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Pipeline Newsletter - August 2025
Welcome to the DCC Pipeline newsletter!
Our monthly newsletter features news updates from the community, information about DCC work and services as well as important dates for your calendar. We hope you enjoy!
At a glance...
In this edition of Pipeline, we announce exciting opportunities to sponsor and support IDCC26 and share a report that introduces updated minimum viable skillsets for different career profiles in open science.
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DCC in focus
Support IDCC26 - Sponsorship Opportunities now open!
Looking to showcase your brand to a global community of data professionals? Tailor-made sponsorship packages and support opportunities are now open for IDCC26.
Why sponsor IDCC:
- Increased brand visibility
- Access to a global community
- Excellent networking opportunities
Check out the IDCC26 sponsorship and support opportunities on our website.
Download our sponsorship brochure
DMP ownership, data retention and PIDs – DMPonline user group meeting
Online: 14:00-15:00 CEST 15 September 2025
Our DMPonline team are hosting a user group meeting exploring the evolving role of Data Management Plans (DMPs). The session will explore the increasingly important topic of DMP data retention and how it intersects with digital preservation, privacy regulation, intellectual property and open science. The team will also share platform updates with the latest on work to implement Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for DMPs.
Learn more and register your place via our website.
RDA Europe/DCC Training
Developing Research Data and Software Management Policies
Next month we will be delivering a series of online training sessions on developing research data and software management policies in partnership with Research Data Alliance Europe.
Liise Lehtsalu, Senior Science Officer at Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe, who will co-lead the workshop programme, shared her thoughts on the upcoming training:
“This workshop gives the participants the opportunity to work on their institutional policy, receive tailored feedback and dedicated time for questions. Successful institutional research data and software management policies are context specific, and we support participants with the development of such policies.”
One ticket can provide up to three places for colleagues from the same organisation on the training course. Book your place now.
Funded projects
Updated Skills4EOSC Catalogue of Open Science career profiles and Minimum Viable Skillsets released
Skills4EOSC has developed a comprehensive map of different career profiles for Open Science, and defined Minimum Viable Skillsets (MVS) for each. This report which was published earlier in June, provides an updated version of the MVS and describes lessons learned from their application. This version also introduces a new MVS for Digital Collections Curators and Scholarly Communication Specialists.
Resource of the month
LIBER Annual Report 2024-2025
LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is made up of around 420 national, university and other libraries across Europe. Earlier this week, LIBER published it’s annual report this week which includes updates from their Research Data Management Working Group, Open Access Working Group and Artificial Intelligence Taskforce.
Learn more about the work of LIBER in the annual report.
From the community
CoreTrustSeal are seeking community feedback
The CoreTrustSeal Board is seeking input on proposed changes to the CTS Requirements that will take effect 2026-2028.
The deadline for feedback is 15 August 2025, find out more and complete the feedback form now.
For your calendar
Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI)
In-person: Aachen, 26-28 August 2025
The second edition of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) will take place from 26 to 28 August 2025 at RWTH Aachen University. CoRDI stands for more knowledge through better use of research data and the resulting added value for society. A broad programme is planned with keynotes, lectures, poster sessions and a market of opportunities.
Open Science Festival '25
In-person: Vienna, 8-9 September 2025
This year the University of Vienna, the OpenAIRE Austrian National Open Access Desk (NOAD), will host the Open Science Festival from 8th to 9th of September 2025, which builds on a concept from the Netherlands.
The Open Science Festival is all about the diversity of open science, how it is practiced, and what value it brings to researchers, universities, and society. Scientists, lecturers, research support staff and decision-makers come together here. It connects those who are already committed to Open Science with those who are looking for an introduction to the topic.
Register now via the Open Science Festival website.
PSDI Showcase Agenda now published
In-person: Birmingham, 17 September 2025
This free one-day event will take place on 17th September 2025 at the Library of Birmingham. It brings together researchers, data stewards, research software engineers, librarians, funders, and infrastructure providers working to improve how physical sciences research data is managed and shared.
Highlights include:
- Opening keynote: The State of Play – PSDI’s Purpose and Progress
- UKRI presentation from Paul Richards on Developing UKRI's research data policy
- Academic perspective with Professor Jacqui Cole
- Live resource demonstrations (Data Revival, Conversion, BioSim, etc.)
- Lightning talks from newly funded PSDI projects
- Community-led discussion on Shaping the Future of PSDI
Register your place now via the PSDI Eventbrite page.
Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) Hybrid Event Launch
In-person: Birmingham, 18 September 2025
CaSDaR is a new project funded by UKRI which intends to provide support for Data Stewards in the UK, advocate for their recognition and build a network that can be sustained beyond the project. DCC is amongst the project’s supporters. The project is being launched in Birmingham this September where you will be able to hear more about its goals and missions, the funding it will be able to provide to support a variety of initiatives, and provide your own input on the project’s direction. In-person attendance is encouraged and bursaries are available to support your travel, but remote registration is also available.
Attendance is free; learn more, and register, via the event page.
First RDA Europe Summit
18 November 2025
RDA Europe’s first annual summit will take place in Paris this November, with the support of RDA France and CNRS. The event will address regional challenges, priorities, and opportunities in research data management and open science and is open to all. Lightning talks and poster contributions are invited.
Read more and find out how to contribute and register at the event page.
...and finally
We are currently in the last few weeks of our work in the Skills4EOSC project which has been ably led by colleagues from GARR in Italy. The project continues over 20 years of work at the DCC in building skills and capacity in digital curation and open research, from DC101 through EOSCPilot and our current training collaboration with RDA Europe (described elsewhere in Pipeline) and many other activities in between. I’m proud of our contributions to this project and of its work more generally. Outputs such as the MVS profiles and the FAIR-by-design methodology have already generated significant interest; the many self-paced courses being made available, and the competence centre network are other noteable sustainable results.
Skills4EOSC gave us the opportunity to work with many partners that we had not had the opportunity to engage with before; many of those partnerships have already resulted in further cooperative activities beyond the project. We were able to share our own knowledge on developing and delivering training in this area, and learn from others who brought their unique skills and expertise.
We have further work planned in the area of skills and capacity for open science and data management and in the meantime you can always engage us to deliver training for your organisation.
Kevin Ashley, DCC Director