In this edition of our monthly bulletin you’ll find all the take aways of the European Open Science Cloud workshop, jointly organised by EUDAT, LIBER, OPENAIRE, GÉANT & EGI on 5th February 2016 in Rome. The Rome event also presented the first opportunity for the EUDAT data pilots to meet each other: if you haven't done it yet, download the data pilots booklet to learn about the major challenges  these communities are facing and how EUDAT is supporting them. Finally have a look at the training workshop material prepared for the 11th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC).
This week we are in Tokyo... if you are in Japan do not miss the EUDAT/ROIS Collaborative Data Infrastructure Workshop, 3 March 2016 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CET.

Policy, Governance and Implementation: 3 pillars of the European Open Science Cloud Recommendations

The recent workshop on the European Open Science Cloud for Research held in Rome on 5th February, heard from many parties with a vested interest in the shape of this initiative. Participants included key stakeholders from service providers, data centre managers, government representatives and policy makers to research community and infrastructure representatives. Each and every one central to the discussion which focused on the policy and governance aspects...

EUDAT keeps engaging communities: All you need to know on the EUDAT data pilots

One of EUDAT’s main ambitions is to bridge the gap between research infrastructures and e-Infrastructures through an active engagement strategy. EUDAT is privileged to have close and collaborative relations with its long-standing partner communities. However, EUDAT invests in finding new communities and discusses their ideas and needs for research data management and supports them to solve their problems. In this respect EUDAT is very satisfied that the last call for Data Pilots was very successful in bringing in pilots from a large variety of disciplines and organizations...

Data Curation & the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure workshop at the IDCC16 conference, 22 February 2016, Amsterdam

This year's theme of the 11 th  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. The aim of the workshop was to present and discuss the EUDAT collaborative data infrastructure, with an emphasis on curation aspects...

EUDAT/ROIS Collaborative Data Infrastructure Workshop, 3 March 2016 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Tokyo, Japan

The European Data Infrastructure (EUDAT) and the Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) in Japan discuss the international cooperation for Collaborative Data Infrastructure. This co-located event is approached from the viewpoint of infrastructure builder, domain researcher, and data provider.  EUDAT participation in this workshop includes contributions from two of its user communities EISCAT and CLARIN...