The Research Data Alliance (RDA) invites you to a workshop aimed at exploring the community’s contributions to shaping global and national science policies using RDA outputs and recommendations. This 1-hour workshop will be offered twice (on May 15th at 15:00 UTC and May 20th at 06:00 UTC) to accommodate participants across time zones.
Workshop Aims
The sessions will present clear policy statements supported by practical applications, adoption stories, and future potential of RDA’s recommendations and outputs related to Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) National Strategies, Journal Data Policy Frameworks and the necessary Evolution of Research Evaluation Frameworks.
The outcome of the workshops will be a white paper based on speaker contributions and workshop notes. The white paper will be shared with the RDA community.
Who is it for?
The workshop is for RDA Organisational Assembly (OA) members, Funders Forum members (FF), and the Regional Assembly (RA) members.
Agenda
The workshop will include short presentations from RDA community members on RDA adoption or impact stories related to Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) National Strategies, Journal Data Policy Frameworks and the necessary Evolution of Research Evaluation Frameworks. Each thematic talk, will be followed by a group reflection, and conclude with a wrap-up and discussion of next steps.
| Time (UTC) | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Welcome & introduction to workshop aims |
| 15:10 – 15:17 | National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategies |
| 15:17 – 15:25 | Reflection: Collaborative notes |
| 15:25 – 15:32 | Journal Data Policy Frameworks |
| 15:32 – 15:40 | Reflection: Collaborative notes |
| 15:40 – 15:47 | The necessary Evolution of Research Evaluation Frameworks |
| 15:47 – 15:55 | Reflection: Collaborative notes |
| 15:55 – 16:00 | Wrap up & next steps |
Speakers
Françoise Genova
Francoise Genova is an astronomer at Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, currently on Emerita status at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). She was the director of Strasbourg astronomical data centre for 20 years, and is one of the founding parents of the astronomical Virtual Observatory initiative, a global ecosystem of standards and tools enabling seamless access to the wealth of on-line astronomical data resources. She has been an active member of the RDA since its inception, currently co-chair of the Regional Advisory Board and Regional Assembly, and co-chair of RDA France since its start in 2018. She is the co-chair of the RDA Evaluation of Research Interest Group, which was endorsed in 2023 by RDA Council, and is actively involved in CoARA French National Chapter and CoARA General Assembly, where she represents the University of Strasbourg – CoARA is an international organisation, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment.
Talk: The necessary Evolution of Research Evaluation Frameworks
Hana Heringová
Hana Heringová leads the National Centre for Persistent Identifiers, which has been operating under the Centre for Repositories and Metadata Management in the National Library of Technology of the Czech Republic since 2023. She is co-chair of the National PIDs Strategy Interest Group under the Research Data Alliance and co-chair of the Engagement Expert Group for the EMEA region of DataCite.
Talk: National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategies
Rebecca Taylor-Grant
Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant is Director of Open Science Strategy & Innovation at Taylor & Francis, where she leads the implementation of Open Science policies and programmes. She has a background in data management for the humanities and social sciences and is co-chair of the STM Association’s Research Data Program Humanities Data Subgroup, as well as the RDA Research Data Policy Interest Group. She is a qualified Open Data trainer certified by the Open Data Institute. She was previously a member of the Research Data Alliance’s European Support Team, based at the National Library of Ireland and the Digital Repository of Ireland. Her PhD explored the connections between archival theory and practice and the management of research data.
Talk: Journal Data Policy Frameworks
Is this session inconvenient for your time zone? Register for the partner session taking place at 06:00 UTC on May 20th.
