research data management

CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) announce the CODATA Research Data Management Terminology

DataSeptember 29, 2024

(16 Sep 2024) CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are delighted to announce the publication of the machine-actionable CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT). The Terminology is open to the public and free to use via the ARDC’s Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) service at https://vocabs.ardc.edu.au/viewById/685. The RDMT enables those working on research data management…

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NIST releases version 2.0 of Research Data Framework (RDaF)

Data, Research SupportFebruary 29, 2024

(8 Feb 2024) On February 8, 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released Version 2.0 of the NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF). The NIST RDaF is a multi-stakeholder, international effort designed to provide organizations with a structured approach to developing a customizable strategy for the management of research data. Considering the complexity of the research…

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Realities of Academic Data Sharing Initiative releases reports on expenses of making data publicly accessible

Data, Open AccessFebruary 22, 2024

(7 Feb 2024) The Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative, spearheaded by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in collaboration with the Data Curation Network (DCN), has released two comprehensive reports shedding light on the expenses associated with making research data publicly accessible. These reports provide invaluable insights into the financial implications of data management and sharing…

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Disappearing data repositories may pose a threat to open science

DataFebruary 6, 2024

(31 Jan 2024) Research data repositories play a vital role in ensuring research is reproducible, replicable and reusable. Yet, the infrastructure supporting them can be impermanent. Drawing on a new datasetDorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel, Rouven Schabinger and Nina Leonie Weisweiler, explore how common data repository shutdowns are and suggest what can be done to ensure data preservation in the long-term.…

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Data training revealed as top unmet need for UK and US researchers in integrity surveys

Data, Research SupportDecember 21, 2023

Springer Nature extends its national research integrity surveys to include the UK and US to help build global picture of researcher needs (14 Dec 2023) Data released today shows that a lack of training around data management is the top concern for researchers in the UK and US. When asked where more support was…

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3 ways to become an information tour guide for data scientists 

Research SupportJuly 26, 2023

(18 Jul 2023) “Data scientists love good, structured data. Information people know where to get that data.” That’s how an information professional at a large pharmaceutical company described what drives the collaboration between info pros and data scientists at his organization. As he noted, “the one thing our researchers and data scientists don’t have is…

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How to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful

Data, Research SupportJuly 6, 2023

(27 Jun 2023) Funder and publisher mandates, coupled with a growing emphasis on open science and reproducibility, mean that researchers are increasingly depositing data alongside their publications. Other scientists can use those data to drive new research. But not every journal requires that authors make their data sets available, and some authors decline to do…

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Data curation – an interview with Matthias Töwe, data curator at ETH Zurich Library

DataJune 14, 2023

(2 Jun 2023) What does a data curator do? What are their daily tasks? What is challenging and rewarding about the job? The LIBER Research Data Management (RDM) Working Group explores these questions and more in their recently published interview with Data Curator, Matthias Töwe. Read on for an overview of the conversation and learn…

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Australia now has a national framework for institutional research data management

DataMarch 2, 2023

(20 Feb 2023) Australia now has a national framework for institutional research data management (RDM), which can help universities and research organisations create a data-rich institutional approach to research. To help institutions address the challenges around RDM, the ARDC has partnered with 25 Australian universities in the Institutional Underpinnings program to: facilitate a more cohesive, collaborative…

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Perspectives on data sharing and the new NIH policy from the European Union

Data, Research SupportAugust 15, 2022

(29 Jul 2022) The U.S. National Institutes of Health sponsored a meeting in April 2021 to consider how to increase the scientific culture of data sharing. The editors of this special section of Harvard Data Science Review on the meeting asked three prominent scientists to provide perspectives from Europe on data sharing and management and about…

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