status: Recognised & Endorsed
Chair (s): Mingfang Wu, Fotis Psomopoulos, Kathleen Gregory
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: enquiries[at]rd-alliance.org
RDA Interest Group Charter
Name of Interest Group: Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Introduction:
The F.A.I.R. Principles, i.e. that data should be “Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable”, have become a key theme of Open Science. To comply with the first of these criteria, being Findable, we need a data infrastructure that supports users in discovering research data regardless of its location or the manner in which it is stored, described and exposed. This is a significant and growing challenge, as the number of research data repositories, and the need for cross-disciplinary data discovery, increases. This interest group aims to explore common elements and shared issues that those who search for data, and who build systems that enable data search, share.
Objectives:
The objectives for this interest group are to provide a forum where representatives from across the spectrum of stakeholders and roles pertaining to data search can discuss issues related to improving data discovery. The goal is to deliver guidelines and recommendations that can be adopted by data repositories, infrastructure developers, data producers and data users to improve the discovery and use of research data.
Key questions the IG wishes to address:
At RDAP8, we identified a long list of topics pertaining to data discovery, which were then voted by the group members to a shortlist of 10 topics. The top 5 of these have been selected as the key Task Forces which the group is focusing on (linked to the wiki page for each Task Force). Three of the Task Forces were officially closed at the RDA P11 after producing the corresponding outputs; these were:
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The task force from this interest group "Using schema.org for Research Dataset Discovery" started as a working group at the Plenary 14 (Nov. 2019). Please sign up to the working group if you would like to contribute and be informed of future work.
The Interest Group currently has two active Task Forces:
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User study of data discovery
For more details on the full list of potential task forces and the process followed in selecting them, please see the page on Task Forces.
Timeline:
- Sept 2016 – We held a very well-attended kickoff meeting at RDA Plenary 8: https://rd-alliance.org/ig-developing-paradigms-data-discovery-rda-8th-plenary-meeting, where topics were identified,
- Sept-Dec 2016 —Through an online voting mechanism, the top 5 topics for Task Forces were determined, and chairs for these Task Forces Identified
- Jan - April 2017 — Task forces hold meetings determining scope, deliverables and timelines
- April 5, 2017 — We held a meeting of the IG at RDA Plenary 9 to discuss Task Forces' scope, plans and deliverables. see Minutes here
- May - Sept 2017 — Activities proceed for Task Forces
- Sept 2017 — RDA Plenary 10; IG meets, Task Forces report back..
- Sep 2017 - March 2018 — Activities proceed for Task Forces; three TF scheduled for closing after succesful conclusion of work.
- March 2018 — RDA Plenary 11; IG meets, Task Forces report back
- Oct. 2018 - RDA Plenary 12; IG meets, Task Forces report back
- Oct. 2018 - RDA Plenary 12; Research Schemas workshop
- April 2019 (P13): Data Discovery Paradigms IG: Reports from Task Forces and Way Ahead (slides)
- Oct. 2019 (P14) - Data Discovery Paradigms IG: Reports from Task Forces and Way Ahead (slides)
- April 2020 - RDA Virtual Plenary 15:
Related Activities:
- NASA’s WG on Search Relevancy – focus is on improving search result relevance for EOSDIS data
- ESIP’s Information Quality Cluster and NASA’s WG on Data Quality are both addressing ways of capturing and conveying quality information
- ESIP's Semantic Technologies Cluster which is working on guidelines for using schema.org
- W3C’s Best Practices for Spatial Data on the Web aims to improve discoverability and accessibility of geodata
Other RDA IGs whose activities are of interest and who we will interact with:
- Metadata
- Registries
- Brokering
- PIDs
- Research data collections
Participation:
The Data Discovery Paradigms Interest Group is open to all members and encourages active participation through the Task Force mechanism. Task Forces have phone conferences on a regular basis. To become active in either the Task Forces or propose other activities for the IG, please contact the Chairs.
Currently, the group has a monthly call on the third Wednesday, 12pm UTC. Everyone interested in the topic of data discovery is welcome to join the call.
Posts
Open call for new co-chairs of the DDPIG
Hi everyone, First of all, it was great seeing all of you (both F2F and virtually) at the RDA Plenary session! As announced earlier as well, and following the recommendation by RDA to ensure a rotation of Group chairs, our plan is to step down from co-chairs by the end of this year. It has been an extremely productive and positive experience, and we will continue being active members of this group, but we also feel that we need to provide the space for other members of our Community to grow.0 | Add new comment
Cancel the monthly call on this Wednesday (15th)
by Mingfang Wu
Dear All, We are going to have a group session at the RDA plenary, so we cancel this month's group call on Wednesday (15th).2 | Add new comment
Second Call for papers - DaMaLOS 2023 co-located with ESWC
Dear all IG and WG at RDA Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the Call for Papers for the 3rd Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management for Linked Open Science - DaMaLOS 2023 , this year co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference ESCW 2023. Drop me a line if you have any questions. Kind regards, On behalf of the organizing committee ---- *DaMaLOS 2023 CfPESWC 2023. Hersonissos, Greece, May 29, 2023Conference0 | Add new comment
Reminder: Data Discovery Paradigms meeting 15 February 12pm UTC
Dear all, Our next group call will be this Wednesday 15 February, starting at 12 pm UTC. You can check your local time here.0 | Add new comment
Workshop in Data Findability
Hi everyone, I am organizing a workshop and I thought it might be of interest to some of you. “Data Findability in a Changing Ecosystem” Workshop at Konsort SWD. March 16th, 2023. Experts present their strategy for improving findability and a better ranking, lessons learned, and recommendations to data providers. Featured topics include findability of research data, ecosystem for data discovery, challenges in cross-domain research data and discovery for scholarly information extraction.0 | Add new comment
Reminder: Upcoming Meeting for RDA Data Discovery Paradigms Interest Group
Dear all, Our next group call will be this Wednesday 17 January, starting at 12 pm UTC. You can check your local time here.0 | Add new comment
Call for papers - DaMaLOS 2023 co-located with ESWC
Dear all IG and WG at RDA Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the Call for Papers for the 3rd Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management for Linked Open Science - DaMaLOS 2023 , this year co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference ESCW 2023. Drop me a line if you have any questions. Kind regards, on behalf of DaMaLOS Organizing Committee *DaMaLOS 2023 CfPDaMaLOS-2023: 3rd Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management for Linked Open ScienceESWC 2023Hersonissos, Greece,0 | Add new comment
RDA 20th Plenary - Notification of Acceptance
Dear Chairs of the Data Discovery Paradigms IG Your RDA 20th Plenary (P20) session application titled Recommendations for data repositories to improve data discoverability has been approved. Please consider this your official notification of acceptance. * Draft programme to be published on Friday, 16th December 2022 * Any requests for changes must be made by Friday, 13th January 2023 * The programme will be deemed final by Thursday, 19th January 2023 * Event platforms to be used - Whova and Zoom (details will be provided)0 | Add new comment
DDPIG meeting 16 November 12pm UTC
Dear all, Our next group call will be this Wednesday 16 November, starting at 12 pm UTC. You can check your local time here. Our main agenda items is to work further on the Ten Things document which we have been outlining in the previous meetings. The meeting link and fruther details are copied below.0 | Add new comment
Invitation to participate in 'A Decade of Data: 10 Years of the RDA' events and activities
by Connie Clare
Good day, The RDA Secretariat would like to invite the Data Discovery Paradigms IG to participate in ‘A Decade of Data’: Celebrating 10 Years of the Research Data Alliance’. 10 months to celebrate 10 years of the RDA0 | Add new comment