Gary Berg-Cross
Dr. Gary Berg-Cross is a Cognitive Psychologist (Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook) with an interest in human conceptual models and their representation. He serves as a consulting knowledge engineer on Earth Science projects & was a Co-PI on an NSF grant to help geo-scientists share data using improved semantics. As part of his work he arranges and participates in periodic workshops to prototype conceptual models, ontologies and general design patterns. He has served as the Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) Executive Secretariat for 8 years helping to run annual workshops and vocabulary development efforts to advance the field. He is a co organizer of the annual Ontology Summit hosted at NSF and NIST.
Working Group
Agrisemantics WG
Member
Stage: WG Wrapping up
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
The group started in Jan 2017 and should close shortly.
The goal of the Agrisemantics WG is to gather community-based requirements and use cases for an infrastructure that supports appropriate use o...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Introduction
Disciplinary groups play a pivotal role in the RDA ecosystem. Not only do they provide a mechanism for engaging with the outputs of the RDA community, they are instrumental in providing i...
Interest Group
Chemistry Research Data IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
Introduction: We are proposing a Chemistry Research Data Interest Group under the auspices of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), to foster diverse professional exchange on issues particular to data ori...
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...
Interest Group
Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
RDA Interest Group Charter
Name of Interest Group: Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Introduction:
The F.A.I.R. Principles, i.e. that data should be “Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable?...
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
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Oya Beyan, Daniel Mietchen
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: James Savage
Ethical and social issues with respect to data archiving, sharing, and reuse cut across many of the technical and policy work of the rest of the RDA. Such issues are complementary to but separate fr...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
The Data Fabric IG (DFIG) identified that working with data in the many scientific labs and most probably also in other areas such as industry and governance is highly inefficient and too costly. Exce...
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...
Interest Group
Global Water Information IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
The proposed Global Water Information Interest Group (GWIIG) will serve as a platform leading to formation of RDA working group; as a venue for communication among RDA WGs and IGs focused on both tech...