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The Research Data Alliance accomplishes its mission primarily through Working Groups, Interest Groups and Communities of Practice. In order to allow new members to understand what technical and social infrastructure solutions RDA groups are developing, and which scientific disciplines may benefit RDA Group outcomes, this filter has been created to allow you identify which RDA group(s) might be more useful for your research.
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RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Meredith Goins, Dawei Lin, Micky Lindlar
Status: Recognised & Endorsed Joint RDA/WDS IG In order to guarantee data sharing, the long-term preservation of these data in sustainable digital repositories is a sine qua non. Data that are created and used by science and scholarship need to be managed, curated and archived, making sure that the substantial investments in preparing and presenting…
Historical Group
Big Data IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Peter Baumann, MORRIS RIEDEL
RDA Big Data Interest Group Charter Mission The ultimate goal of RDA Big Data Interest Group is to produce a set of recommendation documents to advise diverse research communities with respect to: How to select an appropriate Big Data solution for a particular science application with optimal value? and What are the best practices in…
Interest Group
Metadata IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Alex Ball, Milan Ojsteršek, Stephen Richard
The Metadata IG will concern itself with all aspects of metadata for research data. In particular, it will attempt to coordinate the efforts of the WGs concerned with metadata to produce a coherent approach to metadata covering metadata modalities of description, restriction, navigation, provenance, preservation and the use of metadata for the purposes discovery, contextualisation,…
Interest Group
RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Robert Chen, Christoph Bruch, Simon Hodson, Gail Clement
Status: Recognised & Endorsed The proposed Research Data Alliance – CODATA Working Group on Legal Interoperability of Research Data (RDA-CODATA WG), will be established to address and promote the following objectives: Define legal interoperability of research data and articulate why it is important for data interoperability and reuse. Document and analyze up to four case…
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Preservation e-Infrastructure IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): David Giaretta, Jamie Shiers
Status: Recognised & Endorsed The purpose of the PeIIG is to reach wide agreement on the e-Infrastructure services which are needed to help repositories to preserve their data holdings, to ensure the interoperability of service implementations, and to build trust of service providers. Such distributed services supporting interoperability, including those that support continued usability, authenticity,…
Historical Group
UPC Code for Data IG
Status: Pending Action This Interest Group focuses on universal product codes for data.
Historical Group
RDA/WDS Publishing Data IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Todd Carpenter, Michael Diepenbroek, Eefke Smit, Jonathan Tedds, Rorie Edmunds
Status: Recognised & Endorsed Joint RDA/WDS IG The Publishing Data Interest Group brings together all stakeholders involved in publishing research data including researchers, discipline specific and institutional data repositories, academic publishers, funders and service providers. Every effort will be made to get a good representation from related international programmes, their working groups and other private…
Historical Group
Data in Context IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela
Research is a global ecosystem employing multiple stakeholders. The UK Digital Curation Center (DCC) developed a lifecycle approach to manage data – encompassing both a linear sequence of work stages as well as the cyclic repetition of specific tasks. It recognizes conceptualization, creation, access and usage, appraisal and selection, disposal, ingestion, preservation, reappraisal, storage, access…
Community of Practice
IGAD Community of Practice
Stage: CoP Established
Chair(s): Cynthia Parr, Debora Drucker, Valeria Pesce, Piotr Zaborowski, Marina Razmadze
The Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice, formerly called The Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD), came to life in Gothenburg (Göteborg, Sweden) in 2013 at the beginning of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and has since grown to include over 260 registered members, from across continents. IGAD is a domain-oriented interest group…
Historical Group
Engagement IG
Chair(s): Inna Kouper, Andrew Maffei
Status: Recognised & Endorsed The global data use and sharing will be robust and sustainable only with the engagement and participation of diverse interesed audiences, including researchers, curators, administrators, and IT professionals. The Engagement Interest Group is a collaborative whose purpose is to stimulate broader awareness of data openness and exchange as well as to…
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