Join Joseph Gum, team member for the Repository Crisis Scorecard research project, and WDS’s Reyna Broadhurst and Meredith Goins for a hands-on workshop to help repositories evaluate their resilience during normal operations.

WDS calls on all data repositories to join us for this two-hour workshop on Thursday, 5 February, from 10:00 to noon PT | 13:00 to 15:00 ET |18:00 to 20:00 UTC to learn more about the scorecard, begin completing it, and discuss insights and questions that came up during the quiet individual work.

Two 1-hour office hours will be held two weeks later, on Thursday, 19 February, at 5:00 PT | 8:00 ET | 13:00 UTC and again at 11:00 PT | 14:00 ET | 19:00 UTC to help individuals who need more time and further assistance in completing their scorecard.

Repositories that complete the survey and submit their feedback can request a stipend of up to USD 50.

Agenda includes:

• • Welcome
  • WDS rationale for involvement
  • Introduction
    • Background of the project
    • Purpose of the project
    • Stipend/honoraria information
  • Survey walkthrough
  • Q&A
  • Quiet individual work
  • Discussion
  • Closing

To  learn more about the RCS Project, please see:  

• • RCS Project: https://www.esipfed.org/repository-resilience/ 
  • Survey: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8495929/Repository-Crisis-Scorecards-Submission  
  • Full RCS Instructions on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15122045   

• • 19 February, at 11:00 PT | 14:00 ET | 19:00 UTC

Celebrate International Love Data Week with WDS!
Join our expert panel—featuring speakers from Research Organization Registry (ROR), DataCite, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), and Worldwide Protein DataBank (wwPDB)—to explore how persistent identifiers (PIDs) strengthen trust and facilitate discovery in research data.

To accommodate our global community, we’re hosting two sessions at different time zones:

• Europe-Americas Session:
  Scheduled for 10 February at 19:00 UTC, featuring a use case from our valued member wwPDB, highlighting their experiences with PIDs for data discoverability and integrity.

• Asia-Oceania Session:
  Scheduled for 10 February at 23:00 UTC (11 February, 8:00 AM KST / 7:00 AM CST), with a use case from another valued member, KISTI. This presentation will cover benefits, challenges, solutions adopted, and lessons learned from implementing PIDs in their workflows. 

Both sessions will present real-world experiences, practical guidance, and opportunities for Q&A—supporting data professionals, librarians, research managers, and repository staff in integrating PIDs into their workflows.

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