Research Data Management
The ELIXIR RDM Community brings together research data management (RDM) experts to shape ELIXIR’s vision and coordinate activities that make the most of existing RDM assets. The Community works in close collaboration with ELIXIR Platforms, Communities and Focus Groups to align RDM best practices and help users navigate ELIXIR’s available RDM services.
Scope
The Community focuses on:
- Building a network of RDM professionals across all ELIXIR Nodes (and beyond)
- Managing RDM knowledge and know-how through the ELIXIR RDM ecosystem
- Overseeing RDM training resources and related expertise
- Coordinating engagement with external international stakeholders in the RDM domain
Goals
- Provide a forum that enables regular inter-personal knowledge exchange between life science RDM professionals.
- Facilitate ELIXIR Node capacity building in deploying RDM services, e.g. by establishing a knowledge handbook for RDM service providers, and developing an RDM services maturity model for ELIXIR Nodes.
- Coordinate and contribute to the RDM ecosystem content by collaborating with the editorial boards of RDMkit and FAIR Cookbook, to ensure that the content is continuously fit for purpose.
- Gather requirements that would facilitate flow of FAIR data from researchers to repositories (such as the ELIXIR Deposition Databases) via RDM services, in order to improve the FAIRness of research data made available for life science and society at large.
- Provide a forum that enables knowledge and teaching best practices exchanges among RDM trainers.
- Ensure that RDM training materials are being developed and FAIRified, enabling reuse and adoption by the ELIXIR Nodes.
- Develop RDM learning paths for researchers, data stewards, tool developers and trainers.
- Create and maintain an overview of external stakeholder engagements with RDM aspects across ELIXIR Platforms, Communities, Focus Groups and projects.
Current Activities
Monthly meetings are scheduled on the second Tuesday of each month 13-14 CET/CEST.
Membership
The expected members of the Community are life science RDM professionals in academia and industry in ELIXIR and beyond.
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