RDA's 20th Plenary: Programme

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Mon, 20 March | Tues, 21 March | Wed, 22 March | Thu, 23 March | Fr, 24 March

Research Data Alliance's 20th Plenary (RDA P20) final programme is now available and can be found below. The RDA P20 hybrid meeting will take place 21-23 March 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden and virtually. The main P20 programme includes co-located events components scheduled on the 20 and 24 March 2023. Full list of confirmed co-located events including dates, times and registration links can be accessed via Co-located events page.

All P20 sessions will be held in hybrid format and broadcast to virtual participants via event platform Whova; virtual participants will be able to join any session and interact with in-person attendees. In addition to the live sessions at the conference venue, P20 will be held on Whova, well known event platform from previous RDA's plenaries. No repeat sessions will be held during the 20th Plenary.

RDA P20 session recordings are now available for those registered for the Plenary via Whova Agenda. Recordings will be available for the wider community five weeks after the Plenary, on Monday, 1 May 2023. 

Plenary pathways are now also available and will help attendees to navigate the RDA breakout sessions from a thematic / topical perspective.

Please note, that all times in the programme are final and are in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden). To check your local time conversions, please click on times.

Monday, 20 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

• 07:30 - 11:00 UTC | 08:30 - 12:00 Sweden | Insights into the practicalities of collaboration, data and software sharing across the globe – Kelvin room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 08:00 - 11:00 UTC | 09:00 - 12:00 Sweden | RDA Council Meeting – Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 08:00 - 16:00 UTC | 09:00 - 17:00 Sweden | RDA in Norway: Networking event – Decibel room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 08:30 - 12:00 UTC | 09:30 - 13:00 Sweden | Progressing Machine Actionable Data Management Plans in DMPRoadmap – Pascal room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 11:00 - 16:15 UTC | 12:00 - 17:15 Sweden | Global research Commons: Europe and beyond (EOSC Future) – Conference Hall (Hallen), Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 12:00 - 15:30 UTC | 13:00 - 16:30 Sweden | DataCite Connect – Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | 14:00 - 17:00 Sweden | FAIR environmental data for EOSC and the World: Engineering the ENVRI-Hub – Pascal room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 13:00 - 16:30 UTC | 14:00 - 17:30 Sweden | The WorldFAIR Project's Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework – Poppelmanska rummet, Chalmersska huset, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 13:30 - 16:30 UTC | 14:30 - 17:30 Sweden | RDA & Research Software FUNDERS FORUM (invitation only) – Visual Arena Studio, Gothenburg, Sweden 

Wednesday, 22 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

Thursday, 23 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

• 07:15 - 08:00 UTC | 08:15 - 09:00 Sweden | Registration open - The Candela foyer
• 08:00 - 09:30 UTC | 09:00 - 10:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session - Building Platform Partnerships for the Future - - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)   Recording available
  • Seamless interoperability between data, software and high performance computing is the vision for future science. Such general interoperability remains elusive. Several disciplinary or regional solutions combining these aspects have however been built, and learning on their processes, interfaces, and organisation can provide hints on moving towards more general interoperability. This session presents and discusses the lessons learned from such endeavours.
  • Moderator: Ari Asmi, Director, RDA Association (Europe)
