Cynthia Parr
Chief Data and AI Officer of Research Education and Economics Mission area of USDA
Community of Practice
IGAD Community of Practice
Co-Chair
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...
Working Group
Agrisemantics WG
Member
Stage: WG Wrapping up
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
The group started in Jan 2017 and should close shortly.
The goal of the Agrisemantics WG is to gather community-based requirements and use cases for an infrastructure that supports appropriate use o...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Introduction
Disciplinary groups play a pivotal role in the RDA ecosystem. Not only do they provide a mechanism for engaging with the outputs of the RDA community, they are instrumental in providing i...
Working Group
Data Citation WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Andreas Rauber, Mark Parsons
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Data Citation WG maintains the RDA Recommendation for Precise, Actionable Reference to Dynamic Data:
Rauber, A., Parsons, M., & RDA Data Citation WG. (2025). Precise, Actionable Reference to D...
Coordination Group
Chair(s): Shelley Stall
Enabling FAIR Data in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences
Open, accessible, and high-quality data and related data products and software are critical to the integrity of published research. ...
Coordination Group
RDA/US Leadership
Member
This is a restricted access space for documents and records of the RDA/US Advisory Committee, which consists of RDA Working and Interest Group chairs, OAB Members of US and US Members of TAB, Council,...
Coordination Group
RDA Communities of Practice
Member
Chair(s): Hilary Hanahoe
This Coordination Group will be focused on the definition of an eventual fourth category of group under RDA – Communities of Practice (CoP).
Link to Google folder to access documents – ht...
Coordination Group
This is a group dedicated to all the Working and Interest Group Chairs
‘RDA Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Meets Chairs’ Meetings
The TAB meets chairs meetings provide RDA group chairs wit...
Historical Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Amir Aryani, Adrian Burton
The Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) WG has now completed its activities and the group has been closed. If you are interested in the group’s topic, please join the Open Science...
Historical Group
Make Data Count
Member
Chair(s): John Chodacki, Daniella Lowenberg
The Make Data Count (MDC) project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and deploy the social and technical infrastructure necessary to elevate data to a first-class research output a...