RDA-OfR Mapping the landscape of digital research tools WG Plenaries

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Group Session June 10, 2023

Mapping the landscape of digital research tools working meeting

Plenary: RDA 21st Plenary Meeting [part of International Data Week 2023], Salzburg, Austria

Submitted by

Hea Lim Rhee

Recording

Meeting objectives

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The aim of this working meeting is to present the new RDA-OfR Mapping the Landscape of Digital Research Tools WG and receive feedback, input, and further direction on the WG’s aims, objectives, methodologies, and deliverables as well as expand the WG’s collaborations within RDA and attract an expanded and more diverse WG membership.

This RDA Working Group (WG), supported by Oracle for Research (OfR), aims to address these challenges by: (i) categorising different types of research tools; and, (ii) mapping them to the research data lifecycle based on their features and functionalities.

During this working meeting, the WG will present the rationale and methodology for selecting an appropriate research data lifecycle framework (Deliverable 1) and coordinate an interactive activity whereby participants identify, categorise and map different types of research tools to various stages of the research data lifecycle in breakout groups. Each breakout group is allocated a specific ‘stage’ of the research data lifecycle and tasked with identifying and describing the features, functionality, and interoperability of research tools applicable to that stage.

The information crowd-sourced from the global RDA community during this WG meeting will be used by the WG to: (i) categorise and map different types of research tools to the research data lifecycle (Deliverable 2); and, (ii) create a preliminary structural framework for an online open access database that ‘maps of the digital research data infrastructure landscape’ (Deliverable 3).

Meeting presenters

Co-chairs and facilitator

Meeting agenda

Time (min)	Agenda item
5	Welcome and introduction	Facilitator
15	Presentation: The RDA-OfR Mapping the Landscape of Digital Research Tools WG Background and description Aims and objectives Deliverables and methodologies Timeline and milestones Group status and next steps	Francis P. Crawley & Hea Lim Rhee, Co-Chairs
10	Introduction to the breakout activity and presentation of instructions for participants	Adam Vials Moore, Co-chair
30	Breakout groups activity to identify, categorise and map different types of research tools to the research data lifecycle	All
10	Report from each breakout group	Rory Macneil, Moderator
10	Summary of the workshop and next steps	Emmanuel Adamolekun, Co-chair

Target audience

Adopters	Value/Impact
Researchers (e.g., data creators and users)	To understand, navigate, and select suitable research tools for managing and sharing data by providing information about their functionalities, relevance, and applicability to the various stages of the research data lifecycle.
Data support professionals (e.g., data managers)	To gain improved understanding of the digital research data infrastructure landscape, and become better equipped with essential knowledge of different types of research tools to provide relevant support, training and education.
Open Science/Research/Data Commons professionals	To understand the features, functionalities and interoperability of different types of research tools that can be used within diverse marketplaces or ‘commons’ for data and services.
Tool developers/ providers	To: (i) understand the different research tools operating within the digital research data landscape; and, (ii) improve tool features, functionalities, harmonisation and interoperability to enhance data management and sharing practice.
Research performing organisations	To make informed recommendations at the organisational policy level to staff regarding appropriate types of research tools for the management and sharing of research data.
Publishers	To make informed recommendations to authors and journal editors regarding appropriate types of research tools for the management, publication and sharing of data associated with journal manuscripts.
Funders	To make informed recommendations to researchers and project managers based on data management plans for funded research.

Short Group Status

This RDA Working Group (WG), supported by Oracle for Research (OfR), aims to categorise different types of research tools and map them to the research data lifecycle based on their features, functionalities and how they interoperate. The WG aims to create a preliminary structural framework for an online open access database that contains searchable information (e.g., features, functionalities, interoperability) about different types of research tools and allows for community curation over time.

Applicable Pathways

Data Infrastructures and Environments - Generalist
Data Lifecycles - Versioning, Provenance, Citation, and Reward
Discipline Focused Data Issues