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Interest Group
Repository Platforms for Research Data IG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Robert Downs, LILi Zhang, Devan Ray Donaldson
Charter The RDA Repository Platforms for Research Data working group will gather and analyze research data use cases in the context of repository platform requirements. The primary deliverable will be a matrix relating use cases with functional requirements for repository platforms.   Value Proposition As of the writing of this case statement, several communities in…
May 13, 2024
Historical Group
Data Foundations and Terminology IG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Gary Berg-Cross, Raphael Ritz
Revision of the Case Statement is uploaded below.   -original submission- Name of Proposed Interest Group: Data Foundation and Terminology (DFT) Interest Group Case Statement Brief statement of objectives: Agreed upon terminology, the meaning of terms used in discussion, is an important aspect of all group work. The DFT IG task is to continue the…
May 13, 2024
Interest Group
Geospatial IG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Aaron Addison, Peter Baumann
The Geospatial Interest Group (IG) addresses all issues related to data representing locations in space and/or time (in the sequel, for simplicity, termed “geospatial data”). Such data are present in virtually all sciences – a proverbial statement says that 80% of all data is spatially referenced. Both sensors (like GPS in cars or satellite cameras)…
May 13, 2024
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Active Data Management Plans IG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): David Giaretta, Kevin Ashley, Tomasz Miksa, Elli Papadopoulou, Maria Praetzellis
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…
May 13, 2024
Historical Group
Data Rescue IG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Stephen Diggs, David Gallaher, Lesley Wyborn, Denise Hills
The natural sciences possess a rich heritage of data spanning the entire era of research, encompassing both modern electronic formats and analogue ones (paper, film, books, pro-formas, charts, maps, photographic plates) or primitive magnetic tapes. The information in older data is critical for quantifying changes and trends and differentiating between natural or anthropogenic-induced changes. Unfortunately,…
May 13, 2024
Working Group
RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World WG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Andrew Harrison, Simon Hodson, Hugh Shanahan
This document is the resubmission of the WG proposal that takes into account the comments made by the TAB on the original submission. In particular, it aligns the school more closely with the goals of the RDA, namely in the sharing of research data and places less emphasis on the logistics of getting funding etc.…
May 13, 2024
Interest Group
Vocabulary Services IG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Alexandra Kokkinaki, Yann Le Franc, John Graybeal
Draft Charter The Vocabulary Service Interest Group (VSIG) seeks to develop community-based recommendations on approaches to publication of controlled vocabularies on the web. Community standard controlled vocabularies are used in metadata annotation and labelling data files to solve problems of ambiguity associated with data markup and also enabling records to be interpreted by computers. This…
May 13, 2024
Interest Group
Ethics and Social Aspects of Data IG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Oya Beyan, Daniel Mietchen
This interest group seeks to create a dedicated space in RDA to discuss ethical and social issues with respect to data archiving, sharing, and reuse. Ethical and social issues occur frequently within the technical and policy work of the rest of RDA. Such issues are complementary to but separate from legal and regulatory aspects which…
May 13, 2024
Working Group
Metadata Standards Catalog WG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Rebecca Koskela, Keith Jeffery, Alex Ball
WG Charter Updated 15 January 2016 in response to TAB review A concise articulation of what issues the WG will address within a 12-18 month time frame and what its “deliverables” or outcomes will be. The Metadata Standards Catalog (MSC) Working Group will produce a catalog of metadata standards of relevance to research data. Specifically,…
May 13, 2024
Historical Group
Research Data Collections WG rev-002
Co-Chair(s): Bridget Almas, Frederik Baumgardt, Tobias Weigel, Thomas Zastrow
  PID Collections WG charter WG candidate co-chairs: Bridget Almas (Tufts/Perseus DL), Tobias Weigel (DKRZ), Tom Zastrow (RZG) Value Proposition Several communities have expressed a need to leverage aggregations of objects with a particular focus on building such aggregations, whether virtual or physical, through PIDs and providing identifiers for aggregation objects. There is however no…
May 13, 2024