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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
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SUMMARY:N8 CIR Event - Learn how publishing in data journals can increase awareness of your research
DESCRIPTION:Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifying-data-journals-experiences-of-data-journal-editors-tickets-1984303305603?keep_tld=true#location  \nOverview\nData 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. \nThis 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. \nAgenda\n\n13:00 – 13:05: Introduction and welcome\n13:05 – 14:25: Talks and Q&A session\n\nProf. Vanessa Higgins\, University of Manchester. Editorial Board Member for the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences.\nJudith Winters\, University of York. Editor of Internet Archaeology.\nDr Derek Gatherer\, Lancaster University. Editorial Board\, Scientific Data.\nDr Laura Sbaffi\, University of Sheffield. Section Editor for PLOS Digital Health and Associate Editor for JASIST\n\n\n14:25 – 14:30: Final comments
URL:https://casdar.ac.uk/event/n8-cir-event-learn-how-publishing-in-data-journals-can-increase-awareness-of-your-research/
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SUMMARY:UKeIG Online CPD course ‘Research Data Management for information professionals - from researcher need to effective service
DESCRIPTION:Registration Link: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=2028098&group=201314 \nThe 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 \nOverview \nTo 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. \nWho should attend? \nInformation 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. \nTopics covered include: \n\nWhat is research data and why can it be hard to manage?\nWhen and why did RDM become important from a policy perspective?\nWhat is challenging about managing data?\nWhat is data management planning?\nHow do you gather user requirements for research data services?\nWhat should be in a research data policy?\nWhat research data services might be needed and who should deliver them?\nWhat should your training programme look like?\nWhat skills\, knowledge and attitudes are needed to work in supporting RDM?\n\nCourse leader \nAndrew 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. \nPricing \nThe course (including presentation slides and documentation) costs: \n\nUKeiG/CILIP members £50 + VAT\nNon-members £80 + VAT\nEmployer Partner staff £64 + VAT (Please contact your rep or email employerpartners@cilip.org.uk for the discount code)
URL:https://casdar.ac.uk/event/ukeig-online-cpd-course-research-data-management-for-information-professionals-from-researcher-need-to-effective-service/
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CATEGORIES:Community Events
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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
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