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RDA for PIDs Community Cross-Fertilisation Workshop
The community cross-fertilisation workshop ‘RDA for Persistent Identifiers’ brings RDA community groups and members together with the wider research data community for a discussion about the future of persistent identifiers (PIDs) within the community.
Virtual Research Environments: A Vision for the Next 10 Years
The future for virtual research environments (VREs) warrants exploration as we consider the possibilities that extend well beyond research and high-performance computing into new interfaces, applications and user communities. In this discussion, we look retrospectively at the successes of representative gateways thus far. This serves to highlight existing gaps VREs need to overcome in areas such as accessibility, usability and interoperability, and in the need for broader outreach by drawing insights from technology adoption research.
Webinar: Unlocking the Treasure Trove of Science - Join the EOSC Portal Event
30 May 2023, 11.00 – 13:00 CEST
Atelier en français sur la Certification CoreTrustSeal
Atelier sur la Certification CoreTrustSeal (en français)
Workshop in French on CoreTrustSeal Certification
Opening session to the WorldFAIR webinar series
16 May 2023, 13:00 UTC
About WorldFAIR
RDA-US: Celebrating 10 Years and New Leadership
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year! RDA-US is using this milestone as an opportunity to celebrate the community of US members who have contributed leadership, support, and ideas to numerous RDA outputs and guidance documents over the decade.
Please join us for an afternoon showcase of new and existing projects in the RDA-US community in Washington, D.C. on May 23rd.
Steps towards building interoperability in research tools using PIDs
The lack of interoperability between tools presents a significant barrier to streamlining research workflows throughout the research lifecycle. In this workshop we will present an outline of a series of design and integration guidelines for leveraging the persistent identifier and open metadata infrastructure to build interoperability features on research tools, to make research workflows FAIR. We invite the community to join the discussion and provide their perspectives and use cases to make the guidelines more adoptable.
Date: Tuesday 23 May
Time: 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
Expanding Scholix to support software: your input required
Scholix is a long-recognized standard (developed via RDA) to support linking between different objects, predominantly data and publications. The RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) working group has generated a Scholix metadata schema, helped implement this schema in multiple Scholix hubs and other infrastructure providers, and built a community that provides data citation services.
It is widely accepted that the FAIR data principles highlight the importance of metadata. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) community has decades of experience in supporting data production and reuse within the social, behavioural, and economic sciences through the publication and use of detailed, machine-actionable metadata specifications. This webinar explores the lessons that have been learned over that time, and how these lessons can be applied more broadly in the context of FAIR data sharing.
Harmonizing Descriptions of Research Data Repositories
The RDA's Data Repository Attributes Working Group has been developing a list of common attributes that can be used to describe data repositories along with examples that showcase different approaches that repositories are taking to express and expose metadata about themselves. The group seeks to improve the discoverability and interoperability of repositories with registries, tools, and other infrastructure related to research data.