Deb Agarwal
Dr. Deborah Agarwal is a Senior Scientist and the Data Science and Technology Department (http://dst.lbl.gov), Head at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Dr. Agarwal’s current research focuses on developing computational tools to enable scientists to more effectively organize and use their data to understand and mitigate climate change. The Data Science and Technology Department personnel are involved in data analytics and data management projects across the sciences. Dr. Agarwal is also the lead of the Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) data repository
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
The scope of the WG covers data sources from research and scholarly communication. Within this domain obstacles for wider application of brokering techniques are:
Multiple service protocols for data ...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Martina Stockhause, Graham Parton, Lesley Wyborn, Justin Buck, James Ayliffe, Shelley Stall, Jonathan Blythe
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
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 ...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
This working group aims to improve collaboration and coordination between repository and publisher workflows as they pertain to- and rely upon the data publication process. The group proposes to refin...
Maintenance 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...
Maintenance Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Michael Witt, Kathleen Shearer, Allyson Lister, Matthew Cannon, Washington Luís Ribeiro de Segundo, Kazu Yamaji
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
The Data Repository Attributes Working Group seeks to produce a list of common attributes that describe a research data repository and to provide examples of the current approaches that different dat...
Working Group
Data Usage Metrics WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Ian Bruno, Iratxe Puebla
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
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...
Interest Group
Data Versioning IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Data Versioning WG has transitioned to the Data Versioning IG as of July 2021. The group space has remained the same.
The demand for reproducibility of research results and re-using data is gro...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
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...
Regional Group
RDA in the Americas
Member
Coordinators: Rebecca Koskela, Gabriela Pino
Many natural data sets are not confined by political borders. The RDA in the Americas Group will foster collaboration between research organizations and individuals on the American continents. This w...
Regional Group
RDA in the United States
Member
Coordinators: Beth Plale, Rob Quick
This is a working area dedicated to RDA-US activities, updates, and events in the United States. If you would like to contribute to the group or receive RDA-US updates, please register by clicking on...