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20 Apr 2023
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FAIR Instrument Data IG

Status: 
Pending submission
Chair (s): 
Shelley Stall

The FAIR Instrument Data Interest Group was conceived during a joint session at RDA P20.  We are working on the charter now.  If you want to be part of the forming group, join the mailing list!! 

We are also actively looking for co-chairs.  Please share your interest!!

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31 Oct 2022
IG

Working with PIDs in Tools IG

Status: 
Recognised & Endorsed
Chair (s): 
Xiaoli Chen, Rory Macneil, Jens Klump, Christopher Erdmann
Secretariat Liaison: 
Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: 
Raphael Cóbe

Lack of interoperability between tools/e-infrastructures presents a significant barrier to streamlining processes throughout the research lifecycle. These gaps prevent the comprehensive collection and incorporation of research data and metadata into the research record captured during the active research phase. Furthermore, it limits the scope for passing this data and metadata on to data repositories, thus undermining FAIR data principles and reproducibility.

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09
Jun
2022

Defining Research Software: a controversial discussion

By Morane Gruenpeter

Software is essential in modern research; it plays vital roles at multiple stages of the research lifecycle. The term Research Software is widely used in the academic community but, what do we mean when we use these terms? Software and research? When you think of software, you may think of a digital object that is executed on a machine. Yet software is more than just this, it is a complex and evolving artifact. It may be a concept or a project designed to solve a puzzle by a team or a community that develops its functionalities and algorithms, which might not be digital objects.

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