Steven McEachern

Interest Group

Sensitive Data Interest Group

Co-Chair

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Kristal Spreadborough, Aleksandra Michalewicz, Nichola Burton, Steven McEachern, Romain DAVID, Dharma Akmon, Kristan Kang, Sarah Davidson, Frankie Stevens, Kylie Black

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: James Savage

Sensitive data is increasingly used for research purposes. However, there are a number of barriers which need to be overcome before sensitive data can be fully operationalized in the research c...

Interest Group

Social Science Research Data IG

Co-Chair

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Ron Dekker, Jonathan Crabtree, Steven McEachern

TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe

Social Sciences & Humanities Research Data Interest Group Proposal Introduction We are proposing a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Data (SSHRD) Interest Group under the auspi...

Working Group

Alignment of multilingual vocabularies in the Social Sciences and Humanities WG

Member

Stage: WG Producing Deliverables

Chair(s): Arnaud Gingold, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Gema Bueno-de-la-Fuente

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Daniel Bangert

This Working Group intends to address challenges concerning the interoperability multilingual nature of SSH controlled vocabularies. Controlled vocabularies are a major discovery tool in the digital e...

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

Reproducibility IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Limor Peer, Lauren Cadwallader, Mandy Gooch

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali

Overview This interest group seeks to advance and enable reproducibility in research based on or producing datasets that require code. Our goals are to build bridges with the many RDA external efforts...

Working Group

Trusted Research Environments for Sensitive or Confidential Data: FAIRness for Controlled Data and Processes WG

Member

Stage: WG Wrapping up

Chair(s): Andreas Rauber, Ville Tenhunen, Rob Baxter, Lucas van der Meer, Amy OHara

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker

TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali

In this working group we will identify common concepts that SREs/TREs implement in different flavors, suggest common interfaces between those concepts and communicate them to the public in three diffe...

Interest Group

Uptake of Digital Research Infrastructure IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Stefanie Kethers, Liv Shanahan, Sverker Holmgren

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 ...

Interest Group

Vocabulary Services IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Alexandra Kokkinaki, Yann Le Franc, John Graybeal, Juliane Schneider

TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu

The VSSIG is using a Slack Group: https://vocabulary-services.slack.com/ to continue the development of the workplan. To get an invitation to the channel, visit http://bit.ly/rda-vssig-slack-invite...

Coordination Group

Working and Interest Group Chairs

Member

This is a group dedicated to all the Working and Interest Group Chairs ‘RDA Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Meets Chairs’ Meetings The TAB meets chairs meetings provide RDA group chairs wit...

Historical Group

Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) WG

Member

Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables

Chair(s): Amir Aryani, Adrian Burton

The Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) WG has now completed its activities and the group has been closed. If you are interested in the group’s topic, please join the Open Science...