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Dear Zach,
Thank you for your prompt actions and amending the session according to TAB’s feedback.
I am pleased to confirm that the session is now fully accepted and scheduled in the VP22 draft programme https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-22nd-plenary-draft-programme.
Best regards,
Irina Hope
On behalf of the RDA Secretariat
From: ***@***.***-groups.org
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 8:19 PM
To: Secretariat ; ***@***.***-consulting.com; ***@***.***; ***@***.***; ***@***.***; ***@***.***; Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains WG
Cc: Gururaj, Anupama (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Subject: Re: [materials-terminologies] RDA VP22 – Notification of Conditional Acceptance
Greetings Secretariat:
The session proposal has been updated. The text removed is shown with red strikethrough text. The text added is shown with blue text. We had already intended to use most of the time for audience participation and our revisions now make this quite clear.
Thanks for your suggestions!
-Zach
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Subject: RDA VP22 – Notification of Conditional Acceptance
Dear Chairs of the Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains WG,
Your RDA VP22 session application titled Kickoff of Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains Working Group has been conditionally approved, subject to you incorporating the following changes requested by the Technical Advisory Board (TAB):
Please update the agenda to include sufficient discussion time with the attendees.
A revised version of your application should highlight the suggested modifications directly in the original session submission webpage. Please email ***@***.***-foundation.org about the completion by close of business Friday, 22 March.
Key dates to keep in mind:
* Breakout sessions draft programme will be published here on Friday, 15 March
* Requests for changes to the programme breakout times must be sent to ***@***.***-foundation.org by Friday, 29 March
* VP22 programme will be deemed final by Monday, 1 April
Your revised application will be reviewed within one week of receipt and the final decision will be communicated to the group.
If you have any questions, please contact ***@***.***-foundation.org, or your TAB liaison, Anupama Gururaj, in copy.
Best regards,
RDA Secretariat

RDA’s 22nd Plenary – Programme

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Dear Uwe
The Secretariat and TAB appreciate your disappointment in not being able to organise your session at the IDW2023 – 21st Plenary meeting. The number of session applications was very high with respect to the session slots available. The RDA is underwriting a significant financial commitment to support the hybridisation of all RDA breakout sessions, committing to our policy to offer in-person and on-line participation for all RDA plenary meetings since 2022.
Unfortunately we are not in a position to offer more sessions at IDW2023. We encourage all RDA community members who intend to participate in person to strongly consider submitting an application for the Call for Posters.
Kind regards
RDA Secretariat
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From: ***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of uschindler via RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG
Sent: 19 July 2023 16:37
To: RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG ; ***@***.*** ; Paolo Manghi
; Rachael Lammey ; ***@***.***
Cc: Frankie Stevens
Subject: [scholix_wg] Re: [scholix_wg] RDA P21 @ IDW 2023 – Notification of Outcome
This is not good. I was hoping that this time they would accept it. Are there any alternatives except meeting at lunch time like in Gothenburg?
Uwe
Am 19. Juli 2023 17:31:40 MESZ schrieb “Secretariat via RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG” :
Dear Chairs of the RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG
Thank you for your RDA P21 session application.
The Technical Advisory Board has assessed all the proposals and, on this occasion, your P21 session application titled Article/data linking is not the whole story: Launching a new Scholix schema for software to meet community practice has not been approved.
The session selection process was very competitive and, due to the limited capacity for sessions at P21, we could not accept sessions from maintenance groups, giving priority to active groups as per the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) guidelines.
If you have any questions, please contact ***@***.***-foundation.org, or the TAB co-chairs, Isabelle Perseil and Rob Quick, in copy.
We do hope that you will participate in P21 as part of IDW 2023 either in person or online, and on behalf of TAB and Secretariat, thank you for your ongoing engagement with the RDA.
Best regards,
RDA Secretariat
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Dear Rebecca, Keith and Alex
Many thanks for incorporating TAB’s feedback and updating your session.
We wish you a successful session at P21.
