10
Aug
2019
RDA Secretary-General Tour in Australia 2019
Reflections on a 6 city, 3 week tour of Australia and all things Research Data there.
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31
Jul
2019
The Greek effect in enhancing RDA outputs adoption
On July 3, the Greek RDA Node, Athena Research Centre (ARC), organised a Workshop on RDA Outputs and Adoption to inform the Greek scientific community about the outcomes of RDA group activities and to provide useful instructions on how these outcomes could be applied by them to improve existing services, tools and workflows. The workshop was held at ARC premises in Athens and was remotely available for everyone willing to participate.
23
Jul
2019
RDA Secretariat Face-to-face Meeting, July 2019
For the first time ever, since its establishment in 2013, the RDA Secretariat met for 3 days in Pisa, Italy to discuss operational plans for the next 10 months.
23
Jul
2019
Book sprint success: A team writing exercise for the win.
Following in the footsteps of the Open Science Training Handbook, we share our book sprint success story and some ideas to help with your collaborative writing.
18
Jun
2019
Reflecting on the Ethics of Data Infrastructures
“We’re the bridge builders in the brave new world of data,” the president of RDA mentioned as part of her opening remarks. If RDA community members are the bridge builders, it is important to be cognizant and aware of what is being built – by design – into these systems. The keynote at the RDA plenary 13, Dr. Julia Stoyanovich highlighted the multiple layers embedded in the increasingly popular discussion about the in-built biases in algorithms and machine learning. Is it that there is statistical bias in the model, societal bias in the data, or is it in fact the world is “incorrect”?