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RDA STATEMENT ON UKRAINE:

 The Research Data Alliance is a global organization with over 12,400 members from 145 countries, and is built on principles that include openness, inclusivity and transparency.
The Council is the main governing body of RDA, and would like to express its concern and sympathy for our colleagues and fellow researchers in Ukraine,
as we join other organizations across the international research community in calling for a quick and peaceful resolution to the crisis. 


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Facilitating Data stewardship in Slovenia - Plenar...

17/06/2022

  Facilitating Data stewardship in Slovenia 17 June 2022, 10:00-12:00 CET, online 

 

RDA’s Plenary 19 Webinar and Early Bird Fee discou...

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Join the Plenary 19 Webinars and Take Advantage of the Early Fee Discounts at IDW 2022!

Job Opportunity at DANS

31/05/2022

The Data Archiving and Networked Services – DANS - is currently looking for a (Senior) Systems Engineer/ RDMI Specialist/ RDMI Architect to take responsibility for its systems engineering functions.

RDA Announces Launch of New Podcast, Data Streams

31/05/2022

17th International Digital Curation Conference (ID...

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The 17th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC22) will take place on 13-16 June 2022, and it will focus on the topic of Reusability. 


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Gateways 2022 Call for Participation (Submissions due June 6)

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RDA Outputs are the technical and social infrastructure solutions that enable data sharing, exchange and interoperability

 

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FAIR4RS: Adoption support

In September 2021, the FAIR4RS WG formed subgroups to address milestones for the adoption of the FAIR4RS principles.

Adoption Stories

39 Hints to Facilitate the Use of Semantics for Data on Agriculture the Nutrition

https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-disciplines/rda-europe-ambassadorsThe Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) adoption story. 

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The Value of RDA for Regions

 

An RDA Region is loosely defined as a “national level” geographic entity or consortium of “national-level” entities, and is intended to be broadly representative.

 

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News from the Regions

28/09/2020 - How to Manage Research Data. The hand...

Europe

As part of the RDA Europe 4.0 project, SRCE - University of Zagreb University Computing Centre become the Croatian national RDA node in 2019. In cooperation with the librarians from the University of Rijeka Library, the University of Split Library, the City and University Library Osijek, and the National and University Library in Zagreb, the handbook for researchers was prepared on how to handle research data for their efficient sharing and reuse.

11/09/2020 - Data, data – Big Data! And What? Rese...

Europe

The idea of ​​open access to research data is wonderful and in harmony with the new paradigm - Open Science. Access to the data is possible for all researchers, system-administrators, pupils and their parents to make unexpected discoveries undiscovered by routine analysis. The dynamics of knowledge acquisition is a complex process whose laws we do not know well yet, and curiosity often does not lead to interesting knowledge (curiosity-driven science ).

The important activity of RDA Bulgarian Node is to persuade large data users to accept proposed standards for data collection, storage and recovery in order to make their exchange possible and useful.

21/08/2020 - CARE principles for Indigenous Data G...

Australia

The work of the RDA Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group is cited as part of CSIRO's contribution to the Indigenous Evaluation Strategy of the Australian Government, referring to the CARE principles for Indigenous data governance released by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance Group

22/07/2020 - The RDA Community called to contribut...

Europe

On 20th July, the EOSC Executive Board published an open consultation on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The consultation, which closes on 31st of August 2020, asks for the input of EOSC communities and beyond in setting out the future vision of the European Open Science Cloud.

03/06/2020 - Take part in the TRIPLE survey to sup...

Europe

The TRIPLE projectis inviting all RDA members to take part in its User Research Survey

18/05/2020 - Survey of Open Access (OA) Open Scien...

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.

12/05/2020 - The Research Data Alliance contributi...

Europe

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. 

27/02/2020 - Persistent Identifier Policy, Rules o...

Europe

Several documents are out for consultation from the EOSC Executive Board, a body of representatives from the research and e-infrastructures communities, appointed by the European Commission. If you have missed these, please check out the following links:

18/11/2019 - EOSC meets the research data internat...

Europe

On the 22nd of October 2019, the University of Aalto, Helsinki, Finland hosted the first EOSC event of 2019: The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC. The event was organised by EOSCSecretariat.eu, the H2020 project mandated to support the EOSC Governance, in collaboration with the EOSC Executive Board and the Research Data Alliance (RDA).

07/11/2019 - RDA EU Travel grants for the 15th RDA...

Europe

RDA Europe is offering up to 7 Early Careers and 5 Experts grants designed to support participation to the 15th RDA Plenary meeting (18-20 March 2020, Melbourne, Australia). The submission deadline for both is the 3rd of February 2020, 17:00 CET.

