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Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World

April 14 to 16, 2026

Workshops: Monday, April 13

Registration is now open!

Summit Registration

The RDAP Summit is a three-day event 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 for the RDAP Summit 2026 is Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World. We encourage proposals that explore the strategic thinking, creative problem-solving, and collaborative approaches that make research data services genuinely useful and impactful.

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Schedule at a glance

All times Eastern Daylight Time (-5 UTC)

Mon, April 13

12:00 to
3:00

Workshop 1A:
Building Data Steward Career Pathways: A Persona-Based Approach to Professional Development

Workshop 1B:
Data Danger: Crowdsourcing a Practical Learning Path for Research Data Integrity

3:00 to
6:00

Workshop 2A:
Navigating the Spaces Between Method and Technology with Qualitative Researchers

Workshop 2B: REGISTRATION IS CLOSED WORKSHOP IS FULL
A Gentle, Hands-on Introduction to Containers and Virtual Machines 

Tues, April 14

11:00 to
12:45
Welcome and Keynote
12:45 to
1:00
Break (15 minutes)
1:00 to
2:00
Session 1A
Session 1B
2:00 to
2:30
Break (30 minutes)
2:30 to
3:30
Session 2A
Session 2B
3:30 to
4:00
Break (30 minutes)
4:00 to
5:00
Social: TBD

Wed, April 15

11:00 to
11:50
Social: TBD
12:00 to
1:00
Session 3A
Session 3B
1:00 to
1:15
Break (15 minutes)
1:15 to
2:15
Session 4A
Session 4B
2:15 to
2:45
Break (30 minutes)
2:45 to
3:45
Sessions 5A
Sessions 5B
3:45 to
4:00
Break (15 minutes)
4:00 -
5:00
Social: TBD

Thurs, April 16

11:00 to
11:50
Social: TBD
12:00 to
1:00
Business Meeting
1:00 to
1:15
Break (15 minutes)
1:15 to
2:15
Session 6A
Session 6B
2:15 to
2:45
Break (30 minutes)
2:45 to
3:45
Session 7A
Session 7B
3:45 to
4:00
Break (15 minutes)
4:00 to
5:00
Poster Session

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Keynote

A Discussion with the Data Rescue Project

Talk details coming soon!

Speakers

Lena Bohman is one of the co-founders and steering committee members for the Data Rescue Project. Lena is also one of the leaders of the Save Our Signs project, a crowdsourced archive of National Park Service signs. She is a data and health sciences librarian based in the New York City area, whose work crosses over between academic and hospital librarianship.










Kathleen Burlingame is a cofounder of the Data Rescue Project and manages its discovery portal and back-end database. Kathleen has worked in academic libraries and cultural heritage institutions for almost two decades while leading projects to foster discussion and research exploring critical and ethical issues in metadata. She currently works as the inaugural librarian for Data & Society Research Institute.






Halle Burns is one of the co-founders and steering committee members for the Data Rescue Project. Halle has a background in librarianship, with a focus on data management, curation, and information processing, and is currently the Product and Research Manager for the Public Data Project in the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School.








Lynda Kellam is one of the co-founders and steering committee members of the Data Rescue Project and the Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data & Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Her research focuses on preserving at-risk public data, advancing FAIR principles, and supporting qualitative and mixed-methods research. She serves as the Secretary of IASSIST.


Moderator


Amy L. Nurnberger is one of the cofounders and steering committee members of the Data Rescue Project. She has a background in the pharmaceutical industry and librarianship, and currently serves as the Program Head for Data Management Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. Ms. Nurnberger is affiliated with and is an active member of several professional societies and scientific boards, including the Research Data Alliance where she is a member of Council and a co-chair of the Evaluation of Research and Education and Training on Handling Research Data groups. 

Registration prices


Member Type Presenters Non-Presenters
Member $15 $35
Student/Hardship/Retiree $0 $20
Non-Member  $25 $45
Workshops: $20/per attendee/per workshop

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