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    The Research Data Alliance

    With over 10000 members from 145 countries, RDA provides a neutral space where its members can come together to develop and adopt infrastructure that promotes data-sharing and data-driven research

     

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RDA STATEMENT ON CONFLICT:

 The Research Data Alliance is a global organization with over 14,000 members from 150 countries, and is built on principles that include openness, inclusivity and transparency.
The Council is the main governing body of RDA, and would like to express its concern and sympathy for our colleagues and fellow researchers in all areas of the world where there is conflict,
as we join other organizations across the international research community in calling for a quick and peaceful resolution to conflict. 


News & Events

  • Global Biodata Coalition Requests Feedback on Whit...

    30/11/2023

    RDA invites its members to respond to provide two White Papers from the Global Biodata Coalition (GBC) looking at how research funders can explore partnerships to sustain the global biodata resource infrastructure.

  • RDA TAB Elections 2023 - Cast your Vote!

    07/12/2023

    Voting is now open for the TAB Member Elections 2023 Cast your vote now

    There are 10 candidates and 7 seats open for election, this includes 1 new seat to increase the number of TAB members (for a 3-year term) and 2 seats for 1 year (until end 2024) to fill vacancies. 

  • Essentials of Research Data Management

    30/11/2023

    This webinar will be available in English with simultaneous Spanish interpretation.

  • RDA y CEDIA unen fuerzas para apoyar la gestión gl...

    30/11/2023

    La Research Data Alliance (RDA) y la Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia (CEDIA) firmaron un convenio para formar una asociación regional, destinada a representar aún más las prácticas e intereses de la comunidad investigadora ecuatoriana y al mismo tiempo facilitar la Adopción regional de estándares y prácticas de RDA a través de la...

  • RDA and CEDIA join forces to support global resear...

    30/11/2023

    The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Ecuadorian Corporation for the Development of Research and Academia (CEDIA) signed an agreement to form a regional association, intended to further represent the practices and interests of the Ecuadorian research community and at the same time facilitate the regional adoption of RDA standards and practices through the organization...

The Value of RDA for

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A Data Hungry Research Field

RDA Adoption stories - watch the playlist

 

 

Recent blog posts

  • IDW from a Student's Perspective
  • Repository Services - developing trust in the ecosystem
  • International Data Week 2023: “a Festival of the work of the community”. 
  • Meet the RDA TIGER Facilitators!
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Recent Group Activity

Proposed changes to our Archives and Records Professionals IG

By: Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data IG

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WORKING AND INTEREST GROUPS

 

RDA is a pragmatic and agile organization, and through the work of its Working and Interest Groups, directly and logically tackles numerous data infrastructure challenges

 

 

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RECOMMENDATIONS & OUTPUTS
 

RDA Outputs are the technical and social infrastructure solutions that enable data sharing, exchange and interoperability

 

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Latest Output

RDA Professionalising Data Stewardship - What does a career track for data stewards look like?

Adoption Stories

39 Hints to Facilitate the Use of Semantics for Data on Agriculture the Nutrition

https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-disciplines/rda-europe-ambassadorsThe Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) adoption story. 

Discover them all

The Value of RDA for Regions

 

An RDA Region is loosely defined as a “national level” geographic entity or consortium of “national-level” entities, and is intended to be broadly representative.

 

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News from the Regions

20/11/2022 - European support for RDA returns with...

The European Research Data Alliance Association (RDA-A) is happy to introduce a new support services project

12/09/2022 - Contribute to the EOSC Symposium 2022...

Last year, the Council of Europe defined the specific policy priorities of 2022-2024 for the establishment of the New 

28/09/2020 - How to Manage Research Data. The hand...

Europe

As part of the RDA Europe 4.0 project, SRCE - University of Zagreb University Computing Centre become the Croatian national RDA node in 2019. In cooperation with the librarians...

11/09/2020 - Data, data – Big Data! And What? Rese...

Europe

The idea of ​​open access to research data is wonderful and in harmony with the new paradigm - Open Science. Access to the data is possible for all researchers, system-...

