Before joining HEAnet at the end of 2023, I was based in UCD Library for years providing high level supports for researchers in UCD, I prepare guidance on RDM related UCD policies, procedures & resources, review Data Management Plans and provide specific advice on metadata and archiving or publishing of research data. I work closely with colleagues in UCD Research, Research IT, UCD Data Protection, UCD Office of Research Ethics and NovaUCD in relation to intellectual property. I spend a good chunk of my time selling the idea of Open Research and FAIR data to researchers who are already overburdened with an excessive workload. Libraries have been organising and providing access to the world’s information for millennia so I feel we are ideally placed to apply these skills to the world of research data. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1644-1236

First of all, I’m not a data steward. I’m an epidemiologist and a statistician. In these roles I deal with lots of data. I spend most of my time either designing the studies that create it, or analysing it once created – but I also spend lots of time manipulating, organizing, describing, storing, and sharing data. Perhaps I’m a data steward after all.  https://twitter.com/statsepi/status/1627619698891231232 

Leading a university library involves working with a lot of data in terms of day-to-day activities, decision-making and strategic activities.  This can touch on everything from data governance, quality and compliance within the library as well as relating to the scholarly and information resources the library makes available to our stakeholders. Collaboration, integrity and the broader institutional context you are working in are critical for understanding your data and using it to make the best decisions. For the library we also think about Data Stewardship in terms of skills in Data Literacy, Information Literacy and Digital Literacy which form a key part of the training, instruction and supports provided by our team to our community of learners and education providers. 

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Dr Orla Murphy is a board member of the Digital Repository of Ireland. She co-chairs the Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository ACERR representing RPOs and CHIs, including Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Poetry Ireland, and the Education initiatives of the National Museum of Ireland.  She is also Irish national representative on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures strategic working group for social and cultural innovation, SCI.  She also represents Ireland as vice chair of the Scientific Committee of the CoST Association and  is Chair of the CoST SC’s new working group on Open Access.  As Head of the Department of Digital Humanities she has expertise in the heterogeneous datasets generated in Arts and Humanities practice and research.  She has worked with generations of researchers seeking  to create sustainably, openly accessible work. She has experienced the challenges of open research stewardship across the breadth of Arts and Humanities data.  http://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/A014/omurphy

Chris’ qualifications bridge hard science and cultural aspects of data generation, analytics, and management, complemented by a career in academic research and the public sector. At the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre and Instituto Superior Técnico Chris led research projects, exchanges and provision of services on archaeometry, geochronology, radioecology, radiation protection and metrology, including with the International Atomic Energy Agency. During 5 years at the Environmental Protection Agency in Dublin Chris led a team providing accredited radiation monitoring and calibration services, developing infrastructure and research projects and calls, and championing procurement through Covid and the transition of health and safety and quality systems. At iCRAG Chris built new partnerships and develop successful proposals in datacentric funding areas. These projects, with the European Open Science Cloud, Géant, HEAnet, the Irish Centre for High End Computing, plus government, university and industry partners, are continuing to address and support development of National Open Research Forum objectives on culture, access and stewardship, but especially on enabling FAIR research outputs through infrastructure development. Chris has continued to supervise students and interns coming from particle physics to fine arts, to host conferences and to publish and review projects and papers academically across radiation physics, geoscience and cultural heritage. A long standing member of the European Dosimetry Group (EURADOS), Chris is also currently contributing to the Irish Journal of Earth Sciences editorial board at RIA, Irish and UK Quaternary research associations, working groups of the Research Data Alliance plus Géant and EOSC task forces. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-1525