Interest Group Supporting Output RDA Data Versioning IG Compilation of Data Versioning Use Cases

Review Status: Endorsed

Data versioning is a fundamental element to ensuring the reproducibility of research. Work in other Research Data Alliance (RDA) groups on data provenance and data citation, as well as the W3C Dataset Exchange Working Group (DXWG), have highlighted that definitions of data versioning concepts and recommended practices are still missing. An important driver to examine data versioning practices came more closely from the work of the RDA Working Group (WG) on Data Citation, whose final report recognised the need for systematic data versioning... View More

August 13, 2025

Interest Group Other Output Versioning Data Is About More than Revisions: A Conceptual Framework and Proposed Principles

Review Status: Not Endorsed

The supporting output from this working group has been revised and published to the Data Science Journal. How to Cite: Klump, J., Wyborn, L., Wu, M., Martin, J., Downs, R.R. and Asmi, A., 2021. Versioning Data Is About More than Revisions: A Conceptual Framework and Proposed Principles. Data Science Journal, 20(1), p.12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2021-012

April 8, 2021

Working Group Other Output Principles and best practices in data versioning for all data sets big and small

Review Status: Endorsed

Data Versioning WG Group co-chairs: Jens Klump, Lesley Wyborn, Ari Asmi, Robert Downs Supporting Output title: Principles and best practices in data versioning for all data sets big and small Authors: Jens Klump, Lesley Wyborn, Robert Downs, Ari Asmi, Mingfang Wu, Gerry Ryder, Julia Martin Impact: Provides recommendations for standard practices in the versioning of research data, adding a central element to the systematic management of research data at any scale which in turn enhances reproducibility and enables the attribution of any person or organisation that contributed to the development or funding... View More

January 16, 2020

Working Group Other Output Compilation of Data Versioning Use cases from the RDA Data Versioning Working Group

Review Status: Endorsed

Data Versioning WG Group co-chairs: Jens Klump, Lesley Wyborn, Ari Asmi, Robert Downs Supporting Output title:  Compilation of Data Versioning Use cases from the RDA Data Versioning Working Group Authors: Jens Klump, Lesley Wyborn, Robert Downs, Ari Asmi, Mingfang Wu, Gerry Ryder, Julia Martin DOI: 10.15497/RDA00041 Citation: Klump, J., Wyborn, L., Downs, R., Asmi, A., Wu, M., Ryder, G., & Martin, J. (2020). Compilation of Data Versioning Use cases from the RDA Data Versioning Working Group. Version 1.1. Research Data Alliance. DOI: 10.15497/RDA00041 Abstract: Data versioning is a fundamental element to ensuring the reproducibility of... View More

January 16, 2020