  • Speakers: Delian Chen (Univ. of Goteborg, IPCC), Tshiamo Motshegwa (Africa Open Science Platform), Dirk Pleiter (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Mikiko Tanifuji (Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform, Japan)
• 09:30 - 10:00 UTC | 10:30 - 11:00 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | 11:00 - 12:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 6
  • IG Data Discovery Paradigms: Recommendations for data repositories to improve data discoverability - Decibel room   Recording available
  • IG Libraries for Research Data IG: Libraries' Role in Supporting UNESCO Open Science Recommendations - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)   Recording available
  • IG ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences IG: Continuing the Circle of Life of Earth and Environmental Science Data Infrastructure Projects: Maturing PARSEC and ENVRI-FAIR, Beginning New Adventures - Visual Arena Studio   Recording available
  • IG Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions IG: The Role of Middleware in Data and Metadata Management: National and Institutional Approaches Involving iRODS and Alternatives - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden   Recording available
  • WG Data Repository Attributes WG: Data Repository Attributes Working Group (DRAWG) Working Meeting - Pascal Room   Recording available
  • WG Brokering Framework Working Group: Brokering Framework - Update and FInalisation - Kelvin room   Recording available
  • BoF - Trusted Research Environments for Sensitive Data: FAIRness for "Closed" Data and Processes - Visual Arena Lobby   Recording available
• 11:30 - 12:30 UTC | 12:30 - 13:30 Sweden | Lunch break RDA Plenary 20
• 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | 13:30 - 15:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 7
  • IG RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG: TRUST Principles & Certification updates - Pascal Room   Recording available
  • IG Chemistry Research Data IG: Describing diverse chemistry datasets across distributed data resources - Visual Arena Studio   Recording available
  • WG FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG: Draft recommendations for making VREs FAIR and FAIR-enabling - Decibel room   Recording available
  • WG Data Granularity WG: Data Granularity Guidance - Going Once, Going Twice,... - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden   Recording available
  • CoP IGAD Community of Practice: Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice First Steps and Way Forward - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)   Recording available
  • IG Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC) IG: Towards implementable recommendations: taking advantage of the SHARC open science survey - Kelvin room   Recording available
  • IG Open Science Graphs for FAIR Data IG: Open Science Graph - Interoperability Framework. A debriefing from the Task Force - Visual Arena Lobby   Recording available
• 14:00 - 14:30 UTC | 15:00 - 15:30 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• 14:30 - 15:30 UTC | 15:30 - 16:30 Sweden | RDA Closing Plenary - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)   Recording available
  • Looking to the future of research data and its capacity to solve the grand challenges of society. How can data professionals support Artificial Intelligence and how can AI support research data? The Head of Research from AI Sweden, Magnus Sahlgren, will give his insights to the value of AI for society and tackling societal challenges. The keynote will be followed by the closing ceremony of the 20th RDA Plenary meeting and a view to the next meetings.
  • Moderator: Hilary Hanahoe (Research Data Alliance Secretary General)
  • Speakers: Magnus Sahlgren (Head of Research, NLY, AI, Sweden), 
• 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | 17:00 - 19:00 Sweden | RDA TAB & WG/IG Co-chairs - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

