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Keith Russell

After having worked at Utrecht University, Keith worked at the national level in the Netherlands at SURF on scholarly communication and the sharing of research data. He coordinated exchange on these topics at the European level in Knowledge Exchange. In 2014 he moved to Australia and started work for ANDS as a program manager responsible for engagements with institutions and organisations around Australia. In 2018 he joined ARDC, the national project built on ANDS, Nectar and RDS. The ARDC is connecting and building research data and eResearch capability and infrastructure around the country, ensuring that organisations can make optimal use of national research data services and eResearch tools.

Perspectives or speakers for RDARI session at the RDA Virtual Plenary 26
Dear members of the RDA RDARI Interest Group, The next RDA plenary will be a virtual plenary and will take place 16-20 March 2026. The theme for this plenary will be ‘Data Continuity for research resilience.’ Data continuity is essential for research resilience. As the research and scientific landscape faces institutional changes, technological transitions, and […]
RDA Plenary Meetings
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Date Modified: November 4, 2025
RDA FDMM session at International Data Week 2025
Dear members of the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG, We will be running a session at the International Data Week 2025 conference with the title ‘ FAIR Data Maturity Model of the future – Addressing the Gaps and Opportunities’ Please join us if you are attending either in person or virtually. The session will […]
RDA Plenary Meetings
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Keith Russell
Date Modified: October 8, 2025
RDARI session at International Data Week 2025
Dear members of the RDARI Interest Group, We will be running a session with the title ‘Applying PIDs at the institutional level’ next week at the International Data Week conference. Please join us if you are attending, either in person or online. The session will be on Monday 13 October 2025 from 12:00-13:30 local time […]
RDA Plenary Meetings
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Keith Russell
Date Modified: October 8, 2025
Some updates from the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG
Dear members of Working Group, There is some news that we would like to share: New co-chairs We are very excited to announce that we have found two new co-chairs to strengthen the team of co-chairs. They are Anusuriya Devaraju, from CSIRO in Perth, Australia and Solange Maria Santos from SciELO in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Updated Excel file with the […]
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Keith Russell
Date Modified: April 16, 2025
Planning to adopt the FAIR Data Maturity Model? Apply for a TIGER Cascading grant
HI all, For those that are considering adopting or implementing the FAIR Data Maturity Model the following opportunity might be of interest. RDA Europe, under the umbrella of the RDA TIGER project, is currently running an open call for Cascading Grant proposals. Cascading Grants are a European Commission mechanism that aims to distribute public funding to […]
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Keith Russell
Date Modified: April 2, 2025
Planning to adopt FDMM? Apply for a TIGER grant!
Dear members of the FAIR Data Maturity Model WG, Are you considering adopting the FDMM? Please see the call out from RDA TIGER below….. The RDA TIGER Cascading Grants are still open for applications until December 3, 2024. We make 100,000 EUR available through these Cascading Grants. We are seeking applications from: 1. Entities or researchers who […]
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Keith Russell
Date Modified: November 29, 2024
Doodle for meeting to discuss RDARI session on the Global South at the virtual plenary
Dear members of the RDARI interest group and others interested, At one of the previous planning meetings of the Research Data Alliance Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions (RDARI) Interest Group we discussed the possibility of running a session on Research Data Architectures in the Global South. We would now like to take this idea […]
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Keith Russell
Date Modified: January 5, 2024
In memory of Sarah Jones
Dear members of the working group, We were deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely passing of Sarah Jones. She was an amazing person, full of energy and brightness. She was extremely knowledgeable and well connected in the space in which we work. We had the pleasure of having her as a co-chair […]
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Keith Russell
Date Modified: January 3, 2024