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Bridging the Gap: Costing Research Data Management for Better Research Outcomes  

In today’s data-driven research landscape, effective Research Data Management (RDM) is more critical than ever. Yet, despite its importance, RDM is often treated as an afterthought in research planning and funding proposals. Essential tasks—such as data documentation, storage, sharing, and long-term preservation—are frequently under-resourced or omitted entirely. This oversight can compromise research quality, hinder data FAIRness and obscure the true extent of data stewardship support…

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Shaping the Future of Research Data Stewardship in Ireland

Two Key Reports Released Research data stewardship is core enabler of engagement with FAIR and Open Data, effective data management and reduction in research waste. As the role of data steward grows in importance, the need for professionalisation and tailored learning pathways has become critical.   Over the past two years Sonraí has engaged in broad consultation across the research community. Conducting 21 interviews with experts…

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Advice from the Data Stewards – Jenny O’Neill

Jenny O’Neill – University College Dublin In this series of short posts we have asked colleagues and peers for their three top tips for effective data management and stewardship. Overtime we hope to build a collection of advice from across the research data ecosystem from data stewards, IT professionals, researchers and all those working with data. Next up is some excellent advice from our project…

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Advice from the Data Stewards – Dr Deborah Thorpe

Dr Deborah Thorpe – University College Cork In this series of short posts we have asked colleagues and peers for their three top tips for effective data management and stewardship. Overtime we hope to build a collection of advice from across the research data ecosystem from data stewards, IT professionals, researchers and all those working with data. Here we share some words of advice from…

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Advice from the Data Stewards – Dr Brendan Palmer

Dr Brendan Palmer In this series of short posts we have asked colleagues and peers for their three top tips for effective data management and stewardship. Overtime we hope to build a collection of advice from across the research data ecosystem from data stewards, IT professionals, researchers and all those working with data. Here we share the first in the series from Dr. Brendan Palmer,…

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Data Stewardship and Sustainability – A Reflection on the CONUL Conference 2023

CONUL established in 1971 is the Consortium of National and University Libraries and is the representative body of research libraries in Ireland and Northern Ireland.  The CONUL Conference is an annual event which this year focused on the theme of sustainability in libraries and included talks posters and workshops aimed at exploring future trends in library design, services, collections, teaching and research. Sustainability in libraries…

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