29/08/2019 - FAIRsFAIR Open Consultation on FAIR D...

Europe

The FAIR principles are about making research data Findabl

18/07/2019 - Position open for a Research Developm...

US

The University of Arizona, one of RDA Organizational Members,  is seeking to fill a Research Development Associate (RDA) in Research Development Services (RDS).

17/07/2019 - Final call for European Organisations...

Europe

RDA Europe, the European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance, is expanding its network of  national nodes. Currently nineteen, (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK) the national nodes aim to foster adoption of RDA outputs in the region.

10/07/2019 - Research Data Alliance meet and greet...

Australia

Ahead of the first Australian RDA plenary in 2020, the RDA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are collaborating to present an “RDA meet and greet tour” in Australia from 22 July to 8 August. The tour provides an opportunity to find out more about the work of RDA and to meet Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Secretary General. 

04/07/2019 - Vacancy: Head of Data Services for Wa...

US

Recruitment has begun for the position of Head of Data Services for Washington University Libraries. The incumbent will report to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services. Review of applications will begin on July 15, and continue until the position is filled.

21/05/2019 - RDA EU Ambassadors deadline extended:...

Europe

RDA EU Ambassadors Grants Call for applications: deadline extended until May 27, 2019.

28/03/2019 - Data Management Plans (DMP) Community...

Australia and Oceania

This Data Management Plans (DMP) Community of Practice is targeted at people in Australia and the wider Oceania region who are interested in discussing, building and improving data management plans (DMPs) best practice and technical tools. Liz Stokes from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) will initially co-ordinate the group. The first meeting for 2019 is on Tuesday, 9 Apr 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 AEST.

07/03/2019 - Services to Support FAIR Data: a seri...

Europe

OpenAIRE, RDA Europe, FAIRsFAIR and EOSC-hub are happy to announce a series of three workshops, two in April and one in September, called ‘Services to Support FAIR Data’.  The purpose of this workshop series is to explore how existing infrastructures can work together and understand how to deliver services that support the creation of FAIR research outputs.

19/02/2019 - Widening engagement and bringing forw...

Europe

Agricultural sciences, Engineering, Earth Sciences or High energy physics, these are just a set of the domains that have Ambassadors appointed under the umbrella of the recently launched RDA Europe Ambassadors programme.

15/02/2019 - Webinar on the What, Why and how of t...

Europe

On February 21 at 2.00 PM CET, RDA Europe 4.0 organises a Q&A webinar to give a detailed overview of Adoption Grants programmes and the application process for the grants, evaluation criteria while aiming to answer questions from the participants.

22/01/2019 - AOSP Releases New Report: The Future...

Africa

In March 2018, the first version of this document was developed as a result of an expert group meeting held in Pretoria. Resulting amendments were then incorporated into this version, which was launched at the Science Forum South Africa in December 2018.

20/12/2018 - And the winners are…. Meet RDA Europe...

Europe

RDA Europe is pleased to announce the results of the first call for new RDA Europe national nodes. We were delighted to receive ten applications, four of which were very strong and have been selected to support the mission and work of the Research Data Alliance in Europe.

19/12/2018 - RDA EU open calls for Early Careers,...

Europe

RDA Europe 4.0, as the European plug-in to RDA, currently has 3 open calls to support growing the community of research data experts and practitioners.  RDA Europe offers grants for Early Careers, Experts to attend Plenary 13 in Philadelphia and for organisations to develop a use-case for adoption of RDA outputs.

07/09/2018 - Whole Tale - RDA/US Fellowship Call f...

USA

The Whole Tale project, in cooperation with the US region of the Research Data Alliance (RDA/US) and its early career fellowship program RDA/US Data Share, invites applications for the joint WT-RDA/US Early Career fellowship program.

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RDA FOR DISCIPLINES

 

The “RDA for disciplines” whiteboard is open to all RDA discipline specialists willing to give a personal account of what data-related challenges they are facing and how RDA is helping them.

 

 

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RDA and the Digital Humanities

With the development of digital humanities research practice, the humanities domain is producing...

RDA and Agriculture

Agricultural data have become increasingly important for the national and global development and...

RDA and Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science

The Research Data Alliance builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of...

RDA and Chemistry

Chemical research data is fundamentally the most important product that chemists create as it...

RDA and the Biomedical Sciences

Biomedical sciences are a set of applied sciences, employing portions of natural or formal...

RDA and Linguistics

Data are fundamental to the field of linguistics. Examples drawn from natural languages provide...

RDA and the Social Sciences

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RDA and Scholarly Communication

Many of the RDA’s group activities have concentrated on ways to support data’s discoverability,...

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