Case Statements, Agreements & Charters

This short-lived group contains details regarding the upcoming RDA Chairs Collaboration Meeting in Gaithersburg, MD hosted by NIST.  Future updates, including a draft agenda, opportunity for a group dinner, etc.,  will be posted to the mailing list for this group. The group is public but to receive the updates as email please join this group.   Meeting Materials:…

This is a working area dedicated to RDA-US activities, updates, and events in the United States. If you would like to contribute to the group or receive RDA-US updates, please register by clicking on the green “Join Group” button on the right. You will then be automatically subscribed to the group mailing list. Research Data…

The Exposing DMPs WG group is being retired. To participate in current RDA effort on Data Management Plans, please join the Active DMPs IG. Recommendations The Exposing DMPs draft recommendations respond to growing interest in exposing data management plan content to other actors (human/machine) in the research lifecycle. By ‘exposing’ we mean sharing with stakeholders other…

The Persistent Identification of Instruments Working Group seeks to explore a community-driven solution for globally unique identification of measuring instruments operated in the sciences. Measuring instruments, such as sensors used in environmental science, DNA sequencers used in life sciences or laboratory engines used for medical domains, are widespread in most fields of applied sciences. The…

  Many natural data sets are not confined by political borders. The RDA in the Americas Group will foster collaboration between research organizations and individuals on the American continents. This will provide introductions to several data science organizations operating within Canada, US, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America. The RDA vision is “researchers…

Short presentation of Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC) IG SHARC is a recognised and endorsed interest group within RDA (Research Data Alliance).  It is an interdisciplinary group seeking to unpack and improve crediting and rewarding mechanisms for open science activities and in particular, for the data/resources sharing process. It aims to provide guidance for researchers and recommendations to…

This Interest Group will continue the work of the now completed RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World Working Group. The ever-accelerating volume and variety of data being generated is having a huge impact on a wide variety of research disciplines, from the sciences to the humanities. The international,…

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Webinar – Tools & Resources for Data Usage Metrics – 21 April 2022   Research data is increasingly recognized as an important output of scholarly research, however, there are not yet standardized or comprehensive research data metrics as there are with articles. While data citations standards are being constructed and gaining user adoption, there are…

A strategic element to maintaining a competitive advantage in research is by focussing energies in areas of innovation, which is facilitated by sharing of resources and support of inter-disciplinary collaborations at the national and international levels. The primary impediment to this resource sharing and collaboration is the lack of an effective FIM (Federated Identity Management)…