Research Data Alliance: an overview Donatella Castelli CNR-ISTI CC BY-SA 4. "FAIR DATA MANAGEMENT: BEST PRACTICES AND OPEN ISSUES", FLORENCE, 14-15 NOVEMBER 2016
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Research Data Alliance:
an overview Donatella Castelli
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RDA in a nutshell What is RDA? Why an RDA? What is it all about? Who can join RDA? What has it produced so far?
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What is RDA?RDA is an international member based organization focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data driven innovation worldwide
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115 countries
4,500 members
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Why a Research Data Alliance?
VisionResearchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society
RDA MissionRDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data
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RDA Funders
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What does RDA do?
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Experts and Data practitioners come together in self-formed, volunteer, focussed
RDA Working and Interest Groups to overcome concrete hurdles
e.g. Reproducibility, Data Preservation, Best practices for domain repositories, Legal interoperability, Data citation, Metadata, Data type registries, Education & Training on Research Data
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Who Can Join RDA?Any individual or organization, regardless of profession or discipline, with an interest in reducing the barriers to data sharing and re-use and who agrees to RDA’s guiding principles
Individual Membership is free @ https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register
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46 Organisational & 6 Affiliate Members
4527 Individual RDA Members
RDA worldwide growth
115 Countries
Total RDA community members 4527
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Who is RDA?
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Organisational & Affiliate Members
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46 RDA Organisational and 6 Affiliate Members
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Working Groups (WG) “focused effort and tangible progress” for which roughly 12-18 months of work can eliminate a roadblock for a substantial community or have substantive applicability to particular segments of the data community
Interest Group (IGs) “common issues and interests” for which longer-term collaboration is needed. Often established prior to a Working Group for community discussion.
RDA Working & Interest Groups
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WG related workflow
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RDA Recommendations & Outputs (official and endorsed results)
Adoption Use cases
Outcome release
Proposal submission
Review by TAB
Review by Council
Start of WG Activities
Through remote collaboration tools & f2f meetings at RDA plenaries
15 flagship recommendations
with over 75 cases of adoption
in different domains,
organisations and countries
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Domain Science - focusedAgrisemantics WGBioSharing Registry: connecting data policies, standards & databases in life sciences WGFisheries Data Interoperability WGOn-Farm Data Sharing (OFDS) Working GroupRice Data Interoperability WGWheat Data Interoperability WGAgriculture Data IG (IGAD)Biodiversity Data Integration IGChemistry Research Data IG
Geospatial IGHealth Data IGStructural Biology IGQuality of Urban Life IGMarine Data Harmonization IGMetabolomics Data Interoperability IGDigital Practices in History and Ethnography IGRDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community IGGlobal Water Information IG
RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (1)
Community Needs - focusedRDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World WGTeaching TDM on Education and Skill Development WGArchives & Records Professionals for Research Data IG
Data for Development IGDevelopment of Cloud Computing Capacity and Education in Developing World Research IGEducation and Training on handling of research data IGEngagement IGEthics and Social Aspects of Data IG
Total 72 groups: 27 Working Groups &
45 Interest Groups
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Reference and Sharing - focusedData Citation WGData Description Registry Interoperability WGData Security and Trust WGEmpirical Humanities Metadata WGRDA / WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics WGResearch Data Collections WG
QoS-DataLC Definitions WGInternational Materials Resource Registries WGNational Data Services IGRDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IGReproducibility IGNew Paradigms for Data Discovery IG
Partnership GroupsRDA / TDWG Metadata Standards for attribution of physical and digital collections stewardshipRDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets WGRDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange Working GroupRepository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WG
RDA/WDS Publishing Data IGELIXIR Bridging Force IG
RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (2)
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Total 72 groups: 27 Working Groups &
45 Interest Groups
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Data Stewardship and Services – focusedBrokering Framework WGBrokering Governance WGRDA / WDS Publishing Data Services WGRDA / WDS Publishing Data Workflows WGActive Data Management Plans IGData in Context IGData Rescue IGDomain Repositories IG
Libraries for Research Data IGLong tail of research data IGPreservation e-Infrastructure IGRDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IGRDA/WDS Publishing Data Cost Recovery for Data Centres IGRepository Platforms for Research Data IGResearch Data Provenance IGVirtual Research Environments IG
Base Infrastructure – focusedArray Database WGData Foundation and Terminology WGData Type Registries WGMetadata Standards Catalog WGMetadata Standards Directory WGPID Information Types WGPractical Policy WGData Fabric IG
Data Foundations and Terminology IGFederated Identity Management IGService Management IGVocabulary Services IGData in Context IGBig Data IGBrokering IGMetadata IGPID IG
RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (3)
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Total 72 groups: 27 Working Groups &
45 Interest Groups
What are Plenary Meetings?Working meetings of RDA Working & Interest groups and new potential groups through Birds of a Feather meetings Outputs and Adoption cases presentation
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1. Gothenburg, Sweden (2013)2. Washington DC, US (2013)3. Dublin, Ireland (2014)4. Amsterdam,
The Netherlands (2014)5. San Diego (CA), US (2015)6. Paris, France (2015)7. Tokyo, Japan (2016)8. Denver (CO), US (2016)
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Host collocated or associated events on 3rd, 4th or 7th (PM) – Applications open until 27 Nov 2016 17:00 CET https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/ninth-plenary/rda-9th-plenary-collocated-associated-events
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RDA-Europe: the European plug-in to RDA
• RDA Europe Forum • RDA Europe Science Workshops • RDA Europe national & pan-
European outreach • RDA Europe policy report
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Supports RDA global and brings European voice to
the table
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RDA in a Nutshell
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