Blog by Kamil Wais University in Rzeszow - RDA Europe Plenary 7 Early Career Programme Winner

Seventh RDA Plenary was organized in Tokyo in March 2016 in close partnership with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). This was the first time a plenary took place in Asia. One of the reason was  to expand the reach of the RDA far beyond America and Europe through increase in organization’s memberships from Asia region.

Blog by Robert Michael Lundin, Cardiff University - RDA Europe Plenary 7 Early Career Programme Winner

As a 4^th year medical student in the UK, the path that lead me to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) plenary was different to many of the other early career program participants. I have no background in IT, bioinformatics or programming, but as a medical researcher I care passionately about how research data is analysed, shared and published.

Blog by Heidi Laine, University of Helsinki - RDA Europe Plenary 7 Early Career Programme Winner

I am nowadays more familiar with concepts like metadata, identifiers and many more. I understand that in order for open research data to become the norm, we need to keep developing tools and services, creating data citation practices and metadata standards, as well as tackling technical and legal interoperability issues, to name a few.

Blog by Emmanouil Chaniotakis, National Technical University of Athens- RDA Europe Plenary 7 Early Career Programme Winner

In the next few paragraphs I will try to give you an impression of how a newcomer experiences a plenary meeting in a country profoundly different that those used to visit.

Blog by Eugene Siow, University of Southampton - RDA Europe Plenary 7 Early Career Programme Winner

My first RDA Plenary - a truly enriching experience and a wonderful encounter with the RDA community. The following article summarises the experience and thoughts attending the plenary, from the lens of a computer scientist working with the Internet of Things.