Majid Ounsy
Software Engenieer Degree at ENSIMAG gradute School (Grenoble, France) in 1989
Phd Degree in Scientific Computing at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 1992
Worked for about ten years at CEA (Commisariat à l'Energie Atomique) on scientific
computing in the frame of the simulation of Nuclear Power Plants accidents
Joined SOLEIL synchrotron French Light Source facility since 2002 as a Software Development
Project Manager and focusing since many years on Data Reduction and Analysis.
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
The proposed activity of this group is to act as a nucleus for discussing requirements for and identifying developments needed to support active (i.e. able to evolve and be monitored) data management ...
Maintenance Group
Data Citation WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Andreas Rauber, Mark Parsons
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Data Citation WG maintains the RDA Recommendation for Precise, Actionable Reference to Dynamic Data:
Rauber, A., Parsons, M., & RDA Data Citation WG. (2025). Precise, Actionable Reference to D...
Working Group
DMP Common Standards WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali
In a nutshell
This group produced a recommendation on machine-actionable DMPs.
recommendation: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00039
full documentation: https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common...
Interest Group
Evaluation of Research IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The evolution of the evaluation of research from being mostly bibliographic index-based is now recognized to be indispensable to enable Open Science. In the same way that Open Science promotes the ope...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Fotis Psomopoulos, Daniel S. Katz, Daniel Garijo, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Leyla Jael Castro, Anne Fouilloux, Gnana Bharathy, Line Pouchard, Curtis Sharma
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
The idea of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) in the context of scientific data management and stewardship was developed in 2014 and turned into specific principles in 2016[1]. ...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Michelle Barker, Paula Andrea Martinez, Leyla Jael Castro, Daniel S. Katz, Neil Chue Hong, Jennifer Harrow, Fotis Psomopoulos, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Morane Gruenpeter
News:
May 24th, 2022. The RDA Council have endorsed the FAIR4RS Principles as an official output!
Citation and download: Chue Hong, N. P., Katz, D. S., Barker, M., Lamprecht, A-L, Martinez, C., Psomop...
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...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: James Savage
Physical samples are a basic element for reference, study, and experimentation in research. Tests and analysis are conducted directly on samples, such as biological specimens, rock or mineral specim...
Interest Group
PID IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
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
Stage: IG Established
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...