• 07:15 - 08:00 UTC | 08:15 - 09:00 Sweden | Registration open - The Candela foyer
• 08:00 - 09:30 UTC | 09:00 - 10:30 Sweden | Opening Plenary Session: Welcome to RDA P20 - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • The RDA is now turning 10 years old as a community-driven initiative with a mission to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data for the benefit of research. What have been the main contributions to younger researchers, data infrastructures and research performing organisations? After a Welcome to the Anniversary Plenary, three reflections and examples from these three perspectives will be presented.
  • Moderator: Sverker Holmgren, Director Chalmer e-Commons, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Speakers: Lars Börjesson (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), Hilary Hanahoe (Secretary General, RDA), Natasha Simons (Associate Director, Data & Services, Australian Research Data Commons), Madiareni Sulaiman (Research Data Librarian, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia and PhD candidate, University College London, UK), Wilhelm Widmark (Library Director, Stockholm University, Sweden and Executive Member, Swedish Rectors' Conference (SUHF) Open Science Group).
• 09:30 - 10:00 UTC | 10:30 - 11:00 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | 11:00 - 12:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session: Building RDA for the Future - Celebrating 10 years of the RDA - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • What will the next 5-10 years hold for RDA? With a lens on the past 10 years of RDA and the (r)evolution of the research data ecosystem through contributions from some founding RDA members & funders, and a telescope to the future from Early career and doctorate students, how can and should RDA remain relevant and valuable to its stakeholders?
  • Moderator: Sandra Collins, Univ. Librarian, University College Dublin & RDA Council
  • Panelists: Kathryn Barker (RDA Community Manager, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)), Connie Clare (RDA Community Development Manager), Julia Gehrmann (PhD student/Scientific Associate at Univ. of Cologne and University Hosptial Cologne, Institute for Biomedical Informatics (BI-K), Beth Plale (Director, Data to Insight Center, Luddy Schgool of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana Univ & RDA NGS (non-governmental structure) founding member, Ross Wilkinson (RDA Founding Member, ex Australian National Data Service), John Wood (RDA Founding Member and Co-author of Riding the Wave).
• 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | 12:00 - 13:00 Sweden | Lunch
• 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | 12:00 - 13:00 Sweden | RDA Organisational Assembly Meeting – Newton, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 12:00 - 12:55 UTC | 13:00 - 13:55 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session: Building Institutional Partnerships for the Future - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • It is very important that government agencies make their decisions based on high quality data and data-driven research. In Latin America and Spain, one of the RDA regional nodes has direct experience of doing this. La Referencia as an Ibero-American (Latin America, Spain and Portugal) network of open access repositories promoting the articulation of “policies and actions in open science, in order to create an ecosystem of open scientific information in the region as a public good, led by the organisms of science and technology”.  The Speakers will share their experience working with government institutions of Science, Technology and Innovation as best practice for the RDA on how to improve its articulation with the public sector and policy makers.
  • Moderator: Eva María Méndez Rodríguez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • Speakers: Federico Cetrangolo (Graduate in Economics (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Master's in Administration and Public Policies (Universidad de San Andrés)), Freddy Sumba (Computer Systems Engineer, I+D+i Dept, CEDIA), Javier Valdiviezo (System Engineer specialist in GIS with a Master's Degree in Tics applied to Elearning and in teaching-learning environments mediated by digital technologies (University of Barcelona) and in Elearning in the Caribbean University of Curazao. Currently Academic and Continuing Education Coordinator of the Global Association for the Smart Home Technology (CEDIA)).
• 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | 14:00 - 15:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 1 
  • WG GORC International Model WG (GORC-IM WG), Global Open Research Commons IG : GORC International Model WG: Reflections and Document Development, The EOSC Finnish Forum and the Nordic implementations of research commons - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • Joint Session: Data Usage Metrics WG , Repository Platforms for Research Data IG : Practical Approaches to Tracking and Communicating the Use of Research Data - Pascal Room
  • Joint Session: Active Data Management Plans IG , DMP Common Standards WG , Discipline-specific Guidance for Data Management Plans WG : Data Management Planning: where are we and where do we want to be? - Visual Arena Studio
  • BoF - Coordinating mechanisms for making code visible  - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • IG Social Science Research Data IG: SSIG plenary meeting - Growing international coordination across social science infrastructures - Decibel room
  • IG CODATA/RDA Research Data Science Schools for Low and Middle Income Countries: Operationalising the CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science (SoRDS) - Kelvin room
  • IG Vocabulary Services IG: What is happening in the Semantic interoperability realm and in VSSIG? - Visual Arena Lobby 
• 14:30 - 15:00 UTC | 15:30 - 16:00 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | 16:00 - 17:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 2 
  • Joint Session: Life Science Data Infrastructures IG , FAIRsharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases RDA WG : Infrastructure supporting the FAIR data principles in life science research practice - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • WG National PID Strategies WG: Pathways to a national PID strategy: a guide to facilitate uptake and alignment - Kelvin room
  • IG Working with PIDS in Tools: Working with PIDS in Tools and e-infrastructures: Three concrete examples - Visual Arena Studio
  • WG Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation (AIDV) WG: The Ethics of AI and Data Visitation: Building Blocks for Data Commons and Open Science - Pascal Room
  • Joint Session: RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability IG , Research Data Management in Engineering IG : Automation of LIMS for Data Analysis and Reuse: Joint Meeting - Visual Arena Lobby

