CaSDaR

Petabyte Scale Data Storage at the University of Glasgow
2026-02-10 13:00 - 14:00 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. 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.

Perspectives on Engagement and Impact: a UK Data Service event for Early Career Researchers'
2026-02-11 10:00 - 15:00 | People’s History Museum, Leftbank, Leftbank, Leftbank, M3 3ER, 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.
Find out more and register here: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jisc/uk-data-service-ecr-event-2026-registering-interest. This promises to be an exciting event covering the importance of stakeholder engagement with research data;

Love Research Data 2026
2026-02-11 14:30 - 17:00 | The Sheldonian Theatre,, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AZ, 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. Registration Link: https://bit.ly/LoveData26
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.
The following services, teams and colleagues will be holding exhibitors stalls at the event:

AI Competency Centre
Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) Network+
Cloud and Storage Services Team (public cloud, private cloud, storage)
Digital Scholarship @ Oxford (DiSc)
FAIRsharing
LabArchives & Electronic Lab Notebook service
Oxford Research Archive (ORA) & Open Scholarship Support
Research Data Oxford
Research Support Services Team (including DMP Online, Research File Service, DigiSafe, GitHub Enterprise)
Sustainable Digital Scholarship (SDS) service & the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS)
Trusted Research Environments Oxford & TRESS: Trusted Research Environments Software Stewardship

Doors will open at 2pm, where you will be greeted by a selection of exhibitors who are looking forward to speaking to you. From 3pm a selection of short relevant presentations will be offered, with topics to including the following; an overview of Research Data Management support at Oxford, an introduction to Trusted Research Environments and the TRESS – Trusted Research Environments Software Stewardship research project and a presentation from members of the Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) network
For more information about research data management at Oxford, please visit the Research Data Oxford website.

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