Michael Witt
Michael Witt is an associate professor of library science and the head of the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) at the Purdue University Libraries. The D2C2 focuses on the extension of library services, practices, standards, and tools as well as the application of library science principles to research data curation.
Maintenance Group
Data Repository Attributes WG
Co-Chair
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Michael Witt, Kathleen Shearer, Allyson Lister, Matthew Cannon, Washington Luís Ribeiro de Segundo, Kazu Yamaji
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
The Data Repository Attributes Working Group seeks to produce a list of common attributes that describe a research data repository and to provide examples of the current approaches that different dat...
Maintenance Group
Stage: Completed
Chair(s): Francis P. Crawley, Perihan Elif Ekmekci, Natalie Meyers, Seonyoung Kim, Patricia Buendia, Ugochi Okengwu, Luis Jacob Retanan
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
Mission The mission of the AIDV-WG is to contribute to building the ethical, legal, social, and technical frameworks for Artificial Intelligence while examining the potential of data visitation to bri...
Interest Group
Collections as Data IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
About
This group is aimed at collections professionals such as archivists, librarians, records managers and museum curators, as well as related professions such as IT professionals, knowledge scientis...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Community-based catalogue of requirements for trustworthy Technical Repository Service Providers Working Group (TRSPs WG) will address a significant need in the community of data repositories and ...
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...
Coordination Group
Chair(s): Shelley Stall
Enabling FAIR Data in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences
Open, accessible, and high-quality data and related data products and software are critical to the integrity of published research. ...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Su Nee Goh, Naresh Kumar, Tim Dennis, Jennifer Gu, Susanna Nykyri, Madiareni Sulaiman, John Brown
Endorsed Outputs
23 Things: Libraries For Research Data – overview of practical, free, online resources and tools that you can begin using today to incorporate research data management into y...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Jeff Christiansen, Nicola Mulder, Susan Gregurick, Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström, Elisha Wood-Charlson
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
The life sciences are becoming increasingly data intensive, owing much to the huge improvements seen in large-scale gene sequencing and other molecular “omics” techniques. There is a need for larg...
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...