Daniel S. Katz

Daniel S. Katz is Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Research Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and the School of Information Sciences (iSchool). Dan's interest is in the development and use of advanced cyberinfrastructure to solve challenging problems at multiple scales. His technical research interests are in applications, algorithms, fault tolerance, and programming in parallel and distributed computing. He is also interested in policy issues, including citation and credit mechanisms and practices associated with software and data, organization and community practices for collaboration, and career paths for computing researchers. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM, co-founder and current Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Source Software, co-founder of US-RSE, and co-founder and the steering committee chair for the Research Software Alliance (ReSA).

FAIR for Machine Learning (FAIR4ML) IG

Co-Chair

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 for Research Software (FAIR4RS) WG

Co-Chair

Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables

Chair(s): Michelle Barker, Paula Andrea Martinez, Leyla Jael Castro, Daniel S. Katz, Neil Chue Hong, Jennifer Harrow, Fotis Psomopoulos, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Morane Gruenpeter

News: May 24th, 2022. The RDA Council have endorsed the FAIR4RS Principles as an official output! Citation and download: Chue Hong, N. P., Katz, D. S., Barker, M., Lamprecht, A-L, Martinez, C., Psomop...

Interest Group

Active Data Management Plans IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): David Giaretta, Kevin Ashley, Tomasz Miksa, Elli Papadopoulou, Maria Praetzellis

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira

The proposed activity of this group is to act as a nucleus for discussing requirements for and identifying developments needed to support active (i.e. able to evolve and be monitored) data management ...

Working Group

Exposing Data Management Plans WG

Member

Chair(s): Angus Whyte, Fiona Murphy, Natalie Meyers, Kathryn Unsworth, Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal

The Exposing DMPs WG group is being retired. To participate in current RDA effort on Data Management Plans, please join the Active DMPs IG. Recommendations The Exposing DMPs draft recommendations res...

Working Group

RDA-COVID19-Software

Member

Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables

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

TAB Liaison: Isabelle PERSEIL

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 Email: rda-covid19...

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 Organisational Assembly

Member

Chair(s): Gabriela Pino, Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

This is the working space for the Organisational Assembly and includes all open OA meetings. Organisational Membership If you know of an organisation that is interested in joining the RDA as an Organi...

Interest Group

Reproducibility IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Limor Peer, Lauren Cadwallader, Mandy Gooch

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali

Overview This interest group seeks to advance and enable reproducibility in research based on or producing datasets that require code. Our goals are to build bridges with the many RDA external efforts...

Interest Group

Skills and training curriculums to support FAIR research software IG

Member

Stage: Not Yet Endorsed

Chair(s): Michelle Barker, Hugh Shanahan

FAIR research software skills and training curriculums need to be identified and incorporated into broader efforts to facilitate increased support and recognition for the qualified personnel needed t...

Interest Group

Software Source Code IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Morane Gruenpeter, Neil Chue Hong, Julia Collins

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali

Software source code plays a critical role in all fields of modern research, where source code is written and developed to address a variety of needs, like cleaning, processing and visualising data. S...