Case Statements, Agreements & Charters

Interest group “Data for Development” Many researchers work on topics which require information from areas and population groups where only limited data exist. Data collected by the private and public sector (e.g. IGOs, NGOs, academia etc), social media data etc. provide important sources to get an overview of factors and issues of relevance to societal…

In 2007 the world’s population became more urban than rural according to the United Nations. Urban Quality of Life (QoL) is the general well-being of individual and societies living in cities. As there is a growing number of the world’s population moving into cities there is increasing importance for the need for urban QoL indicators…

The life sciences are becoming increasingly data intensive, owing much to the huge improvements seen in large-scale gene sequencing and other molecular “omics” techniques. There is a need for large-scale sustainable and interoperable data management and storage methods that allow secure and easy access to and reuse of these highly complex data. Simultaneously, as omics-focussed…

“The RDA vision is researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.” Most of the RDA groups, the interest groups or the working groups, are focused on technical issues, even those linked to disciplinary fields such as wheat data, marine data or biodiversity are dealing…

The Data Fabric IG (DFIG) identified that working with data in the many scientific labs and most probably also in other areas such as industry and governance is highly inefficient and too costly. Excellent scientists working on date intensive science tasks are forced to spend about 75% of their time to manage, find, combine and…

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 is…

  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…

This Working Group has delivered and has been closed. ICSU/WDS has endorsed the outputs of this group; the RDA is still reviewing the workgroup output since the final presentation and discussion at P8 Denver   A follow on workgroup has been created to implement and expand the outputs further. This workgroup is: The Scholarly Link Exchange…

This group is dedicated to all the chairs of the RDA Working Groups

  OUTPUTS Completed and RDA-endorsed FAIRsharing registry – A curated, informative and educational registry of interlinked descriptions of (i) standards (to identify, report, and cite data and metadata), (ii) repositories (databases, knowledgebases), and (iii) journal publisher and funder data policies in all disciplines. FAIRsharing guides consumers to discover, select and use these resources with confidence,…