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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
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
How to get involved with this working group? Join the RDA group and be part of the mailing list to get updates Come to events Follow the working group meeting minutes Group overview One of the...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
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
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
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
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
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...