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All you need to know about data access and reuse

28/10/2014

Research data policy: are we winning? To help find answers, EUDAT is holding a workshop with its data access and reuse policy (DARUP) working group in Rome on 11 and 12 November 2014. This workshop will inform a report which will incorporate results from EUDAT’s survey on open data and contain insights into the path towards a common policy framework. Here's a sneak preview of key topics:

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Make a date with data: the third EUDAT conference

20/08/2014

The third EUDAT conference, taking place from 24-25 September, will explore key themes around data sharing and infrastructure.

Barcelona, 1 August 2014. – How will Europe ensure that the ever-increasing amounts of research data being generated are exploited to its advantage? What tools can researchers draw upon to share data and break cross-disciplinary boundaries, paving the way for new discoveries?

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Going Dutch with your data!

02/06/2014

In this month’s interview, the roving EUDAT reporter caught up with Ton Smeele and Joyce Nijkamp after they gave a presentation on the Dutch collaborative project, U2Connect, at the EUDAT User Forum that was held in Prague on 23-24 April. Ton and Joyce are both employed by central Information and Communications Technology (ICT) departments in the Netherlands: Ton is a data management specialist at Utrecht University, and Joyce is an enterprise architect at the University of Amsterdam.

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Data services, technology & expertise: the community perspective

31/03/2014
Interview with Alberto Michelini, Director of the National Earthquake Center of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy EUDAT is primarily designed to provide data services for European researchers (although naturally we want to make the data available for world-wide research, wherever appropriate). We have to address the needs of both researchers and members of the general public who are producing or using very large data sets for research purposes. A typical example of this kind of data comes from the continuous series of observations recorded by our networks of seismic stations over time, or from waveform simulations of earthquakes...
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Extending our network - DANS becomes an Associated Partner

20/03/2014

DANS is an active and well-known digital archive for research data with a special focus on the social sciences and humanities in particular through the DARIAH, CESSDA, and CLARIN initiatives. In the Netherlands as well as in Europe DANS is currently at the forefront of repository developments. DANS has been the coordinator of DARIAH-EU in the preparation phase and is now heavily involved in its implementation phase, DANS also participates in the CESSDA-ERIC and is involved in the CLARIN-NL structure.

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EUDAT Calls for Collaboration Projects

16/01/2014
EUDAT is inviting research communities, research projects and individual researchers to make use of its data services that are available at a European scale and is offering free resources and expertise to pilot collaboration projects as part of its Collaborative Data Infrastructure where users, community centres and large data centres collaboratively tackle data challenges. Interested parties are invited to submit their proposals by 26th February 2014.
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New Services in EUDAT - what communities want...

17/12/2013

From September to November 2013, EUDAT invited the community to provide their feedback and thoughts on a series of new services currently under discussion as a future set of data solutions. 123 people from over 17 countries completed the survey, providing interesting and useful insight into community needs and requirements. The majority of the respondents were researchers and scientists and infrastructure providers and computer scientists but a good proportion represented funding and policy maker organisations.

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DRIHM a new EUDAT Associated Partner collaborates to provide new services for citizen scientists

09/12/2013

The DRIHM project sets the stage for a new way of doing hydro-meteorological Research (HMR) at European and eventually global levels through the development and deployment of an e-Science environment. DRIHM became an Associated Partner of EUDAT in December 2013. EUDAT has a strong interest in strengthening collaboration with the DRIHM project as research communities are EUDAT’s main customers, both as data users and providers.

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Towards a Second EUDAT Roadmap of common services

19/06/2013

As the project's initial common data services all approach delivery, EUDAT is moving ahead to look at the next round of services to be developed.  EUDAT will be inviting research community experts to meet with domain and technology experts at workshops in Barcelona in September to determine which follow-up common services best meet the needs of the European research communities in the selected areas: Dynamic Data, Workflow Support, Semantic Annotation, and Data Access and Reuse. EUDAT may then decide to set up working groups to continue the discussions in some of these areas.

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Grants available for Europeans to attend the 2nd RDA plenary meeting

19/06/2013

In addition to the activities of some communities and already existing initiatives, the Research Data Alliance (http://rd-alliance.org) aims to facilitate the global research data sharing and exchange to help answer the big scientific and societal challenges. This international effort encourages increasing interest among people who wish to contribute to global research data initiatives. The RDA Europe project is the European plugin into global RDA activities and is thus supporting the second plenary that will be organized by RDA/US in Washington DC.

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