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Simon Hodson

Simon Hodson has been Executive Director of CODATA since August 2013. Simon is an expert on data policy issues and research data management. He as contributed to influential reports on Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.27872 and to the Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World http://www.science-international.org/#accord

As part of his CODATA role, Simon leads or participants in numerous projects, Working Groups and Steering Groups. Currently, he is:

Project Director, African Open Science Platform Project http://africanopenscience.org.za/?page_id=54
Chair, European Commission’s Expert Group on FAIR Data, which is preparing a report and guidelines on how to make FAIR data a reality https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/fair_eg.pdf;
Co-chair, OECD Global Science Forum Project on Sustainable Business Models for Data Repositories http://www.codata.org/working-groups/oecd-gsf-sustainable-business-models;
Co-chair, GEO Data Sharing Working Group, to which CODATA has made a longterm contribution http://www.earthobservations.org/dswg.php;
Co-chair, IRIDIUM Research Data Management Glossary Working Group, which is a collaboration between CODATA, CASRAI and Research Data Canada http://www.codata.org/working-groups/standard-glossary-for-research-data-management-iridium

Simon is also is a member of the Board of Directors http://datadryad.org/pages/ourTeam of the Dryad Data Repository http://datadryad.org/, a not-for-profit initiative to make the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable; and he sits on the Scientific Advisory Board https://www.cessda.eu/eng/About/Governance of CESSDA ERIC https://www.cessda.eu/, the European data infrastructure for the social sciences.

Simon has a strong research background, as well as considerable project and programme management experience: from 2009 to 2013, as Programme Manager, he led two successive phases of Jisc's innovative Managing Research Data programme in the UK.

Interest Group

Complex Citation Implementation Interest Group (CCI IG)

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Martina Stockhause, Graham Parton, Lesley Wyborn, Justin Buck, James Ayliffe, Shelley Stall, Jonathan Blythe
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
This Complex Citation Implementation Interest Group is focused on implementing the recommendations developed by the initial Complex Citation Working Group. This interest group includes a broad number ...
Working 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

Data Director Agentic AI Blueprint

Member
Stage: WG Getting Started
Chair(s): Connie Clare
⭐️ Overview See all working group sessions dates and times below The Data Director Agentic AI Blueprint Working Group is a time-bound, eight-week initiative convened by the Research Data Alliance ...
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Data Discovery Paradigms IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Mingfang Wu, Fotis Psomopoulos, Brigitte Mathiak, Uwe Schindler
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?...
Interest Group

Dataspaces in the Research Ecosystem

Member
Stage: Not Yet Endorsed
Chair(s): Christina Drummond, Kheeran Dharmawardena, Felipe Pérez-Jvostov
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
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 ...
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...
Community of Practice

Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Data

Member
Stage: CoP Established
Chair(s): Shelley Stall, Danie Kinkade, Lesley Wyborn, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Corrêa, Alice Fremand, Emanuel Soeding, Yasuhiro Murayama, Gabriela Pino
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Earth, Space and Environmental science (ESES) community is focused on improving data and software management and sharing practices that result in our researchers having access to community informa...
Interest Group

Education and Training on Handling of Research Data IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Katarzyna Biernacka, Amy Nurnberger, Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska, Carla Strubbia
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
The context of increasing volumes of data being created by researchers and the strengthening of requirements for research data management and data sharing has created demand for a new and evolving set...
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...
Interest Group

Evaluation of Research IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Amy Nurnberger, Carmel Wallis, Devika Madalli, Francoise Genova
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The evolution of the evaluation of research from being mostly bibliographic index-based is now recognized to be indispensable to enable Open Science. In the same way that Open Science promotes the ope...