• 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | 18:00 - 20:00 Sweden | Celebrating 10 years Reception at Gothenburg Town Hall to those who will have a glass icon on their attendee badge.  Click here for directions
  & at Chalmers House (Chalmersska Husets), Södra Hamngatan 11 to those who won't have a glass icon on their attendee badge. Click here for directions.
   Join us in Gothenburg with light mingle food and drinks to celebrate RDA’s 10th anniversary, its achievements in the past 10 years, and to recognise the many people who have contributed to it.  

• 07:15 - 08:00 UTC | 08:15 - 09:00 Sweden | Registration open - The Candela foyer
• 08:00 - 09:30 UTC | 09:00 - 10:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 3 
  • IG Sensitive Data Interest Group: Sensitive data contexts and disciplines: A look at different approaches - Visual Arena Lobby
  • IG FAIR for Machine Learning (FAIR4ML) IG: Defining the roadmap towards FAIR for Machine Learning - Visual Arena Studio
  • BoF - Data representation in materials and chemicals based on harmonised domain ontologies - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • IG Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem IG: Expanding our horizons to new disciplines: harmonising on what is core to all - Decibel room
  • WG Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Complex Citations Working Group: Complex Citations in the Earth and Space Sciences: Formulating Requirements for a Demonstration Prototype - Kelvin room
  • BoF - Computational Reproducibility: What's Next for RDA? - Pascal Room
  • BoF - Introducing Innovative Indicators to Track Sweden's Open Research Data Objective - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
• 09:30 - 10:00 UTC | 10:30 - 11:00 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | 11:00 - 12:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 4 
  • IG Software Source Code IG: Software Source Code - policy and incentives  - Visual Arena Lobby
  • BoF - Promoting synergies between national RDM and data stewardship networks - Visual Arena Studio
  • IG Education and Training on Handling of Research Data IG: From Classroom to Practice: integrating education and training in handling research data - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • IG Data Versioning IG: Develop actionable guidelines from the data versioning principles - Decibel room
  • IG Data policy standardisation and implementation IG: Increasing the positive impacts of journal policies on data sharing practices - Kelvin Room
  • Joint session: FAIR Data Maturity Model WG , Persistent Identification of Instruments WG : The Way to FAIR: from data collection to citation - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
• 11:30 - 12:30 UTC | 12:30 - 13:30 Sweden | Lunch break RDA Plenary 20
• 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | 13:30 - 15:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 5
  • WG Data Citation WG: Adoption Meeting of the WG on Dynamic Data Citation  - Decibel room
  • Joint session: Data for Development IG , RDA for the Sustainable Development Goals IG : Data for Sustainable Development (SD) and Responsible Research (RR) - Visual Arena Studio
  • BoF - Exploring User-Centered Services for Collections as Data at the Library of Congress - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • BoF - Evaluation of Research - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Joint Session: FAIRsharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases RDA WG , Professionalising Data Stewardship IG , Early Career and Engagement IG , Engaging Researchers with Data IG : Community Engagement That Works! Examining tools and success stories of pathways to Engagement in Community-led organisations at a global level - Visual Arena Lobby
  • WG InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology WG (I-ADOPT WG): Practical implementations of the I-ADOPT framework and future directions - Kelvin room
  • IG FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG: IG FAIR Digital Object Fabric: Discussing the FAIR DO Concept - Pascal Room
• 14:00 - 14:30 UTC | 15:00 - 15:30 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• 14:30 - 16:00 UTC | 15:30 - 17:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session: Building Industrial Partnerships for the Future - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • This session will set the scene for the new framework "The Value of the Research Data Alliance to Industry'' released in December 2022. Speakers will share and discuss the possibilities and impacts that an accelerated partnership between RDA and industry can have on the global data community. We will highlight common challenges across sectors, as well as complementing competencies and capabilities that we can harness in partnerships for the future.
  • Panelists:  Monica Lassi (Senior Data Governance Specialist, IKEA), Dan Nygren (Education Lead, Nordics and Baltics, Amazon Web Services), Richard Pitts (Oracle for Research), Henric Rhedin (Director External Research & Exploration Coordination,Volvo Cars), Mimmi Sundler (Head of R&D Data & AI Governance & Policy, AstraZeneca)
• 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | 17:00 - 18:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session: Building the RDA Community for the Future - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • This interactive session focuses on the RDA community - our individual, organisational and regional members - inviting them to help us shape the RDA Strategic Plan for the next five years (2024-2028). As a community driven initiative RDA will focus its strategy and resources on areas of value and interest to the global research data landscape.
  • Moderator: Hilary Hanahoe (RDA Secretary General)
  • Speakers: Jill Benn (University Librarian, University of Western Australia, Perth & RDA Council Co-chair), Ingrid Dillo (Deputy Director, DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services), The Netherlands & RDA Council Co-chair), Hilary Hanahoe (RDA Secretary General), Jeff Horne (Co-founder & CEO, Wicket: the World's first Member Data Platform).
• 18:15 - 21:30 UTC | 19:15 - 22:30 Sweden | Conference dinner at Kajskjul 8 venue. Click here for directions

Friday, 24 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

• 07:00 - 11:00 UTC | 08:00 - 12:00 Sweden | FAIR-IMPACT closed meeting - Pascal room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 08:00 - 15:30 UTC | 09:00 - 16:30 Sweden | ORCID Consortia Leads event – Kelvin room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 08:00 - 12:00 UTC | 09:00 - 13:00 Sweden | Data-driven life science and the RDA – Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 08:00 - 11:00 UTC | 09:00 - 12:00 Sweden | Research Software workshop: guidelines and metrics for metadata curation – Decibel room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 09:00 - 15:00 UTC | 10:00 - 16:00 Sweden | GORC International Model WG: Model Synthesis Workshop – Newton room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 12:00 - 15:30 UTC | 13:00 - 16:30 Sweden | DDI Cross-Domain Integration (DDI-CDI): Optimising Your Data Description for Integration and Reuse – Pascal room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden

Group color coding legend: 

IGs
 Not yet endorsed    
 IG established

WGs
 Not yet endorsed  
 WGs Getting started (~0-6 months after RDA endorsement)    
 WGs Wrapping up (from ~12 months after RDA endorsement)
 WGs Maintaining deliverables (maintenance group)