[CODATA-international] Call for Presentations and Posters, Deadline 6 September: CODATA-Helsinki 2019 Workshop on FAIR RDM in Institutions
Asha CODATA
asha at codata.org
Fri Jul 12 09:12:15 EDT 2019
The CODATA-Helsinki Workshop on FAIR RDM in Institutions will take place at
the National Archives of Finland on 20-21 October 2019. It is a collocated
event before the *14th RDA Plenary Meeting, Helsinki, Finland
<https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-14th-plenary-helsinki-espoo>.*
The organisers and programme committee invites presentations and posters
for this workshop: *https://conference.codata.org/Helsinki-CODATA-2019/submit/
<https://conference.codata.org/Helsinki-CODATA-2019/submit/> *
The deadline for proposals is Friday 6 September. Given the relatively
short time before the event, there will not be an extension. We aim to
notify accepted speakers by Friday 13 September.
Research Data and Research Institutions
Research data are an asset for research institutions. Their creation,
management and stewardship imposes considerable responsibilities and
requires partnership and alignment with other institutions and research
initiatives globally. All over the world universities and libraries have
started the task of developing research data services, many aspiring to
cover the entire research lifecycle: support in writing proposals and data
management plans, repository infrastructures for the storage of data,
support in publishing data, assignment of persistent identifiers, lecturing
in data management, etc. This broad scope means that such services are
often seen as requiring a joint effort from university, library, IT centre,
faculties and other stakeholders.
FAIR Research Data Management involves robust planning, policies,
infrastructure, training and support. Institutes that produce and consume
data are required to ensure seamless accessibility to data and ensure
practices that foster its reuse. Often institutes are less aware of
existing good practices and progress in implementing Institutional Research
Data Management. Improved awareness and knowledge sharing can help reduce
duplication in initiatives, and avoid redundant and inefficient practices
at various points in the data lifecycle. There is a widely recognised need
to assist knowledge sharing between institutions and to do this in an
increasingly structured way, by using (and where necessary refining)
maturity models such as the *DCC RISE
<http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/RISE>*. Equally, effective
knowledge sharing can help reduce the gap between rich and poor
institutions and between universities or research organisations in
economically advantaged and disadvantaged contexts. Effective RDM practices
can also make the process for sharing and reusing data more streamlined and
efficient, thereby enabling research to be more efficient and driving
greater impacts to be achieved out of research.
It is timely for actors in the various dimensions of such initiatives
internationally to share their practical experiences, research and insights.
Themes
In principle, all topics around RDM initiatives in research institutions
are in scope. For the the Helsinki-CODATA Workshop we are particularly
interested in the following themes:
1.
Papers exploring initiatives to benchmark and to measure maturity of
institutional RDM provision. How are services being defined and scoped,
and what is their commonality across institutions? What are the metrics and
indicators of effective RDM provision, what are the KPIs being used? How
are institutions prioritising their development of services?
2.
Papers describing holistic strategies to develop and implement RDM
services. What is the overall approach being taken by the institution and
how is this communicated in the strategy? How is the case made with senior
management? How is the development and the service funded? What is the
business model? What are the key components and activities? What
prioritisation is being used?
3.
The role of FAIR services in institutional provision: how are
institutions responding to FAIR and the agenda set by the FAIR principles,
the European Open Science Cloud, the expert group report on Turning FAIR
into reality *https://doi.org/10.2777/1524
<https://doi.org/10.2777/1524>* and other equivalent developments in
different geographies?
We invite also shorter papers on a range of RDM topics, including but not
limited to:
-
Skills and training: what, for whom and why? How have you integrated
skills and training in the total RDM services provision?
-
Technical service provision: in house, shared, open source or
outsourced? How are the technical services integrated in the total RDM
services provision?
-
Champions and engagement: How is the RDM service engaging with
researchers and particular communities? How are researchers involved in the
development of services? What role do champions and advocates play in this
and how? What has been the role of the PVC / vice-rector for research etc?
What other possible champions have been identified and how? What lessons
have been learnt from engagement with research groups, departments,
projects…?
-
Sustainability: What business models are being developed for the RDM
services? How is the service being financed? How does the institution plan
to ensure the sustainability of the service and the long term stewardship
of the data? How is it ensured that the services are actually found and
used by users?
-
Technical innovations: forum for technical discussions and any new and
emerging technical developments? How can technical innovations play a role
in bridging the gaps between separate services in the total RDM service
provision?
-
User experiences: use cases in RDM through the RDM lifecycle: sharing
user experiences and case studies. What lessons can be learned from these
use cases for setting up an end-to-end set of RDM services?
-
Collaboration for service development: What local, national or
international partnerships are there for the development of services and
what are the benefits? What appraisal has been done of such collaborations?
What benefits have been identified?
After the workshop, selected presenters will be invited to submit a full
paper to the CODATA Data Science Journal where they will form a special
collection.
The proposed workshop builds on two previous collocated events, *the
Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium
<https://conference.codata.org/2018_Goettingen_RDM/>* (150 attendees) and *the
Drexel-CODATA FAIR-RRDM Workshop
<https://conference.codata.org/Drexel_CODATA_2019/>* (130 attendees).
Papers from the Göttingen event are now appearing in a *Special Collection
of the CODATA Data Science Journal
<https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/gottingen-codata-rdm-symposium/>.*
Guidelines for Proposals
Proposals for presentations should be submitted to an appropriate thematic
session corresponding to the theme of the proposal.
Recommended proposal lengths are:
Long, research presentation, addressing the workshop themes by reporting on
original research: 600-800 words
Short, practice presentation, addressing the workshop themes by reporting
on a project or institutional activity: 400-600 words
Posters and lightning talks addressing the workshop themes: 300-400 words
Workshop
An important part of this event will be a workshop looking in detail at
issues around benchmarking institutional provision of RDM services. More
information to follow...
Keynotes
The event will feature at least two keynote talks on important issues for
RDM in institutions. Details to follow…
Registration
The registration site will appear soon!
Programme Committee
- Jan Brase, University of Göttingen
- Mercè Crosas, Harvard University
- Claudia Engelhardt, University of Göttingen
- Jane Greenberg, Drexel University
- Heidi Laine, CSC
- Liu Chuang, Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Science
- Devika Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute
- Pekka Orponen, Aalto University
- Limor Peer, Yale University
- Jan Lucas van der Ploeg, University Medical Center Groningen
- Robin Rice, University of Edinburgh
- Annette Strauch, University of Hildesheim
- Minglu Wang, York University
- James Wilson, UCL
- Keith Russell, ARDC
- Michael Witt, Purdue University
Thanks,
Asha
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