Why sleep when you can think about Materials Science research data?? RDA caught fire for me at the Berlin Plenary where I really understood how people are a central pillar of data cyberinfrastructures. In 2019, I used NSF funding to co-organize the Summit on Big Data and Cyberinfrastructure Materials Data which launched our field on the path to a Materials Research Data Alliance (MaRDa) and I currently serve on the Materials Research Data Alliance Council helping develop the structure and organization of the effort. MaRDa resonates because it is a grassroots effort to build real tools and a broad community - just what's needed to realize the promise of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI).
My own background is in materials science, environmental geochemistry, and mineralogy with expertise in high-resolution electron microscopy, synchrotron X-ray methods, neutron scattering, and applications of data science in materials analysis and development.
The working group will develop a recommendation for one or more vocabularies for global, cross-domain classification of material sample types. The vocabularies are intended to cover all types of sampl...
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 ...
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...
Webinar – Tools & Resources for Data Usage Metrics – 21 April 2022
Research data is increasingly recognized as an important output of scholarly research, however, there are not yet...
The Earth, space (planetary), and environmental science communities are developing, through multiple international efforts, both general and domain-specific leading practices for data, software, a...
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...
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...
The Metadata IG will concern itself with all aspects of metadata for research data. In particular, it will attempt to coordinate the efforts of the WGs concerned with metadata to produce a coherent ...
The Persistent Identification of Instruments Working Group seeks to explore a community-driven solution for globally unique identification of measuring instruments operated in the sciences.
Measuring ...
Status: Recognised & Endorsed
The development of advanced materials inherently rests on access to a distributed materials infrastructure and materials research data to fuel discovery and innovatio...
