if you work on a research infrastructure project and are interested in being a guest speaker\, please email DCC at info@dcc.ac.uk! \nDescription\nJoin us to learn about BioFAIR\, the BioCommons digital research infrastructure for the UK life sciences community\, from our guest speakers Tony Burdett and Nishadi De Silva. \nBioFAIR is a UKRI funded federated digital research infrastructure and provides end-to-end FAIR research data management & analysis capabilities along with the necessary support and training for UK researchers working in the life sciences. \nSpeakers\n\nTony Burdett\, Director\, BioFAIR\nTony Burdett is the Director of BioFAIR and an experienced leader in bioinformatics\, specialising in FAIR data management and delivery of research-enabling services for the life sciences. He has made significant contributions to international scientific collaborations around the development of innovative data solutions and has been responsible for the delivery of large-scale data platforms\, both at EMBL-EBI and as part of international consortia such as the Human Cell Atlas. As a lead of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform\, Tony has also been instrumental in developing sustainable\, interoperable data infrastructures across ELIXIR member states and defining innovative approaches to the practical adoption of FAIR principles.\nDr Nishadi De Silva\, Senior Technical Project Manager\, BioFAIR\nAs the Senior Technical Project Manager for BioFAIR\, Dr Nishadi De Silva coordinates cross-disciplinary projects to advance FAIR practices and build a unified digital research infrastructure for the life sciences in the U.K. She works closely with researchers\, software engineers\, delivery partners and stakeholders to align workflow and data management strategies to meet the demands. Prior to that\, Nishadi lead the delivery of bioinformatics resources and coordinated data management at EMBL-EBI and worked in the Pathogen Informatics team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Nishadi holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton\, U.K.\n\n  \n 
URL:https://casdar.ac.uk/event/dccs-digital-research-infrastructure-webinar-series-getting-to-know-biofair/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Project Partner Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260303T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260303T120000
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SUMMARY:ELIXIR-UK RDM Club: Open and sustainable AI – models and datasets as key assets
DESCRIPTION:About the ELIXIR-UK RDM Club\nThe 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. \nDescription\nIn 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. \nThe session will also highlight a living landscape of 300+ supports available for community application\, designed to help implement OSAI guidelines in practice. \nSpeaker\nGavin Farrell – ELIXIR Ireland & ELIXIR Italy\,  contributor to ELIXIR’s AI Ecosystem focus group \nWho should attend\nThis session is designed for professionals across the research\, including but not limited to: \n\nResearch Data Managers and Research Software Quality Managers: those looking to standardise AI workflows and integrate asset management into institutional/network-wide infrastructure.\nAI Experimenters and Researchers: individuals who need practical frameworks to make their AI code and datasets more reusable\, reproducible\, sustainable\, and open.\nData Stewards: professionals interested in applying community vetted guidelines and contributing new domain-specific implementations to the wider ecosystem.
URL:https://casdar.ac.uk/event/elixir-uk-rdm-club-open-and-sustainable-ai-models-and-datasets-as-key-assets/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Project Partner Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
DTSTAMP:20260619T020749
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SUMMARY:International Digital Curation Conference
DESCRIPTION:NB: Whilst registration for IDCC26 has officially closed\, if you are still interested in attending the conference please contact idcc@dcc.ac.uk. \nThe 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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://casdar.ac.uk/event/international-digital-curation-conference/
LOCATION:Esplanade Zagreb Hotel\, Mihanovićeva ul. 1\, Zagreb\, 10000\, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Project Partner Events
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