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
Stage: IG Established
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
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): CJ Woodford, Andrew Treloar, Javier Lopez Albacete, Mikiko Tanifuji, Lautaro Matas, Lars Eklund
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The Global Open Research Commons International Implementations Working Group (GORC II WG) will maintain the recommendation and supporting outputs from the GORC International Model WG (GORC IM WG), spe...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
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...
Community of Practice
IGAD Community of Practice
Member
Stage: CoP Established
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
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
Non-Traditional Research Outputs and processes are not well described within current information standards which reflect a research reward and recognition system that assumes a sole, often textual bas...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): Raymond Plante, Chandler Becker
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Daniel Bangert
Status and Current Activities
This WG’s term has finished; a summary of our output was presented at P11 (Berlin)
We are finalizing the final Working Group Report, and we are requesting comments...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Su Nee Goh, Naresh Kumar, Tim Dennis, Jennifer Gu, Susanna Nykyri, Madiareni Sulaiman, John Brown
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
Endorsed Outputs
23 Things: Libraries For Research Data – overview of practical, free, online resources and tools that you can begin using today to incorporate research data management into y...
Working Group
Stage: WG Producing Deliverables
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
The MaLDReTH II Working Group aims to advance and sustain the digital research tools landscape mapping initiative established by its predecessor. Building on the first community-sourced, systematicall...
Interest Group
Metadata IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
The Metadata IG will concern itself with all aspects of metadata for research data. In particular, it will attempt to coordinate the efforts of the WGs concerned with metadata to produce a coherent ...
Interest Group
National Data Services IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
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...