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Meredith Goins

Since November 2021, Meredith has served as the Executive Director of the World Data System’s International Program Office, run by the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, USA, and physically located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
She has over 10 years of experience supporting the grant peer review process for the U.S. federal government, including science writing, reviewer recruitment, and data management.
Meredith earned her bachelor’s degree in communications from East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, and her Master of Sciences in Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate focusing on scholarly communications.
Her research interests include peer review as well as organizational governance.

Working Group
Stage: WG Producing Deliverables
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The RDA/CODATA Data Systems, Tools, and Services for Crisis Situations Working Group (DSTS_CS-WG) arises out of a widespread set of activities and interests in RDA and CODATA that have developed throu...
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...
Working Group
Researchers are increasingly encouraged or required to make their research data available for reuse but might often feel there are insufficient incentives for submitting and publishing data, resulting...
Regional Group
Coordinators: Beth Plale, Rob Quick
This is a working area dedicated to RDA-US activities, updates, and events in the United States. If you would like to contribute to the group or receive RDA-US updates, please register by clicking on...
Coordination Group
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
This is the working space for the Organisational Assembly and includes all open OA meetings. Organisational Membership If you know of an organisation that is interested in joining the RDA as an Organi...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
Context and purpose Research data repositories are at the heart of data sharing as they provide platforms to acquire, store, archive, publish, curate, preserve, and access data. Thus, the major goal o...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
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...
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...
Historical Group
Stage: Completed
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
RDA-OfR Mapping the landscape of digital research tools WG The WG has now completed its work and its deliverables are being maintained by the Mapping the Landscape of Digital Research II (MaLDReTH) W...