“One of the coolest thing is starting out as a student in the research data management field, being early in my career, and then being able to interact with the same people over time. I feel like I’m kind of growing up as an individual. I feel I can say, hey, you guys made an impact on what I do, and now I can give back.”

“I think you need to express yourself the way you feel you should, because what really matters at this conference is that we’re all interested in making data available, accessible and preserving it, and we shouldn’t feel that we have to sacrifice who we are in part or whole, in order to do our work.  

'Humans of Data' http://codata.org/blog/category/humans-of-data/ is a new art / research intervention project that was launched at International Data Week 2016 (http://www.internationaldataweek.org/), and aims to open up a human conversation through portraits and quotes from individuals from around the world who are part of the research data community.

The Interest Group on Education and Training for the Handling of Research Data (IG-ETHRD) had a bumper turnout at its most recent meeting (P6, Sept 2015), with 99 seats filled and some more people listening from outside.  Clearly the training and skills agenda is an important one which connects directly to building capacity and creating jobs across the research data space.  

Bumper turn-out for the Interest Group on Education and Training for the Handling of Research Data (IG-ETHRD) at RDA Plenary 6!