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‘A Decade of Data’
RDA Launches Year-long Commemoration of its 10th Anniversary
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Gothenburg, Sweden 21-23 March 2023
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RDA STATEMENT ON UKRAINE:

 The Research Data Alliance is a global organization with over 12,800 members from 148 countries, and is built on principles that include openness, inclusivity and transparency.
The Council is the main governing body of RDA, and would like to express its concern and sympathy for our colleagues and fellow researchers in Ukraine,
as we join other organizations across the international research community in calling for a quick and peaceful resolution to the crisis. 


News & Events

RDA Announces New Members to Technical Advisory Bo...

28/02/2023

RDA is pleased to announce the following people have been elected to serve on the RDA Technical Advisory Board:

RDA Speed Networking Event

15/02/2023

Are you interested in meeting more people involved in research data? Join us for the first Research Data Alliance (RDA) Speed Networking Online Event. Have fun chatting with others in the Research Data community – colleagues both old and new. All are welcome.  

RDA 20th Plenary final programme & pathways av...

28/02/2023

The final programme & pathways for the Research Data Alliance 20th Plenary (RDA P20) meeting is now a

Research Data Alliance Commemorates 10th Anniversa...

28/02/2023

This month, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) launched a year-long commemoration of its 10th anniversary. Celebrating ‘A Decade of Data’, the organization will host a variety of international and regional events and activities throughout the year to reflect on its achievements...

RDA / EOSC Future Call for Optimising (RDA) Open S...

20/02/2023

EOSC Future

RDA P20 Registration Is Open!

28/02/2023

We are delighted to announce Early Bird registration for the Research Data Alliance 20th Plenary is now open!

Global research Commons: Europe and beyond

20/03/2023

RDA and EOSC Future are pleased to collaborate on a half-day satellite event in conjunction with the RDA 20th Plenary Meeting

 “Building blocks of Global Research Commons: Europe and beyond”

Community Cross-fertilisation Workshop: RDA for FA...

23/02/2023

Community Cross-fertilisation Workshop: RDA for FAIR 

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RDA Speed Networking Event

15/02/2023

Are you interested in meeting more people involved in research data? Join us for the first Research Data Alliance (RDA) Speed Networking Online Event. Have fun chatting with others in the Research Data community – colleagues both old and new. All are welcome.  

FAIRPoints 'Ask me Anything' Webinar: Id...

FAIRPoints ‘Ask me Anything’ (AMA) Webinar: Identi...

26/01/2023

This event is part of a series of "Ask Me Anything"-style events featuring keynote speakers from the RDA and EOSC.

Webinar: “What is a chemical? User Perspectives on...

08/12/2022

Thursday 8 December, 2022 – 11:00 AM EST | 8:00 AM PST | 5:00 PM CET

EOSC Webinar! Pan-European digital assets supporti...

29/11/2022

EOSC Future-INFRAEOSC-07 use case webinar – Pan-European digital assets supporting research communities: Benefits & opportunities

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  • The Velvet Evolution of EOSC
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Workshop: Improving the Quality and Utility of Published Data Availability Statements

By: Data Repository Attributes WG

Dear group members, With apologies for cross-posting, I thought this pre-RDA workshop might be of interest to you in particular publisher representatives in this group.
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RECOMMENDATIONS & OUTPUTS
 

RDA Outputs are the technical and social infrastructure solutions that enable data sharing, exchange and interoperability

 

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Latest Output

Metadata Standards Catalog WG Final Report

Adoption Stories

39 Hints to Facilitate the Use of Semantics for Data on Agriculture the Nutrition

https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-disciplines/rda-europe-ambassadorsThe Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) adoption story. 

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The Value of RDA for Regions

 

An RDA Region is loosely defined as a “national level” geographic entity or consortium of “national-level” entities, and is intended to be broadly representative.

 

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News from the Regions

20/11/2022 - European support for RDA returns with...

The European

12/09/2022 - Contribute to the EOSC Symposium 2022...

Last year, the Council of Europe defined the specific policy priorities of 20

28/09/2020 - How to Manage Research Data. The hand...