Kind regards
RDA Secretariat
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From: ***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of rkoskela via Metadata IG
Sent: 27 July 2023 04:10
To: Secretariat ; Metadata IG
Cc: Keith Jeffery ; Alex Ball ; ***@***.***
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: RDA P21 @ IDW 2023 – Notification of Conditional Acceptance
The session proposal for Structuring Semantic Information with Respect to Conventional Metadata (Syntactic) Structures
has been edited to incorporate the feedback from TAB. The meeting objectives have been expanded and the timings
were added to the agenda.
Regards,
Rebecca, Keith, and Alex
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 8:57 AM Secretariat wrote:
[EXTERNAL]
Dear Chairs of the Metadata IG
Your RDA P21 session application titled Structuring Semantic Information with Respect to Conventional Metadata (Syntactic) Structures has been conditionally approved, subject to you incorporating the following changes provided in the feedback below:
TAB would like you to provide more clarity on the meeting objectives and also indicate the time allocated for talks and discussion.
A revised version of your application should highlight the suggested modifications and be sent to ***@***.***-foundation.org by close of business Thursday, 27th July.
Key dates to keep in mind:
* Draft programme to be published on Friday, 28 July
* P21 programme will be deemed final by Tuesday, 22 August
Your revised application will be reviewed within one week of receipt and the final decision will be communicated to the group.
If you have any questions please contact ***@***.***-foundation.org, or your TAB liaison, {INSERT TAB LIAISON NAME(s)}
Best regards,
RDA Secretariat

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Dear Uwe
Please bear with us, we are currently considering alternatives.
We will get back to you just as soon as we have finished consulting with TAB and others involved.
Kind regards
RDA Secretariat
________________________________
From: ***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of uschindler via RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG
Sent: 19 July 2023 16:37
To: RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG ; ***@***.*** ; Paolo Manghi
; Rachael Lammey ; ***@***.***
Cc: Frankie Stevens
Subject: [scholix_wg] Re: [scholix_wg] RDA P21 @ IDW 2023 – Notification of Outcome
This is not good. I was hoping that this time they would accept it. Are there any alternatives except meeting at lunch time like in Gothenburg?
Uwe
Am 19. Juli 2023 17:31:40 MESZ schrieb “Secretariat via RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG” :
Dear Chairs of the RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG
Thank you for your RDA P21 session application.
The Technical Advisory Board has assessed all the proposals and, on this occasion, your P21 session application titled Article/data linking is not the whole story: Launching a new Scholix schema for software to meet community practice has not been approved.
The session selection process was very competitive and, due to the limited capacity for sessions at P21, we could not accept sessions from maintenance groups, giving priority to active groups as per the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) guidelines.
If you have any questions, please contact ***@***.***-foundation.org, or the TAB co-chairs, Isabelle Perseil and Rob Quick, in copy.
We do hope that you will participate in P21 as part of IDW 2023 either in person or online, and on behalf of TAB and Secretariat, thank you for your ongoing engagement with the RDA.
Best regards,
RDA Secretariat
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Dear Kelly
Many thanks for updating your session agenda and for letting us know. We wish you well in preparing for your session.
Best regards
RDA Secretariat
________________________________
From: ***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of KellyStathis via Data Usage Metrics WG
Sent: 08 December 2022 16:38
To: Secretariat ; Data Usage Metrics WG
Cc: Robert Downs ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; Ian Bruno ; ***@***.*** ; Repository Platforms for Research Data IG ; Greene, Gretchen R. (Fed) ; ***@***.***
Subject: [usagemetrics_wg] Re: [rda-repoplatforms-ig][usagemetrics_wg] RDA 20th Plenary – Notification of Acceptance
Dear RDA Secretariat,
Thank you for approving our plenary session application. The agenda has now been updated with the time allocated per item, including 40 minutes for discussion. Please let us know if any further changes are needed.
We look forward to seeing you in Gothenburg!
Best regards,
Kelly
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:32 AM Secretariat via Data Usage Metrics WG wrote:
Dear Chairs of the Data Usage Metrics WG and the Repository Platforms for Research Data IG,
Your RDA 20th Plenary (P20) session application titled ‘Practical Approaches to Tracking and Communicating the Use of Research Data’ has been approved. Please take into consideration the feedback below that should be included in a revised version of your application, highlighting the modifications, by Tuesday 13 December 2022, close of business: Indicate the time allocated per item in the meeting agenda and ensure sufficient time for audience participation during the session.
