[Jens Klump]

Meeting title 
Data Versioning WG Working Meeting (Remote Access Instructions)
 
Room Location: Commonwealth A2
 
Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p-VVKhZ6NV-feon-68FMu_dEDO9e3H7Tca5mNxpLRdY/edit
 
Short introduction describing the scope of the group and if any previous activities 
The demand for reproducibility of research results is growing, Therefore it will become increasingly important for a researcher to be able to cite the exact extract of the data set that was used to underpin their research publication. However, systematic data versioning practices are currently not available.
Versioning procedures and best practices are well established for scientific software and can be used to enable reproducibility of scientific results. The codebase of large software projects does bear some semblance to large dynamic datasets. Are therefore versioning practices for code also suitable for data sets or do we need a separate suite of practices for data versioning? How can we apply our knowledge of versioning code to improve data versioning practices?
Over the past year, we have collected use cases of data versioning practices and extracted data versioning patterns. A draft of the Working Group’s report and recommendations for data versioning practices will be presented in this session. We invite data scientists, operators of data repositories, and anyone who is interested in moving data versioning forward, to attend.
 
Additional links to informative material related to the group 

Working Group Page: https://rd-alliance.org/groups/data-versioning-wg
Case Statement: https://rd-alliance.org/group/data-versioning-wg/case-statement/data-ver…
Data Versioning Use Cases: https://rd-alliance.org/data-versioning-use-cases
Mapping of use cases to W3C Data Exchange WG use cases: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lI5HyRnHMLkdDpRMg82HCnyzvxxmb_oymJ4T…
Draft of white paper on data versioning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bINRNA2PtumnnNWoPnvzMoCYci6S5HjcX8LG…

 
Notes and presentations from past plenaries:

Notes and presentation from P12 Gaborone: https://www.rd-alliance.org/wg-data-versioning-rda-plenary-12-notes-and-…
Notes from P11 Berlin: https://www.rd-alliance.org/data-versioning-wg-notes-p11-berlin
Presentation from P11 Berlin: https://www.rd-alliance.org/data-versioning-wg-presentation-p11
Notes from P10 Montreal: https://rd-alliance.org/notes-data-versioning-session-p10-montreal
Presentation from P10 Montreal: https://rd-alliance.org/data-versioning-presentation-rda-p10
Notes from Denver Plenary BoF meeting: https://www.rd-alliance.org/data-versioning-rda-8th-plenary-bof-meeting

 
Meeting objectives 
The objective of this session is to establish a work plan for this RDA Working Group on developing agreed practices for Data Versioning to finalise the outcomes and recommendations. This includes:

Identifying areas where versioning is required and/or other use cases:

Identifying groups in RDA and planning of how to engage 
Identifying external groups 
Overview of collected use cases

Present the outline of a white paper on recommendations for data versioning:

Spectrum of data types to be included (files, databases, unstructured data, model runs, etc.), 
How to align these with the practices for the assignment of persistent identifiers.
Identify other topics that should be included

 
Meeting agenda

Introduction
Data Versioning WG retrospective
Presentation of report draft and recommendations on data versioning practices
Adoption of WG recommendations through W3C
Engagement with other RDA and external groups
Work plan for final six months of RDA Data Versioning WG
Scheduling of online meetings up to Plenary 14

 
Group chair serving as contact person
Jens Klump
 
Type of meeting
Working meeting
 
Target Audience

Members of the Working Group.
Data scientists and operators of data repositories
Data producers and users
Publishers who want to be sure that the correct version of a data set is cited in a publication
Anyone who is interested in moving data versioning forward.

 

Discussion