status: Recognised & Endorsed

Chair (s): Helena Cousijn, Paolo Manghi, Rachael Lammey, Lorenzo Feri

Group Email: [group_email]

Secretariat Liaison: enquiries[at]rd-alliance.org


RDA WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG 

Co-chaired by: Adrian Burton, Helen Cousijn, Paolo Manghi, Lorenzo Feri


This WG is the follow up from the: RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services WG

The Scholarly Link Exchange Working group aims to enable a comprehensive global view of the links between scholarly literature and data.  The working group will leverage existing work and international initiatives to work towards a global information commons by establishing:

  • Pathfinder services and enabling infrastructure
  • An interoperability framework with guidelines and standards (see also www.scholix.org)
  • A significant consensus
  • Support for communities of practice and implementation

By the end of this 18 month WG period there will be:

  • A critical mass of Scholix conformant hubs providing the enabling infrastructure for a global view of data-literature links
  • Pathfinder services providing aggregations, query services, and analyses
  • Beneficiaries of these services accessing data-literature link information to add value to scholarly journal sites, data centre portals, research impact services, research discovery services, research management software, etc.
  • Operational workflows to populate the infrastructure with data-literature links
  • Better understanding of current data-literature interlinking landscape viewed from the perspective of e.g. disciplines, publishers, repositories etc.

The working group follows on from the RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services WG, https://rd-alliance.org/groups/rdawds-publishing-data-services-wg.html.  The original working group established demonstrator services enabling infrastructure.  The follow on working group will support the “hardening” of that infrastructure and services as well as an increase in the number of participating hubs and services. The original working group established an interoperability framework. The follow on group will provide further specification, documentation and profiling of that framework to support adoption by link contributors and consumers.  The original working group established a consensus among large infrastructure providers and early adopters; the follow up group will extend that consensus to the next stage of adopters and to a more diverse set of infrastructure providers.  The original working group harnessed the energy and interest of specialists; the follow up group will provide support for a number of communities and services as they implement and adopt the framework and vision established in the original group.

This WG has been endorsed by the scientific committee of ICSU-WDS and is still under TAB review by RDA. 

Welcome!

How to participate:

  1. First, create an account on the RDA website and subscribe to this working group.
  2. Then join the Working Group Forum:
    • If you have a Google account, please log in and then click "Apply to Join the Group". 
    • If you do not have a Google account, click "New Topic" and you will be invited to create one.
    • Members can start new topics in the forum by using the 'New Topic' button, or by sending an email to  working-group@scholix.org.

Shared files are stored in the following folder: RDA-WDS Publishing Data Services

  1. This folder can viewed by anyone, but can only be accessed for editing by WG members via their Google account.
  2. Members can view or add comments to existing files in this folder and create new ones.
  3. Members can create new subfolders and organize files by using the 'Open in Drive' button at the top right

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Working group is now focused on adoption and implementation, following the final recommendations

Posts

19
July
2023

Re: [scholix_wg] RDA P21 @ IDW 2023 - Notification of Outcome

by Uwe Schindler

This is not good. I was hoping that this time they would accept it. Are there any alternatives except meeting at lunch time like in Gothenburg? Uwe -- Uwe Schindler Webserver/Middleware Development PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
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19
July
2023

RDA P21 @ IDW 2023 - Notification of Outcome

by Secretariat Group Account

Dear Chairs of the RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG Thank you for your RDA P21 session application. The Technical Advisory Board has assessed all the proposals and, on this occasion, your P21 session application titled Article/data linking is not the whole story: Launching a new Scholix schema for software to meet community practice has not been approved.
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06
December
2022

RDA 20th Plenary - Notification of Outcome

by Secretariat Group Account

Dear Chairs of the RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG, Thank you for your RDA 20th Plenary (P20) session application. Your application titled ‘Insights on data linking & progressing Scholix for software’ has not been approved on this occasion. Due to the high number of proposals, we were unable to accept all sessions, particularly those proposed by Working Groups in maintenance (maintaining deliverables). You are, however, welcome to submit your activity proposal as part of the RDA’s 10th Anniversary event series and can do so via this form.
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01
November
2022

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 RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG to participate in ‘A Decade of Data’: Celebrating 10 Years of the Research Data Alliance’. 10 months to celebrate 10 years of the RDA
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14
April
2022

RDA Plenary 19 Draft Programme Now Available

by Secretariat Group Account

Dear Group Chairs, The RDA 19th Plenary draft programme is now available: https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-19th-plenary-programme-0. Please note that the Plenary programme is a part of the International Data Week programme that can be accessed at https://www.rd-alliance.org/international-data-week-2022-programme.
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17
March
2022

[CfP] 3rd Workshop on Reframing Research (RefResh 2022) @ TPDL 2022

by Andrea Mannocci

Apologies for cross-posting.   ===== Call for Papers ===== 3rd Workshop on Reframing Research (RefResh 2022) at the 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022), https://refresh2022.infrascience.isti.cnr.it   Date: 20th September 2022 Venue: Padua, Italy (COVID-19 updates may follow) Twitter: https://twitter.com/refreshworkshop
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04
March
2022

P19 session proposals submissions

by Irina Hope

Dear group members,  Thank you for submitting your session proposal for the Plenary 19 titled ‘Joint session: Supporting FAIR in software’.  A review of all submitted proposals is now underway. Notifications of sessions acceptance will be sent out by Thursday, 24th March.  Please contact the RDA Secretariat at enquiries@rd-alliance.org with any questions or concerns you may have regarding your submission.   Kind regards,  RDA Secretariat 
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24
September
2021

RDA Virtual Plenary 18 draft programme now available

by Secretariat Group Account

Dear Group Co-Chairs, The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available: https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme. Please note that the Plenary dates have been revised to 3-11 November 2021.
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10
September
2021

RDA Virtual Plenary 18 - Notification of Acceptance

by Secretariat Group Account

Dear Chairs of the RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG and Data Usage Metrics WG, The Technical Advisory Board (TAB) has completed its review of session applications for the RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) and has accepted your application titled Scholix/Data Usage Metrics WG joint session: from data citation to data metrics. Please consider this your official notification of acceptance. Congratulations!
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13
August
2021

RDA VP18 Session Proposal Submission

by Secretariat Group Account

Dear RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG members and Data Usage Metrics WG members, Thank you for your joint session proposal for Virtual Plenary 18 titled 'Scholix/Data Usage Metrics WG joint session: from data citation to data metrics'. A review of all submitted proposals is now underway by the RDA Technical Advisory Board, with notifications of acceptance planned to be sent by 10 September.
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