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Call for Sessions Open for Virtual Plenary 16
It is that time again! We are excited to open the Call for Sessions for Virtual Plenary 16 (VP16).
As announced in prior weeks, we are unable to confirm a face-to-face plenary will take place in Costa Rica due to COVID-19 concerns. Instead, a virtual plenary (VP16) is scheduled to take place from 9-13 November 2020.
Register Today For Final Update Webinar Of The RDA-COVID-19 Working Group On 9 June
The RDA-COVID-19 Working Group will have their final update webinar on Tuesday 9th June UTC 11:00.
RDA Announces Memorandum of Understanding with the Research Software Alliance
The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and RDA have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to clearly announce their intention to coordinate their efforts in areas and activities that involve both research data and software.
Adoption of RDA solutions across all disciplines & domains
Since 2013, 45 flagship recommendations and outputs have been produced by RDA Working and Interest Groups (May 2020). These are very wide ranging, addressing registries for persistent identifiers and data types, policy templates, repository audit methodologies, standards directories, curricula, wheat data interoperability, data/literature cross-linking and many other fields. A number of recommendations have also been endorsed as ICT technical specifications by the European Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT specifications. We’ve asked RDA members who have already adopted RDA outputs to share their experience and lessons learned.
The TRUST Principles - An RDA Community Effort
-- See https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-community-effort-trust-principles-digital-repositories for updated list of endorsers --
An RDA community effort has led to the development and publication, in Nature Research’s Scientific Data, of the article, “The TRUST Principles for digital repositories”. These principles offer guidance for maintaining the trustworthiness of digital repositories, especially those responsible for the stewardship of research data. Guidance for each of the TRUST Principles is reproduced below.
Survey of Open Access (OA) Open Science Scholarship (OS) services infrastructure in Europe
OA & OS Infrastructure (OSI) is defined as sets of services, protocols, standards and software contributing to the research lifecycle – from collaboration and experimentation through data collection and storage, data organization, data analysis and computation, authorship, submission, review and annotation, copyediting, publishing, archiving, citation, discovery and more (IOI definition). The purpose of this survey, commissioned by SPARC Europe, is to gather information on established (operating for at least 2 years) international, national or regional OA & OS infrastructures.
15 May 2020, Fourth release of RDA COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations
Final Report Published on 30 June 2020
During a pandemic, data combined with the right context and meaning can be transformed into knowledge for informing public health responses. Timely and accurate collection, reporting and sharing of data with the research community, public health practitioners, clinicians and policy makers will inform assessment of the likely impact of a pandemic to implement efficient and effective response strategies.
The Research Data Alliance contributing to the European Open Science Cloud
The RDA platform is being significantly leveraged in the creation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). A report issued by RDA Europe 4.0 project describes the key finding from a survey conducted amongst 22 current, EOSC-related projects.
RDA COVID-19; Recommendations and Guidelines 3rd release - open for comments
Final Report Published on 30 June 2020
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 group published the third release of the COVID-19 Data Sharing Recommendations and Guidelines, today 8 May 2020.
