Case Statements, Agreements & Charters

The purpose of the Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG) is to provide a focal point for Early and Mid-Career Researchers and Professionals, including those involved in various RDA-related fellowships and Early Career programs.   RDA members recognize that there is a need to create a space in RDA for those who are at the…

The Make Data Count (MDC) project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and deploy the social and technical infrastructure necessary to elevate data to a first-class research output alongside more traditional products, such as publications.  We plan to do so by finding alternative ways of gauging reach, measuring impact for data,…

About the Industry Advisory Board   The RDA-EU3 is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) to promote the RDA mission in Europe and support a stronger participation of Europeans in RDA. For the long term sustainability of RDA in Europe and worldwide, industrial uptake of RDA output is essential.   In this context, the Industry…

The group held a BoF session at Plenary 9, Barcelona, April 2017.   From the session description:   Over the couple of years we witnessed an increase in the number of Interest and Working Groups operating within RDA. The enlargement of the RDA ecosystem creates new opportunities for interaction between practitioners from across scientific and…

Software source code plays a critical role in all fields of modern research, where source code is written and developed to address a variety of needs, like cleaning, processing and visualising data.   Software source code is a necessary component for research reproducibility and reusability.    Thus software source code should be properly curated in…

Our aim is to advance shared understanding of the relationship between data and information, primarily in the context of environmental research infrastructures for observational data and semantic information about observed environments. While commonly used, the terms data and information are poorly understood. Typically understood as the values organized in rows and columns, in reality there…

Members of RDA are heavily involved in testing and evaluating RDA outputs as part of diverse adoption or other activities, commonly referred to as test bed activities. A test bed is understood as a systematic effort to evaluate one or multiple RDA outputs against practically relevant use cases in a pilot environment. They may also…

Physical samples are a basic element for reference, study, and experimentation in research.  Tests and analysis are conducted directly on samples, such as biological specimens, rock or mineral specimens, soil or sediment cores, plants and seeds, water quality samples, archaeological artefacts, or DNA and human tissue samples because they represent a wider population or a…

RDA Europe Task Force on Sustainability This is the PRIVATE working space for the RDA Europe Task Force on Sustainability. Terms of Reference (Charter) The main objectives of the Task Force are: to contribute to RDA Global sustainability from the RDA Europe perspective, containing provisions for governance, funding and fiscal policies. to determine the place…

In a nutshell This group produced a recommendation on machine-actionable DMPs.  recommendation: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00039  full documentation: https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common-Standard  To get more information on the activites: check slides from our meetings – they include information on adoptions, ongoing activites, etc: https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/56938/outputs read our papers: https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common-Standard/blob/master/docs/links.md#publications In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact group chairs. We are always…