RDA Collaboration Projects - Putting in practice RDA’s most valuable results
RDA Europe, following its mandate to sustain RDA’s principles and faciliate the European contribution to the global open data emerging landscape, supports the RDA Collaboration Projects, i.e. short and focused projects that produce concrete results and commit to adopt or develop implementations of specific RDA recommendations and to provide feedback to the RDA community. RDA Europe, by funding Collaboration Projects, on one hand contributes to the dissemination of RDA’s results; on the other hand it allows RDA recommendations to evolve adapting to the concrete needs of researchers.
RDA’s most tangible results are the recommendations and outputs that Working and Interest Groups produce in the effort to outline practical solutions to enable open sharing, reuse and interoperability of data across borders and disciplines. Testing RDA’s recommendations and outputs and experimenting with them in concrete scenarios is of crucial importance to ensure the feasibility of solutions and to better drive future developments. Projects adopting RDA’s recommendations can highlight gaps in the solutions or provide implementations that improve the usability responding to specific domains’ requirements.
For this reason RDA Europe has launched two calls to fund RDA Collaboration Projects offering a grant for carrying out these activities during a six month period and providing feedback to the RDA groups involved in the specific implemented recommendation(s).
The first call, launched by RDA Europe in September 2015, received 25 applications and led to the selection and funding of the following 7 projects:
Title of the Project |
RDA Recommendation WG |
Organisation |
Country | Project Adoption Reports |
Dynamic Data Citation & the Argo data set |
BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre), Ifremer - representative Phil Worrall |
United Kingdom | Final Report | |
Creation of a Query interface for phenotyping data |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA; France) - representative François Houllier and Laurent Hemidy |
France | Final Report | |
Integration of the RDA Metadata Standards Directory into DMPonline |
University of Edinburgh, DMPonline - representative Kevin Ashley |
United Kingdom | Final Report | |
Implementation of a Query Store for the VAMDC infrastructure |
Observatoire de Paris, Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre Consortium (VAMDC)- representative Claude Catala |
France | Final Report | |
Introduction of PIDs to the Data-Intensive Sciences in Armenia |
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems (IIAP) of NAS RA; Yerevan State University (YSU) - representative Vladimir Sahakyan |
Armenia | Final Report | |
Integration of the DLI Service into the OpenAIRE infrastructure |
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, OpenAIRE - representative Michael Hatzopoulos |
Greece | Final Report |
The second call was launched in May 2016, received 27 proposals of which 8 have been selected for the grant:
Title of project | RDA Recommendation WG | Organisation | Country | Project Adoption Reports |
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BARRACUDA - pid-BAsed woRkflows foR climAte Change Using Ophidia | PID Information Types, Data Type Model and Registry | Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC Foundation) - representative Sandro Fiore | Italy | Final Report |
Evaluation and demonstration of Array DBMSs using national geospatial data | Array Database | Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI - part of National Land Survey of Finland - representative Tapani Sarjakoski | Finland | Final Report |
Providing training and guiding for DSA/WDS reviewers | RDA DSA-WDS Repository Audit and Certification | DANS - Data Archiving & Networked Services - representative René van Horik | Netherlands | Final Report |
PITSS (Persistent Identifiers Types for Social Sciences) | PID Information Types, Data Type Model and Registry, Data fabric | Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) - representative Ingrid Dillo | Netherlands | Final Report |
Collecting user stories via the SHARE platform | Dynamic Data Citation, Data Description Registry Interoperability Model, Metadata Standards Directory | Universidad Politecnica de Madrid - representative Alexander Garcia | Spain | Final Report |
GESIS LOD Research Graph | Data Description Registry Interoperability Model; RDA/DWS Publishing Data Services | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences - representative Benjamin Zapilko | Germany | Final Report |