RDA presentation with Plenary 6 Details

1. All you wanted to know
about The Research
Data Alliance
<NAME SURNAME>, <AFFILIATIPON>
<EMAIL> <TWITTER ACCOUNT>
@RESDATALL @RDA_EUROPE
https://rd-alliance.org/

2. What is RDA?
RDA is an international organization focused on the development of
infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and
exchange, and the acceleration of data driven innovation worldwide.
With more than 3,200 members globally representing more than 100 countries,
RDA includes data science professionals from multiple disciplines, including but
not limited to academia, library sciences, earth science, astronomy and
meteorology.
RDA is building the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of
data to achieve its vision of researchers and innovators openly sharing data
across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges
of society.
https://rd-alliance.org/about.html

3. What does RDA do?
Members come together through self-formed, volunteer, focussed Working
Groups, exploratory Interest Groups to exchange knowledge, share discoveries,
discuss barriers and potential solutions, explore and define policies and test as
well as harmonise standards to enhance and facilitate global data sharing.
RDA members collaborate together regionally and with the global RDA
community to tackle numerous infrastructure challenges related to:
Reproducibility
Data preservation
Best practices for domain
repositories
Curriculum development
Data citation
Data type registries
Metadata
and so many more!
https://rd-alliance.org/about.html

4. Who Can Join RDA?
◦ Any individual or organization, regardless of profession or discipline, with an interest in
reducing the barriers to data sharing and exchange and who agrees to RDA’s guiding
principles of:
◦ Openness
◦ Consensus
◦ Balance
◦ Harmonization
◦ Community-driven
◦ Non-profit and technology-neutral
Membership is free @ http://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register
https://rd-alliance.org/about.html

5. Individuals
Observers
Contributors
Drivers
5
Organisations
 Insight
 Adopt
 Drive
National level
 Coordination & Knowledge
Exchange, Strategy & / or
Implementation
• Members
• WGs-IGs-BoFs
• Requests for
Comments
• Plenaries
Getting involved
• Member
• WGs-IGs-BoFs
• RfCs
• H2020 projects
• Adoption / Uptake
• Papers & Events
• Meetings & Fora
• Training & Workshops
• Uptake pilots
https://rd-alliance.org/about/get-involved.html

6. Why Join RDA?
Individual RDA Member Benefits
◦ Contribute to acceleration of data infrastructure
development
◦ Work and share experiences with collaborators
throughout the world
◦ Access to extraordinary network of colleagues with
various levels of experience, perspectives and
practices
◦ Gain greater expertise in data science regardless of
whether one is a student, early or seasoned career
professional
◦ Enhance the quality and effectiveness of personal
work and activities
◦ Improve one’s competitive advantage professionally
and positioning oneself for leadership within the
broader research community
Organizational RDA Member Benefits
◦ Provide an organizational perspective on the work of
RDA and ability to influence RDA’s direction
◦ Assist in implementation of RDA Outputs
◦ Participate in all RDA Organizational Forums
◦ Receive regular updates on the work of the RDA
◦ Attend Organizational Assembly meetings and vote
on proposed policies for consideration by the RDA
Council and for members of the Organizational
Advisory Board
◦ Provide advice to the Council through the
Organizational Advisory Board
◦ Be recognized on the RDA Website and at RDA
Meetings as a supporter of data interoperability
https://rd-alliance.org/about/get-involved.html

7. Total RDA
Community
Members: 3378
from 104 countries
Who is RDA?
https://rd-alliance.org/about.html
392
991
1274
1656
2048
2404
2636
2881 3126
May - July Aug - Oct Nov - Jan Feb - Apr May - July Aug - Oct Nov - Jan Feb -Apr May - July Aug -Oct
3378
Africa
3%
Asia
6%
Australasia
4%
Europe
50%
North America
36%
South America
1%
Type Members (Oct 2015)
Press & Media 21
Policy/Funding Agency 50
Large Enterprise 75
IT Consultancy/Development 110
Small and Medium Enterprise 200
Other 187
Government/Public Services 521
Academia/Research 2214
TOTAL 3378

8. RDA
Organisational
Members
RDA Affiliate
Members
https://rd-alliance.org/organisation/rda-organisation-affiliate-members.html

9. Domain Science - focused
Toxicogenomics Interoperability IG
Structural Biology IG
Biodiversity Data Integration IG
Agricultural Data Interoperability IG
Wheat Data Interoperability WG
Digital Practices in History and Ethnography IG
Geospatial IG
Marine Data Harmonization IG
Metabolomics IG
RDA/CODATA Materials Data Infrastructure and
Interoperability IG
Research Data Needs of the Photon and Neutron Science
Community IG
Defining Urban Data Exchange for Science IG
The BioSharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards
and databases in the life sciences WG
Urban Quality of Life Indicators IG
Community Needs - focused
Community Capability Model IG
Engagement IG
RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud
Computing in the Developing World IG
Development of Cloud Computing Capacity and Education
in Developing World Research IG
Data for Development IG
Education and Training on handling of research data IG
RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by
Focus (1)
https://rd-alliance.org/groups