Europe

As part of the RDA Europe 4.0 project, SRCE - University of Zagreb University Computing Centre become the Croatian national RDA node in 2019. In cooperation with the librarians from the University of Rijeka Library, the University of Split Library, the City and University Library Osijek, and the National and University Library in Zagreb, the handbook for researchers was prepared on how to handle research data for their efficient sharing and reuse.

11/09/2020 - Data, data – Big Data! And What? Rese...

Europe

The idea of ​​open access to research data is wonderful and in harmony with the new paradigm - Open Science. Access to the data is possible for all researchers, system-administrators, pupils and their parents to make unexpected discoveries undiscovered by routine analysis. The dynamics of knowledge acquisition is a complex process whose laws we do not know well yet, and curiosity often does not lead to interesting knowledge (curiosity-driven science ).

The important activity of RDA Bulgarian Node is to persuade large data users to accept proposed standards for data collection, storage and recovery in order to make their exchange possible and useful.

21/08/2020 - CARE principles for Indigenous Data G...

Australia

The work of the RDA Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group is cited as part of CSIRO's contribution to the Indigenous Evaluation Strategy of the Australian Government, referring to the CARE principles for Indigenous data governance released by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance Group

22/07/2020 - The RDA Community called to contribut...

Europe

On 20th July, the EOSC Executive Board published an open consultation on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The consultation, which closes on 31st of August 2020, asks for the input of EOSC communities and beyond in setting out the future vision of the European Open Science Cloud.

03/06/2020 - Take part in the TRIPLE survey to sup...

Europe

The TRIPLE projectis inviting all RDA members to take part in its User Research Survey

18/05/2020 - Survey of Open Access (OA) Open Scien...

Europe

OA & OS Infrastructure (OSI) is defined as sets of services, protocols, standards and software contributing to the research lifecycle – from collaboration and experimentation through data collection and storage, data organization, data analysis and computation, authorship, submission, review and annotation, copyediting, publishing, archiving, citation, discovery and more (IOI definition). The purpose of this survey, commissioned by SPARC Europe, is to gather information on established (operating for at least 2 years) international, national or regional OA & OS infrastructures.

12/05/2020 - The Research Data Alliance contributi...

Europe

The RDA platform is being significantly leveraged in the creation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). A report issued by RDA Europe 4.0 project describes the key finding from a survey conducted amongst 22 current, EOSC-related projects. 

27/02/2020 - Persistent Identifier Policy, Rules o...

Europe

Several documents are out for consultation from the EOSC Executive Board, a body of representatives from the research and e-infrastructures communities, appointed by the European Commission. If you have missed these, please check out the following links:

18/11/2019 - EOSC meets the research data internat...

Europe

On the 22nd of October 2019, the University of Aalto, Helsinki, Finland hosted the first EOSC event of 2019: The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC. The event was organised by EOSCSecretariat.eu, the H2020 project mandated to support the EOSC Governance, in collaboration with the EOSC Executive Board and the Research Data Alliance (RDA).

07/11/2019 - RDA EU Travel grants for the 15th RDA...

Europe

RDA Europe is offering up to 7 Early Careers and 5 Experts grants designed to support participation to the 15th RDA Plenary meeting (18-20 March 2020, Melbourne, Australia). The submission deadline for both is the 3rd of February 2020, 17:00 CET.

29/08/2019 - FAIRsFAIR Open Consultation on FAIR D...

Europe

The FAIR principles are about making research data Findabl

18/07/2019 - Position open for a Research Developm...

US

The University of Arizona, one of RDA Organizational Members,  is seeking to fill a Research Development Associate (RDA) in Research Development Services (RDS).

17/07/2019 - Final call for European Organisations...

Europe

RDA Europe, the European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance, is expanding its network of  national nodes. Currently nineteen, (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK) the national nodes aim to foster adoption of RDA outputs in the region.

10/07/2019 - Research Data Alliance meet and greet...

Australia

Ahead of the first Australian RDA plenary in 2020, the RDA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are collaborating to present an “RDA meet and greet tour” in Australia from 22 July to 8 August. The tour provides an opportunity to find out more about the work of RDA and to meet Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Secretary General. 

04/07/2019 - Vacancy: Head of Data Services for Wa...

US

Recruitment has begun for the position of Head of Data Services for Washington University Libraries. The incumbent will report to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services. Review of applications will begin on July 15, and continue until the position is filled.

