FAIRDOM has been identified as a promising platform to capture data and metadata, and is also gaining considerable traction across ELIXIR Europe. By deploying FAIRDOM and providing guidance, Research Data Management (RDM) can be introduced as an integral part of any research project, enabling a “FAIR data by design” approach to replace the current ad hoc dissemination approach.
Research Infrastructures (such as ESFRI’s) are characterized by the very significant data volumes they generate and handle but the research data landscape is still fragmented. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) wants to address the current situation including the support of thematic clusters of Pan-European research infrastructures dedicated to the EOSC.
Open Science and Open Data initiatives are currently high on many agendas (e.g. EOSC, FOSB). The implementation of these initiatives rely heavily on the infrastructure and services present. As such, the European Research Infrastructures (ESFRIs) play a central role in this. Many of these infrastructures offer data platforms, tools and services. However, the handling of data in different domains comes with its specific challenges.
This community event gathered all relevant players in the field of Research Data Management in Belgium.
After the successful launch of ELIXIR Belgium in 2017, the first ELIXIR Belgium All Hands Meeting was held on 16 September 2019 in Brussels. The aim of the event was to bring together all stakeholders of ELIXIR Belgium, showcase achievements and plans for the future, as well as provide networking opportunities to meet the people involved.
The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) acts as a consultative body to provide recommendations to the Belgian ELIXIR Node on technical, organizational and strategic matters. During this first meeting, the applications of our Node Services Call 2019 were presented and discussed. Positively evaluated services will be part of the ELIXIR Belgium Service Delivery Plan.
The global COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for rapid and open data exchange to accelerate scientific research. To address this, the European Commission and EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), together with EU Member States and partners such as ELIXIR, have created and now manage the European COVID-19 Data Platform.
In a series of six webinar sessions, experts from ELIXIR and the global Galaxy community from the US, Australia and Europe will demonstrate how open access and open science are fundamental for fast and efficient response to public health crises. The series follows on the first Galaxy-ELIXIR webinar series organised in April-May 2020. It will introduce the latest Galaxy tools developed for working with SARS-CoV-2 data and discuss some of the challenges in accessing, analysing and interpreting them.
This one-day online event is dedicated to research software and research software developers and aims to improve software used for scientific research and share experiences.
The day is composed of two parallel tracks with presentations and workshops on topics like software quality, (cloud) infrastructure, reproducibility and devops. Visit https://www.be-rse.org/rsdd2020 to discover the full program, register for the event or submit a proposal for a presentation or workshop.
The 2021 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2021) will be held online from 28 June to 10 July 2021. Having the event in a virtual format presents many challenges, but also offers opportunities for making it more accessible and affordable than an in-person event. GCC2021 is embracing those opportunities and announces