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Plenary 14 Reminders - Registration, Hotel, TAB Elections
If you are planning on traveling to Helsinki, Finland next month for RDA Plenary 14, please make sure you register for the meeting and book your hotel reservations as soon as possible.
New Interest Group Charter: Coordinating the Global Open Science Commons – Submit your Comments!
The “Coordinating the Global Open Science Commons Interest Group” (GOSC IG) recently submitted its charter and is seeking comments from the RDA community. The charter is a brief summary of what the group plans to address, how it’s aligned with the RDA mission and how the group would be a value-added contribution to the community.
CESSDA is hiring a Project Manager!
The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), and a pan-European distributed research infrastructure that provides large scale, integrated and sustainable data services to the social sciences. To strengthen its team, CESSDA is currently looking for a Project Manager
RDA Website Unavailable on 4 September
The RDA website is scheduled for technical maintenance from Wednesday 4 September at 10:00 UTC until Thursday 5 September at 10:00 UTC and will be unavailable for 24 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Plenary 14 Unconference - Call for Volunteers
Due to the extremely positive feedback received regarding the Plenary 13 Unconference held last April and the perspective that an Unconference meeting has a significant role in shaping the direction of RDA, we have decided to include it again in the Plenary 14 programme. For this time, however, we want to give you, our members, the opportunity to have a hands-on role in leading the event itself. If you are interested or have experience in conducting an Unconference, we want to hear from you.
FAIRsFAIR Open Consultation on FAIR Data Policies and Practices in Europe
The FAIR principles are about making research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Data born FAIR requires FAIR skills, practices and services governed by appropriate policies, but what could these be?
This special one-day workshop to be held September 11, 2019 in Washington DC at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, is focused on the wave of activities related to making data “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Featuring keynote speaker, Dr. Barend Mons, head of the International Support and Coordination Office of the GO FAIR Initiative and member of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), as well as numerous other leading experts representing various disciplines and geographies, this event is an excellent opportunity for collaboration while hearing directly about FAIR progress.
Every member of the RDA community is unique and has a different reason for being involved. Sharing your RDA Journey helps others understand the value of the community. Please visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oaRdLe3ZnxsNVvrV6rpClLfvHOzFigjbKfqa... and include a few sentences on your RDA experience and don’t forget to write your name, role, affiliation, country there too. Photos and Twitter handles are also welcome.
Welcoming new cohort of RDA Europe Ambassadors
RDA Europe welcomes six new Ambassadors to its programme further wideing its engagement efforts and coverage with disciplines and focus topics like Natural Sciences, Health Sciences, Research ethics and Interdisciplinarity, Bioinformatics, Media and Communication or Sustainable Development Goals.
