RSpace Blog

October 1, 2015

Research Data Management News: Weekly Top 5

Research Data Management

Download attachment

associated with this post

top5.1

This is the first of a series of weekly posts listing the most interesting pieces of news relating to research data management I came across the past week — look for future posts, every Thursday, or follow on twitter #rdmtop5!

  1. JLSC issue devoted to ‘Data Sharing, Data Publication and Data Citation’. http://jlsc-pub.org/10/volume/3/issue/2/?utm_content=buffer02c0c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
  2. Kristin Briney’s new book: ‘Data Management for Researchers’ http://dataabinitio.com/?p=566
  3. Michele Claiborne’s article ‘Bigger on the inside:  building Research Data Services at the University of Virginia’ http://insights.uksg.org/article/10.1629/uksg.239/
  4. Griffith University, ‘Librarians as partners in research data service development at Griffith University http://www.researchgate.net/publication/280783226_Librarians_as_partners_in_research_data_service_development_at_Griffith_University
  5. Research Data Alliance, Collection of Use Cases on Repository Platforms for Research Data https://rd-alliance.org/use-cases.html-3.

See you next week!

Rory Macneil

RSpace is an open-source platform that orchestrates research workflows into FAIR data management ecosystems: request a demo or contact us to learn more.

March 24, 2026

RAiD in RSpace: Reporting Research Activities Automatically

Integrations

RSpace version 1.120 introduces native RAiD support, allowing researchers to automatically report research activities to their project's RAiD record. Here's what that means in practice, and why we'd love your feedback.

Read more

March 17, 2026

RSpace is more than an ELN — and now our website says so!

News

RSpace has grown well beyond its ELN roots — it now integrates sample management, research workflow orchestration, and FAIR-enabling infrastructure like persistent identifiers and metadata standards into one cohesive platform. In early March we relaunched researchspace.com with a new look and structure that reflects this evolution across three tightly integrated facets: Research Orchestrator, ELN, and Sample Management.

Read more

January 19, 2026

From ELN to FAIR Research Infrastructure: Our Vision for RSpace

Research Data Management

We kicked off 2026 by presenting RSpace's vision for FAIR data workflows to the Competence Network for Open Science in Poland. The talk explored how vertical interoperability enables seamless data and metadata flow across the research lifecycle. You can find the presentation "RSpace - From Electronic Laboratory Notebook to FAIR Research Data Orchestration” here (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18253482).

Read more

January 9, 2026

2025: A year to remember for RSpace!

News

2025 in review - A reflection on community-driven development of RSpace and an outlook to 2026.

Read more