Research Data Management

The ELIXIR RDM Community will bring together RDM experts to develop ELIXIR’s vision and coordinate its activities in order to take advantage of the available RDM assets. It aims to coordinate RDM best practices and provide an overview of how to use the existing ELIXIR RDM services, in close collaboration with ELIXIR Platforms, Communities and Focus Groups.

The scope of the Community is 

  • The network of RDM professionals across all Nodes (and beyond)
  • The management of RDM knowledge and know-how in the form of the content of the ELIXIR RDM ecosystem
  • The management of the RDM training resources and expertise
  • Coordination of the interactions with external international stakeholders in the area of RDM.
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.
  • Collect 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.
Parent group
User Communities
Mailing list
rdm@elixir-europe.org
Links
Public web page
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