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• RDAP Summit 2025

  • Start
    2025-03-11
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • End
    2025-03-13
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual
  • Spaces left
    252

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  Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Virtual Summit will be held March 11-13, 2025. Workshops are scheduled for March 10, 2025.

  Registration will close after March 1st.

  • RDAP Summit is for all who work toward management, access, and preservation of research data. 
  • The program includes presentations, lightning talks, panels, keynotes, and workshops. Optional social activities are also offered.
  • The theme of RDAP Summit 2025 is Evolutions in Data Services: Forging Resiliency. The Call for Proposals solicited presentations that explore concepts such as technical, human, and organizational durability and flexibility in response to challenges and changes in research and data service needs. The Call for Proposals is now closed.

  If you have any questions about the Summit, please email: rdapsummit@rdapassociation[dot]org

  

  All RDAP Summit 2025 attendees and participants agree to abide by the RDAP Code of Conduct.

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• Webinar: Mapping your RDM curation skills to historic data: a hands-on introduction to curating analog data

  • When
    2025-04-22
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  (rescheduled) In light of more professional focus on data sharing expectations, some attention has been directed to historic, or legacy, data - leading to questions about how to best preserve and make this data accessible. Historic data in a variety of formats can be found in labs, archives, and offices. Even though not all data can be preserved for all time, this lack of cohesive understanding of what might be lost is unsettling. This becomes more timely as retirements increase from researchers who worked before sharing machine-readable data was commonplace. Researchers have used historic data in a variety of ways, including to repeat a survey or experiment, combine previously collected data into ongoing work, to study changes over time, and to inform future research plans. Librarians possess research data management skills to help researchers manage their historic data, including analog data, and in this workshop participants will learn how to critically review historic datasets (both analog and born-digital), how to create adequate metadata to improve discovery and reuse, and what options are available to preserve it for the long-term.

  Registration open April 7, 2025

  Contact: education@rdapassociation.org

  
  

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