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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.

Draft Charter for Dataspaces in the Research Ecosystem IG
Dear all, Christina Drummond and I have had a first go at drafting a Charter for the Dataspaces in the Research Ecosystem Interest Group. We would like to seek your input, feedback and comments on the draft ahead of the upcoming Virtual Plenary 26 session where hope to finalise this ahead of submitting it for […]
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Date Modified: February 12, 2026
[Session Notice] FAIR for Virtual Research Environments (FAIR4VREs) WG Plenary session on 21st June at 02:30 UTC.
Dear GORC members, At the upcoming RDA Plenary 19, the FAIR for Virtual Research Environments (FAIR4VREs) WG (under the umbrella of the Virtual Research Environments IG ) is undertaking an analysis of gaps in applying existing FAIR principles to VREs, and wishes to gain feedback from VRE users and developers. The session is scheduled on […]
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Kheeran Dharmawardena
Date Modified: June 13, 2022
RDA Plenary 18 session report
Hi all, Seasons greetings all. Following on from our session at RDA18, the SDDI-IG co-chairs have produced a report summarising the session and linking to key documents and the recording on YouTube. Please find the report here: https://zenodo.org/record/5775154 Thank you to those who contributed to the discussion at RDA18. Please feel free to get in […]
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Kheeran Dharmawardena
Date Modified: December 13, 2021
Revised Charter for Social Dynamics of Data Interoperability Interest Group (SDDI-IG)
Hi all, Kristal & I have worked on a revised Charter for the group based on TAB feedback. We would like to seek feedback and comments from the group on the updated charter before it is resubmitted to the TAB. Could you please provide any feedback by *Sunday 5th September*. We will incorporate any feedback […]
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Date Modified: August 30, 2021
Looking for examples of biodiversity data systems that support government decision making
Dear members, I’m wondering if you could help me with some pointers. I am in need of doing a compare and contrast exercise of biodiversity data systems established for the purpose of supporting government decision and policy making around the world. I’m not looking for the global facilities such as GBIF, but for any national […]
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Kheeran Dharmawardena
Date Modified: May 31, 2021
Thank you for attending the Social Dynamics of Open Data IG session at RDA P17
Dear members and attendees, We would like to thank you for joining us at the Social Dynamics of Opening Data for Global Challenges session at the RDA plenary 17. We hope you found the session informative and useful. We would like to express our thanks to the three presenters at the session, Oscar Corcho, Priyanka […]
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Kheeran Dharmawardena
Date Modified: April 27, 2021
Social dynamics of Opening data for global challenges
Collaborative meeting notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6273o63F5hLIOn-10x4xdmx0R3i_7rCoH0p…   Agenda for the meeting will be: (10min) Welcomes & Introductions (15min) Introduction to Social dynamics of data interoperability (Kheeran Dharmawardena) Introduction to what is meant by Social dynamics of data interoperability, and the purpose of this interest group (15min) Presentation – EOSC organizational interoperability aspects of the EOSC (Oscar Corcho) EOSC […]
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Date Modified: January 26, 2021