Update on the Research Data AllianceSeptember 2015

Updated: 3rd September 2015

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RDA community focuses on building social, organizational and technical infrastructure to reduce barriers to data

sharing and exchange accelerate the development

of coordinated global data infrastructure

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RDA Working Group Infrastructure Deliverables are:Focused pieces of adopted code, policy, infrastructure, standards, or best practices that enable data to be shared and exchanged“Harvestable” efforts for which 12-18 months of work can eliminate a roadblock for a substantial communityEfforts that have substantive applicability to “chunks” of the data community, but may not apply to everyoneEfforts for which working scientists and researchers can start today while more long-term or far-reaching solutions are appropriately discussed in other venues

Research Data Alliance created to Accelerate Development of Research Data Sharing Infrastructure Worldwide

Plenary 2 Washington,

DC

3Precipitous GrowthRDA Launch / First Plenary

March 2013

RDA SecondPlenary

September 2014

RDA ThirdPlenary

March 2014

RDA FourthPlenary

September 2014

RDA FifthPlenary

March 2015

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Washington, DC, USA Dublin, Ireland

Gothenburg, Sweden

240 participants

First Working Groups and Interest Groups

380 participants from 22 countries

First “neutral space” community meeting (Data Citation Summit)

First Organizational Partner Meet-up

First BOFs

497 Participants from 32 countries

First Organizational Assembly

6 co-located events

14 BOF, 12 Working Groups, 22 Interest Groups

San Diego, CA, USA

550 Participants from 40 countries

1st RDA Deliverables presented

Organizational Assembly and first OAB / Council meeting

10 co-located events

11 BOF, 14 Working Groups, 36 Interest Groups

383 Participants from 30 countries

2nd RDA Deliverables presented

Organizational Assembly / Council meetings

1st Adoption Day & Large scale data projects meeting

10 BOF, 10 Working Groups, 20 Interest Groups; 10 joint Sessions; 4 thematic Plenary Sessions

4The Research Data Alliance Community Today

Total RDA Community Members: 3243

from 103 countries

5RDA Organizational Structure Complete

RDA Funders ForumStakeholder Group

RDA Council Responsible for overarching mission, vision, impact of RDA

Technical Advisory Board

Responsible for Technical roadmap and interactions

Secretary-General and Secretariat

Responsible for administration and

operations

Organizational Advisory Board and

Organizational Assembly

Responsible for organizational adoption and strategic advice

Working Groups 16 (June 2015)Self formed & responsible for impactful, outcome-oriented efforts

Interest Groups 42 (June 2015) Self formed & responsible for defining and refining common issues

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6RDA Interest (IG) and Working Groups (WG) by Focus 1

7RDA Interest (IG) and Working Groups (WG) by Focus 2

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Data Foundation & Terminology: a model for data in the registered domain.

PID Information Types: a common protocol for providers and users of persistent ID services worldwide.

Data Type Registries: allowing humans and machines to act on unknown, but registered, data types.

Practical Policy: defining best practices of how to deal with data automatically and in a documented way with computer actionable policy.

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Outputs

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Metadata standards directory: Community curated standards catalogue for metadata interoperability

Data Citation: defining mechanisms to reliably cite dynamic data

Data Description Registry Interoperability solutions enabling cross platform discovery based on existing open protocols and standards

Wheat Data Interoperability impacting the discoverability, reusability and interoperability of wheat data by building a common framework for describing, representing linking and publishing wheat data

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Outputs

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Organisations & initiatives seen as pioneers in realizing full value from research data

exercise considerable influence in the development of standards for data exchange and will provide valuable insights to the entire range of RDA activity

regularly briefed on developments in data interoperability with equally regular opportunity to provide feedback on activity and suggestions on next steps

Organisation & Affiliate Members

11RDA Organisational Members

12Organisational Members Composition

13RDA Affiliate Members

45% 30% 20% 5%

Academia/ Research SMEsOther Policy/

Funding Agency

14RDA Plenary 3 (Dublin)

March 26-28, 2014 Theme : “Playing YOUR part” 500 attendees from 35 countries Hosted by Ireland and Australia Co-located events:

EUDAT Training MUMIA Meeting on Verifiable Results in Multi-

lingual/Multi-faceted Search: Challenges in Sharing Data, Tools and Results Workshop

SIM4RDM: Building Collaborations to address research data management workshop

APARSEN-EUDAT-SCIDIP-ES Workshop on Data Preservation and Re-use

Focus on emerging professionals : RDA/EU sponsored 22 European Early Career

Researchers and Scientists RDA/US sponsored 8 Student Interns

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September 22-24, 2014 Theme : “Reaping the Fruits” 550 attendees from 40+ countries Co-hosted by Netherlands Co-located conferences:

EUDAT Conference Crowd Computing 2014 Data Seal of Approval Conference 2014, etc.

1st RDA deliverables presented: Data Type Registries PID Information Types Practical Policy Data Foundation and Terminology

Focus on emerging professionals : RDA/EU sponsored 14 European Early

Career Researchers and Scientists RDA/US sponsored 8 Student Interns and

5 Early Career and Student Fellows

RDA Plenary 4 (Amsterdam)

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March 8-11, 2015 Theme : “Adopt-a-Deliverable” 383 attendees from 30 countries Supported by the San Diego Super

Computing Center 1st Adoption Day & Large scale

data projects meeting 2nd Set of RDA deliverables

presented: Data Citation: Making Data Citable Data Description Registry Interoperability Metadata Standards Directory Wheat Data Interoperability

Focus on emerging professionals :

RDA/EU sponsored 5 European Early Career Researchers and Scientists

RDA/US sponsored 5 Fellowship winners

RDA Plenary 5 (San Diego, CA)

17RDA Plenary 6 (Paris)

When? 23-25 September 2015 Where? CNAM, Paris, France What? Enterprise Engagementwith a focus on Research Data for Climate Change

https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html

18Future Plenaries

RDA Plenary 8 during International Data Week 2016 When? 11-16 Sept 2016Where? East Coast, USACo-located with? SciDataCon2016

RDA Plenary 7 When? 1-3 March 2016Where? Toyko, Japan

RDA Plenary 9 When? March 2017Where? Barcelona, Spain

19Next Steps for RDA

Continuing pipeline of infrastructure deliverables adopted and used to accelerate data sharingIncreasing coordination of infrastructure

Increasing cross-boundary collaborations between domains, sectors, organizations

International and regional programs focusing on workforce, outreach, expansion of infrastructure impact

New partners in the Organizational AssemblyFocused strategy to support development of industry infrastructure for data sharing

More Infrastructure

Partnership with Industry

Synergistic Programs

Effective Community

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