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Kathryn Unsworth

Kathryn Unsworth is a an Outreach Librarian with CSIRO, based at the Clayton (Victoria) site. Kathryn engages with researchers, instrument managers, and other CSIRO staff, providing Library and Research support. In the Outreach role there is focus on strategic engagement. A coordinated and systematic program of outreach via drop-ins, site visits and direct project invovlement are a part of current planning.

Kathryn was previously at the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) based in Melbourne. At ANDS, Kathryn engaged with a number of Australian universities, providing research data management related advice, support and training. Additionally, Kathryn worked in partnership with institutions to deliver ANDS-funded projects.

She has many RDM-related interests including, DMP implementations and their value in changing researcher behaviours and practices, IP and licensing issues for data, ethics and informed consent, and up-skilling data librarians for transition into data science roles, but is now transitioning to wider research support with a focus on researcher workflows and how, when and where support services are best interconnected.

Working Group
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...
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 ...
Working Group
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
Stage: IG Established
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
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
The context of increasing volumes of data being created by researchers and the strengthening of requirements for research data management and data sharing has created demand for a new and evolving set...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
Good Research Data Management (RDM) is a key component of research integrity and reproducible research. Consequently, funding bodies, governments, research institutions and other agencies have emphasi...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
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...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
FAIR Data Maturity Model: core criteria to assess the implementation level of the FAIR data principles Webinar – The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promo...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
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
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
Mission The goal of the Open Science Graphs Interest Group (OSG IG) is to build on the outcomes and broaden the challenges of the Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) and Scholarly Link E...