The Council met at the beginning of June (4th & 5th) for an intense two-day meeting in Troy (NY, USA) kindly hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Items on the agenda included Managing RDA growth, Engaging with Regions, RDA governance, boards and eventual evolution, Financial sustainability of the RDA Foundation and RDA Global, The Value of RDA to different stakeholders and the Secretary General Work Plan.
DATASEA EXTENDED Project: a guide through a world of data
The Datasea research group aims at promoting the data sharing among researchers, and it has developed the website www.datasea.es focused on professionals, researchers, editors and research managers who are interested in open access and the reuse of data.
Have your say: Open consultation on EOSC Rules of Participation and FAIR Data Action Plan
The Asterics - Obelics International Summer School, dedicated to machine learning and python programming for astrophysics & astroparticle physics - in its second edition this year - gathers PhD students, postdocs, senior researchers from all over Europe - from beyond Europe, from Kenya and Morocco - and is especially intended for a broad audience from this domain.
RDA Europe National Nodes: first call for new nodes open!
RDA Europe, the European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance, has recently established a network of national nodes to foster adoption of RDA outputs in the region, and thereby enable interoperability and data sharing on a global scale. This is the first in a series of three calls for proposals to become a new RDA Europe node. Further calls will be published in early and late 2019. Funding will be assigned via a cascading grants mechanism.
The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Advanced Workshops this year cover the following topics:
RDA's 12th Plenary - Call for Sessions Now Open!
RDA is delighted to announce that we are now accepting session proposal submissions for RDA’s 12th Plenary Meeting (P12). P12 is part of International Data Week (IDW18), which will be held on 5-8 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana. Learn more >>
The International Digital Curation Conference goes to Australia
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has teamed up with the University of Melbourne to take the 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) to Australia.
Data Privacy and the Research Data Alliance
Read the latest blog post from RDA-US Chair Francine Berman on data privacy regulation and her perspective on what the RDA community can provide to the public sector. Comments are welcome!
The Associate Director will hold a Master’s degree in information technology, natural, library or engineering sciences. The candidate will have five (5) years of direct and hands-on experience leading the development and integration of complex data and information systems in the context of international or multi-partner scientific data and information management collaborations.