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Diana Sisu | 20 January 2020

Introducing the IDCC2020 Keynotes - Dr Sandra Collins

Dr Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland will give a keynote lecture on curating the national memory at 15th edition of IDCC, on the 19th of February.
Alexandra Delipalta | 29 October 2019

IDCC20 - Workshop Registration is now open

We are excited to announce that registration for our packed IDCC20 workshop programme is now open!

Workshops will be held on Monday 17 February 2020 at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland. 
Sarah Jones | 29 August 2019

Money makes the world go around

The 19th RDMF will address the thorny issue of RDM costs. How are these costs calculated? What tools and support are available to researchers? And what is eligible under different research funder policies? We have a fantastic line up of European speakers to address these topics. Sign up to join us!
Sarah Jones | 12 July 2019

What did you say there Skippy? Learning from our Aussie neighbours

From mid-July to mid-September, the DCC’s Sarah Jones will be working remotely on placement with the Australian Research Data Commons. Sarah will be in Australia on behalf of the EOSC Executive Board to attend the ARDC Skills Summit and meet with relevant data stakeholders to explore what lessons can be learned from their work to inform European initiatives. She’ll be based primarily at the...
Alexandra Delipalta | 1 July 2019

New MOOC: Delivering Research Data Management Services

The Digital Curation Centre in collaboration with Research Data Netherlands have developed an online course on Delivering Research Data Management Services (DRDMS). The course is now open for enrolment at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/delivering-research-data-management-services starting officially on the 2nd of September 2019. 
Sarah Jones | 18 June 2019

New DCC paper on Open and FAIR

A few weeks ago, a new paper was published that I co-authored with Rosie Higman from the University of Manchester and Daniel Bangert from the University of Göttingen. It untangles the overlaps between FAIR, Open and RDM, providing insights on how each can be used for advocacy and improving good research practice. Check it out!

Higman, R., Bangert, D. and Jones, S., 2019. Three camps,...
Joy Davidson | 15 April 2019

FAIRsFAIR: THE FAIR data hub addressing the data culture change in Europe

On 14th March 2019, the DCC team were in Amsterdam to participate in the launch of the H2020 funded FAIRsFAIR initiative which we'll be partnering on for the next three years. FAIRsFAIR aims to to  contribute towards the culture change needed to increase the production and use of data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) in the European...
Sarah Jones | 10 March 2019

RDMF revisited - unconference style

It’s been a while (16 months in fact!) since the DCC held an RDMF, and we’ve had a few requests from the community to provide a space for discussing challenges and sharing lessons on providing research data support. Hot on the heels of a trial at IDCC in Melbourne, we’re going to bring back the RDMF in an unconference format.

Puit 9th April in Manchester in your calendar now....
Sarah Jones | 27 February 2019

We are family! Join the IDCC party

A report on the DCC's first foray into the Southern Hemisphere to run IDCC19 in partnership with the University of Melbourne
Diana Sisu | 24 February 2019

“Digital Sensations”: New generation of innovative solutions advancing digital curation

 Did you miss the demos presented at IDCC19? Natalia Grincheva has produced an overview as well as video podcasts.