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.
Interest Group
Data Versioning IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Data Versioning WG has transitioned to the Data Versioning IG as of July 2021. The group space has remained the same.
The demand for reproducibility of research results and re-using data is gro...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
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
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Oya Beyan, Daniel Mietchen
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: James Savage
Ethical and social issues with respect to data archiving, sharing, and reuse cut across many of the technical and policy work of the rest of the RDA. Such issues are complementary to but separate fr...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): Alan Moss, Francis P. Crawley
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
The problem addressed Agricultural data span from field and farm data to scientific and research data to agricultural market data etc. These data are key in fundamental public-good level contexts: foo...
Interest Group
Evaluation of Research IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
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...
Working Group
FAIR Data Maturity Model WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
FAIR Data Maturity Model: core criteria to assess the implementation level of the FAIR data principles
Webinar – The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promo...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
The Data Fabric IG (DFIG) identified that working with data in the many scientific labs and most probably also in other areas such as industry and governance is highly inefficient and too costly. Exce...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Michelle Barker, Paula Andrea Martinez, Leyla Jael Castro, Daniel S. Katz, Neil Chue Hong, Jennifer Harrow, Fotis Psomopoulos, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Morane Gruenpeter
News:
May 24th, 2022. The RDA Council have endorsed the FAIR4RS Principles as an official output!
Citation and download: Chue Hong, N. P., Katz, D. S., Barker, M., Lamprecht, A-L, Martinez, C., Psomop...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
How to get involved with this working group?
Join the RDA group and be part of the mailing list to get updates
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Group overview
One of the...
Interest Group
Geospatial IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Aaron Addison, Peter Baumann
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
The Geospatial Interest Group is a domain oriented interest group to coordinate and build synergies on topics related to geospatial data. Though there has been lot of developments and advances in g...