Rob Hooft
Chemist/Crystallographer by training, did a PostDoc at EMBL Heidelberg in structural bioinformatics. Then became application software developer for a laboratory instrument manuafacturer and became an R&D manager. Since 2009 back in academics, managing a group of project managers in bioinformatics in The Netherlands. Now the Technical Coordinator for the Dutch node in ELIXIR which is hosted at Health-RI.
Working Group
RDA-COVID19-Omics
Co-Chair
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali
This is the subgroup of the RDA-COVID-19 working group focusing on Omics.
Useful Information for RDA COVID-19 Omics Subgroup
Omics subgroup priorities:
A set of guideline documents, highlighting th...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
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 ...
Interest Group
Chemistry Research Data IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
Introduction: We are proposing a Chemistry Research Data Interest Group under the auspices of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), to foster diverse professional exchange on issues particular to data ori...
Working Group
Stage: Not Yet Endorsed
Chair(s): Priyanka Nair-Turkich
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
The Computational Modelling of Health Data working group will focus on improving the reproducibility, transparency, and accessibility of computational models developed for health research. The working...
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...
Interest Group
Data Versioning IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
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...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): Daniela Hausen, Briana Wham, Jessica Hrudey, Holly Murray, Shannon Sheridan, Ivonne Anders, Yasemin Turkyilmaz-van der Velden, Santosh Ilamparuthi
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
Many research funding agencies expect DMPs which receive valuable metadata about the project as well as collected and analyzed data. In order to use DMPs profitably for researchers in their everyday l...
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...
Working Group
FAIR Data Maturity Model WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
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
Stage: IG Established
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...