OECD report: Business models for sustainable research data repositories

By torillh |

The report presents the results of an investigation of business models for about fifty data repositories holding data from multiple scientific domains, a review and discussion of possible business models for research data repositories, and recommendations for making sustainable business models. The report can be downloaded here.

EUDAT Conference on EOSC, 22-25 January 2018

By torillh |

EUDAT organizes the conference “Putting the EOSC vision into practice” in Porto, Portugal, late January 2018. The conference will present latest trends in data infrastructure and data management solutions for research, demonstrate solutions developed by EUDAT for specific user communities, present the newly established EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) and discuss the establishment of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the European Data Infrastructure (EDI).

CESSDA Expert Tour Guide for Data Management

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Research data management experts from CESSDA (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) has just released a comprehensive guide to data management, covering all phases of the data life cycle from initial planning to archiving and publishing. The guide is found at https://www.cessda.eu/DMGuide. Among others it contains a downloadable checklist for preparing a Data Management Plan.