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Open Science and Data Management - Mandatory and/or Beneficial?

You are invited to participate in the seminar "Open Science and Data Management - Mandatory and/or Beneficial?" on May 5th at 11 am at Tallinn University of Technology and online via livestream. The event will cover the topic of open science and research data management, which is important for all researchers who want to ensure the reliability and transparency of their research results.

Experts from the University of Leiden, Göttingen, Sheffield, and Helsinki will speak about the principles of open science, opportunities for research data management, and best practices. Representatives from the Estonian Research Council, universities, and the DataCite Estonia Consortium will introduce Estonian perspectives and experiences.

The event program and registration link can be found on the DataCite website. The seminar is free and open to all interested parties. The event will be in English.

You can find the registration link for in-person participation HERE (in-person registration ends on the 26th of April). 

You can find the registration link for Zoom participation HERE (this can be shared with those who only want to participate online).

 

Take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about open science and practical recommendations for better research projects and work management.

Bring your own DMP workshop

According to the Estonian Research Council funding agreement, all the projects that have started from 2022 have to submit a data management plan (DMP) within the first 6 months. Since this will be a new thing for a lot of researchers,  ELIXIR Estonia will be doing a data management writing course for this purpose. This workshop is part of a bigger data management course package aimed at DMP writers.

 “Bring your own DMP workshop” workshop (in English) will be a follow-up to “Open Science and DMP in Estonia” lecture. The face-to-face writing sessions will be held both in Tartu and in Tallinn. In case you need any help with the writing of the DMP part, the 7th of March 2023 (14:00-17:00) session will be held in Tartu and the 16th of March (13:00-16:00) session will be held at Tallinn. 

During the workshop, we will be talking about the theory of different aspects of the DMP and giving more practical advice.  There will be 3-4 30min writing sessions, where you can write most of your DMP. Also, if you have any questions, the organizer will help you as best as they can. 

In case of questions, you can contact ELIXIR Estonia (elixir@ut.ee). 

 

Information about the lecture in Tartu

Date: 7.03.2023

Language: English

Time: 14:00-17:00

Place: Delta, Narva mnt 18 ROOM 1006

Register: the registration is closed

 

Information about the lecture in Tallinn

Date: 16.03.2023

Language: English

Time: 13:00-16:00

Place: Rävala pst 10, 6th floor conference room

Register: the registration is closed

 

We ask you to register responsibly. If you can't attend the lecture, please let us know as soon as possible via email (elixir@ut.ee). 

 

In order to not miss out a course next time, subscribe to our newsletter at https://lists.ut.ee/wws/subscribe/elixir.news?previous_action=edit_list_request 

 

Learning outcomes: 

  • Knows how to write a DMP
  • Knows where to get more information about data management

 

Useful materials: 

FAIR in a Nutshell - 16.02.2023

On the 16th of February 2023, ELIXIR-Estonia will be holding an online data management course in English: FAIR in a Nutshell. This lecture will be a short overview of the FAIR principles and is part of a bigger data management course package aimed at DMP writers and grant applicants.

In recent years, more attention has been put on what researchers do with the data they produce. Especially in Europe (think GDPR), but also everywhere else. The main idea is that when researchers use taxpayers' money, the taxpayers themselves should also have access to the results free of charge. This means that the research should be published in open-access journals, and data should be made publicly available.

Good data management helps to make the whole process of making data reusable easier. In general, you should think about how to manage your data at the beginning and during the project and know what you plan to do with it at the end of the project. However, what is “good data management” exactly is up for debate. The FAIR Principles concentrate on making your data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, so this is a good start. And let’s be honest, some of these things you probably are already doing.

In this course, we will be going over all the FAIR Principles and how they are applied in real life. This way, you will already know what to consider while writing a grant, filling out your data management plan or doing your research.

 

Information about the lecture

Date: 16.02.2023

Language: English

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Place: Zoom, link will be sent a couple of days before the lecture

 

We ask you to register responsibly. If you can't attend the lecture, please let us know as soon as possible via email (elixir@ut.ee).

 

Register: closed

 

In order to not miss out a course next time, subscribe to our newsletter at  https://lists.ut.ee/wws/subscribe/elixir.news?previous_action=edit_list_request

 

Learning outcomes:

  • Understands the importance of a good data management
  • Knows what are the FAIR principles and what they mean
  • Knows how to implement FAIR principles throughout the research project
  • Knows where to get more information about the FAIR Principles

 

Licensing Research Outputs - 25.04.2023

On the 25th of April 2023, ELIXIR-Estonia will hold a data management lecture: Licensing Research Outputs. The course will be held in English and will be held online. 

While doing scientific research, you handle different kinds of research outputs, whether they are produced by you or by somebody else. So, how can you ensure that other people will give you credit when using your produced materials? And how will you know how exactly you can use the resources produced by others? This is a topic that copyright laws handle. 