21/08/2020 - CARE principles for Indigenous Data G...

Australia

The work of the RDA Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group is cited as part of CSIRO's contribution to the Indigenous Evaluation Strategy of the Australian Government,...

22/07/2020 - The RDA Community called to contribut...

Europe

On 20th July, the EOSC Executive Board published an open consultation on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The consultation, which closes on 31st of...

03/06/2020 - Take part in the TRIPLE survey to sup...

Europe

The TRIPLE projectis inviting all RDA members to take part in its User Research Survey

18/05/2020 - Survey of Open Access (OA) Open Scien...

Europe

OA & OS Infrastructure (OSI) is defined as sets of services, protocols, standards and software contributing to the research lifecycle – from collaboration and...

12/05/2020 - The Research Data Alliance contributi...

Europe

The RDA platform is being significantly leveraged in the creation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). A report issued by RDA Europe 4.0 project describes the key finding...

27/02/2020 - Persistent Identifier Policy, Rules o...

Europe

Several documents are out for consultation from the EOSC Executive Board, a body of representatives from the research and e-infrastructures communities, appointed by the...

18/11/2019 - EOSC meets the research data internat...

Europe

On the 22nd of October 2019, the University of Aalto, Helsinki, Finland hosted the first EOSC event of 2019: The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC. The...

07/11/2019 - RDA EU Travel grants for the 15th RDA...

Europe

RDA Europe is offering up to 7 Early Careers and 5 Experts grants designed to support participation to the 15th RDA Plenary meeting (18-20 March 2020, Melbourne, Australia)....

29/08/2019 - FAIRsFAIR Open Consultation on FAIR D...

Europe

The FAIR principles are about making research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

18/07/2019 - Position open for a Research Developm...

US

The University of Arizona, one of RDA Organizational Members,  is seeking to fill a Research Development Associate (RDA) in Research Development Services (RDS).

17/07/2019 - Final call for European Organisations...

Europe

RDA Europe, the European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance, is expanding its network of  national nodes. Currently nineteen, (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Croatia,...

10/07/2019 - Research Data Alliance meet and greet...

Australia

Ahead of the first Australian RDA plenary in 2020, the RDA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are collaborating to present an “RDA meet and greet tour” in...

04/07/2019 - Vacancy: Head of Data Services for Wa...

US

Recruitment has begun for the position of Head of Data Services for Washington University Libraries. The incumbent will report to the Associate University Librarian for Digital...

21/05/2019 - RDA EU Ambassadors deadline extended:...

Europe

RDA EU Ambassadors Grants Call for applications: deadline extended until May 27, 2019.

28/03/2019 - Data Management Plans (DMP) Community...

Australia and Oceania

This Data Management Plans (DMP) Community of Practice is targeted at people in Australia and the wider Oceania region who are interested in discussing, building and improving...

07/03/2019 - Services to Support FAIR Data: a seri...

Europe

OpenAIRE, RDA Europe, FAIRsFAIR and EOSC-hub are happy to announce a series of three workshops, two in April and one in September, called ‘Services to Support FAIR Data’.  The...

19/02/2019 - Widening engagement and bringing forw...

Europe

Agricultural sciences, Engineering, Earth Sciences or High energy physics, these are just a set of the domains that have Ambassadors appointed under the umbrella of the...

15/02/2019 - Webinar on the What, Why and how of t...

Europe

On February 21 at 2.00 PM CET, RDA Europe 4.0 organises a Q&A webinar to give a detailed overview of Adoption Grants programmes and the application process for the grants,...

22/01/2019 - AOSP Releases New Report: The Future...

Africa

In March 2018, the first version of this document was developed as a result of an expert group meeting held in Pretoria. Resulting amendments were then incorporated into this...

20/12/2018 - And the winners are…. Meet RDA Europe...

Europe

RDA Europe is pleased to announce the results of the first call for new RDA Europe national nodes. We were delighted to receive ten applications, four of which were very strong...

19/12/2018 - RDA EU open calls for Early Careers,...

