Case Statements, Agreements & Charters

RDA Domain Repositories Interest Group The Domain Repositories Interest Group will bring together active data repositories that serve specific scientific disciplines.  Domain repositories provide archiving services tailored to the needs of scientific communities, and they mediate between domain scientists and rapid changes in information and data science.  All domain repositories have shared interests in data…

Ethical and social issues with respect to data archiving, sharing, and reuse cut across many of the technical and policy work of the rest of the RDA.  Such issues are complementary to but separate from legal and regulatory aspects, since technology usually outpaces law and law itself is underpinned by ethical agreements and social contracts.…

Webinar – Exploring Past, Present, and Future Outcomes of the RDA Libraries for Research Data (L4RD) Interest Group – 28 June 2021   Research Data have become a primary research asset that often requires continued access in the dynamic environment of mobile researchers, volatile repositories, transient products and short-lived standards. Libraries have looked after written…

The Geospatial Interest Group is a domain oriented interest group to coordinate and build synergies on topics related to geospatial data. Though there has been lot of   developments and advances in geo data collection through mobile communications, sensor platforms, spatial search, and pervasive computing but still, the inter-disciplinary research needed to transform raw data…

The proposed activity of this group is to act as a nucleus for discussing requirements for and identifying developments needed to support active (i.e. able to evolve and be monitored) data management planning. Working groups will be proposed to carry out work on specific areas of interest. Currently research data management plans (DMP), created at…

The current version of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements can be found at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051012  The CoreTrustSeal Maintenance Group is the successor to and maintains the outputs of the Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WG. The original Working Group was created at the request of RDA members who sought a single set of ‘core’ level Trustworthy Digital…

Metabolomics assesses the molecular state of an organism or collections of organisms through the comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of all small molecules in cells, tissues, and body fluids. It has become an important phenotyping technique for molecular biology and medicine. In addition application of metabolomics in environmental science, toxicology, food and medical industry is…

General services to publish data are not available and the necessary editorial process  leading to quality assured and efficiently usable data requires resources to be quantified. At present, there is an imbalance between the capacities and functionality of existing data  centres and data repositories and the global production of scientific data. Budgets of data centres…

Please note that the Brokering Governance WG has now finished its term under RDA and has delivered its outputs.    The goal is to address the Governance of the brokering framework middleware and interconnect existing international e-infrastructures.   The Working Group will address the following:   1. Brokering configuration and strategies; 2. Brokering governance and agreements; 3.…