* Draft programme to be published on Friday, 16th December 2022
* Any requests for changes must be made by Friday, 13th January 2023
* The programme will be deemed final by Thursday, 19th January 2023
* Event platforms to be used – Whova and Zoom (details will be provided)gret
Please begin planning for your session!
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We look forward to your participation at P20, and on behalf of TAB and Secretariat, thank you for your ongoing engagement with the RDA.
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Dear Kelly
Many thanks for updating your session agenda and for letting us know. We wish you well in preparing for your session.
Best regards
RDA Secretariat
________________________________
From: ***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of KellyStathis via Data Usage Metrics WG
Sent: 08 December 2022 16:38
To: Secretariat ; Data Usage Metrics WG
Cc: Robert Downs ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; Ian Bruno ; ***@***.*** ; Repository Platforms for Research Data IG ; Greene, Gretchen R. (Fed) ; ***@***.***
Subject: [usagemetrics_wg] Re: [rda-repoplatforms-ig][usagemetrics_wg] RDA 20th Plenary – Notification of Acceptance
Dear RDA Secretariat,
Thank you for approving our plenary session application. The agenda has now been updated with the time allocated per item, including 40 minutes for discussion. Please let us know if any further changes are needed.
We look forward to seeing you in Gothenburg!
Best regards,
Kelly
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:32 AM Secretariat via Data Usage Metrics WG wrote:
Dear Chairs of the Data Usage Metrics WG and the Repository Platforms for Research Data IG,
Your RDA 20th Plenary (P20) session application titled ‘Practical Approaches to Tracking and Communicating the Use of Research Data’ has been approved. Please take into consideration the feedback below that should be included in a revised version of your application, highlighting the modifications, by Tuesday 13 December 2022, close of business: Indicate the time allocated per item in the meeting agenda and ensure sufficient time for audience participation during the session.
* Draft programme to be published on Friday, 16th December 2022
* Any requests for changes must be made by Friday, 13th January 2023
* The programme will be deemed final by Thursday, 19th January 2023
* Event platforms to be used – Whova and Zoom (details will be provided)gret
Please begin planning for your session!
* Some individuals attending your session will be unfamiliar with your group’s work
* Please keep your session page updated with:
* information about your group
* Information about your session
* opportunities to engage with you and others during the session.
* Please remember your session is hybrid; if a co-chair is not able to attend in person, please identify someone who will coordinate.
* Any questions please contact ***@***.***-foundation.org, or your TAB liaison, Gretchen Greene and Rossella Aversa (in cc).
We look forward to your participation at P20, and on behalf of TAB and Secretariat, thank you for your ongoing engagement with the RDA.
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Dear Rory
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Dear Co-chairs
I was wondering if you have been able to come to a decision as to the best way to move forward with the Geospatial IG? Last summer it did seem possible that the group could be revived but perhaps you have reached a different outcome in the meantime.
Could you kindly update us?
Many thanks,
Bridget
RDA Secretariat
________________________________
From: ***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of pebau via Geospatial IG
Sent: 22 July 2021 13:39
To: ***@***.*** ; Secretariat ; Geospatial IG
Cc: ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.***
Subject: Re: [rda-geospatial-ig] RDA Geospatial IG – Update
many good thoughts here indeed!
But essentially IMHO it boils down to:
On 21.07.21 18:53, GeoEducator via Geospatial IG wrote:
Yes,
We will look at ways to reinvigorate…
What is needed to keep us going?
an active membership body.
best,
Peter
PS: Additionally, in my case no funding agency currently supports work of ours in RDA.
Thanks,
Dr. Branch
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:25 AM Secretariat via Geospatial IG wrote:
Dear Co-chairs
We are contacting you with regard to your RDA Geospatial IG, more specifically to seek clarification on the Group’s level of activity. We note that the Group has not had a working session at an RDA Plenary since Plenary 11 and we have not seen any activity on the group page for some time.
The RDA wants groups to be active during their lifespan. At this point, your group looks like it is inactive and may need to be retired. However, we would be happy to support you in re-invigorating the group if you think this makes sense.