This lecture will cover what copyright laws do, who has the rights to the materials, and how you can use them. Most of this information is protected with licenses, whether they are meant for figures, data, or software. This lecture will discuss what licenses to use for different materials and what each license covers (this means how people can use the materials). We will also show how exactly you can apply a license to your research outputs. 

 

Information about the lecture

Date: 25.04.2023

Language: English

Time: 10:00-12:00

Place: Zoom, the link will be sent a couple of days before the lecture

Registration is closed.

 

We do ask you to register for the lecture responsibly. If you can’t attend the course, please let us know as soon as possible via email at elixir@ut.ee. 

In order to not miss out a course next time, subscribe to our newsletter at https://lists.ut.ee/wws/subscribe/elixir.news?previous_action=edit_list_request 

 

Learning outcomes for the participants: 

  • Knows what items need a license
  • Knows the restrictions on licensing a dataset
  • Knows what licenses to use for what research output
  • Knows how to apply a license to a research output practically

Data Management Courses in March

Here is a list of data management related courses/webinars taking place in March, 2022. 

Overview of Open Research Europe, the open access publishing platform launched by the European Commission, on 4th of March, 2022. 

More information: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsfuysqzssGN3Ac2HNkKXmNTHQcRmuvz-m 

Data management related webinars by Aalto University in Finland, from March to May. The topics include: data management plans, how to store data, hands on anonymisation, etc. 

More information and registration: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/training-in-research-data-management-and-open-science

Version control for Scientific Research using Git/Github on 11th of March, 2022. 

More information: https://unitn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkdOGvrT0rE9VRG7VjbOTOvbxthg3TwV-p 

How to manage your data well? - Helis Academy can teach you how

What is data management? How to do it well? How to write a data management plan? If you have these questions, then Helis Academy can help you out. They provide a variety of courses and seminars about data management and data stewardship. 

On 17th and 18th of June, they will host a 2-day event, introducing their academy and Data Analysis and Data Stewardship (https://helisacademy.com/en/data-analysis-stewardship)  project with one of its aims to increase the industry readiness in Health and LifeSciences by developing training programmes in line with the knowledge and skills that are required in the industry. Helis is organizing 2 half-day events, filled with informative, interactive sessions:

Day 1: Symposium (17 June 2021)  9.30-13.00 CEST, Online You’ll learn more about the Helis project, the cross-border collaboration programme, how careers in life sciences are stimulated and the Helis domains during keynotes and interactive parallel sessions.  More info: https://helisacademy.com/en/closing-event/symposium

Day 2: Virtual company visits (18 June 2021) 8.30-13 CEST Curious to learn more about the life sciences sector in the Netherlands and Flanders? Join the virtual company visits on 18 June to find out more about the diverse job opportunities and career paths that the life sciences domains offer.  More info: https://helisacademy.com/en/closing-event/student-programme

The data analysis and stewardship pillar of Helis  is organized by DTL/ ELIXIR-NL, VIB/ELIXIR-Belgium, Maastricht University and Eindhoven University of Techonology (TU/e). 

Take part in a Data Management Practices survey

We are inviting all Estonian research community members to take part in a survey about the current data management practices in Estonia.

 

EDIT: The survey will remain open until 10th of October, 2021. 

The survey will remain open until at least the end of July (July 31st, 2021) 10th of October 2021 and should take approximately 30 minutes to fill out. We will randomly pick a couple of lucky people who have participated in the survey to win a goodie bag from us. The survey can be found here: https://survey.ut.ee/index.php/752887?lang=en 

FAIR Data Stewardship – digital data scholarship for wetlab scientists - course in the Netherlands

From 27-29 May, 2019, we will organize the first course in  Data Analysis and Stewardship theme of the Helis Academy:  

FAIR Data Stewardship – digital data scholarship for wetlab scientists

The target audience is wet-lab scientists – from industry and academia – and graduate students in the Life Sciences who wish to improve their digital scholarship on data handling. Some basic experience with programming and scripting languages like python, perl, R, matlab, etc. are an advantage, but not needed.

The course will introduce the trainees to important concepts of data stewardship. We start with a general introduction covering the data life cycle, the FAIR principles and a definition of data stewardship and data stewards. The course is also relevant for Data Stewards who are supporting the life science researchers.

 

We will pass the stages of the data life cycle in more detail in the training modules of this 3 day course.

  • On day one trainees will investigate data management plans, which types are there and how they should be used.
  • On day two the course highlights how to work with data during the research phase, explaining how to create well formatted data which helps in the second module of day two to make data interoperable already during the active research phase.
  • On day three trainees will have an in-depth at persistent identifiers, different use cases and types of identifiers. Finally we are closing the data life cycle by making data fit for sharing, archiving and publishing. 

This course is part of the Data Analysis and Stewardship theme of Helis Academy and is organised by DTL and DTL collaborators. Info about other courses in the theme of Data Analysis and Stewardship can be found on the Helis Academy website and on the Helis Academy page on the DTL website.

You can find all the information, including the full programme and registration possibilities here: https://www.aanmelder.nl/helis-fair-data-stewardship-course