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Joint-Meeting Session January 22, 2025

Balancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Data Review Practices

Plenary: RDA 24th Plenary Meeting – Fully Virtual

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Meeting objectives

Collaborative session notes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14PGVZin19MAOepL00i1sHDg18UWjT_UE/edit#heading=h.d5u6vlbm97v7

The adoption of open data practices by research communities increases opportunities for data reuse when the shared data products and services are disseminated in a usable state. Data repositories perform data reviews to assess the quality and usability of data that have been submitted for dissemination. Manual data review practices can be effective in ensuring the quality and usability of research data submitted to data repositories for dissemination. However, as the number of data submissions increase, data repositories need to meet increasing demands for conducting data reviews in a timely and effective manner.

Data review practices are quite diverse among  data repositories and many are exploring ways to address the challenges associated with reviewing proposed data products for release and subsequent use. The need to balance efficiency and effectiveness has been recognized as a particular challenge that repositories need to address. Following the discussion during our RDA P23 session, recommending further discussion on the improvement of data review practices at data repositories, the objectives of this session are to improve understanding on data review practices by exploring and discussing various approaches for attaining efficient data reviews while maintaining the effectiveness of the data review process. Expected outcomes of the session include recognition of the variety of approaches that data repositories are employing to pursue efficiencies in conducting data reviews while maintaining the integrity of the data review process as well as increased understanding of the ways to explore implementation of such approaches.

Meeting presenters

Joan Damerow, Devan Ray Donaldson, Robert R. Downs, Seonyoung Kim, Anne Catherine Raugh

Meeting agenda

Introduction, Pursuing Opportunities to Balance Efficiency and Effectiveness in Data Review Practices, Robert R. Downs (12 Minutes)

Discussion (~3 Minutes)

 

The Planetary Data System External Peer Review Requirement: Process and Benefits for the Small Bodies Community, Anne Catherine Raugh (12 Minutes)

Discussion (~3 Minutes)

 

Scalable dataset reviews to promote FAIR Environmental System Science data in the ESS-DIVE repository, Joan Damerow (12 Minutes)

Discussion (~3 Minutes)

 

Curation Workflow in an Institutional Data Repository Offering Open and Controlled Access: Digital Commons Data@Becker, Seonyoung Kim (12 Minutes)

Discussion (~3 Minutes)

 

General Discussion:

Devan Ray Donaldson, Moderator (30 Minutes)

Target audience

Data managers

Data curators

Data producers

Data reviewers

Data users

Data funders

Educators

Students

Publishers

Sponsors

Group Activities and Scope

The RDA Repository Platforms for Research Data (RPRD) IG and the RDA Domain Repositories IG are collaborating to improve the capabilities of data repositories to serve their user communities. The RPRD IG focuses on improving the usability and technical capabilities of research data repository platforms. The RDA Domain Repositories IG focuses on enhancing communication with other RDA groups and on representing the interests of domain repositories in those groups. Together, the RPRD IG and the Domain Repositories IG share interests in identifying opportunities for data repositories to improve capabilities for using data and conducting research. The planned joint session will explore ways for data repositories to implement and facilitate the review of data products that have been submitted for dissemination.

Additional links to informative material

https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/repository-platforms-research-data/

https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/domain-repositories-ig/

Short Group Status

The Repository Platforms for Research Data (RPRD) Interest Group (IG) and the Domain Repositories IG have both been quite active for several years and have found that the RDA community is very interested in improving the capabilities of research data repositories. In addition to activities completed by each IG independently, the RPRD IG and the Domain Repositories IG convened joint sessions for RDA P17 and RDA P18 on collaboration and cooperation among repositories and during RDA P19 on Sharing Knowledge across Disciplines that were very well attended by the RDA community. These IGs also convened a joint session during P21 in Salzburg on discovering unpublished and diverse data usage and impact that was very well attended due to community interest. During their joint RDA P22 and RDA P23 sessions on data review issues, participants recommended convening a follow-up joint RDA P24 session to further discuss the challenges and opportunities for improving data review practices in data repositories.

Applicable Pathways

FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Evaluation and Policy
Semantics, Ontology, Standardisation
Data Lifecycles - Versioning, Provenance, Citation, and Reward

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

Breakout 4. Tuesday, 8 April, 14:00-15:30 UTC
Breakout 7. Wednesday, 9 April, 14:00-15:30 UTC
Breakout 10. Thursday, 10 April, 14:00-15:30 UTC