Case Statements, Agreements & Charters

The idea of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) in the context of scientific data management and stewardship was developed in 2014 and turned into specific principles in 2016[1]. Along the way, the idea was generalized in concept to apply to both data and other digital scholarly objects, but it has become clear in practice…

Prior to merging with the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance), Research Data Canada worked with RDA U.S. and other regional partners to create RDA Region of the Americas. This relationship was informal until the Alliance formalized the partnership with RDA in 2022.  Through this partnership, the Alliance has agreed to run activities to support…

Lack of interoperability between tools/e-infrastructures presents a significant barrier to streamlining processes throughout the research lifecycle. These gaps prevent the comprehensive collection and incorporation of research data and metadata into the research record captured during the active research phase. Furthermore, it limits the scope for passing this data and metadata on to data repositories, thus undermining…

The Scientific Knowledge Graph – Interoperability Framework (SKG-IF) Working Group (WG) will target the definition of a framework to enable a seamless exchange of information among diverse initiatives regarding Scientific Knowledge  Graphs, intended as knowledge bases of scholarly knowledge content (e.g. repositories, databases, catalogues, knowledge graphs, LOD collections). The WG stems from and incorporates the…

Purpose: This working group aims to clarify the complementary relationship between TRUST Principles (TRUST) for digital repositories, certification processes, and metrics of other principal frameworks (e.g., FAIR, CARE, Desirable characteristics, Data Repository Attributes). TRUST is not a criterion for certification. Instead, it is the principles of how repositories can demonstrate their trustworthiness to users. Get…

The RDA/CODATA Data Systems, Tools, and Services for Crisis Situations Working Group (DSTS_CS-WG) arises out of a widespread set of activities and interests in RDA and CODATA that have developed through close interaction with leading international, regional, and national organisations playing prominent roles in crisis preparedness and response, and rebuilding architecture, crisis governance, and the…

The evolution of the evaluation of research from being mostly bibliographic index-based is now recognized to be indispensable to enable Open Science. In the same way that Open Science promotes the open sharing of FAIR data and other research outputs, evaluators must also value and consider these outputs as part of the wider research evaluation…

RDA-OfR Mapping the landscape of digital research tools WG NOTE: WG name changed from ‘Mapping the digital research data infrastructure landscape WG’ Scroll to the bottom of this page for all WG meeting documentation   Overview The digital research data infrastructure landscape comprises a myriad of tools for managing and sharing research data during various…

The FAIR Instrument Data Interest Group was conceived during a joint session at RDA P20.  We are working on the charter now.  If you want to be part of the forming group, join the mailing list!!  We are also actively looking for co-chairs.  Please share your interest!!

  The National PID Strategies Interest Group aims to: Facilitate information exchange between those developing and/or delivering national PID strategies Facilitate engagement between developers of national PID strategies and international PID providers such as ORCID, DataCite and CrossRef Collaboratively develop the value proposition for national PID strategies overall as well as its component parts (such as grant identifiers, person identifiers,…