Groups in Review

  TEACHING_TDM[1]   Introduction   In the healthcare sector, 1.3 million new pieces of research related to biomedical science alone are published each year.[2] A typical database search returns about 80,000 hits, and only 4,000 of those are likely to be very relevant to a researcher’s work. Text and Data Mining (TDM) techniques can already…

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…

Name of Proposed Interest Group: Data Properties as Economic Goods (Data Economics)   Introduction (A brief articulation of what issues the IG will address, how this IG is aligned with the RDA mission, and how this IG would be a value-added contribution to the RDA community):   The fact that data has a value is commonly…

  Please note that the text below the line contains the original Charter, also attached here.  The original Charter was superseded by the revised Charter in July 2020, which  can be found here. Original Charter of the Go Fair Interest Group   RDA Interest Group Draft Charter   GO FAIR Interest Group   Introduction GO FAIR…

Please note that the Preserving Scientific Annotation Working Group (PSA-WG) submitted a revised Case Statement in June 2021. This Case Statement can be found here. The Case Statement below is the original Case Statement that underwent community and TAB review. A pdf version can be found here. Preserving Scientific Annotation Working Group (PSA-WG) Case Statement A…

  CASE STATEMENT: RDA/CODATA Epidemiology common standard for surveillance data reporting WG See, also:   Criteria for authors’ institutional affiliation RDA case statement guidelines RDA code of conduct RDA core principles RDA group process and procedures RDA outputs and intellectual property policy RDA work group co-chairs’ roles and responsibilities RDA work groups goals and outcomes…

Motivation: Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, we have witnessed an explosion of datasets annotating particular locations along reference DNA sequences with e.g. aspects of functional processes. Tremendous amounts of research funding have been provided to large and small projects that have generated genomic annotation datasets. Many of these datasets relate to human…

Introduction  This group is aimed at collections professionals such as archivists, librarians, records managers and museum curators, as well as related professions such as IT professionals, knowledge scientists, and those involved in standards development, who serve in a range of critical roles: as experts in ensuring access, preservation, and reuse of digital records, objects, data,…

Follow -up for BoF Data Security and Trust (WGDST)

This working group is involved in creating well-defined terms that describe storage services, especially in the areas of Quality of Service and Data Life-cycle. These terms should describe what the users (the scientists) can expect from the storage service, allowing them to compare different storage options and choose where to store their data with some…

Objectives The objective of this group is to provide a welcoming space for archivists and records management professionals within RDA to share knowledge and explore issues related to research data that arise in their professional activities. We explore the areas where the principles and practices in the information disciplines of archives, records management, and research…