Workshops

Workshops

Our conference is supplemented by a rich programme of workshops. These events must be booked separately from the conference. You do not have to attend the conference to register for the workshops. 

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Workshop 1 - Elevating data management planning: Interoperability of RDM services through machine-actionability

Workshop 2 - Guidelines on transparent exposure of repository information: informing decisions of trustworthiness

Workshop 3 - Defining the criteria for assessing PID Policies and Services

Workshop 4 - Developing research data sharing policy and practice in the UK

Workshop 5 - PIDS in practice: working with PIDS in an institutional environment

Workshop 6 - FAIR-by-Design: introducing Skills4EOSC and FAIR-IMPACT resources and support

IDCC24 Workshop Programme Outline and Timings

Monday 19 February - Workshop Day 

Workshop 1 - Elevating data management planning: Interoperability of RDM services through machine-actionability

In this workshop we will explore the interplay of Research Data Management (RDM) services involved in the research lifecycle, e.g. Data Management Plan (DMP) platforms, repositories, virtual research environments, metadata registries, FAIR assessment tools, scientific knowledge graphs, etc. Specifically, we will focus on machine-actionable DMPs (maDMPs) and PID services to identify the next steps necessary for the community to further explore novel use cases that integrate the services to achieve higher automation and reuse of information. Please see a draft programme below.

The workshop has two main objectives:

• To understand interoperability of maDMPs produced across different platforms and the barriers to achieving full compliance with the RDA recommendation and current community needs.
• To identify typical use cases in which DMP tools are used together with other RDM services.

Lunch and two coffee breaks will be provided.

This workshop is organised by Diana Sisu, Tomasz Miksa, Maria Praetzelis, Elli Papadopoulou, Marek Suchanek, Marie-Christine Jacquemot.

Workshop 1_Programme

Workshop 2 - Guidelines on transparent exposure of repository information: informing decisions of trustworthiness,

FAIR-IMPACT is developing guidelines for the transparent sharing of information and evidence to facilitate discovery, communication, and interoperability between a range of digital objects and repository criteria. Workshop attendees will be introduced to this work and asked for feedback on the information to be shared, associated guidance, and potential use cases that contribute to organisational interoperability and trust.

This workshop is organised by Maaike Verburg, Mike Priddy, Hervé L’Hours, Robert Huber, Robert Ulrich, Ingrid Dillo andCharlotte Neidiger 

Workshop 3 - Defining the criteria for assessing PID Policies and Services

PIDs are a key component of the FAIR data principles. A wide range of policies and services exist to manage and create PIDs in the research ecosystem. How can the characteristics of PID policies and PID services be assessed? This is the central issue of this workshop. The workshop, organised by the FAIR-IMPACT project, aims to support the adoption of FAIR-enabling services and technology, such as PID-related core components developed by the FAIRCORE4EOSC project.

Each part of the workshop starts with an introduction on the topic, followed by a discussion. The feedback provided by the workshop participants will be used to further align the PID related work in the FAIR-IMPACT and the FAIRCORE4EOSC projects.

This workshop is organised by Wim Hugo, René van Horik and Natascha van Lieshout.

Workshop 4 -Developing research data sharing policy and practice in the UK.

Good data sharing and management can enhance discovery, productivity, collaboration, and research integrity; it enables reuse, verification, and reproducibility. Rapid scientific and technological developments mean this is becoming ever more important, across all disciplines.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) corporate plan has prioritized updating its policies and approaches. It states: “we will develop our open data policy to incentivise research data sharing, and where appropriate protocols, software, and code to support re-use, research integrity and collaboration.”

To take forward this priority we are seeking to engage the research sector and learn about current practice, needs and how to better incentivise and support good research data practice.

This UKRI workshop will provide the opportunity for the community to share and discuss opportunities and challenges to develop UK policy and practice to better support the sharing and management of research data. Outputs from the workshop will help inform UKRI’s policy and strategic work on open data, including in relation to the research UKRI funds and its wider role supporting UK government ambitions for open research, international alignment, and other UK policy such as the Research Excellence Framework. Participants will be informed of the current plans and status of UKRI policy, and also hear about other relevant developments in the UK and internationally.

