Tuesday 14th May
Breakout Sessions 1
The 22nd, fully virtual RDA Plenary kicked off with 5 breakout sessions organised and run by RDA Interest Groups and Working Groups, plus a Birds of a Feather session.
Topics included:
- challenges of equity in national PID Strategies
- a World Café to explore the data landscape and future of research data management support, communities, and engagement activities
- a proposal for a new RDA Working Group to to increase awareness and implementation of FAIR in health research and practice.
- the creation of a Categorisation Schema of Digital Research Tools Mapped to the Research Data Lifecycle, and
- an introduction to the small uncrewed aircraft and autonomous platforms data Working Group
Opening Plenary
The Opening Plenary Session – “Why establish national and regional RDA nodes in Europe? The communities’ perspective” – focused on the benefits of the RDA to regions, and why regions are encouraged to establish a formal partnership with the RDA. After an opening welcome from RDA Secretary General Hilary Hanahoe who gave context to the RDA Regional Memberships, we heard from Alex Delipalta from the RDA Europe office, who discussed the purpose of RDA Europe and its strategy to support RDA Regional Members in Europe.
On a national level, lightning talks were presented by European Partner Countries on their context, priorities and activities, their reasons to establish a partnership with RDA and the activities they would like to organise at the European level.
- France, Françoise Genova (Link to slides)
- The Netherlands, Margriet Miedema (Link to slides)
- United Kingdom (UK), Rachel Bruce (Link to slides)
‘RDA is crucial to the international sustainable human infrastructure’
– Rachel Bruce, RDA UK
Breakout Sessions 2
The second group of breakout sessions included eight contributions from the RDA community, on topics including:
- the role of RDA in the evolution of the research landscape
- a proposal for a Working Group on coordinating data preservation and the publishing process in earth, space, and environmental sciences
- an examination of the future of multi-omics data standards integration
- a review and discussion of the work conducted by the FAIR for machine learning (FAIR4ML) Interest Group
- cross-community efforts to build services for Data Stewards
- FAIR data in the design and assessment of prosthetics
- the development of FAIRness badges for the providers, developers and users of VREs, and
- data management challenges for research institutions in Africa and Latin America, and the potential solutions.
Networking
An important part of every RDA Plenary – whether virtual or in person – is networking! It was great to see members old and new coming together to connect and share experiences. Missed it? Join our next Networking Session on 16th May at 5:00 – 5:30 UTC.
Breakout Session 3
We ended the first day of VP22 with a final breakout of four sessions. The final sessions covered:
Day 1 of VP22 has come to a close. Thanks to all who joined us. If you missed it, no worries! There are plenty of opportunities to join us this week and next. We will be back in action at 07:00AM UTC tomorrow for more breakout sessions, networking opportunities and interactive plenaries.
Remember that registration is still open – secure your place and join us at VP22!