[Jeff Christiansen]

Leading up to the session, the organisers will reach out to RDA groups and call for participants to contribute flash talks on their approaches to support an inclusive discussion with wide representation across regions and disciplines. The agenda for this session is as follows:

Welcome and introduction: Why this session? (5 minutes)

Federated infrastructures: State of the art in the biomolecular life sciences? (40 minutes)
Note that as this session will occur twice (on 15 May and 22 May at different times of the day), the speakers for these topics at the two sessions will be different and based on speaker availability at the session times.

Short presentation 1 (20mins): Initiatives connecting and contributing to Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standards, frameworks, and tools

Confirmed speakers: 

Oliver Hofmann (Melbourne, Australia) and Bernie Pope (Melbourne, Australia) – Exemplar projects that are using existing and upcoming GA4GH standards in the data infrastructure world – globally and in Australia (15 May session)

Takudzwa (Taku) Nyasha Musarurwa (Cape Town, South Africa) – Implementing GA4GH standards for federated data analysis in Africa (22 May session)

Short presentation 2 (20mins): FAIR data analysis for the life science and beyond using the Galaxy platform

Confirmed speakers:

Gareth Price (Brisbane, Australia) – Towards a global harmonised biodata analysis infrastructure – the usegalaxy effort (15 May session)

Connecting FAIR data resources and services – What are promising approaches? (15 minutes)

Flashtalks – Invitations extended to members of the IG and other RDA members

Open discussion: Where do we go from there? (30 minutes)

Additional links to informative material
Previous sessions:

Infrastructure supporting the FAIR data principles in life science research practice

Key aspects of FAIR for infrastructure solutions in the biomolecular life sciences

Applicable Pathways
The FAIR Agenda, Life Science Data Issues

Avoid conflict with the following group (1)
RDA-OfR Creating a Multi-omics Metadata Schema Standard Reporting Matrix WG

Brief introduction describing the activities and scope of the group
The Life Science Data Infrastructures Interest Group was formed to serve as a bridge between life science data infrastructures in different regions of the world and relevant RDA Interest and Working Groups, including both specific subtopics of the life sciences, as well as generic topics that can/should be applied in the life sciences such as big data analysis, federated identity management, and data publishing.
The IG aspires to have meaningful representation from diverse geographical regions including North and South America, Europe; Africa, Asia and Oceania; and will actively seek participation from under-represented groups and the global South. The IG also aims for fair gender representation and inclusivity in all its activities.
We have worked with the FAIRsharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases RDA WG to co-orgainse the Infrastructure supporting the FAIR data principles in life science research practice session at the 20th Plenary (Gothenburg), and sought advice from the Chairs of the Global Open Research Commons (GORC) IG to inform our work. All the chairs of the IG are actively involved on a day to day basis to influence or deploy best practice national scale data infrastructure to support life science research in our respective countries.

Group chair serving as contact person
Jeff Christiansen

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Meeting objectives
This meeting will showcase examples of successful and promising approaches for federating infrastructures in the biomolecular life sciences to enable seamless discovery and insight generated from analyses distributed over regionally dispersed and heterogeneous resources.
The examples will inform a discussion with the wider RDA community to identify opportunities for future work and collaborations with an emphasis on how to leverage the FAIR principles to identify requirements on the contracts that define the federation and the common interfaces across its members.
The outcome of the meeting will be a short report that briefly covers each of the approaches presented and opportunities for future collaborations, all participants will be invited to contribute.

Please indicate at least (3) three breakout slots that would suit your meeting.
Breakout 3, Breakout 6, Breakout 9

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