10. Data Stewardship and Services – focused
• Research Data Provenance IG
• Preservation e-infrastructure IG
• RDA / WDS Publishing Data Services WG
• RDA / WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG
• Long-tail of Research Data IG
• RDA/WDS Publishing Data IG
• RDA/WDS Repository Audit and Certification DSA-WDS
Partnership WG
• Domain Repositories Interest Group
• Brokering Interest Group
• ELIXIR Bridging Force IG
• Libraries for Research Data IG*RDA / WDS Certification of Digital
Repositories IG
• RDA / WDS Publishing Data Cost Recovery for Data Centres IG
Reference and Sharing - focused
• Data Citation WG
• Standardization of Data Cat. and Codes WG
• RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IG
• Reproducibility IG
• Data Description Registry Interoperability Working Group
• RDA / WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics WG
Base Infrastructure - focused
• Data Foundation and Terminology WG
• Metadata Standards Directory WG
• Practical Policy WG
• PID Information Types WG
• Data Type Registries WG
• Data in Context IG
• Big Data Analytics IG
• Brokering Governance WG
• Federated Identity Management IG
• Metadata IG
• PID Interest Group
• Service Management IG
• Data Fabric IG
RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (2)
https://rd-alliance.org/groups

11. 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.
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html
RDA Outputs & Recommendations
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html

12. 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
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html
RDA Outputs & Recommendations
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html

13. Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS: A convergent DSA-WDS
certification standard to help eliminate duplication of effort, increase
certification procedure coherence and compatibility thus benefitting
researchers, data managers, librarians and scientific communities.
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics: improved research data
metrics and corresponding services, with the final goal of increasing
the overall availability and quality of citations and research data itself.
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services: A universal interlinking service
between data and the scientific literature.
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows: enhance the possibilities for
greater discoverability and a more efficient and reliable reuse of
research data benefitting other stakeholders like publishers, libraries
and data centres.
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html
RDA Outputs & Recommendations
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html
https://rd-alliance.org/

14. Call open until 30 October 2015 17:00 CEST
Co-organization of domain workshops or training courses on
barriers, solutions, RDA results and adoption possibilities.
Adoption of a specific RDA output and integration into the
infrastructure software stack.
Adaptation of some existing software stack to be compliant with
RDA guidelines.
Writing guidelines on RDA output tuned to domain specialties.
Call for Collaboration Projects
In the case of RDA
Result Uptake &
Test projects
collaborations
should be short and
focused activities
with concrete
results produced
within a 6 month
time frame and
should be in the
order of 15.000€.
More information http://europe.rd-alliance.org/rda-europe-call-collaboration-projects
The proposals should be submitted online at http://europe.rd-alliance.org/rda-europe-call-application-form
https://rd-alliance.org/

15. RDA Plenary 8 during
International Data Week 2016
When? Autumn 2016
Where? East Coast, USA
Co-located with? SciDataCon2016
RDA Plenary 9
When? 5-7 April 2017
Where? Barcelona, Spain
RDA Plenaries
Why attend?
 Working Meeting: Updates
& Progress
 Knowledge Exchange,
Networking & Direct
Interaction
 Best Practice, Outputs &
Adoption
 New ideas, groups, ….
https://rd-alliance.org/

16. 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), 22-24 Sept 2014

17. 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), 8-11 March 2015
https://rd-alliance.org/

18. RDA Plenary 6 (Paris) – 23- 25 Sept 2015
Co-located conferences:
 eInfrastructures & RDA for Data Intensive Science
 Persistent Identifiers: Enabling Services for Data Intensive Research
RDA deliverables presented:
 Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS
 RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics
 RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services
 RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows
7 Adoption cases: Deep Carbon Observatory, Platform for Experimental
Collaborative Ethnography, Datafed.net, the Materials Innovation Infrastructure, EUDAT
Collaborative Data Infrastructure, German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) & Common
Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN)
Focus on enterprise & climate change:
 20 enterprises showcased solutions
 3 climate change data challenge winners – Biovel, Plume Labs, Vizonomy
Focus on emerging professionals :
 RDA/EU sponsored 12 European Early Career Researchers and Scientists &
RDA/US sponsored 8 Fellowship winners
https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html
Theme: “Enterprise Engagement
with a focus on Climate Change”
700 attendees from 40+ countries
& hosted by Cap Digital – France

19. Plenary 6 summary
~700 attendees
(85 One Day Pass, mainly companies)
Europe 66 %
USA 20 %
Australia 3 %
Other 11 %

21. Plenary 6 summary
9 WG – 16 JM - 25 Bof – 21 IG - 5 plenaries

22. Experimentation Day:
20 Exhibitors
Winners: Defab & Plume Labs

23. Climate Change Data Challenge:
Vizonomy – Plume Labs - Biovel

24. Social networks figures
Engagement:
2438 tweets #RDAplenary
sent between
23rd and 25th September.
Impression:
#RDAplenary displayed
41 829 time
the 24th September !

25. RDA Plenary 7 (Tokyo)
https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-seventh-plenary-meeting.html

26. Continuing pipeline of infrastructure deliverables adopted
and used to accelerate data sharing
Increasing coordination of infrastructure
Increasing cross-boundary collaborations between
domains, sectors, organizations
International and regional programs focusing on
workforce, outreach, expansion of infrastructure impact
More Infrastructure
Partnership with
Industry
Synergistic Programs
Effective Community
Next Steps for RDA
New partners in the Organizational Assembly
Focused strategy to support development of industry
infrastructure for data sharing

27. <NAME SURNAME>,
<AFFILIATION>
<EMAIL> <Twitter
account>
@resdatall @RDA_US
@rda_europe
RDA Global
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RDA Europe
Email - info@europe.rd-alliance.org
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Twitter - @RDA_Europe
RDA US
Twitter - @RDA_US