Case Statements, Agreements & Charters

The Data Citation WG has delivered its outputs and is now primarily focusing on supporting adoption by maintaining these outputs, assisting institutions in implementing the recommendations and sharing the lessons learned.   The RDA Working Group on Data Citation (WG-DC)  brings together experts addressing the issues, requirements, advantages and shortcomings of existing approaches for efficiently and precisely identifying…

DTR WG activity is currently paused while the topic of data type registries is under consideration by ISO as a potential standard. The next step in DTR work is clearly governance, regardless of the outcome of the ISO work, but if and when an ISO group comes into focus it will strongly influence the proper next steps for the…

Webinar – Connecting Data, Institutions and People: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA outputs and the design of the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure – 18 March 2021   The DFT WG task is to describe a basic, abstract data organization model which can be used to derive a reference data terminology that can be used across communities and…

Status: Recognised & Endorsed What is the Problem? Computer actionable policies are used to enforce management, automate administrative tasks, validate assessment criteria, and automate scientific analyses.  The benefits of using policies include minimization of the amount of labor needed to manage a collection, the ability to publish to the users the rules that are being…

In complex data domains, unique and persistent identifiers (PIDs) associated with specific information are the core of proper data management and access. They can be used to give every data object (including collection objects) an identity that enables referring to the data resources and metadata and, additionally, to prove integrity, authenticity and other attributes. But…

Please note that the Metadata Standards Directory  WG has now finished its term under RDA and has delivered its outputs. A follow-on WG has been created: Metadata Standards Catalog WG. The RDA Metadata Standards Directory Working Group is supported by individuals and organizations involved in the development, implementation, and use of metadata for scientific data. The overriding…

Update:  The group is taking a break to regroup and create either a new IG or a revised IG around CCMs.  For questions, please contact Liz Lyon [***@***.***]       Status: Recognised & Endorsed  The RDA Community Capability Model (CCM) Group collects, validates and publishes a range of data-centric “capability profiles” to enhance inter- and…

Status: Recognised & Endorsed Structural Biology (SB) is concerned with the determination of the three-dimensional (3D) structures of individual biomacromolecules (proteins and nucleic acids), and with those of complexes and higher order structures formed by association of these individual components. The ultimate goal of SB is to understand the mode of action of these biological…

10/15/2014:  The goals and work of this IG have been subsumed into the Urban Quality of Life Indicators Working Group.  This IG is now retired at the request of its co-chairs. The goal of this Interest Group is to define urban data exchange for science.

Status: Recognised & Endorsed The objective of this interest group is to promote the development of a common global framework for the management of marine data. This has become a priority as ocean sciences are being becoming increasingly global in scope and there has been a paradigm shift in marine research from the traditional discipline…