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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.

Working Group

FAIRsharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases RDA WG

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Peter McQuilton, Simon Hodson, Holly Murray, Graham Smith, Allyson Lister, Rebecca Taylor-Grant
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Isabelle PERSEIL
OUTPUTS Completed and RDA-endorsed FAIRsharing registry – A curated, informative and educational registry of interlinked descriptions of (i) standards (to identify, report, and cite data and m...
Interest Group

Global Open Research Commons IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Andrew Treloar, Javier Lopez Albacete, Lautaro Matas, Mikiko Tanifuji, CJ Woodford
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The coordination of data infrastructure on various levels (country, continent, discipline, sector) is on the increase. So called “Open Science Commons” or “Data commons” provide a shared virtu...
Working Group

Health Data Commons GORC Profile WG

Member
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): Lauren Maxwell, Lars Eklund, LILi Zhang, Robert Grossman
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Romain DAVID
The core objective of this WG is to create a Health Data Commons Global Open Research Commons (GORC) profile. Health data commons (HDCs) are the health-data-focused versions of data commons, which bri...
Coordination Group

IDW Program Committee

Member
Meeting Minutes:   March 8, 2016 –  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WDnmWA5xJa5snN_yei_6XTKPv8P6-axsel877MJTwX8/edit?usp=sharing February 12, 2016 – https://docs.google.com/documen...
Community of Practice

IGAD Community of Practice

Member
Stage: CoP Established
Chair(s): Debora Drucker, Valeria Pesce, Piotr Zaborowski, Marina Razmadze, Cynthia Parr
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
The Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice, formerly called The Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD), came to life in Gothenburg (Göteborg, Sweden) in 2013 at the begin...
Coordination Group

International Data Week including P8

Member
As part of the ongoing collaboration between RDA, ICSU/WDS, and CODATA, the three organisations are collocating and coordinating RDA Plenary 8 and CODATA/WDS SciDataCon to conduct a major Internationa...
Interest Group

International Indigenous Data Sovereignty IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Stephanie Russo Carroll, Maui Hudson, Maggie Walter, Per Axelsson
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The call for Indigenous data sovereignty (ID-Sov) —the right of a nation to govern the collection, ownership, and application of its own data—has grown in intensity and scope over the past five ye...
Working Group

InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology WG (I-ADOPT WG)

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Barbara Magagna, Anusuriya Devaraju, Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé, Maria Stoica
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology WG (I-ADOPT WG) Webinar – Decomposing Observable Property Descriptions into Machine-Readable Components – 28 July 2021 The I-A...
Working Group

Metadata Standards Catalog WG

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Rebecca Koskela, Keith Jeffery, Alex Ball
TAB Liaison: Gretchen Greene
Objectives The Metadata Standards Catalog (MSC) Working Group has produced a machine-actionable catalog of metadata standards submitted by all RDA WGs. The catalog system has an end-user input form an...
Working Group

RDA-COVID19-Clinical

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Sergio Bonini, Dawei Lin, Andrea Jackson Dipina, Anne Cambon-Thomsen
TAB Liaison: Isabelle PERSEIL
  This is the subgroup of the RDA-COVID-19 working group focusing on Clinical. Co-chair assigned:  Anne Cambon-Thomsen Moderator(s):  Sergio Bonini, Andrea Jackson-Dipina, Dawei Lin, Christi...