The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) was held in Melbourne Australia from February 6th-8th, 2019. The intended audience of the conference is anyone who is interested in curating digital materials for posterity. Personally, I had never heard of the conference but was found it intriguing as I am a PhD candidate working with historical Hawaiian language text documents.

An increase in data is leading to the creation of a data generalist role and a need for better data sharing. A report of the 5th Better Science Through Better Data conference.

This article was my winning entry to the Better Science Through Better Data - Early Career Researcher writing competition 2018.

In this blog I discuss the benefits/truth of joining the CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science. Taking part of the school both as a student and a helper allowed me to see how the school helped me and what it did for others.