Pipeline Newsletter - November 2025

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Our monthly newsletter features news updates from the community, information about DCC work and services as well as important dates for your calendar. We hope you enjoy!

At a glance...

In this edition of Pipeline, we announce that the IDCC26 programme is published, highlight a couple of interesting project updates and share a new community research data toolkit.

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DCC News

IDCC26 Programme Published

94 contributions from all over the world make up our programme for IDCC26. The theme for the 20th International Digital Curation Conference is AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation. All of our programme contributions will be delivered in-person in Zagreb, Croatia on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 February 2026.

Check out the full programme on our website.

Win a ticket to IDCC26!

Interested in a free IDCC26 ticket? Simply take a selfie with Angus (photoshop is allowed!) and tell us why you are interested in attending. Entries close 30 November 2025!

More information can be found on our website.

International Journal of Digital Curation

Global Open Research Commons: Enabling Curation for the Next 20 Years
Published last month in our International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) and presented in The Hague at IDCC25, this conference paper addresses the requirements for long-term preservation through a system lens. Rather than focusing on specific technical elements that are needed for curation, this paper written by Andrew Treloar and C.J. Woodford, considers all the system elements that need to be put in place, and intentionally maintained, to ensure curation for the long term. 

Download the conference paper on the IJDC website.

Funded projects

FIDELIS - TTRAM project update
The DCC are proud to be part of the European Commission funded FIDELIS project which aims to establish and operate a European network of Trustworthy Digital Repsitories (TDR), fostering their harmonisation and interoperability across repositories. FIDELIS will provide a framework to support repositories in becoming and remaining trustworthy and FAIR-enabling over time. FIDELIS will also contribute to the upskilling of repositories and expansion of TDR network, by offering a series of training and financial support programmes. A key project output is the first version of the Transparent Trustworthy Repository Attributes Matrix (TTRAM) which is being designed iteratively to better understand repositories and how transparency around the broad range of activities and functions they undertake can contribute to trustworthiness.  

A webinar was delivered on 27 October to share the current version of TTRAM. If you missed it, you can view the recording and download the slides via the EDEN-FIDELIS website. 

PSDI Roadshow Findings Report
DCC Research Data Specialist, Agnes Jasinska, co-authored a report with the Physical Science Data Infrastructure (PSDI), and Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), that presents the content and insights from two in-person PSDI Roadshow events on data curation and management in physical sciences: in Cambridge in June 2025 and in Southampton in July 2025.  

Read the full report on Zenodo.

Resource of the month

New toolkit helps community groups take leading role in data management
A new Community Research Data toolkit is empowering community organisations to manage the data they collect through research projects and partnerships with other researchers and data professionals. This online toolkit was a collaborative endeavour with contributions from many researchers including DCC Research Data Specialist Laurence Horton.

The toolkit can be accessed online via the Open Library website

From the community

Nominations open for 2026 Sarah Jones Award
In October, the RDA announced that nominations for the 2026 edition of ‘The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in Open Science’ are open. Sarah Jones, a former DCC colleague and friend, was a true believer in and driver of Open Science. She was also an esteemed member of the RDA Council, former member of the Technical Advisory Board and RDA community member. Nominations close on 14 June 2026. 

For more information on the award and details on the nomination criteria, visit the RDA website.

For your calendar

EDEN-FIDELIS Bootcamp
Paris: 19 November 2025 
The EDEN and FIDELIS projects are hosting a bootcamp with presentations and interactive sessions on ongoing project work. The EDEN and FIDELIS project aim is to help the European repository community to build a network and provide a framework of services and tools relating to curation practices and digital preservation.

Book your place by 10 November 2025 via the EDEN-FIDELIS website.

Building a comprehensive and coordinated training landscape for dRTPs
London, UK: 27 November 2025
Step Up – a Strategic Technical Platform for Universtiy technical Professionals is running a workshop sharing findings from STEP-UP project’s mapping of existing training onto digital research technical professional (dRTP) competency frameworks.  

Learn more and register via the STEP-UP project.

EDEN Seminar
Online, 1 December 2025, 11:00-12:00 CET
The EOSC EDEN project is launching its webinar series to share key results and insights from its work on advancing digital preservation strategies across Europe. This webinar will present one of the project’s major achievements — the Core Preservation Processes (CPPs). CPPs define the essential actions that every Trustworthy Digital Archive (TDA) should perform, either directly or in collaboration with associated partners or services, to effectively carry out its digital preservation mission as outlined in its preservation policy.

Learn more and register at the project website.

FIDELIS webinar: AI for digital repositories: opportunities and challenges
Online, 2 December 2025 15:00-16:30 CET 
This FIDELIS webinar will consider use-cases on how to add value to data in digital repositories by using AI technologies, discuss important concepts of Large Language Models (LLMs) and reflect on how the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Data Commons project supports data discovery using AI.

Learn more and register at the project website.

IASSIST 2026 - Call for proposals open!
Online: 2-5 June 2026 
The Call for proposals and workshop submissions are now open for IASSIST 2026, which in its 51st year, will be hosted online between 2-5 of June 2026. IASSIST (the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology) is an international organisation of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching.  

The deadline for submissions is Friday 19 December 2025. Learn more about the next IASSIST and the proposal submissions on the IASSIST website.

...and finally

The second UKRI Digital Research Infrastructures Congress took place in Leeds on 22-23 October. The event brought together key stakeholders from across the UK’s research and innovation ecosystem. As part of the event, UKRI, DCC, and Jisc  co-organised a session on European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): exploring opportunities for the UK’s digital research infrastructure (DRI). The session underlined the importance of the UK’s early involvement in EOSC projects and task forces where the DRI Programme could position itself as a strategic bridge. A key takeaway is the necessity for a UK briefing document to aid organisations in joining EOSC, emphasising the need for a national mapping of stakeholders that can help identify gaps.  

As the development of different research infrastructures continues, strategic alignment and community engagement are extremely important. DCC has worked closely with the DAFNI project and currently as a partner of the PSDI project to continue supporting a collaborative future with other research infrastructures. 

Joy Davidson, DCC Associate Director