An International Workshop on Research Data Management, November 21, 2014. Research and innovation (R&I) is the lifeblood of development. The EU countries will spend some 71 billion euro for research under the Horizon 2020 program. An enourmous amount of research data gets created, collected, processed and analyzed during the research process and it has to be managed effectively. As the life of research data is far longer than the research projects themselves, preservation of, access to and reuse of research data is of great importance. Effective management of research data requires infrastructure and data repositories as well as policies and standards for metadata, interoperability, knowledge discovery and reuse. Research data management is of paramount importance for Turkey, too. The Supreme Council of Science and Technology (BTYK) decided in its 25th meeting in 2013 to create a model of legal, technical and administrative structure towards bringing together existing public data centers and set up the Turkish Integrated Public Data Center.

This international workshop will therefore be instrumental in shaping the current research data management and data center policies of Turkey. It will bring together both German and Turkish scholars to discuss the issues on research data management, review the best practices already installed in various German universities and institutions and provide insight to set up a similar research data management infrastructure and develop policies on research data and data centers.

The full-day workshop will take place at Hacettepe University’s Culture Center in Sıhhiye, Ankara. Workshop is free to attend and no registration fee is charged. Please register early as the seats are limited.

Workshop Schedule

Date: November 21, 2014
Venue: Hacettepe University Culture Center, Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey

08:30-09:00: Registration and coffee

09:00-09:30: Opening speeches (Dr. Thomas Lier, Director, Goethe-Institut Ankara, Turkey; Prof. Dr. Serap Kurbanoğlu, Hacettepe University Department of Information Management, Ankara, Turkey)

09:30-10:00: Research Data Management: Pushing the Frontiers of Good Research Practice, Prof. Dr. Yaşar Tonta, Hacettepe University Department of Information Management, Ankara, Turkey

10:00-10:30: Research Data Management at the University of Goettingen: Stepping up Research Data Support at the University of Goettingen, Dr. Birgit Schmidt, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-11:30: Research Data Management – Activities at University of Hanover, Dr. Janna Neumann, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Germany

11:30-12:00: Research Data Management at the Regensburg University Library: From the Initial Data Collection to the Data Management Plan, Dr. Rafael Ball, University Library Regensburg, Germany

12:00-12:30: Life Sciences Data Management in a Research Center, Dr. Fuat Akal, Hacettepe University Department of Computer Engineering, Ankara, Turkey

12:30-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-14:30: Is There a Right to Mine (r2m) or Is It a Subject to Licences? Prof. Dr. emeritus Rainer Kuhlen, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany

14:30-15:00: Where is the Data? Research Implications of the “Right to be Forgotten”, Prof. Dr. John N. Gathegi, Visiting Professor, Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Turkey; and Professor, School of Information, University of South Florida, USA

15:00-15:30: DOIs and DataCite – Ways to Participate, Ms. Frauke Ziedorn, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Germany

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-17:00: Roundtable discussion

17:00-18:00: Evaluation and closing

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