Kathleen Shearer
Kathleen Shearer is the Executive Director of COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories). She is also a research associate with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and a strategic consultant in the area of open access, repositories and research data management.Further details at coar-repositories.org or follow them on Twitter at @coar_eV
Working Group
Data Repository Attributes WG
Co-Chair
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...
Historical Group
Long tail of research data IG
Co-Chair
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Kathleen Shearer
Status: Recognised & Endorsed
Universities and research institutions are becoming increasingly interested in collecting and providing access to datasets produced at their institution that do no...
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 ...
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
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Peter McQuilton, Simon Hodson, Holly Murray, Graham Smith, Allyson Lister, Rebecca Taylor-Grant
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Isabelle PERSEIL
OUTPUTS
Completed and RDA-endorsed
FAIRsharing registry – A curated, informative and educational registry of interlinked descriptions of (i) standards (to identify, report, and cite data and m...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The coordination of data infrastructure on various levels (country, continent, discipline, sector) is on the increase. So called “Open Science Commons” or “Data commons” provide a shared virtu...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Su Nee Goh, Naresh Kumar, Tim Dennis, Jennifer Gu, Susanna Nykyri, Madiareni Sulaiman, John Brown
Endorsed Outputs
23 Things: Libraries For Research Data – overview of practical, free, online resources and tools that you can begin using today to incorporate research data management into y...
Interest Group
Metadata IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
The Metadata IG will concern itself with all aspects of metadata for research data. In particular, it will attempt to coordinate the efforts of the WGs concerned with metadata to produce a coherent ...
Interest Group
National Data Services IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
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...
Coordination Group
RDA Organisational Assembly
Member
Chair(s): Gabriela Pino, Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
This is the working space for the Organisational Assembly and includes all open OA meetings.
Organisational Membership
If you know of an organisation that is interested in joining the RDA as an Organi...