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Credibility, integrity and intent in research: The role of research data - Jen Gibson, Dryad
2026-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | 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.

Where’s the data? Discovering Collections as Data at the University of Southampton Library - Matthew Phillips, University of Southampton Library
2026-02-13 12:00 - 13:00 | 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.

Evaluating FAIRness of Training Resources
2026-02-13 14:00 - 15:30 | 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.
Please join CHARTED for this interactive session! More details at https://drtp-skills.ac.uk/events/evaluating-fairness-of-training-resources/
Registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/p693AYJGyQ
Please register to receive the zoom coordinates and link to the session resources.

International Digital Curation Conference
2026-02-16 - 2026-02-18 | Esplanade Zagreb Hotel, Mihanovićeva ul. 1, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
NB: Whilst registration for IDCC26 has officially closed, if you are still interested in attending the conference please contact idcc@dcc.ac.uk.
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.

FIDELIS Data Reuse Workshop #1 - Overcoming (perceived) barriers to reuse of research data: Cultural and educational aspects
2026-02-25 08:15 - 10:00 | Online
This workshop is part of a set of stand-alone but interrelated workshops run by FIDELIS to explore different aspects of data reusability. Register here.
In this first training workshop, we consider some cultural and educational aspects of data reusability. Through a series of talks and guided discussions we consider how data professionals are supporting and collaborating with researchers in research data management and sharing. We consider what repositories should be (better) aware of regarding the challenges and opportunities that researchers face around data sharing, reproducibility and reuse, including driving forces in the research communities.

FIDELIS Data Reuse Workshop #2 - Overcoming (perceived) barriers to reuse of research data: Legal and ethical aspects
2026-02-25 10:30 - 12:15 | Online
This workshop is part of a set of stand-alone but interrelated workshops run by FIDELIS to explore different aspects of data reusability. Register here.
In this second training workshop, we consider some legal and ethical aspects of data reusability. Through a series of talks and guided discussions we consider how data professionals are supporting and collaborating with researchers in research data management and sharing, including support with the CARE Principles. We consider what repositories should be (better) aware of regarding the challenges that researchers face around data ownership and ethical challenges, both as data depositors and potential data reusers. We look at what current projects are working on that aim to better inform researchers about how data has been used or can be (re)used, including more complex data access and reuse conditions.

FIDELIS Data Reuse Workshop #3
2026-02-25 12:45 - 14:30 | Online
This workshop is part of a set of stand-alone but interrelated workshops run by FIDELIS to explore different aspects of data reusability. Register here.
In this third training workshop, we consider some technical aspects around data reusability. We take a particular focus on several important elements of data management that are crucial for data reuse: metadata, data documentation, and data citation. The event presents the perspectives of specialists who are developing tools to encourage the creation of rich and complete metadata, supporting data documentation, and tracking data impact through citation practices.

Trusted Research for Repository/Data Managers
2026-02-26 10:00 - 11:00
Trusted Research supports the integrity of the system of international research collaboration, which is vital to the continued success of the UK’s research and innovation sector.

International research is vulnerable to misuse by organisations, institutions and individuals who operate on behalf of nations that seek to undermine the prevailing system of international research collaboration. Trusted Research seeks to protect that system from being undermined by those who might seek to abuse the principles of open science and academic freedom for their own gain.
Trusted Research is a joint National Protective Security Authority NPSA and National Cyber Security Centre NCSC campaign, developed with academic institutions and endorsed by key bodies within the sector. It helps the UK’s world-leading academic sector continue to get the most out of international scientific collaboration whilst protecting intellectual property, sensitive research and personal information from potential theft, misuse, or exploitation. It is run collaboratively with the sector and supports self-regulation and sector identification and ownership of risk.
All attendees must sign up with an institutional email address – any sign-ups via personal emails will be cancelled.
Please note:

No recording, screenshots, transcription, AI assistants etc throughout the webinar.
All attendees should be physically located in the UK at the time of the webinar.
NPSA/NCSC cameras will be off for the duration of the webinar.
No material presented will be shared with attendees post webinar, but please see the NPSA and NCSC websites for information and resources.

ELIXIR-UK RDM Club: Open and sustainable AI – models and datasets as key assets
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
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.

N8 CIR Event - Learn how publishing in data journals can increase awareness of your research
2026-03-10 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifying-data-journals-experiences-of-data-journal-editors-tickets-1984303305603?keep_tld=true#location
Overview
Data journals are a format of publication that publish datasets or ‘data papers’ rather than conventional research articles. They offer a route to increase the visibility of research data outputs whilst also rewarding creators with a peer-reviewed publication, credit, and increased opportunity for citation (Walters, 2020). This event will feature presentations from researchers from a range of disciplines, in both STEM and the humanities, involved in editing data journals, who will share their experiences and advice with attendees. The event will introduce the concept of data journals and how they operate and explore best practices when submitting papers to these journals or developing data journal publications. There will be opportunities for questions and discussions throughout the event.
This event is delivered by the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) and attendance is open to anyone with an interest in learning more about data journals.Walters, W.H. (2020) ‘Data journals: incentivizing data access and documentation within the scholarly communication system’, Insights: the UKSG journal, 33(1), p. 18.
Agenda

