Case Statements, Agreements & Charters

DraftWGCaseStatementforPublishingDataServices2WG_20161007_0.docx

WG Charter The general objective of the Fisheries Data Interoperability Working Group (FDIWG) is to devise a global data exchange and integration framework to support scientific advice on stock status and exploitation that build on fisheries data. Various fisheries data domains utilized in such scientific processes are concerned, including data collected for monitoring control and…

Introduction      Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are rapidly becoming important tools for data capture across many Scientific domains, as well as within commercial industry.  sUAS have the potential to transform how data are captured in many arenas by, offering higher temporal and spatial resolutions, with less impact on the environments being monitored, and access to…

Introduction Increasing the availability of research data for reuse is in part being driven by research data policies and the number of funders and journals and institutions with some form of research data policy is growing. The research data policy landscape of funders, institutions and publishers is however too complex (Ref: http://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.284/) and the implementation…

WDS/RDA Publishing Data Interest Group WDS/RDA Certification of Digital Repositories Interest Group   Assessment of Data Fitness for Use   WG Charter The increasing availability of research data and its evolving role as a first class scientific output in the scholarly communication requires a better understanding of and the possibility to assess data quality, which…

NOTE – The following Charter text has been revised, see the attached document – 29 Jan 2018     RDA Interest Group Draft Charter Template Name of Proposed Interest Group: Preservation Tools, Techniques, and Policies Introduction (A brief articulation of what issues the IG will address, how this IG is aligned with the RDA mission,…

Provenance Research data provenance is: information about the inputs, entities, systems, and processes that influence data of interest. It can be recorded and stored and can provide a historical record of the data and its origins.   Group Purpose The Research Data Provenance Interest Group exists to coordinate activities to do with provenance within the…

WG Charter: The Certification and Accreditation for Data Science Training and Education WG will engage in a yearlong exercise to map existing certification and accreditation schemes from around the world that relate to courses of all varieties that relate to Data Science and other data-related themes. The survey will encompass undergraduate, postgraduate, professional development and other…

NOTE – This Case Statement has been deprecated in favor of the revised version attached here (18 Dec 2017).     Charter Overview Tracking provenance for research data is vital to science and scholarship, providing answers to common questions researchers and institutions pose when sharing and exchanging data.   The tasks for this Working Group…

Case Statement: PID Kernel Information profile management WG (aka PID Kernel Information WG #2)   Co-chairs: Tobias Weigel, Beth Plale, Jens Klump   Motivation and scope The PID Kernel Information WG produced a recommendation that contains i) guiding principles for identifying information appropriate as PID Kernel Information, ii) an exemplar PID Kernel Information profile, iii)…