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Natasha Simons

Natasha Simons is Director, National Coordination, with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Based in Brisbane, Australia, Natasha drives national-scale initiatives and projects that build world class data infrastructure for researchers and that contribute to the ARDC’s new strategic approach of building thematic research data commons. She collaborates internationally, particularly through the Research Data Alliance, to solve common challenges and improve data infrastructure, policies, skills, and practices. Natasha is co-chair of the RDA Data Policy Standardisation & Implementation Interest Group and the RDA National PID Strategies IG.

Interest Group

PID IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Jonathan Clark, Josh Brown, Adrian Burton, Nobuko Miyairi
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...
Working Group

RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG

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Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Helena Cousijn, Paolo Manghi, Rachael Lammey
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
RDA WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) WG  As of October 2023, the work of the Scholix WG is being combined with the [Open Science Graphs Interest Group (OSG IG)](https://www.rd-alliance.org/grou...
Regional Group

RDA in Australasia

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Coordinators: Trish Radotic
This is a working area dedicated to RDA-related activities, updates and events in Australasia If you would like to contribute to the group or receive all RDA in Australasia updates, please register by...
Coordination Group

Working and Interest Group Chairs

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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...
Interest Group

Working with PIDs in Tools IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Xiaoli Chen, Rory Macneil, Jens Klump, Christopher Erdmann
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
Lack of interoperability between tools/e-infrastructures presents a significant barrier to streamlining processes throughout the research lifecycle. These gaps prevent the comprehensive collection an...
Historical Group

National PID Strategies WG

Co-Chair
Chair(s): Christopher Brown, Natasha Simons, Daniel Bangert, Shawna Sadler
The National PID Strategies WG has now CLOSED and its outputs are being maintained by the National PID Strategies IG The WG’s outputs include a Guide, Checklist and Case Studies. We would like...
Historical Group

Certification and Accreditation for Data Science Training and Education WG

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Chair(s): Steve Brewer, Malgorzata Krakowian
The Certification and Accreditation for Data Science Training and Education WG was set up following the RDA 8th Plenary BoF meeting which initiated the discussions on approaches to analyzing and comp...
Historical Group

PID Kernel Information Profile Management WG

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Chair(s): Tobias Weigel, Beth Plale, Jens Klump
Webinar – Connecting Data, Institutions and People: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA outputs and the design of the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure – 18 March 2021 Please note that this RDA group s...
Historical Group

Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC) IG

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Stage: Completed
Chair(s): Christopher Erdmann, Federica Quaglia, Francis P. Crawley
Secretariat Liaison: Secretariat Group Account
The SHARC Interest Group is no longer active. Many really important and valuable discussions and outputs have taken place over its lifetime and you are invited to view the outputs here.  Short prese...