Kheeran Dharmawardena
Mr. Kheeran Dharmawardena, MBA, BComp, is the Principal Consultant at Cytrax Consulting. Kheeran has over 2 decades of experience in delivering ICT services within the higher education and research sector, including infrastructure delivery, service delivery, data management, IT & enterprise architecture and eResearch. He has a special interest in the socio-technical challenges involved in the delivery of data and information infrastructures.
Interest Group
Dataspaces in the Research Ecosystem
Co-Chair
Stage: Not Yet Endorsed
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
Developing from demand expressed at the RDAP25 BOF, this interest group will allow RDA members to share lessons learned while adapting, adopting, and piloting the international dataspace protocol and ...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
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Group overview
One of the...
Working Group
RDA-COVID19-Community-participation
Co-Chair
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Daniel Mietchen, Eva Méndez, Timea Biro, Sarah Jones, Kheeran Dharmawardena, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Joanne Stocks
TAB Liaison: Isabelle PERSEIL
This is the subgroup of the RDA-COVID-19 working group focusing on Community Participation.
Co-chair assigned: Sarah Jones
Moderator(s): Timea Biro, Kheeran Dharmawardena, Eva Méndez, Dan...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Kheeran Dharmawardena, Kristal Spreadborough
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
Extensive work has been, and continues to be done on data interoperability at the technical and information domains. However, a large portion of the challenges in building interoperable information in...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Noel Chibhira
VREs are synonymous with Science Gateways (SGs) in the USA and Virtual Laboratories (VLs) in Australia, and are increasingly being used to support a more dynamic approach to collaborative working acro...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Introduction
Disciplinary groups play a pivotal role in the RDA ecosystem. Not only do they provide a mechanism for engaging with the outputs of the RDA community, they are instrumental in providing i...
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...
Working Group
RDA COVID-19
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Juan Bicarregui, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Ingrid Dillo, Natalie Harrower, Sarah Jones, Mark Leggott, Priyanka Nair-Turkich
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali
I. RDA COVID-19 Working Group Objectives
II. Group & Website Navigation
III. Weekly Webinar RDA COVID-19 Updates – Completed
I. RDA COVID-19 Working Group Objectives
The overarchi...
Coordination Group
RDA COVID19 Coordination
Member
Stage: WG Getting Started
The private group facilitate the coordination of the RDA COVID19 Working and sub-groups. Members of this group are the co-chairs, moderators and secretariat support.
Coordination Group
This is a group dedicated to all the Working and Interest Group Chairs
‘RDA Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Meets Chairs’ Meetings
The TAB meets chairs meetings provide RDA group chairs wit...