GrandIR Technical sessions
Technical session: "Advances in Research Data Management in Spain"
(Summary and conclusions report available in PDF format)
Jointly organised with the UPC Library Service (SBD), a new GrandIR workshop on RDM initiatives in Spain was held on May 10th in Barcelona. The technical session took place from 10 to 15 hrs at the Master Classroom (Building A3), UPC Campus Nord. This 4th GrandIR session aimed to discuss the difficulties and the recent advances in setting up institutional initiatives for primary research data management and publication in Spain.
As usual, the session was specifically addressed to the community of research information management professionals working in the area of Open Access and repositories, but when dealing with RDM it is particularly relevant as well to listen to what researchers have to say about their perceived needs in the RDM area along their daily activity. Therefore, the programme for the session joined up research information-focused organisations and professionals and a research-oriented approach. The former was represented by organisations such as the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), which delivered its approach to the European OpenAIREplus Project aimed to enhance the already existing OpenAIRE infrastructure with RDM initiatives based on the 'Enhanced publications' concept, plus the Working Group on Data Repositories funded by Recolecta, while the latter featured presentations by Data Centres such as the Marine Technology Unit's (UTM-CSIC), plus a representation of researchers who provided their vision on what worklines should be followed by RDM organisation for the country.
Technical session on CRIS systems and repositories
(Session live streaming: www.justin.tv/uocstream; twitter hashtag: #grandir3)
A new GrandIR technical session on CRIS systems, institutional repositories and projects for their integration was held on Nov 10th at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Headquarters (Tibadabo Campus). The session was attended representatives from ongoing CRIS/IR integration projects at various institutions. FECYT's CVN Project (Normalised C. Vitae) and SICA2 Project for integrating Research Information Systems at a regional level in Andalusia was highlighted as the result of a greater level of CRIS harmonisation and integration. Finally, an introduction to CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) was presented too, as well as a reflection on its progressive application on the research information systems integration in Europe.
Debate session on STM research data management
On Aug 25th a technical session was organized under the auspices of GrandIR in Zaragoza, Spain, for dealing with management of STM research data, a relatively unexplored field in Spain so far. Along the meeting the current state of development of the Quixote Project was also reviewed as an example of STM data management initiative. Quixote is a pioneering initiative for research data management in Quantum Chemistry in which several Spanish researchers are involved.
Technical session on Open Access and formal introduction of GrandIR
On June 16th the official presentation of GrandIR took place in the framework of a technical session on Open Access. This workshop was held at the Basque Home (Euskal Etxea) in Madrid, and representatives from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPV) and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) took part as speakers in the session.
