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Stefanie Kethers

Stefanie is currently the Program Manager (Data Challenges) at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Previously, she was a member of the RDA Secretariat from 2012, prior to the RDA launch, and the RDA Director of Operations from 2017 - 2022 before taking up a role as Solutions Architect and Program Coordinator in the ARDC Translational Research Data Challenges program.

Stefanie received her Dr. (ph.D.) in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2000 with a thesis on modeling and analyzing cooperative processes. She worked as a researcher at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, and CSIRO and Monash University in Australia on a variety of projects on, among others, archival services for Koorie communities, researchers’ data management practices and needs, and improving handover processes in hospitals.

Working Group
Stage: WG Producing Deliverables
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The RDA/CODATA Data Systems, Tools, and Services for Crisis Situations Working Group (DSTS_CS-WG) arises out of a widespread set of activities and interests in RDA and CODATA that have developed throu...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
This Interest Group follows on from a BoF session held at RDA Plenary 21 / IDW in Salzburg, Austria, in October 2023, where a number of participants expressed an interest in establishing an RDA group ...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
The group started in Jan 2017 and should close shortly.  The goal of the Agrisemantics WG is to gather community-based requirements and use cases for an infrastructure that supports appropriate use o...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
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...
Coordination Group
Space for the task force on the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct (policy document) was published on 22 March 2018. Suggested task force members:  Amy Nurnberger Andrew Treloar Hilary Hanahoe Ly...
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: Not Yet Endorsed
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
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?...
Interest Group
Stage: Not Yet Endorsed