Survey

Funding challenges for Long-Term Data Retention [Survey Open]

Short survey on funding challenges for research data retention and long-term digital preservation

We invite you to participate in a short survey on funding challenges for research data retention and long-term digital preservation, designed by the EOSC-A Long-Term Data Retention Task Force to gather community feedback.

The survey is aimed at professionals working in repositories, archives, research infrastructures, libraries, research organisations, data centres, and related fields.

Estimated completion time: 5–8 minutes
Open until: 30 November 2026
Survey Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc42PyQNgutk_eri4dSOvz-Au9mvLVtHTzKc3KmX_CRz586Ag/viewform?usp=dialog

DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity WG [Call for Participants; Survey open]

DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity WG issues a call for participants

The working group DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity (VMI working group) aims to create a central point of contact for European researchers interested in the use of visual media, whether as the central theme of their studies or as a means of advancing their research and dissemination activities. This objective involves raising awareness of the tools available and contributing to the development or customisation of new visual and annotation tools; offering training opportunities; and identifying examples of best practice or success stories.

In order to strengthen and connect these communities, the VMI working group invites researchers engaged in work on visual or audiovisual corpora to complete the (short) survey below and to share it widely.

https://groupes.renater.fr/limesurvey/index.php/522643?lang=fr

You are also welcome to get involved in the working group (a one-day seminar is currently being organised for 4 February 2027 and will take place in Tours, France), so please do not hesitate to contact us!

Visual Media and Interactivity

EOSC.ie launches Service Provider Survey [Closes 12 Oct]

EOSC Ireland launches a Service Provider Readiness Survey to map the national research service landscape.

Please complete this survey if you run any research services.

Purpose: The data gathered will help us accurately understand the preparations needed for future EOSC Ireland service onboarding to make them discoverable and accessible. It will also guide the approach to subsequent deeper layers of technical service integrations which may be needed across areas such as login (AAI), metadata standards, and protocols to make services interoperable.

Full info on scoping and survey context are available on the survey form. We also strongly encourage you to forward this email directly to relevant colleagues and contacts operating research services across different scientific domains to ensure we get a full and comprehensive picture.

Survey Details & Deadlines:

Follow-on Service Provider Readiness Workshop:

We will run a follow-on workshop via MS Teams on Monday, 19 October, 10:00–12:00 IST. Please join us and share this invitation with other relevant service providers.

Support

Questions and support on the survey or workshop can be sent to responsible EOSC Ireland project member: gavin.farrell@ul.ie

Europeana Foundation – citation survey [Closes 18th Sept]

Europeana Foundation – citation survey

At the Europeana Foundation, we are keen to facilitate the access and reuse of the data we make available via Europeana.eu and via our APIs.

We have recently focused on data citation.

We would greatly appreciate your response to a quick survey to better understand how data is cited and reused in academia and research: https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/m6D6VU

Your input will be crucial in helping us support research workflows through the development of tools and services in the common European data space for cultural heritage.

n addition to informing technical improvements, your response may help us define recommendations and good practices for the cultural heritage sector.

The survey contains a maximum of 16 questions and should take around 10 minutes to complete.

Please share your input by Friday, 18 September!

Link to the survey:

https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/m6D6VU

Survey on research (meta)data quality [EOSC-EDEN]

Survey on research (meta)data quality [EOSC-EDEN]

Have you encountered any issues when it comes to sharing, finding, accessing, and working with research data? If you are: 

  • a researcher who works with data on a daily basis, 
  • a professional who manages or curates research data 
  • a professional who works with the technical infrastructure required for managing or curating research data,

then your perspective on the future of FAIR long-term data preservation is invaluable. 

We invite you to fill out a survey that investigates how research communities work with research data, and how data archives and repositories work with the different aspects that contribute to the quality of research (meta)data

The Horizon Europe-funded EOSC EDEN project investigates and develops strategies for curation and long-term preservation of research data. One important aspect of the project is to collect insights from researchers and preservation professionals, with the aim of turning identified challenges into actionable improvements. Your professional insights will support our work on:

  • Improving and standardising curation and preservation practices
  • Developing the services and tools needed to enhance digital preservation strategies
  • Enabling the reusability of research data
  • Bridging knowledge across disciplines
  • Equipping researchers with the knowledge to answer central research questions

Whether you work at a repository or in research, in a large organisation or a small team, and whatever your discipline or career stage, we would like to hear from you. Multiple responses from the same organisation are welcome, and we encourage you to share information about the survey with your professional networks. 

Filling out the survey should take between 20-30 minutes to complete, and we will keep it open until Monday, 31st August, 2026. 

You can find the survey here: https://nettskjema.no/a/eosc-eden-survey-2026.

For any questions about the survey or the work of EOSC EDEN, please contact Helene N. Andreassen (Project Task Lead) at helene.n.andreassen@uit.no.

Thank you for sharing your experience — your contribution is greatly valued!