Research Data Alliance

The Research Data Alliance aims to accelerate and facilitate research data sharing and exchange. The work of the Research Data Alliance will primarily be undertaken through its working groups. Participation in working groups and interest groups, starting new working groups, and attendance at the twice-yearly plenary meetings is open to all.

Plenary Meetings

Second Plenary

The second biannual plenary meeting of the RDA will be at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC from 16-18 September 2013

First Plenary and RDA Launch Event

The first plenary meeting and official launch of RDA was held in Gothenburg, Sweden from 18-20 March 2013. 

Access the presentations from the event or watch the webcast courtesy of iCORDI.

Attendees please complete First Plenary Survey

Thank you for your interest in the Research Data Alliance Launch & First Plenary and for contributing to this global initiative! We hope you found it both stimulating and enjoyable! Please complete our survey. Your comments will enable us to better plan and execute future Research Data Alliance Plenary events and tailor them to meet your needs. Click on this link to start the survey

Participate

Participation in the RDA is open to anyone who agrees to the RDA principles. There are several ways to participate in the RDA. Please see the overview here.

Purpose

The purpose of the Research Data Alliance is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables.

Partners

The Research Data Alliance is being brought into existence by an initial three research funding organisations:

• The Australian Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Data Service supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program and the Education Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative
  
• The European Commission through the iCordi project funded under the 7th Framework Program
• The United States of America through the RDA/US activity funded by the National Science Foundation

Contact

If you would like to contact the Research Data Alliance, please email enquiries@rd-alliance.org

If you would like to sign up for regular email updates, please register online.

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