We are delighted to welcome Dr Chris Burbidge to the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) team based at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) in his new role as project manager of the National Open Research Forum (NORF). In this role, Chris will support the implementation of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030.
Chris comes to us from iCRAG, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre in Applied Geosciences hosted by University College Dublin, where he built new partnerships in datacentric funding areas. These projects, with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), Géant, HEAnet, the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), plus government, university and industry partners, are continuing to address and support development of NORF objectives on culture, access and stewardship, but especially on enabling research outputs, through infrastructure development, which meet the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR).
Image: Profile of Dr Chris Burbidge
NORF was established in 2017 to drive the Irish agenda for open research. DRI has been the coordinating body for NORF since 2022. NORF’s work includes developing and supporting actions to strengthen, promote, and better support national objectives. Since 2022, DRI has supported NORFin the administration of the NORF Open Research Fund provided by the Higher Education Authority (HEA).
We look forward to working with Chris in his new role supporting Ireland’s transition to an open research environment.
Find out more about DRI staff members on the DRI team page.
NORF is funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research and Innovation and Science through the Higher Education Authority (HEA). It is coordinated by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), which is headquartered under the legal entity of the Royal Irish Academy.