21/05/2019 - RDA EU Ambassadors deadline extended:...

Europe

RDA EU Ambassadors Grants Call for applications: deadline extended until May 27, 2019.

28/03/2019 - Data Management Plans (DMP) Community...

Australia and Oceania

This Data Management Plans (DMP) Community of Practice is targeted at people in Australia and the wider Oceania region who are interested in discussing, building and improving data management plans (DMPs) best practice and technical tools. Liz Stokes from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) will initially co-ordinate the group. The first meeting for 2019 is on Tuesday, 9 Apr 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 AEST.

07/03/2019 - Services to Support FAIR Data: a seri...

Europe

OpenAIRE, RDA Europe, FAIRsFAIR and EOSC-hub are happy to announce a series of three workshops, two in April and one in September, called ‘Services to Support FAIR Data’.  The purpose of this workshop series is to explore how existing infrastructures can work together and understand how to deliver services that support the creation of FAIR research outputs.

19/02/2019 - Widening engagement and bringing forw...

Europe

Agricultural sciences, Engineering, Earth Sciences or High energy physics, these are just a set of the domains that have Ambassadors appointed under the umbrella of the recently launched RDA Europe Ambassadors programme.

15/02/2019 - Webinar on the What, Why and how of t...

Europe

On February 21 at 2.00 PM CET, RDA Europe 4.0 organises a Q&A webinar to give a detailed overview of Adoption Grants programmes and the application process for the grants, evaluation criteria while aiming to answer questions from the participants.

22/01/2019 - AOSP Releases New Report: The Future...

Africa

In March 2018, the first version of this document was developed as a result of an expert group meeting held in Pretoria. Resulting amendments were then incorporated into this version, which was launched at the Science Forum South Africa in December 2018.

20/12/2018 - And the winners are…. Meet RDA Europe...

Europe

RDA Europe is pleased to announce the results of the first call for new RDA Europe national nodes. We were delighted to receive ten applications, four of which were very strong and have been selected to support the mission and work of the Research Data Alliance in Europe.

19/12/2018 - RDA EU open calls for Early Careers,...

Europe

RDA Europe 4.0, as the European plug-in to RDA, currently has 3 open calls to support growing the community of research data experts and practitioners.  RDA Europe offers grants for Early Careers, Experts to attend Plenary 13 in Philadelphia and for organisations to develop a use-case for adoption of RDA outputs.

07/09/2018 - Whole Tale - RDA/US Fellowship Call f...

USA

The Whole Tale project, in cooperation with the US region of the Research Data Alliance (RDA/US) and its early career fellowship program RDA/US Data Share, invites applications for the joint WT-RDA/US Early Career fellowship program.

Latest posts from the National Groups

Reminder: RDA Norway Networking event in Gøteborg, Monday 20 March.

By: RDA in Norway

Rappel: Atelier Comment participer à la RDA, 2 février 10h

By: RDA in France

PGD pour les disciplines. Rappels: Atelier Comment participer à la RDA, Soutien à la particpation à distance à la Plénière RDA

By: RDA in France

RDA FOR DISCIPLINES

 

The “RDA for disciplines” whiteboard is open to all RDA discipline specialists willing to give a personal account of what data-related challenges they are facing and how RDA is helping them.

 

 

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RDA and the Digital Humanities

With the development of digital humanities research practice, the humanities domain is producing...

RDA and Agriculture

Agricultural data have become increasingly important for the national and global development and...

RDA and Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science

The Research Data Alliance builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of...

RDA and Chemistry

Chemical research data is fundamentally the most important product that chemists create as it...

RDA and the Biomedical Sciences

Biomedical sciences are a set of applied sciences, employing portions of natural or formal...

RDA and Linguistics

Data are fundamental to the field of linguistics. Examples drawn from natural languages provide...

RDA and the Social Sciences

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RDA and Scholarly Communication

Many of the RDA’s group activities have concentrated on ways to support data’s discoverability,...

RDA and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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RDA for Interdisciplinary research

 

 

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RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - Gothenburg (Hybrid)

RDA 20th Plenary, Gothenburg - Research Data Alliance 10th Anniversary Plenary meeting

Sweden, March 21-23, 2023


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