Digital Science’s State of Open Data (SoOD) annual survey has been running since 2015. It gives those of us active in research support the only openly available international insight into data sharing attitudes and behaviour over time.

Hello everyone my name is Al Wood, I joined the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in August in the role of Communications and Marketing Specialist.

The DCC (on behalf of the FAIRsFAIR project) and FAIRsharing are proud to showcase our recent collaboration that aligned three data policy description efforts, making it easier than ever to create FAIR-aligned data policies and make policy descriptions more accessible to both humans and machines. The FAIRsharing data policy registry, the FAIRsFAIR FAIR data Policy Checklist, and the RDA’s Journal Policy Features have all been aligned and integrated within the FAIRsharing data model.

In this blogpost, DCC Research Data Specialist Ryan O'Connor gives an overview of the work the DCC has done over the last year on behalf of a University of Luxembourg research centre