David Medyckyj-Scott

Head of Data Management in the Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Group of BSI. Interested in research data management, governance, standards and interoperability, geospatial and environmental informatics.

RDA in Aotearoa New Zealand

Coordinator

Coordinators: James Savage, Nick Jones, David Medyckyj-Scott

RDA in Aotearoa New Zealand is the national node for the Research Data Alliance, coordinated by the Aotearoa New Zealand National Committee on Data in Research (CoDiR). Key functions of CoDiR are to c...

Interest Group

Dataspaces in the Research Ecosystem

Member

Stage: Not Yet Endorsed

Chair(s): Christina Drummond, Kheeran Dharmawardena, Felipe Pérez-Jvostov

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg

Developing from demand expressed at the RDAP25 BOF, this interest group will allow RDA members to share lessons learned while adapting, adopting, and piloting the international dataspace protocol and ...

Working Group

Discipline-specific Guidance for Data Management Plans WG

Member

Stage: WG Wrapping up

Chair(s): Daniela Hausen, Briana Wham, Jessica Hrudey, Holly Murray, Shannon Sheridan, Ivonne Anders, Yasemin Turkyilmaz-van der Velden, Santosh Ilamparuthi

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg

Many research funding agencies expect DMPs which receive valuable metadata about the project as well as collected and analyzed data. In order to use DMPs profitably for researchers in their everyday l...

Interest Group

Domain Repositories IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Kerstin Lehnert, Peter Doorn

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Victoria Smith

RDA Domain Repositories Interest Group The Domain Repositories Interest Group will bring together active data repositories that serve specific scientific disciplines. Domain repositories provide arc...

Interest Group

Geospatial IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Aaron Addison, Peter Baumann

The Geospatial Interest Group is a domain oriented interest group to coordinate and build synergies on topics related to geospatial data. Though there has been lot of developments and advances in g...

Community of Practice

IGAD Community of Practice

Member

Stage: CoP Established

Chair(s): Debora Drucker, Valeria Pesce, Piotr Zaborowski, Marina Razmadze, Cynthia Parr

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

National Data Services IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Natalie Harrower, Bernhard Miller, Andrew Treloar

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu

National Data Services (NDS) are a key component of the scientific data landscape. Many of them have been actively involved in the RDA, in activities like the Global Open Research Commons (GORC) Int...

Working Group

RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG

Member

Chair(s): Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Fiona Murphy, Amy Nurnberger, Varsha Khodiyar

Researchers are increasingly encouraged or required to make their research data available for reuse but might often feel there are insufficient incentives for submitting and publishing data, resulting...

Interest Group

Vocabulary Services IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Alexandra Kokkinaki, Yann Le Franc, John Graybeal, Juliane Schneider

TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu

The VSSIG is using a Slack Group: https://vocabulary-services.slack.com/ to continue the development of the workplan. To get an invitation to the channel, visit http://bit.ly/rda-vssig-slack-invite...

Historical Group

Research Data Provenance IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): David Dubin, Nicholas Car

Tracking provenance for research data is vital to science and scholarship, providing answers to common questions researchers pose when sharing and exchanging data: Where did it come from? Who modified...