Please respond to this email by 12th August 2021 and let us know your preference. Of course, if you have any questions, we would be happy to answer them.
Thank you very much!
Best wishes
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Dear Matthew
First of all, our sincere apologies for overlooking your email and subsequently the delay in replying.
Thank you very much for confirming your wish to continue with the group’s activities, we very much hope you will manage to take forward the new activities mentioned.
It would be very helpful if you could please log as much of your ongoing activities as possible on the group page. As you say, this ensures the wider RDA community is kept up to date with the ongoing and most recent activities, and also the group’s future intentions.
Many thanks,
Best regards
RDA Secretariat
________________________________
From: ***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of Matthew Fry via Global Water Information IG
Sent: 09 September 2021 17:19
To: Secretariat ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; Global Water Information IG
Cc: Kirkpatrick, Christine
Subject: Re: [globalwaterinformation] RDA Gobal Water Information IG – Activity Update
Dear RDA Secretariat
Thanks for the email and for asking the question about ongoing participation of the Global Water Information Interest Group.
On discussion with the other co-chairs, we would very much like to continue with GWIIG activities.
Firstly, I’d like to apologise for our lack of structured engagement in the last few plenaries. Personally I have found remote conferences very difficult (home-school notwithstanding), harder to ring-fence time for, and therefore far less worthwhile without the opportunities to learn from other groups and individuals.
At previous physical plenaries the GWIIG has been very successful at attracting in-person attendees, but many of our members used to attend remotely (without registration) for our session only. We felt the fully remote plenaries would not be able to provide this forum for unregistered attendees and would therefore limit the efficacy of our meetings.
At past plenaries we have had good engagement with other groups, presenting at other group sessions (e.g. Data Rescue, Dynamic Data Citation), applying RDA outputs (Dynamic Data Citation, Data Discovery Paradigms) as well as actively engaging in other group activities (Small UAVs, Soils, i-ADOPT, VREs, etc.). We value these engagements and believe the other groups do as well, and hope to continue them in future. It’s very helpful as a manager of a research hydrological archive to see best practice in other fields and to learn from them.
It’s worth noting that, as stated in our charter, the RDA is strongly linked to the OGC / WMO Hydro Domain Working Group, with common membership across these groups. HydroDWG has been very active over the past couple of years and there are many new developments (see https://external.ogc.org/twiki_public/HydrologyDWG/WebHome). I realise we should have continued to bring these developments to the wider RDA audience as well, and we’ve probably taken this for granted given the overlap in membership. But there has been some engagement (e.g. Sylvain has contributed to iADOPT group seminars).
But we have also been furthering activities, including completing a survey of available national hydrological data online, which we hope to publish shortly, and will be a valuable resource for researchers in this area.
There are a number of other newer activities we would like to take forwards:
* understanding requirements for hydrological research archives.
* gathering examples of AI/ML uses and use cases in hydrology, to understand the need for ML-ready datasets. This could be of interest to other domains / IGs / WGs.
We are considering a summary presentation for RDA GWIIG members on the recent advances in the OGC HydroDWG group.
I hope this would be considered as useful activities within RDA. Please let us know if there are any other areas you think it would be useful to provide input to.
Regards
Matt Fry (on behalf of GWIIG co-chairs)
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________________________________
From: Secretariat
Sent: 10 August 2021 17:06
To: ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; Fry, Matthew
Cc: Kirkpatrick, Christine ; ***@***.***-groups.org
Subject: RDA Gobal Water Information IG – Activity Update
Dear Co-chairs
We are contacting you with regard to your RDA Global Water Information IG, more specifically to seek clarification on the Group’s level of activity. It appears from our records that the Group has not had a working session at an RDA Plenary since Plenary 14 (and we have not received a session proposal for Plenary 18) and there does not seem to have been any activity on the group page or mailing list since October 2019.
The RDA would like groups to be active during their lifespan and it appears that your group is inactive and may need to be retired. However, we would be happy to support you in re-invigorating the group if you think this makes sense.
Please respond to this email by 10th September 2021 and let us know your preference. Of course, if you have any questions, we would be happy to answer them.
