What are you looking for?

Mustapha Mokrane

Mustapha Mokrane is currently a Project leader at DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services), the Institute for Permanent Access to Digital Research Resources in The Netherlands. He was until June 2018 the Executive Director of the World Data System International Programme Office. Previously, he worked between 2009 and 2012 at the International Council for Science (ICSU) as Science and Information Technology Officer in charge of the coordination of ICSU's Scientific Data and Information activities and the liaison with its partners. He was also responsible for the information technology related activities within ICSU before 2003 and 2009. After moving from Algeria, his home country, he trained as molecular biologist in Marseille, France. Using transgenesis and microarrays technologies, he developed a drosophila model to elucidate the role of a gene involved in human cardiomyopathies. His scientific background covers genetics and bioinformatics and he developed a strong interest for scientific data and information challenges. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Aix-Marseille University.

Interest Group

Active Data Management Plans IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): David Giaretta, Kevin Ashley, Tomasz Miksa, Elli Papadopoulou, Maria Praetzellis
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 ...
Working Group

CoreTrustSeal Maintenance WG

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Lisa de Leeuw, Olivier Rouchon
The current version of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements can be found at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15437927  The CoreTrustSeal Maintenance Group is the successor to and maintains the outputs of th...
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
Chair(s): Marek Suchánek, Peter Neish, Tomasz Miksa
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

Domain Repositories IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Kerstin Lehnert, Peter Doorn
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Victoria Smith
RDA Domain Repositories Interest Group The Domain Repositories Interest Group will bring together active data repositories that serve specific scientific disciplines.  Domain repositories provide arc...
Coordination Group

ESIP/AGU/RDA Enabling FAIR Data Coordination Group

Member
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

ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Helen Glaves, Danie Kinkade, Shelley Stall, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Corrêa, Lesley Wyborn
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
The Earth, space (planetary), and environmental science communities are developing, through multiple international efforts, both general and domain-specific leading practices for data, software, a...
Working Group

FAIR Data Maturity Model WG

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Edit Herczog, Keith Russell, Shelley Stall, Anusuriya Devaraju, Solange Maria Santos
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
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...
Interest Group

FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Xin Chen, Rainer Stotzka, Zachary Trautt, Maggie Hellström, Andreas Pfeil
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
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...
Interest Group

RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Dawei Lin, Micky Lindlar, Olivier Rouchon, Daniela Santos Oliveira
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...