Case Statements, Agreements & Charters

Life sciences are becoming increasingly more data intensive, especially resulting from the huge improvements in large-scale gene sequencing and other “omics” techniques. There is need for large-scale sustainable data storage methods allowing secure and easy access to these highly complex data. Simultaneously, since life science research projects increasingly depend on more than one type of…

Please note that this document has changed substantially from the version that the comments below refer to. In particular, this has now changed from a Working Group Case Statement to an Interest Group Charter.   RDA Interest Group Draft Charter Template Name of Proposed Interest Group: Quality of Urban Life (QoUL) Interest Group Brief statement of objectives…

Please note the Data for Development IG submitted a revised Charter on 18 January 2022.  The new Charter will supersede this Charter. To access the new Charter please go here.   Interest group “Data for Development” Many researchers work on topics which require information from areas and population groups where only limited data exist. Data…

Objectives Researchers are increasingly encouraged or required to make their research data available for reuse but might often feel there are insufficient incentives for submitting and publishing data, resulting in low submission rates. Moreover, even when research data are preserved and submitted, it often happens with a bare minimum of metadata which inhibits reuse. Why…

The overarching scope of this Working Group (WG) is to address processes, workflows, and solutions that currently exist—mostly as bilateral agreements—between individual parties within the data publication landscape, and investigate how these can be lifted to one-for-all services that increase interoperability, decrease systemic inefficiencies, and power new tools and functionalities to the benefit of researchers.…

Objectives Bibliometric indicators are essential to obtain quantitative measures for the assessment of the quality of research and researchers and the impact of research products. Systems and services such as the ISI’s Science Citation Index, the h-index (or Hirsch number), or the impact factor of scientific journals have been developed to track and record access…

Basic funding of data infrastructure may not keep pace with increasing costs. Therefore, there is a need to consider alternative cost recovery options and a diversification of revenue streams. In short: who will pay for public access to research data? This  Group proposes to make a contribution to strategic thinking on cost recovery by conducting…

The product of this WG will be a searchable registry of reliable and linked information about databases, content standards (as defined in section 2.2) and journal and funder policies in the life sciences on which a variety of stakeholders can base their decisions. Specifically, journals, researchers and funders will be able to recommend or select…

Libraries for Research Data: Revised Case Statement November 26, 2014 Co-Chairs: Wolfram Horstmann, Kathleen Shearer, Michael Witt Research data have become primary scholarly assets that often require continued access in the dynamic environment of mobile researchers, volatile repositories, transient products and software, and short-lived standards. Libraries have maintained the written scholarly record for centuries, and…

This interest group seeks to advance and enable reproducibility in research based on or producing datasets. Our goals are to provide community-based recommendations and infrastructure solutions, doing so in coordination with the other RDA Working and Interest Groups where appropriate. Our efforts are also intended to produce Working Groups that can pilot these recommendations and solutions,…