Thank you very much!
Best wishes
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Apologies, the subject line should have been “RDA VP18 Session Proposal Submission”.
From: Secretariat
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 12:00 PM
To: “***@***.***-groups.org”
Subject: RDA Virtual Plenary 18 – Notification of Acceptance
Dear Global Open Research Commons IG members,
Thank you for your session proposal for Virtual Plenary 18 titled “The Global Open Research Commons: update and connections to related work”. A review of all submitted proposals is now underway by the RDA Technical Advisory Board, with notifications of acceptance planned to be sent by 10 September.
Please feel free to contact the RDA Secretariat at ***@***.***-alliance.org with any questions or concerns you have regarding your submission. Thank you.
Regards,
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Dear Co-chairs, all
Based on your discussions and some positive responses towards reinvigorating the Group we would like to suggest you consider putting together and submitting a refreshed charter for the Interest Group.
Let us know if we can be of any help.
Best wishes
RDA Secretariat
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From: ***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of Lesley Wyborn via Geospatial IG
Sent: 21 July 2021 20:59
To: ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; Geospatial IG
Cc: Secretariat ; ***@***.***-university.de
; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.*** ; ***@***.***
Subject: Re: [rda-geospatial-ig] RDA Geospatial IG – Update
Dear all
As one of the co-chairs of the Earth, Space and Environmental sciences IG (ESES-IG) I would like to point out that the “space” in our title, refers to “Outer Space”, that is planetary, atmospheric, climate etc sciences. It is a term that is commonly accepted in the Solid Earth Science and Geophysics Community.
It is somewhat a legacy title because both the American Geophysical Union and the European Geosciences Union (i.e., AGU and EGU) both have science divisions called “Earth and Space Science Informatics”.
In the initial set up meetings of the ESES-IG this difference was made quite clear to then members of the Geospatial IG and to the TAB.
I really do not believe there is any real overlap between the two groups, other than nearly all Solid Earth, planetary and atmospheric data does have a ‘geospatial component’ to it!
Being more precise about how that ‘geospatial component’ is determined and expressed to me is the role of the Geospatial IG. And that ‘geospatial component’ is relevant to so many other IGs and WGs!
Take care
Lesley
From: on behalf of JoshLieberman via Geospatial IG
Reply to: “***@***.***”
Date: Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 4:02 am
To: “***@***.***” , Geospatial IG
Cc: “***@***.***-foundation.org” , Peter Baumann
, “***@***.***” , “***@***.***” , “***@***.***” , MIngfang Wu
Subject: Re: [rda-geospatial-ig] RDA Geospatial IG – Update
Hi,
With respect, a spatial / geospatial component cuts across the vast majority of scientific / research data, a bit like having an “Integer IG”. The group would need to have a more unique mission in order for it to be worth time from other geospatially oriented groups.
There are both geospatial interoperability issues with much of the research (meta)data out there, and issues of effective research collaboration for geospatial data scientists. An IG charter that called out these issues, identified important relationships with other groups (such as the OGC University DWG or OGC-W3C SDW Interest Group to pick random examples), and specific goals such as advancement of O&M / SOSA / SSN / GeoSPARQL in research data might go someways towards activating the rather extensive membership list with which the Geospatial IG is blessed.
Best Regards,
Josh
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On Jul 21, 2021, at 12:53 PM, GeoEducator via Geospatial IG wrote:
Yes,
We will look at ways to reinvigorate…
What is needed to keep us going?
Thanks,
Dr. Branch
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:25 AM Secretariat via Geospatial IG wrote:
Dear Co-chairs
We are contacting you with regard to your RDA Geospatial IG, more specifically to seek clarification on the Group’s level of activity. We note that the Group has not had a working session at an RDA Plenary since Plenary 11 and we have not seen any activity on the group page for some time.
The RDA wants groups to be active during their lifespan. At this point, your group looks like it is inactive and may need to be retired. However, we would be happy to support you in re-invigorating the group if you think this makes sense.
Please respond to this email by 12th August 2021 and let us know your preference. Of course, if you have any questions, we would be happy to answer them.
Thank you very much!
Best wishes
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