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20th International Digital Curation Conference

Tomasz Miksa and Suvini Lai represented the Center for RDM and OSTrails at the IDCC26 in Zagreb.

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Suvini Lai presenting TU Wien’s Data Steward pilot

The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice. The 20th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference took place from 16 to 18 February 2026 in Zagreb, Croatia. The main theme for the conference was “AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation.”

OSTrails workshop

At the IDCC26, opens an external URL in a new window, Tomasz Miksa organised a workshop on OSTrails, opens an external URL in a new window, where he presented the project’s technical work as it comes close to completion. The session introduced the main components Pathways, SKG-IF, FAIR-IF and DMP-IF, including the upcoming DMP Evaluation Service, and showed how they connect. Discussions focused on strengthening the Commons, linking DMPs with repositories and knowledge graphs, aligning FAIR assessments, and addressing practical issues such as data volume, cross-disciplinary workflows and the use of ELNs. Participants offered clear and helpful suggestions for the next project releases, particularly around pathways, architecture elements, and evaluation workflows.

TU Wien's Data Steward pilot

Suvini Lai presented a poster, opens an external URL in a new window on the Data Stewardship pilot at TU Wien. The Data Steward pilot began in October 2025, when the Center for RDM at TU Wien launched a pilot phase introducing Data Stewards across selected faculties. The Faculty of Architecture and Planning and the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation (specifically the Geo Department) are participating in this initial phase. Twelve data stewards, each bringing domain-specific expertise, undergo a structured training programme that combines theoretical foundations with hands-on practice. By sharing our framework at IDCC26, we gathered community feedback on our training approach, discussed scalability to other TU Wien faculties, and contributed to the broader dialogue on building sustainable domain-specific data stewardship models.

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