13:00 – 13:05: Introduction and welcome
13:05 – 14:25: Talks and Q&A session

Prof. Vanessa Higgins, University of Manchester. Editorial Board Member for the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Judith Winters, University of York. Editor of Internet Archaeology.
Dr Derek Gatherer, Lancaster University. Editorial Board, Scientific Data.
Dr Laura Sbaffi, University of Sheffield. Section Editor for PLOS Digital Health and Associate Editor for JASIST

14:25 – 14:30: Final comments

UKeIG Online CPD course ‘Research Data Management for information professionals - from researcher need to effective service
2026-03-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Online
Registration Link: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=2028098&group=201314
The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is pleased to announce its popular half-day online CPD course ‘Research Data Management for information professionals – from researcher need to effective service’ – between 1 pm and 4 pm on Wednesday 11th March 2026
Overview
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.
Who should attend?
Information professionals and librarians with an interest in or responsibility for supporting research, especially RDM, or any professional wishing to keep their skills up to date in this important field.
Topics covered include:

What is research data and why can it be hard to manage?
When and why did RDM become important from a policy perspective?
What is challenging about managing data?
What is data management planning?
How do you gather user requirements for research data services?
What should be in a research data policy?
What research data services might be needed and who should deliver them?
What should your training programme look like?
What skills, knowledge and attitudes are needed to work in supporting RDM?

Course leader
Andrew Cox is a senior lecturer at the School of Information, Journalism and Communication, University of Sheffield and led the RDMRose Project. He was author of the book Exploring Research Data Management (2018). More recently he authored several sections of the Sage Research Methods: Data and Research Literacy.
Pricing
The course (including presentation slides and documentation) costs:

UKeiG/CILIP members £50 + VAT
Non-members £80 + VAT
Employer Partner staff £64 + VAT (Please contact your rep or email employerpartners@cilip.org.uk for the discount code)

DCC's Digital Research Infrastructure webinar series: Getting to know BioFAIR
2026-03-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
About the Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Webinar Series
Starting 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!
Description
Join 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.
BioFAIR 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.
Speakers

Tony Burdett, Director, BioFAIR
Tony 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.
Dr Nishadi De Silva, Senior Technical Project Manager, BioFAIR
As 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.

ADAPT ExoHack Edition III (a DisCouRSE funded project)
2026-03-21 09:30 - 18:00 | Kings College London, King's Building KIN 427, Strand Campus, Kings College London, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
Register your Interest – fill in this form to register your interest and a member of the team will be in touch with further details
Overview
As part of the DisCouRSE funded project ADAPT, we are inviting a few digital Research Technical Professionals (RSEs, data scientists, research computing staff, research software engineers, and similar roles) interested in learning new skills mapped to the DIRECT framework, and contributing to the development of a hackathon-centric training platform.
We are kicking things off with ExoHack, a free exoplanet-themed machine learning hackathon. This is a unique opportunity to:

Solve real-world challenges alongside the Ariel Space Mission team.
Work directly with the ESA Datalabs infrastructure.
Network with peers across various scientific fields and the ADAPT project team.
Develop new skills mapped to the DIRECT framework

If you’re in need of travel to attend the event, there may be the capacity to provide you with some bursary to cover the cost.

Developing Career Options for Data Stewards (In Person & Online)
2026-04-22 10:00 - 13:00 | Blue Room, UCL, Blue Room, UCL Main Campus, Gower Street [OR ONLINE], London, WC1E 6AE, United Kingdom
Registration Links

Register to join in person
Register to join online

Overview
This is a hybrid interactive workshop exploring data steward personas and potential career pathways for these roles with opportunities for networking.
As the volume and complexity of research data continue to grow, so does the essential role of Data Stewards—professionals who ensure that data is shareable, reusable, and aligned with FAIR principles. Although many roles, including librarians, archivists, Research Software Engineers (RSEs), research managers, technicians, and researchers routinely perform data stewardship activities, the position of “Data Steward” remains under-defined and often under-recognised in many countries.
Existing work largely focuses on defining the responsibilities of Data Stewards and the skills and training required to succeed in these roles. However, there is limited attention on establishing clear, sustainable career pathways for Data Stewards. The RDA Data Steward Career Tracks Working Group (WG), part of the Research Data Alliance, aims to address this gap by developing a systematic methodology for defining data steward personas and mapping potential career pathways for these roles.
This event will bring together key stakeholders to contribute to the WG’s work by collaboratively developing Data Steward Personas. The session will begin with a brief introduction to the Working Group’s objectives, followed by an interactive workshop. Lunch will be provided (for those attending in person) with opportunities for networking and informal discussion throughout.
Target Audience / Prerequisites:
This workshop is suitable for individuals currently working in, or closely connected to, data stewardship—including librarians, archivists, RSEs, research managers, technicians, researchers, and established Data Stewards. It is especially relevant for those interested in shaping or understanding potential career trajectories for Data Stewards and contributing to the development of representative personas.
Ethics Notice
As this workshop involves the collection of data that will be shared as an output, ethical approval has been secured. We will request your consent at the start of the session.
