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Research Data Management in IR at ESSIR 2025

Our colleague Florina Piroi introduced the summer school participants to the basic RDM concepts.

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Florina Piroi presenting at the summer school in Wolverhampton.

From 7 to 11 July 2025, the 16th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR), opens an external URL in a new window took place in Wolverhampton, UK. Our team member, Florina Piroi, has been invited to deliver a lecture on Research Data Management for Information Retrieval (IR). Participants of the Summer School were PhD students and established researchers in the domain.

The topic is particularly relevant to IR researchers from at least two points of view. First, data plays a central role in the IR field, with retrieval methods designed to find pieces of information in various volumes of data. Second, despite requirements for being able to reproduce IR systems to make them comparable to each other, IR researchers do not consistently apply RDM practices in their work, mostly due to a lack of awareness of the need for RDM.

In her presentation, Florina Piroi covered the main ingredients of the RDM processes, highlighting the importance of planning how data is to be handled already in the early phases of any research endeavour. Another key topic covered was the introduction to the FAIR principles, which can be seen as a set of guidelines to achieve better reproducibility of research. Presenting examples from her research career in Computer Science and showcasing RDM tools available at TU Wien, she gave the school participants a set of recommendations on how to improve their researcher impact with RDM.

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