RDA and Open Science for Libraries
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international initiative connecting researchers, which is open to both organizations and individuals. Thus, all people engaged in research at the University of Tartu are invited to participate in the activities of the RDA, for whom it is a good opportunity to exchange professional experience and knowledge and to share research data.
Regardless of profession or position, both individuals and organizations interested in sharing and reusing research data can join RDA.
The Value of the Research Data Alliance to Individuals
Any individual, regardless of profession or discipline, with an interest in reducing the barriers to data sharing and re-use and who agrees to RDA’s guiding principles can join the RDA Community and Individual Membership is free of charge.
- Contribute to debates, Recommendations and Outputs
- Become part of the community
- Gain experience and professional development
Currently, the RDA community includes 9,858 people, including 23 Estonians. Joining the RDA community is free and easy: https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register
RDA Estonia activities can be followed in RDA Estonia webpage or in social media (RDA Estonia Facebook; EstoniaRda X).
Starting from September 2020, the University of Tartu Library will follow the recommendation of the RDA in its research data management activities: 23 Things: Libraries for Research Data. The story of the implementation of our recommendations can be read here.
- RDA and DataCite Estonia Consortium seminar 06th of April 2020. Presentations and recording.
Open Science for Libraries
The University of Tartu Library is ready to help other libraries that want to offer the best open science services at their university.
In its activities, the UT Library is based on the recommendations of the RDA: 23 Things: Libraries for Research Data.
Below you can find information on various topics that libraries can use to help researchers simplify the management of research data. Categorization is based on RDA recommendations.
- UT course for doctoral students: Research Data Management and Publishing
- LIBER's Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management
- LIBER's guide: Libraries & Research Data: Towards a new leadership role
- E-learning platform FOSTER which gathers open science training materials
- E-course: Delivering Research Data Management Services. This course is designed for those who support researchers in managing and sharing data (librarians, IT and information professionals, data managers and research administrators)
- A book by RDA The Libraries for Research Data Interest Group: Engaging Researchers with Research Data Management: The Cookbook
- Registry for online learning resources on data management: DMT Clearinghouse
- Identifying Transferable Skills and Competences to Enhance Early-Career Researchers Employability and Competitiveness
- Article: Teaching Research Data Management for Students
- Article: Research Data Management for Master’s Students: From Awareness to Action
- Article: FAIRness Literacy: The Achilles’ Heel of Applying FAIR Principles
- Data documentation guide prepared at the University of Helsinki: Making a research project understandable - Guide for data documentation
- Disciplinary Metadata by DCC
- A registry of FAIRsharing.org standards
- RDA Directory of Metadata Standards
- Obligatory and mandatory metadata by DataCite
- Creative Commons
- Choose an open source license
- GDPR: Isikuandmete töötleja üldjuhend
- LIBER Webinar: GDPR & What It Means For Researchers
- Data Anonymization Tool Amnesia
- FAIRsharing.org General Repository Comparison
- Nature Scientific Data Recommended Data Repositories