1. Presentation of the project and its activities
RDA NODE SLOVENIA
Presentation of the project and its activities
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2. RDA Node Slovenia - presentation
PURPOSE:
to act as a long-term central contact point between the Research Data Alliance and data practitioners, funding organizations, research agencies and other relevant stakeholders in Slovenia
AIMS:
specific emphasis related to the coordination of the infrastructure development based on internationally recognised standards, e.g. CoreTrustSeal (CTS), and to the development of journal policies as one of the points in the national Action Plan that can impact the rise of data sharing culture
PROJECT DURATION: FEBRUARY 2019 – MAY 2020
PARTNERS: ADP, University of Ljubljana, CLARIN, DARIAH-SI
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3. RDA Node Slovenia – main aims
to foster a wide range of stakeholders across scientific domains in a diverse Slovenian data community and encourage their active engagement in this community;
to represent Slovenian interests in the RDA Interest/Working groups and governing structures;
to raise awareness of RDA activities, events and funding calls while encouraging active involvement of new Slovenian members in RDA activities;
to promote RDA’s nationally relevant outputs, recommendations, and ICT Technical specifications in order to stimulate their adoption in the Slovenian research environment;
to contribute to the implementation of the policy of open access to research data at a national level;
to interact with national research funding bodies, ministries, and other relevant government officials to influence the implementation of an effective and durable open research data policy and digital research agendas;
to promote and support data management best practices, standards and solutions in the Slovenian research area;
to promote data citation, sharing rewards and crediting best practices amongst Slovenian publishers and stimulating the development of journal policies of research data deposit in connection to a paper publication
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4. Workplan of RDA Node Slovenia
Activity 1: Establishment and Coordination of the RDA Node Slovenia
Duration: February 2019 – May 2020
Coordination meetings with relevant stakeholders (quarterly)
Activity 2: Promotion of RDA activities in the Slovenian research space and of RDA Node Slovenia activities globally
Management of the webpage RDA Node Slovenia
Newsletter: informing about the activities and events (promotion)
Promotion of RDA Node Slovenia in the RDA structures
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5. Join the RDA Node Slovenia group!
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6. Workplan of RDA Node Slovenia
Activity 3: Development of an open data journal policy pilot and active promotion of the obligation to access, assess and cite research data
Duration: February 2019 – December 2019
2x meeting with selected scientific Slovenian publishers
Development of “Open Data Journal Policy and Research Data Citation Pilot”
2x meeting with publishers and the main scientific Slovenian funder
Implementation of the “Open Data Journal Policy and Research Data Citation”
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7. Workplan of RDA Node Slovenia
Activity/Month
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Activity 3a: Meetings with publishers (2x) X
Activity 3b: Development of Open Data Journal Policy and Research Data Citation Pilot
Activity 3c: Meetings with publishers and funder (2x)
Activity 3d: Joint event with publishers
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8. Workplan of RDA Node Slovenia
Activity 4: Implementation of National Open Research Data Policy
Duration: February – January 2020
2x meeting with funders
One-day event with funders, researchers and other stakeholders
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9. Workplan of RDA Node Slovenia
Activity/Month
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Activity 4a: Meetings with funders (2x) X
Activity 4b: Event with funders, researchers and other stakeholders
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10. Workplan of RDA Node Slovenia
Activity 5: Establishment of a research culture of data sharing amongst researchers
Duration: March 2019 – May
2x workshop with researchers and support staff
Main event with researchers
Publication of a special scientific journal issue entitled “Open Research Data in Slovenia”
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11. Workplan of RDA Node Slovenia
Activity/Month
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Activity 5a: Workshops with researchers and support staff (2x) X
Activity 5b: Main event with researchers
Activity 5c: Publication of a special journal issue
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