Europe

RDA Europe 4.0, as the European plug-in to RDA, currently has 3 open calls to support growing the community of research data experts and practitioners.  RDA Europe offers...

07/09/2018 - Whole Tale - RDA/US Fellowship Call f...

USA

The Whole Tale project, in cooperation with the US region of the Research Data Alliance (RDA/US) and its early career fellowship program RDA/US Data Share, invites applications...

Latest posts from the National Groups

"The Community Cross-fertilisation Carousel", c'est demain, et autres informations

By: RDA in France

Fwd: [rda-org-assembly] RDA Community Cross-Community Carousel 30 Nov 2023

By: RDA in Ireland

Les nouveaux Groupes de la RDA - n'hésitez pas à en devenir membre!

By: RDA in France

RDA FOR DISCIPLINES

 

The “RDA for disciplines” whiteboard is open to all RDA discipline specialists willing to give a personal account of what data-related challenges they are facing and how RDA is helping them.

 

 

Find your discipline

 

RDA and the Digital Humanities

With the development of digital humanities research practice, the humanities domain is producing...

RDA and Agriculture

Agricultural data have become increasingly important for the national and global development and...

RDA and Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science

The Research Data Alliance builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of...

RDA and the Biomedical Sciences

Biomedical sciences are a set of applied sciences, employing portions of natural or formal...

RDA and the Social Sciences
RDA and Scholarly Communication

Many of the RDA’s group activities have concentrated on ways to support data’s discoverability,...

RDA and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 global goals, with 169 associated targets, that...

RDA for Interdisciplinary research

When it comes to solving global problems (COVID-19 crisis, SDG / Sustainable Development...

Natural Sciences

Welcome to the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences section of RDA...

RDA and Chemistry

Chemical research data is fundamentally the most important product that chemists create as it...

RDA and Linguistics

Data are fundamental to the field of linguistics. Examples drawn from natural languages provide...

RDA and Biodiversity

Many organisms move across borders or have a global distribution. In the discipline of...

Engineering and technology
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PLENARIES

RDA 22nd Plenary Meeting - Fully Virtual

RDA's 22nd Plenary Meeting
(Fully Virtual)
“Local Action - Global Connection”
14-23 May 2024

About

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    • RDA Secretary General
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  • RDA Strategic Plan 2020 - 2023
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  • RDA Financial Sustainability

Get Involved

  • The Value of RDA for...
    • COVID-19
    • Funders
    • Individuals
    • Industry
    • Infrastructure Providers
    • Libraries
    • Organisations performing Research
    • Regions
    • Student/Early Career Programs
    • The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
  • Calling RDA Community
    • Request for Comments
    • Call for Papers: Research Data Alliance Results Special Collection
    • RDA - EOSC Future Project
    • RDA TIGER

RDA for Disciplines

  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Digital Humanities
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science
  • Linguistics
  • RDA and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Social Sciences
  • Scholarly Communication
  • Engineering and technology
  • RDA and the Natural Sciences
  • RDA Domain Ambassadors

Groups

  • Creating and Managing RDA Groups
  • All Groups
  • Working Groups
  • Interest Groups
  • Historical Groups
  • Coordination Groups
  • National Groups
  • Communities of Practice

Recommendations & Output

  • NEW! Recommendations & outputs catalogue
  • Adoption Use Cases
  • Adoption Stories
  • RDA Europe Adoption Grants
  • Standards
  • Interest in RDA Recommendations
  • RDA Outputs Processes

Plenaries & Events

  • Plenaries
    • Next
    • Planned
    • Past
  • Training & Webinars
    • Upcoming webinars
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    • Podcasts
    • RDA Remote Meeting Guide
  • Events
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    • WG/IG Collaborative Meetings
    • Past Events
    • A Decade of Data: Celebrating 10 Years of the Research Data Alliance

News & Media

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  • RDA Newsletter
  • Reports & Publications
  • Blogs
  • RDA Videos
  • Joint Statements
  • Podcasts

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