Data Curation & the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure workshop at the IDCC16 conference, 22 February 2016, Amsterdam
Research data management, and digital curation generally, is becoming a mainstream academic activity. Universities and research institutions are ramping up support and infrastructural provision for it. Funding bodies are strengthening their requirements for it. Visionary researchers and practitioners are tackling the remaining barriers. The success of this transition might be measured in two ways. First, is data recognised as a valuable scholarly output, enjoying the same visibility and prestige afforded to journal papers? Second, is the digital curation infrastructure so well embedded and supported that everyone can use it without a second thought? This year's theme of the 11th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) was 'Visible data, invisible infrastructure', a perfect place for EUDAT to showcase how EUDAT supports the curation of research data, including the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. The EUDAT workshop took place on the 22nd of February 2016...