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This special edition of the podcast is dedicated to remembering Sarah Jones, a much loved leader of the RDM community who passed away in December.  The conversation between several people who knew Sarah well includes their personal memories of Sarah as well as reflections on her many important contributions to the development of RDM and Open Science.

This week on the FAIR Data Podcast, Rory is joined by CJ Woodford, World Data System International Technology Office Research Associate with Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria.  

CJ and Rory kick off the discussion with a look at the evolution of Data Commons and CJ shares details regarding the inception of the Global Open Research Commons international model (GORC), as well as the main objectives of the working group involved in its development.  

While discussing his own involvement in the project, CJ mentions some of the challenges and lessons encountered along the way, including issues surrounding transparency and accessibility. Rory and CJ go on to look at some of the core components of the GORC model, and the ways in which they were sub-categorized and sorted during the structuring of the model.  

Support for the GORC model is rapidly growing, e.g. a description of REASON, a proposed research commons for Norway based on the GORC, model, has just been published at https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10410201.

Join us for this illuminating discussion and learn more about the GORC model, undoubtedly a major leap in the realm of research data commons with the potential for great impact!

This week, join Rory and Lena Karvovskaya, Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Science Community Manager at VU Amsterdam, for a dive into the research data infrastructure at VU Amsterdam and within the Netherlands.

Learn about the organization and integration of various departments to coordinate and execute research data management activities at VU Amsterdam. Join us for a look at some of the interesting opportunities for collaboration and activities that serve to advance open science initiatives!

In this episode, Rory and Vaida Plankyte, Product Manager and Design Lead at ResearchSpace, discuss the recent RDA plenary in Salzburg!

Join us for key takeaways, a breakdown of the conference, and a discussion about some of the more illuminating conversations and presentations that took place in this exciting week!

Register for the upcoming webinar on PIDs for Instruments featuring Rory and Vaida, alongside Rolf Krahl and Marcus Stocker:

https://helmholtz-berlin-de.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u50kdeyhqzsuGdHgbcPU9A5DtwwLVdPUFC1t

The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) held the International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data, which took place on 23–26 October 2023, in Salzburg, Austria and online.

Join us for another episode focused on PIDS, featuring Alicia Gómez and Elise Harder.

Alicia recently moved from her role as Head of Scientometrics and Data Visualization at the Vienna University of Technology to IE University as Library Director.

Elise is currently in an on-going role as Head of PIDs at the TU Wien Library.

From the implementation and uptake of PIDs and PID related services by researchers to the challenges in doing so, Elise and Alicia share their expertise and experience in the realm of PIDs. As the conversation progresses, Rory, Elise, and Alicia, also move to discuss the implementation of PIDs on local, national, and international levels. Join us and learn about organizations and upcoming events that serve to advance the implementation of PIDs!

Welcome to the FAIR Data Podcast!


Today we have Lina Sitz and Anna Pirani join Rory to discuss some of the
interesting issues faced and addressed in their latest project at the IPCC. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.



Starting off with brief introductions, Anna and Lina give us a high-level overview of the IPCC and its role and impact. Anna and Rory also discuss the human resources aspect of their work and how they made their choices regarding team selection and resource allocation and Lina elaborates on some challenges they faced and how they overcame them through guidance and training.

 

In addition, Anna mentions some of the infrastructure that
supports their work. The pair reflect on some of the lessons they learned along the way and how they helped to refine their workflow and amplify their impact.



Join us to learn more about the relationship between data
management and climate change!