Kevin Ashley

Kevin Ashley was Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) from April 2010 to August 2026. The DCC's primary goal was originally the development of research data services in UK universities; during his tenure its scope broadened to work with research-performing organisations internationally. He began his career in computing support for medical research before moving to ULCC, one of the UK national supercomputing services. He worked in development and management roles and contributed to a number of international standardisation initiatives in networking. From the early 1990s his team concentrated on the development of digital archive services for a range of public bodies including the British Library and the Public Record Office with a special focus on database archives.

Metadata IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Alex Ball, Milan Ojsteršek, Stephen Richard

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa

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 ...

Working Group

Metadata Standards Catalog WG

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Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables

Chair(s): Rebecca Koskela, Keith Jeffery, Alex Ball

TAB Liaison: Gretchen Greene

Objectives The Metadata Standards Catalog (MSC) Working Group has produced a machine-actionable catalog of metadata standards submitted by all RDA WGs. The catalog system has an end-user input form an...

Interest Group

National Data Services IG

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Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Natalie Harrower, Bernhard Miller, Andrew Treloar

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

Organisational Advisory Board (private)

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Chair(s): Gabriela Pino, Shelley Stall

Organisational Advisory Board (private) This is the private working space for the Organisational Advisory Board. Charter The Organisational Advisory Board is a sub-committee of the whole OA, acting a...

Interest Group

PID IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Jonathan Clark, Josh Brown, Adrian Burton, Nobuko Miyairi

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg

The pervasive use of persistent identifiers is seen as a foundational element in anchoring and referencing research data in an interoperable way. The purpose of the Persistent Identifier Interest Grou...

Interest Group

RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IG

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Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Robert Chen, Christoph Bruch, Simon Hodson, Gail Clement, Matti Heikkurinen

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause

Status: Recognised & Endorsed The proposed Research Data Alliance – CODATA Working Group on Legal Interoperability of Research Data (RDA-CODATA WG), will be established to address and promote th...

Interest Group

RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG

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Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Dawei Lin, Micky Lindlar, Olivier Rouchon, Daniela Santos Oliveira

TAB Liaison: Daniel Bangert

Status: Recognised & Endorsed Joint RDA/WDS IG In order to guarantee data sharing, the long-term preservation of these data in sustainable digital repositories is a sine qua non. Data that are cr...

Regional Group

RDA in United Kingdom

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Coordinators: Juan Bicarregui, Christopher Brown, Elizabeth Newbold

This is a working area dedicated to the RDA activities, updates and events in UK. Feel free to register by clicking on the Join link on the right. You will be automatically subscribed to the group mai...

Coordination Group

RDA Regional Engagement Discussion Group

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Chair(s): Hilary Hanahoe

This group is for announcements and information emerging from the RDA Regional Engagement discussions. Current Activities – April 2018 A small group representing current regions, emerging r...

Interest Group

Research Data Policy IG

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Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Natasha Simons, Rebecca Taylor-Grant, Dagmar Meyer

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira

Introduction Research data policies aim to increase the availability of research data and in some cases, FAIR research data. The number of organisations with data policies – and number of researcher...