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Sridhar Gutam

I am Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) and Open Access Evangelist. After earning my PhD (Plant Physiology) from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, I had joined in the Agricultural Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in the year 2004. At present, I am working as Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) at ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru. Apart from my professional area of work on studies related to Plant Physiology of Horticultural Crops, I have interests in Free & Open Source Software (FOSS), Open Access, Open Data and Open Education. I am part of a community of practice, known as ‘Open Access India’ through which I am advocating for opening-up of access to agricultural research data and information and adoption of FOSS technologies in Agricultural Research. I am also DOAJ Ambassador for the Indian region.

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Biodiversity Data Integration IG

Co-Chair
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Wouter Addink, Hamish Holewa, Sridhar Gutam, Libby Ellwood
Introduction Disciplinary groups play a pivotal role in the RDA ecosystem. Not only do they provide a mechanism for engaging with the outputs of the RDA community, they are instrumental in providing i...
Working Group

Capacity Development for Agriculture Data WG

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Suchith Anand, Chipo Msengezi, Karna Wegner
TAB Liaison: Noel Chibhira
The aim of this Working Group (WG) is to develop synergies between existing education and training activities and agricultural science needs by performing a landscape assessment to identify existing g...
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...
Interest Group

Data for Development IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard, Norman Mukasa, Robert Sentamu, Mahadia Tunga, Agapiti Manday
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
Interest group “Data for Development” Many researchers work on topics which require information from areas and population groups where only limited data exist. Data collected by the private and pu...
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...
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...
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...
Interest Group

National Data Services IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Natalie Harrower, Bernhard Miller, Andrew Treloar
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
National Data Services (NDS) are a key component of the scientific data landscape. Many of them have been actively involved in the RDA, in activities like  the Global Open Research Commons (GORC) Int...
Interest Group

RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): James Warren, Laura Bartolo, Takuya Kadohira, Alysia Garmulewicz, Matthew Evans
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
Status: Recognised & Endorsed The development of advanced materials inherently rests on access to a distributed materials infrastructure and materials research data to fuel discovery and innovatio...
Working Group

RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World WG

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Andrew Harrison, Simon Hodson, Hugh Shanahan