Milan Ojsteršek received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Maribor in 1994. He is a head of the Laboratory for Heterogeneous Computer Systems at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on heterogeneous computing systems, the semantic web, natural language processing, open-access repositories, and research data archives. He leads the development and operation of Slovenian open-access infrastructure and several international and national projects connected to the open-access infrastructure, open data, knowledge management, and academic integrity. Milan Ojsteršek is a co-chair of the CODATA GOSC Data interoperability working group, a member of the EOSC Association Semantic interoperability Task Force, a member of FDO TSIG, a co-chair of RDA metadata IG, a member of several working groups in RDA, and a member of auditing board of the European network of academic integrity. He is a co-author of the EOSC Interoperability Framework.
The Metadata IG will concern itself with all aspects of metadata for research data. In particular, it will attempt to coordinate the efforts of the WGs concerned with metadata to produce a coherent ...
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...
RDA Interest Group Charter
Name of Interest Group: Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Introduction:
The F.A.I.R. Principles, i.e. that data should be “Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable?...
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 ...
The Data Versioning WG has transitioned to the Data Versioning IG as of July 2021. The group space has remained the same.
The demand for reproducibility of research results and re-using data is gro...
The Exposing DMPs WG group is being retired. To participate in current RDA effort on Data Management Plans, please join the Active DMPs IG.
Recommendations
The Exposing DMPs draft recommendations res...
FAIR Data Maturity Model: core criteria to assess the implementation level of the FAIR data principles
Webinar – The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promo...
The Data Fabric IG (DFIG) identified that working with data in the many scientific labs and most probably also in other areas such as industry and governance is highly inefficient and too costly. Exce...
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...
The FAIRification of Genomic Annotations Working Group (WG) will focus on the challenges of harmonising metadata and software solutions to improve the discovery and reuse of publicly available “geno...
