RDA Groups

Mission The mission of the AIDV-WG is to contribute to building the ethical, legal, social, and technical frameworks and bridges enabling the open sharing and re-use of data in the framework of Open Science.

Vision The vision of the AIDV-WG is to bring together expertise across disciplines and regions to ensure ameliorate the use of AI and DV in research and innovation across technologies and sectors to address the grand challenges of society.

The scope of the WG covers data sources from research and scholarly communication. Within this domain obstacles for wider application of brokering techniques are:

Welcome to the RDA Complex Citation Working Group

Purpose

The CoreTrustSeal Maintenance Group is the successor to and maintains the outputs of the Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WG that resulted in the 16 CoreTrustSeal Requirements. The CoreTrustSeal Maintenance Group seeks and encourages the widest possible input into the process of maintaining and revising the requirements, which takes place every three years. The goal of the CoreTrustSeal is to maintain alignment with current practices while offering a low-barrier-to-entry ‘core’ level of certification that is broadly applicable to repositories that offer active preservation and meet the agreed criteria with their organisation infrastructure, digital object management, technology and security practices. 

Welcome to the RDA Data Granularity Working Group

Purpose

The efficient and effective reuse of data requires that users, be they humans or machines, be able to find and access data at fine levels of granularity.  The WG will explore key questions and collect and share valuable information for how to best support data granularity, providing guidance to help data professionals to determine the best level of granularity for user discovery, access, interoperability and citability. 

Webinar - Tools & Resources for Data Usage Metrics - 21 April 2022

This group produced a recommendation on machine-actionable DMPs. 

• recommendation: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00039 
• full documentation: https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common-Standard 

To get more information on the activites:

• check slides from our meetings - they include information on adoptions, ongoing activites, etc: https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/56938/outputs
• read our papers: https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common-Standard/blob/master/docs/links.md#publications

In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact group chairs. We are always happy to help!

WG Charter

The specific focus of this working group is on developing common data model and specifying access mechanisms that make Data Management Plans (DMPs) machine-actionable

To achieve this vision we will develop a common data model with a core set of elements. Its modular design will allow customisations and extensions using existing standards and vocabularies to follow best practices developed in various research communities. We will provide reference implementations of the data model using popular formats, such as JSON, XML, RDF, etc.  This will enable tools and systems involved in processing research data to read and write information to/from DMPs.

The outputs of this working group will help in making systems interoperable and will allow for automatic exchange, integration, and validation of information provided in DMPs, for example, by checking whether a provided PID links to an existing dataset, if hashes of files match to their provenance traces, or whether a license was specified. The common information models are NOT intended to be prescriptive templates or questionnaires, but to provide re-usable ways of representing machine-actionable information on themes covered by DMPs

FAIR Data Maturity Model: core criteria to assess the implementation level of the FAIR data principles

Webinar - The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promoting and Assessing FAIR Data - 19/11/2020

OUTPUTS

Completed and RDA-endorsed

Status and Current Activities

• This WG's term has finished; a summary of our output was presented at P11 (Berlin)
• We are finalizing the final Working Group Report, and we are requesting comments from the WG in advance of submission to the secretariat.

About this Working Group

The Metadata Standards Catalog (MSC) Working Group will produce a machine-actionable catalog of metadata standards submitted by all RDA WGs. The catalog system will have an end-user input form and an API for submission from other software. Similarly it will have a user interface for query/reporting and an API for software to query and retrieve suitable standards information. The MSC is a fundamental tool in any autonomic e-research fabric. This work builds on the outputs of the Metadata Standards Directory Working Group: both the Metadata Standards Directory (MSD) itself and the set of attendant use cases.

The Neuroimaging Data WG fulfils the RDA’s mission to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data in the domain of neuroimaging. The WG envisions a neuroimaging research landscape in which knowledge is generated in a reproducible fashion (in terms of data, analysis and computation) and coupled with the ability to reuse and extend these studies by others in the community.

N.B. As of 17 May 2022 this WG will not be moving forward with endorsement of the Case Statement and has withdrawn.

This Working Group is co-convened with the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and aims to create a community of stakeholders involved in promoting and/or implementing policy that supports research software at the research institution level (e.g., universities

Webinar - Connecting Data, Institutions and People: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA outputs and the design of the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure - 18 March 2021

This is the subgroup of the RDA-COVID-19 working group focusing on Epidemiology.

This is the subgroup of the RDA-COVID-19 working group focusing on Clinical.

This is the subgroup of the RDA-COVID-19 working group focusing on Omics.

• Useful Information for RDA COVID-19 Omics Subgroup

This is the subgroup of the RDA-COVID-19 working group focusing on Software.

Co-chair assigned:  Ingrid Dillo

Moderator(s):  Michelle Barker, Fotis Psomopoulos, Hugh Shanahan

Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World

RDA WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG 

Co-chaired by: Adrian Burton, Helen Cousijn, Paolo Manghi, Lorenzo Feri

This WG is the follow up from the: RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services WG

Introduction:

Status: Recognized and Endorsed The Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group aims to provide a common framework for describing, representing linking and publishing Wheat data with respect to open standards.