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RDA is a pragmatic and agile organization, and through the work of its Working and Interest Groups, directly and logically tackles numerous data infrastructure challenges

 

 

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Machine-actionable DMPs - a disengaging administrative burden?

By: DMP Common Standards WG

There are many advantages of machine-actionable DMPs (maDMPs); see e.g. Miksa et al. (2018) [1]. However, there is one aspect of maDMPs that I'd like to hear your opinion on. In their guide on research data management (RDM), Corti et al.

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

 

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DKRZ adopts 6 RDA outputs for climate data modelling

DKRZ (German  Climate  Computing  Center) is integrating persistent identifiers for use cases supporting precise data tracking, automated replication and versioning, custom and early data citation into the Earth System Grid Federation data infrastructure which supports WCRP CMIP6 data provisioning.

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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...

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RDA's 12th Plenary Meeting - part of the International Data Week 2018, Gaborone, Botswana

The second edition of International Data Week (IDW 2018) will be held on 5-8 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana. Hosted by the Botswana Open Science and Open Data Forum, IDW 2018 will bring together data professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from all parts of the globe.

IDW 2018 combines the RDA's 12th Plenary Meeting, the biannual meeting of the research data community, and SciDataCon 2018, the scientific conference addressing the frontiers of data in research.

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