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Pipeline Newsletter - June 2025
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At a glance...
In this edition of Pipeline, we announce a training series collaboration with RDA Europe, share information about IDCC26 call for submissions and introduce our IDCC26 local partner.
DCC in focus
Developing Research Data and Software Management Policies
We are partnering with Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe to host a series of virtual training sessions designed to help organisations develop or update their research data and software management policies. This four-part series includes three virtual workshops and an optional drop-in session offering hands-on learning, with tailored advice and direct feedback from experienced DCC and RDA trainers.
Taking place in July and repeated in September, the course is ideal for anyone in a research support role who is responsible for or interested in developing new research data policies or updating existing ones. Each organisation can enroll up to three team members when purchasing a place on the course.
Book your place via our Eventbrite page
IDCC26 Call for Submissions: Now Open
The 19th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC26) invites submissions across four formats:
- Papers
- Lightning Talks
- Posters
- Workshops
This year’s theme is “AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation.”
Submission deadline: 11 July 2025.
Read more about Call for Submissions on our website.
Let us know if you would like to become IDCC26 reviewer! Reviewers will assess 3–5 submissions, based on their area of expertise, during late July to early August.
IDCC26 Local Partner - SRCE
We are delighted to announce The University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE) as our local partner for IDCC26. SRCE is the primary national e-infrastructure and service provider for Croatia’s research and higher education system.
Find out more about SRCE on our website.
DMPonline attending OSTrails Hackathon
On 27th May, Andrea Davanzo, DMPonline Service Manager, represented DMPonline at the OSTrails hackathon in Vienna. This exciting event focused on developing a Common API for machine-actionable Data Management Plans (#maDMPs).
In his latest blog post, he shares insights from the day and reflections on what this means for the future of DMPs.
Read the full blog post on our website.
Funded projects
Skills4EOSC Poster Voted “Most Effective” at SAM Conference 2025
In May, our Research Data Specialist, Agnes Jasinska, presented and co-authored a poster (available on Zenodo) voted “Most Effective” by conference participants at the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) conference. The poster presented the main outputs related to Science for Policy as part of the Skills4EOSC project.
Read the full article on the Skills4EOSC website.
From the community
FAIR Business Survey Report
The Pistoia Alliance’s FAIR for Business Working Group has delivered a public report of an in-depth survey exploring how FAIR data principles are being adopted and scaled across life science organisations.
The full report can be accessed on the Pistoria Alliance websitehttps://www.pistoiaalliance.org/resource-library/fair-business-survey-report-2024/.
Resource of the month
Free Data Resources for Physical Scientists
The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) has launched a set of free, FAIR-aligned tools designed to help researchers spend less time wrestling with data—and more time doing research.
These tools are built to save time, improve reproducibility, and support better research practices.
Explore the full set of tools on PSDI website.
For your calendar
Exploring Data Curation and Management in Physical Sciences
We are partnering with the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) to run two in-person events in Cambridge and Southampton over the next two months to explore data curation and data management in physical sciences.
The event will highlight PSDI’s work and, importantly, gather community input for identifying future priorities and activities that will support data management and curation in the physical sciences. The event is part of the PSDI UK Roadshow on Data Curation and Data Management in Physical Sciences.
Learn more about and book your place for the Cambridge or Southampton events using the links below:
- Cambridge, 25 June 2025 – visit the Eventbrite webpage.
- Southampton, 8 July 2025 – visit the Eventbrite webpage.
The Sustainability Challenge of Data Storage
Online: 12:00 – 13:30 (CEST), 23 June 2025
UCISA, a member-led professional body for digital practitioners within education, is hosting an online panel discussion aiming to unpack the complex relationship between data storage and sustainability.
Register now via the UCISA website.
Save the date - PSDI Showcase
Birmingham, 17 September 2025
On September 17th PSDI is running a showcase event at Birmingham Library. It will feature introductions to PSDI resources, opportunities for you to share your feedback, and examples of how PSDI is helping researchers tackle real-world data challenges. Save the date now and look out for announcements about registration.
...and finally
The DCC says goodbye today to one of our longest-serving members of staff, Angus Whyte, who is taking early retirement. Angus joined us in 2007 when the DCC had just entered its second phase of funding as a national centre of expertise in digital curation.
Since that time Angus has led or made key contributions to many areas of the DCC’s work. His guidance document "How to Appraise and Select Research Data”, co-authored with Andrew Wilson then of ANDS in Australia, remains relevant 15 years after publication and is still widely used. He has led editorial work on our journal, IJDC, for a number of years and has helped it evolve its publication model and integration with our annual conference, IDCC.
For a few years from 2010 as one of two senior institutional support officers Angus took a lead role in our institutional support programme which assisted many UK universities to develop policies and services for research data, work which we were able to translate into support for research organisations in many other parts of the world. It also informed our self-assessment methodologies RISE and later ACME-FAIR both of which Angus led work on.
Angus has also been central to much of our work on skills profiling and development, including leading the relevant work package in EOSCPilot, contributions to the Terms4FairSkills initiative and the minimum viable skills profiles in Skills4EOSC.
There’s much, much more that could be said. Angus’ deep knowledge of the field and his ability for long-range thinking has informed DCC strategy for many years and I have valued his insight here. Above all, Angus is a pleasure to work with, a sentiment which I know is shared by many of our collaborators around the world and here at home. We wish him well as he pursues new interests in retirement.
Kevin Ashley
Director of Digital Curation Centre