European Expert Curation Network - EOSC EDEN
The EOSC EDEN Project will establish an expert curation network with representation from organisations, repositories (both generalist and specialist), collections, catalogues, and at various digital object type levels. Through this network, we will define and agree upon specific roles and responsibilities for curation tasks, including quality assessments (technical and standards compliance vs. scientific) and value assessments based on the purposes and intra- and cross-disciplinary reuse demands of data and other digital objects. During the EOSC EDEN project, two curation network events will be organised for intensive learning and discussions with curation and digital preservation specialists.
The first European Expert Curation and Digital Preservation Network Bootstrap Workshop
The first network event will take place on October 1st and 2nd, 2025, in Leuven and is organized as a hands-on workshop to:
Lay the foundations of the network.
Share expertise, experiences, and best practices.
Build a collaborative vision for advancing data curation and digital preservation across disciplines and repositories.
See the event announcement and call for applications: Shape the Future of Research Data Curation in Europe!
More information about the emerging network, including details on how to join, will be made available following the first network event in October 2025. In the meantime, if you have any questions or would like to request additional information about the network, please feel free to reach out to us:
📧 Email: pmo.eden@postit.csc.fi
🌐 Website: https://eden-fidelis.eu/
Background and Ambition
Curation is a key factor in securing the digital preservation of digital objects over the long-term and is therefore an essential part of the services offered by most Trusted Digital Repositories (TDRs). Due to the complexity and diversity of research objects, curators need to rely on robust guidelines and established workflows to ensure digital objects are accurately and appropriately cared for. However, due to the continually changing digital and technological landscapes, guidelines and workflows are not sufficient – effective curation requires ongoing knowledge exchange with, and support from peers, to build from a larger experience base. To this end, some repositories and archives are both engaged in and actively support different types of networks. However, there is considerable variation across disciplines and data types when it comes to available network support and how focused these collaborations are on digital preservation and data quality aspects. In addition, national-level curation networks initiatives exist and are being established to build shared knowledge resources, but more extensive, multi-national curation networks can ensure more thorough and persistent enablement of long-term digital preservation.
EOSC EDEN aims to create a curation expert network and will work to facilitate the sustainable embedding of the created curation network into existing organisational contexts to ensure the continued maintenance and extension of the assets produced by the project after its conclusion.