Curtis Sharma
Curtis is currently Engagement Coordinator with SPARC Europe. He previously led Work Package 6 of the Skills4EOSC project (Sep 2022 - August 2025) “Professional Networks for Lifelong Learning”, which focused on creating new networks for data professionals across Europe. These networks include data steward networks, thematic FAIR Data networks and open science networks. The work package also harmonised new and existing data steward networks, under the umbrella of the RDA Professionalising Data Stewardship Interest Group. Prior to joining the Skills4EOSC project, Curtis was the Research Data Coordinator at University of Cambridge. His research background is in psycholinguistics and he is currently investigating cognitive and social associations between multilingualism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at University of Oslo.
Maintenance Group
Stage: Completed
Chair(s): Francis P. Crawley, Perihan Elif Ekmekci, Natalie Meyers, Seonyoung Kim, Patricia Buendia, Ugochi Okengwu, Luis Jacob Retanan
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
Mission The mission of the AIDV-WG is to contribute to building the ethical, legal, social, and technical frameworks for Artificial Intelligence while examining the potential of data visitation to bri...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
The scope of the WG covers data sources from research and scholarly communication. Within this domain obstacles for wider application of brokering techniques are:
Multiple service protocols for data ...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Martina Stockhause, Graham Parton, Lesley Wyborn, Justin Buck, James Ayliffe, Shelley Stall, Jonathan Blythe
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
This Complex Citation Implementation Interest Group is focused on implementing the recommendations developed by the initial Complex Citation Working Group. This interest group includes a broad number ...
Working Group
FAIR Data Maturity Model WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
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 Promo...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Fotis Psomopoulos, Daniel S. Katz, Daniel Garijo, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Leyla Jael Castro, Anne Fouilloux, Gnana Bharathy, Line Pouchard
TAB Liaison: Isabelle PERSEIL
The idea of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) in the context of scientific data management and stewardship was developed in 2014 and turned into specific principles in 2016[1]. ...
Working Group
FAIR Run Time Environments
Member
Stage: WG Getting Started
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
Since the seminal FAIR principles for research data publication were introduced in 2016, considerable effort has been devoted to making datasets and data repositories findable, accessible, interoperab...
Community of Practice
IGAD Community of Practice
Member
Stage: CoP Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
The Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice, formerly called The Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD), came to life in Gothenburg (Göteborg, Sweden) in 2013 at the begin...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
Non-Traditional Research Outputs and processes are not well described within current information standards which reflect a research reward and recognition system that assumes a sole, often textual bas...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: James Savage
This is the webpage of the RDA Interest Group on professionalising data stewardship.
The idea to create an interest group was raised in a BoF session during the 14th Plenary (Helsinki), and a first i...
Coordination Group
Secretariat Liaison: Connie Clare
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