This workshop is organised by Dr Paul Richards, Rachel Bruce and Dr Kirsty Merrett

UKRI IDCC24 Workshop 4 Agenda

Workshop 5 - PIDS in practice: working with PIDS in an institutional environment

The workshop aims to provide an overview of the PIDs landscape and practical guidance from experienced practitioners on selecting and implementing PIDs, helping the community understand how PIDs interact with commonly used research tools in an institutional environment.

The intended audience is data librarians, research service providers, research data managers, data stewards and curators who are already involved in selecting and administering PIDS or are interested in learning more about the PID ecosystem and practical issues around adoption and delivery.

The content of the workshop will include a high level overview of the PIDS landscape as well as a deeper dive into issues encountered and best practices in adopting and implementing PIDs at a research institution. This deep dive will include an explanation of adoption models of the most commonly used PIDs including DOIs, ORCID IDs and ROR IDs, as well as an overview of how PIDs are used in research tools and how institutions can incorporate workflows involving PIDs and tools into their research data management infrastructure and workflows.

Methods. The workshop will be divided into three modules. The first part of the workshop will consist of presentations from the three practitioners overviewing various aspects of the topic, and the second part of the workshop will be a hands-on exercise of querying DOI metadata using DataCite APIs and DataCite Commons, followed by the third part, a moderated interactive discussion in a cabaret style layout, providing an opportunity for attendees to reflect on and share their own experiences with and questions about PID delivery and administration, and gain insights from each other and the presenters.

This workshop is organised by Vaida Plankyte and Xiaoli Chen

Workshop 6 - FAIR-by-Design: introducing Skills4EOSC and FAIR-IMPACT resources and support

Focusing on FAIR and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) upskilling, the Skills4EOSC project has developed a FAIR-by-Design Methodology for Learning Materials that aims to ensure high-quality reusable training from both the learners' and trainers’ perspectives. The Skills4EOSC FAIR-by-Design Methodology can be easily adapted to serve as a guideline for designing FAIR digital objects in general including data and research software. FAIR-IMPACT has developed guidelines for recommended metadata standards for research software to ensure it is FAIR and, more recently, has defined a set of 18 metrics that can be used to assess the FAIRness of software.

The main goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to the projects’ resources and show how they can be used to help create a broad range of FAIR by design outputs. We expect this workshop to be of high practical use to participants when it comes to increasing their capacity for supporting the production and reuse of FAIR digital objects. Therefore, it is aimed at any interested stakeholder who would like to become more aware with regards to the FAIR principles in their daily activities by both improving the FAIRness of existing digital objects or employing a FAIR-by-Design approach when developing new digital objects.

The workshop will kick off by introducing the participants to the FAIR-by-Design Methodology and the FAIR-IMPACT recommendation and metrics for software and then focus on their application. A guided example based on FAIR-enabled software digital objects provided as a second use case next to the learning digital objects will be used as an icebreaker. The second part of the workshop will be highly interactive with real-time feedback. Participants will work in small groups to follow the guidelines of the framework and methodology and to dive into the specific considerations and steps needed to enable the different FAIR aspects for a particular class of digital objects. Groups will focus on educational or training resources, and research software, or can opt to work with any other type of digital object they wish to explore.

The objective for the second part is to motivate outside-the-box thinking among the participants thus stimulating a safe, creative environment in which ideas can flow freely and thus help improve the work being done in both projects. In this way, participants can learn how to implement the FAIR-by-Design methodology and use the available outputs and recommendations from both Skills4EOSC and FAIR-IMPACT in their day-to-day practice for various types of digital objects. They will also have the opportunity to share experiences related to other available tools and methods related to the FAIR-IMPACT implementation catalogue that helps identify the tools and solutions most appropriate for different use cases.

Programme:

13.00 - 13.10 - Introduction

13.10 - 13.30 - FAIR-IMPACT Metadata fo research software

13.30 - 13.50 - FAIR-IMPACT FAIR Research Software Metrics

13.50 - 14.30 - Skills4EOSC FAIR-by-Design Methodology

14.30 - 14.50 - Coffee break

14.50 - 15.50 - Put it all into practice and measure the FAIRness of your effort

15.50 - 16.25 - Retrospective: how did it go? - interactive Q&A

16.25 - 16.30 - Discussion and Conclusions

This workshop is organised by Sonja Filiposka