Skip to main content

Notice

We are in the process of rolling out a soft launch of the RDA website, which includes a new member platform. Existing RDA members PLEASE REACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT using this link: https://rda-login.wicketcloud.com/users/confirmation. Visitors may encounter functionality issues with group pages, navigation, missing content, broken links, etc. As you explore the new site, please provide your feedback using the UserSnap tool on the bottom right corner of each page. Thank you for your understanding and support as we work through all issues as quickly as possible. Stay updated about upcoming features and functionalities: https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-web-platform-upcoming-features-and-functionalities/

Who We Are
What We Do
What We Work On
Get Involved
Events
RDA Groups
News & Media

RDA Group Directory

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.
Interested in initiating a group or seeing those currently under review?
Create a Working Group See all Groups in Review
Search
Refine Results
Displaying: 49-60 of 300 Results
Interest Group
RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): James Warren, Laura Bartolo, Takuya Kadohira, Alysia Garmulewicz, Matthew Evans
Status: Recognised & Endorsed The development of advanced materials inherently rests on access to a distributed materials infrastructure and materials research data to fuel discovery and innovation. RDA aims to accelerate and facilitate research data sharing and exchange. Similarly, CODATA works to strengthen international science for the benefit of society by promoting improved scientific and…
Interest Group
Education and Training on Handling of Research Data IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Katarzyna Biernacka, Amy Nurnberger, Jeanne Wilbrandt, Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska
The context of increasing volumes of data being created by researchers and the strengthening of requirements for research data management and data sharing has created demand for a new and evolving set of competencies and skills for researchers who create and use the data, and the growing cadre of professionals who support them. In general,…
Interest Group
Biodiversity Data Integration IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Wouter Addink, Hamish Holewa, Sridhar Gutam, Libby Ellwood
Introduction Disciplinary groups play a pivotal role in the RDA ecosystem. Not only do they provide a mechanism for engaging with the outputs of the RDA community, they are instrumental in providing input to the cross-cutting technical and socio-cultural groups. With its formation in 2013, the Biodiversity Data Integration IG has been one of the…
Historical Group
Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) WG
Stage: Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Amir Aryani, Adrian Burton
The Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) WG has now completed its activities and the group has been closed. If you are interested in the group's topic, please join the Open Science Graphs for FAIR Data IG, which has taken over most of the activity from the DDRI WG. Please note that the Data Description Registry…
Historical Group
Working Group Process Task Force
Chair(s): Mark Parsons
This Task Force was created by Council and charged with defining the complete WG process from initial idea to delivery and maintenance of final deliverables (including key handoffs and transitions). Members: Mark Parsons, Secretariat (chair) Stefanie Kethers, Secretariat Bill Michener, Technical Advisory Board Francoise Genova, Technical Advisory Board Andrew Treloar, Technical Advisory Board Fran Berman,…
Interest Group
PID IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Jonathan Clark, Josh Brown, Adrian Burton, Nobuko Miyairi
The pervasive use of persistent identifiers is seen as a foundational element in anchoring and referencing research data in an interoperable way. The purpose of the Persistent Identifier Interest Group is to synchronize identifier-related efforts, address important and emerging PID-related topics and coordinate activities, including appropriate RDA Working Groups, to practically solve PID-related issues from…
Historical Group
Service Management IG
Chair(s): Owen Appleton, Michael Brenner
Interest Group approach Provision of data infrastructures requires collaboration and federation of multiple organisations and bodies to realise the vision of high-value joint data infrastructures presented by the RDA and others. For data infrastructures to be relied upon by end users, in addition to policy- and technical-level alignment, there must be a shared basis for…
Interest Group
Domain Repositories IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Kerstin Lehnert, Peter Doorn
RDA Domain Repositories Interest Group The Domain Repositories Interest Group will bring together active data repositories that serve specific scientific disciplines. Domain repositories provide archiving services tailored to the needs of scientific communities, and they mediate between domain scientists and rapid changes in information and data science. All domain repositories have shared interests in data…
Interest Group
Ethics and Social Aspects of Data IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Oya Beyan, Daniel Mietchen
Ethical and social issues with respect to data archiving, sharing, and reuse cut across many of the technical and policy work of the rest of the RDA. Such issues are complementary to but separate from legal and regulatory aspects, since technology usually outpaces law and law itself is underpinned by ethical agreements and social contracts.…
Interest Group
Libraries for Research Data IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Birgit Schmidt, Christopher Erdmann, Su Nee Goh, Naresh Kumar, Tim Dennis, Jennifer Gu, Susanna Nykyri
Webinar - Exploring Past, Present, and Future Outcomes of the RDA Libraries for Research Data (L4RD) Interest Group - 28 June 2021 Research Data have become a primary research asset that often requires continued access in the dynamic environment of mobile researchers, volatile repositories, transient products and short-lived standards. Libraries have looked after written research…
Interest Group
Geospatial IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Aaron Addison, Peter Baumann
The Geospatial Interest Group is a domain oriented interest group to coordinate and build synergies on topics related to geospatial data. Though there has been lot of developments and advances in geo data collection through mobile communications, sensor platforms, spatial search, and pervasive computing but still, the inter-disciplinary research needed to transform raw data into…
Interest Group
Active Data Management Plans IG
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): David Giaretta, Kevin Ashley, Tomasz Miksa, Elli Papadopoulou, Maria Praetzellis
The proposed activity of this group is to act as a nucleus for discussing requirements for and identifying developments needed to support active (i.e. able to evolve and be monitored) data management planning. Working groups will be proposed to carry out work on specific areas of interest. Currently research data management plans (DMP), created at…