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Pipeline Newsletter - April 2025
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At a glance...
In this edition of Pipeline, we announce the location for IDCC26, share news about our annual DMPonline community event and highlight a new community resource.
DCC in focus
IDCC26 Location and Date announced
We are pleased to share some exciting news with you. The 20th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC26) will be held in Zagreb, Croatia between 16-18 February 2026.
The conference theme will be AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation. The theme recognises the effect political and economic forces have on digital curation practices. Proposals will be invited to consider how these forces impact the work of the digital curation community and steps we take to stay resilient.
The call for submissions will open mid-May. For more information on the conference theme visit our website.
DMPonline Community Event
Our DMPonline team will be hosting their second annual Community Event online on Tuesday 20 May 2025 from 08:00 UTC to 14:00 UTC. Attendees will hear from users of DMPonline and our development team on topics such as FAIR DMPs. Machine-actionable DMPs and use of our API for statistics.
Register to attend via our website.
DCC Staff News
A belated welcome to Andrea Davanzo who joined us in February to fill a new post as DMPonline service manager. Some Pipeline readers may already have met Andrea as he has been active in attending DCC and other community events from the very start of his time with us.
From the community
Draft UKRI Research Data Policy published
The UK research funder, UKRI, has published a “draft of of a new research data policy”: and is seeking to engage with stakeholders during a consultation period lasting until July. This continues an iterative development process which began with a workshop at IDCC24 organised by UKRI. As well as data, the draft policy also addresses other digital outputs such as code and workflows. See below for a related event to learn more.
Resource of the month
DigiPres Learning Resources Portal
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has designed a new community resource designed to assist digital preservation practitioners in discovering professional development opportunities. The learning resources portal was first developed as part of iPRES 2024.
The DPC team welcomes contributions and updates from anyone in the digital preservation community. Visit their website for more details.
For your calendar
IASSIST 2025 – Join us in Bristol
Bristol, UK: 3-6 June 2025
The 50th annual International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology (IASSIST) conference will take place in Bristol from 3-6 June 2025. The annual conference provides data professionals with a variety of opportunities to participate in discussions about data sharing and management, data access and repository tools, metadata for research data, best practices for preserving data, global resources for information, new technologies, professional development and much more.
We are partnering with EDINA as a Gold Sponsor of this year’s IASSIST Conference! We’ll have a stand at the event and warmly encourage attendees to drop by. Come and meet the team, learn more about what we do, and explore how we support research data management and digital curation across the community. We look forward to seeing you there! Register your place for IASSIST 2025 via their website.
UKRI research data policy webinar
Online: 7 May 2025
UKRI are hosting a webinar for those interested in knowing more about the aims and development of its new draft research data policy (see item above.) The event runs from 09:00 UTC to 11:00 UTC; registration is required and is available here.
Enhancing FAIR and Trustworthy Data Repositories: Insights from the Repositories in the Western Balkan Region
Online: 8 May 2025
This FAIR-Implementation workshop presents the key findings from the FAIR Implementation Support Action conducted at repositories in the Western Balkans. Both institutions involved applied FAIR-IMPACT guidelines to enhance repository transparency, metadata exposure, and stakeholder trust, while facing similar regional challenges.
Learn more and register via the FAIR-IMPACT website.
How do you solve a problem like implementing an ERN?
London and online: 20th May 2025
Our colleagues in PSDI invite you to join them to learn more about challenges, decisions and best practice in the use of electronic lab notebooks (ELNs/ERNs) at a hybrid event later this month. There will be a mixture of presentations and discussion sessions. The event is aimed at those who have adopted ERNs or who are considering their adoption in the near future.
Register in-person here (tickets can also be booked for online attendance).
...and finally
It was with shock and sadness that we learnt of the untimely passing of Cliff Lynch from his colleagues at CNI. Cliff's impact is broad and deep and ranges across many fields but in this short item I will focus on the difference he made to us in the DCC. Cliff showed a keen interest in and support for the work of the DCC from its establishment in 2004. In those early days in particular he did a great deal to draw the attention of a wider audience (in the USA in particular) to its work. His most significant and appreciated support has been his continuous engagement with our annual conference, IDCC.
He has been a member of the programme committee since its inception and has provided input to the conference themes, suggested keynote speakers and helped the programme committee reach difficult decisions during the review process. His most visible, and most popular, contributions were the unscripted summaries he provided at the end of every event which always demonstrated his skill in seeing trends and connections and in making difficult concepts accessible to a wider audience. We believe Cliff was the only person who had attended every IDCC conference; it’s sad to think we will not be able to welcome him again. My thoughts go out to his colleagues and to his wife, Cecilia Preston.
Kevin Ashley
Director of Digital Curation Centre