Ian Mathews
Ian Mathews is the CEO and co-founder of Redivis, a data platform focused on the needs of academic research. He envisions a world where data are widely accessible, and believes that well-designed, researcher-focused software will be critical to making this happen.
Prior to his work at Redivis, Ian worked with global health researchers and data journalists as he taught himself software development and the tools of interactive data visualization. Ian holds BAs in Public Policy and Economics from Stanford University.
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
The proposed activity of this group is to act as a nucleus for discussing requirements for and identifying developments needed to support active (i.e. able to evolve and be monitored) data management ...
Historical Group
Stage: Completed
Welcome to the RDA Complex Citation Working Group
Purpose
This working group proposes to address the use case of citing a large number of existing objects (e.g., datasets, software, or physical samp...
Working 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�...
Working 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...
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...
Working Group
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...
Working Group
DMP Common Standards WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali
In a nutshell
This group produced a recommendation on machine-actionable DMPs.
recommendation: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00039
full documentation: https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common...
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...
Working Group
Chair(s): Angus Whyte, Fiona Murphy, Natalie Meyers, Kathryn Unsworth, Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal
The Exposing DMPs WG group is being retired. To participate in current RDA effort on Data Management Plans, please join the Active DMPs IG.
Recommendations
The Exposing DMPs draft recommendations res...