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Recommendations & Outputs

RDA Outputs are the technical and social infrastructure solutions developed by RDA Working Groups or Interest Groups that enable data sharing, exchange, and interoperability.

These Outputs have an important impact in two areas: solving problems, and incorporation and/or adoption in infrastructure environments by individuals, projects and organisations. As an organisation, RDA’s goal is to expand awareness and adoption of these Outputs, and hence their impact, within all regions of the world. RDA Outputs are products of the respective Working or Interest Group and should be demonstrably developed and endorsed by the group. Each Output should have the respective Working or Interest Group listed as an author where appropriate.

RDA Outputs are classified as RDA Recommendations (official, endorsed results of RDA Groups), Supporting Outputs (useful solutions from our RDA Working and Interest Groups) or other Outputs – more information can be found at https://www.rd-alliance.org/what-are-recommendations-and-outputsThey are all listed below and can be searched according to their focus, scientific domain, or by status using the filters on the right. Filters can be combined, too (if more than one filter is selected, results sum up).

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Working Group Recommendation
Metadata Standards Directory Working Group Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Rebecca Koskela
  Metadata Standards Directory WG Recommendation Title: Metadata standards directory Impact: Enables discovery of metadata standards for documenting research data, regardless of academic discipline, and addresses issues related to coverage, ease of maintenance and sustainability. Recommendation package  Github: http://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory/ Co-Chairs: Alex Ball, UKOLN Informatics Jane Greenberg, Metadata Research Center Keith Jeffery, Keith G Jeffery Consultants Rebecca Koskela, DataONE   The…
February 9, 2016
Working Group Recommendation
Data Description Registry Interoperability Model
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Amir Aryani
    Data Description Registry Interoperability WG Group Co-Chairs: Amir Aryani, Australian National Data Service Adrian Burton, Australian National Data Service Recommendation Title: Data Description Registry Interoperability Model Authors: Amir Aryani Impact: Provides researchers a mechanism to connect datasets in various data repositories based on various models such as co-authorship, joint funding, grants, etc.  Recommendation package: https://dx.doi.org/10.15497/RDA00003 Citation:  Amir…
February 9, 2016
Working Group Recommendation
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen
  RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG Group Chair: Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen (CERN), Fiona Murphy (Wiley), Varsha Khodiyar (Scientific Data), Amy Nurnberger (Columbia University), Theodora Bloom (BMJ) Recommendation Title: Workflows for Research Data Publishing: Models and Key Components Authors: Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen; Varsha Khodiyar; Fiona Murphy; Amy Nurnberger; Lisa Raymond; Angus Whyte; Theodora Bloom; Claire C Austin; Jonathan Tedds;…
January 24, 2016
Working Group Recommendation
An open, universal literature-data cross-linking service – RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services WG Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Hylke Koers
  RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services WG Recommendation Title: An open, universal literature-data cross-linking service Impact: Improves visibility, discoverability, re-use and reproducibility by bringing existing article/data links together, normalize them using a common schema, and expose the full set as an open service ExternalServices using the cross-linking service: The Scholix initiative, a high level interoperability framework for…
January 24, 2016
Working Group Recommendation
Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WG Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Rorie Edmunds
 Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WG Group Co-chairs:  Lesley Rickards, Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level Mary Vardigan, ICPSR Rorie Edmunds, ICSU World Data System Recommendation Title: Repository Audit and Certification Catalogues Authors: Lesley Rickards; Mary Vardigan; Michael Diepenbroek; Ingrid Dillo; Francoise Genova; Herve L’hours; Wim Hugo; Varsha Khodiyar; Guoqing Li; Jean-Bernard Minster; Paul…
November 2, 2015
Working Group Recommendation
Scalable Dynamic Data Citation Methodology
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Andreas Rauber
Data Citation Working Group Group Co-Chairs: Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology), Dieter Van Uytvanck (CLARIN), ​​​​​​​Ari Asmi (University of Helsinki), ​​​​​​​Stefan Pröll (SBA Research) (Secretary) Recommendation Title: Scalable Dynamic Data Citation Methodology Authors: Andreas Rauber; Ari Asmi; Dieter van Uytvanck; Stefan Proell Impact: Supports accurate citation of data subjected to change, for the efficient processing of data and linking from publications.…
November 2, 2015
Working Group Recommendation
Machine Actionable Policy Templates – Practical Policy WG Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Reagan Moore
  Practical policy Working Group Group Co-Chairs: Reagan Moore, RENCI Rainer Stotzka, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Recommendation Title: Machine Actionable Policy Templates Authors: Reagan Moore; Rainer Stotzka; Claudia Cacciari; Petr Benedikt Impact: Can be used to enforce management, automate administrative tasks, validate assessment criteria, and automate scientific analyses Recommendation package DOI: https://doi.org/10.15497/83E1B3F9-7E17-484A-A466-B3E5775121CC Citation: Reagan Moore;…
March 26, 2015
Working Group Recommendation
PID Information Types (PIT) WG Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Tobias Weigel
PID Information Types WG Group co-chair: Timothy DiLauro, Tobias Weigel Authors: Tobias Weigel, Timothy DiLauro, Thomas Zastrow Contributors: The PID Information Types WG members Recommendation Title: Persistent Identifier Type Registry Impact: Defines standard core PID information types to enable simplified verification of data identity and integrity Recommendation package DOI: doi.org/10.15497/FDAA09D5-5ED0-403D-B97A-2675E1EBE786 Citation: Tobias Weigel; Timothy DiLauro;…
January 19, 2015
Working Group Recommendation
Basic Vocabulary of Foundational Terminology Query Tool – Data Foundation and Terminology (DFT) WG Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Peter Wittenburg
  Data Foundation and Terminology (DFT) Working Group Recommendation Title: Basic Vocabulary of Foundational Terminology Query Tool Authors: Gary Berg-Cross, Raphael Ritz, Peter Wittenburg Contributors: Stan Ahalt, Gary Berg-Cross, Jan Brase, Daan Broeder, Keith Jeffery, Yin Chen, Antoine Isaac, Bob Kahn, Larry Lannom, Michael Lautenschlager, Reagan Moore, Alberto Michelini, Hans Pfeifenberger, Raphael Ritz, Ulrich Schwardmann, Herbert van…
January 19, 2015
Working Group Recommendation
Data Type Model and Registry – Data Type Registries (DTR) WG Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
Authors: Larry Lannom
  Data Type Registries Working Group Group Co-Chairs:  Larry Lannom – Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Virginia USA Daan Broeder – Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands Recommendation Title: Data Type Model and Registry Authors: Larry Lannom; Daan Broeder; Giridhar Manepalli Impact: Ensures data producers classify their data sets in standard data types, allowing data…
November 4, 2014