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Robert Downs

Dr. Robert R. Downs is a retired researcher who has been focusing on the development, management, use, evaluation, and impact of information systems.

Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
Context and purpose Research data repositories are at the heart of data sharing as they provide platforms to acquire, store, archive, publish, curate, preserve, and access data. Thus, the major goal o...
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 ...
Maintenance Group
Stage: Completed
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
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 ...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
This working group aims to improve collaboration and coordination between repository and publisher workflows as they pertain to- and rely upon the data publication process. The group proposes to refin...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
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
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
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
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
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?...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
Webinar – Tools & Resources for Data Usage Metrics – 21 April 2022   Research data is increasingly recognized as an important output of scholarly research, however, there are not yet...