Ari Asmi Appointed Director of the RDA Association AISBL
The Trustees of RDA Association AISBL are delighted to announce that Ari Asmi has been appointed Director of the RDA Association AISBL from 1 February 2022.
A long-standing, active member of RDA, Ari is fully committed to the RDA mission and core values, and brings significant experience and expertise from his pluriennial activities from both a community and infrastructure point-of-view.

Call for Nominations/Applications: Chair, CODATA International Data Policy Committee
CODATA's Call for Nominations and Applications for a Chair of its International Data Policy Committee ends Monday, 17 January. This 3-year term (renewable once by mutual consent), will begin 1 March 2022. Applications will be accepted directly from the candidate or nominations from a candidate’s institution or endorsing organization.

EOSC Future 2nd RDA Info Share – 12 January 2022
EOSC Future is organising the second instalment of the RDA info share webinars on 12 January 2022 from 11.00 CET focusing on two new RDA Open Calls for domain ambassadors and maintenance facilities. Participants to the session will also learn about other upcoming RDA funding in 2022 and beyond.
Dear WG and IG chairs,
The RDA Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is organising a "TAB Meets Chairs" remote event on Thursday 20 January 2022. This will be in the same format as RDA IG and WG Chairs meetings, with 5 topics that we have constructed together. We hope to fuel discussion that will improve the efficiency and productivity of both the groups (Interest Groups, Working Group, and Communities of Practice) and the TAB.
Survey from the Raising FAIRness in HRPOs Working Group
The Raising FAIRness in HRPOs Working Group is looking to collect opinions on data sharing and FAIR Data Policies by your country and research funders.
Complete the survey here.
RDA's 18th Virtual Plenary Meeting: Final report
Research Data Alliance (RDA) 18th Virtual Plenary Meeting
3 – 11 November 2021
Fully virtual, fully global.
RDA Plenary meetings are the twice-annual meetings where the members of the RDA meet to discuss possible new topics through Birds of a Feather (BoF) meetings, hold Working and Interest Group and Community of Practice (CoP) meetings, and conduct RDA business. These plenary meetings serve as important milestones in the life of the Work of RDA, especially in terms of achievements and outputs.
RDA Announces New Members to Technical Advisory Board
The three-year term for the following five Technical Advisory Board (TAB) members ended this past month:
- Jeremy Geelen
- Christine Kirkpatrick
- Dimitris Koureas
- Isabelle Perseil
- Frankie Stevens
We thank them tremendously for their dedication to RDA during the past few years, and also thank Isabelle and Frankie for offering to stay on for another term.
Two new TAB members joined Isabelle and Frankie on 1 December in starting a three year term. These members are:
The paper, titled “Precisely and Persistently Identifying and Citing Arbitrary Subsets of Dynamic Data” provides a summary of the RDA Dynamic Data Citation Working Group’s recommendations, describes the reference implementations for different types of data and presents a number of implementations that have been deployed in various infrastructures.
Congratulations to all involved!