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Vaida Plankyte

Product & Design @ RSpace

My background is in computer science, UI/UX design, and user research. I'm interested in finding ways to better understand the needs of researchers and institutions, so we can design tools that best facilitate frictionless end-to-end researcher workflows.

Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Romain DAVID
We wish for our IG to explore the intersection between research tools and data curation workflows, in order to demystify the pain points that emerge in onboarding, adoption, and processes, and especia...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Romain DAVID
This group will develop a standardized Application Programming Interface (API) for machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs). This API will provide a unified approach to accessing and managing...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali
In a nutshell This group produced a recommendation on machine-actionable DMPs. recommendation: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00039 full documentation: https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common...
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...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The Persistent Identification of Instruments Working Group seeks to explore a community-driven solution for globally unique identification of measuring instruments operated in the sciences. Measuring ...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: James Savage
Physical samples are a basic element for reference, study, and experimentation in research.  Tests and analysis are conducted directly on samples, such as biological specimens, rock or mineral specim...
Working Group
Stage: WG Getting Started
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Romain DAVID
The working group will develop a recommendation for one or more vocabularies for global, cross-domain classification of material sample types. The vocabularies are intended to cover all types of sampl...
Coordination Group
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...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
Lack of interoperability between tools/e-infrastructures presents a significant barrier to streamlining processes throughout the research lifecycle. These gaps prevent the comprehensive collection an...
Historical Group
Stage: Completed
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Raphael Cóbe
RDA-OfR Mapping the landscape of digital research tools WG The WG has now completed its work and its deliverables are being maintained by the Mapping the Landscape of Digital Research II (MaLDReTH) W...