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RDA 15th Plenary Meeting, Melbourne, Australia (Virtual)

  • Date

    18 – 20 Mar, 2015

  • Location

    Melbourne, Australia (Virtual) (online)

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) 15th Plenary Meeting with the theme “Data for Real-World Impact”, took place from 18 – 20 March 2020 in Melbourne, Australia, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, MCEC. The event was hosted by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) with the support of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). As one of the founding regions of RDA in 2013, Australia has always been a strong supporter and driver of RDA. Organising the Plenary meeting in Australia offered regional researchers and data professionals an opportunity to engage and work with the RDA community, as well as offered the international data community the unique chance to learn more about the exciting activities and developments in the Australian data landscape.

The RDA Plenary meeting was organised in conjunction with the annual C3DIS (Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science), taking place in Melbourne on 16 – 18 March 2020. C3DIS aimed to build a national community of practice of scientists, researchers, and computing, data and information management specialists. All of these professionals shared a common interest: the production of breakthrough science outcomes that require large scale, complex computations and analyses to be carried out over massive data sets. We are hoping for great interactions between the two communities through the co-location of the two events.

RDA 15th Plenary Meeting Virtual Opening, Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Secretary General
18 March 2020

Friday 10th April 2020 update

Thank you for participating in RDA’s VP15!  We are so grateful to CSIRO, AARNet and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) for their support and to you, our RDA community, for your involvement.  

A  special congratulations to Katarzyna Biernacka, the winner of theVP15 Poster Session who received the most votes from our virtual attendees, for her poster titled ‘The Missing Data – The Relationship Between Legal Requirements and Open Research Data’.

Please take a few minutes to listen to closing messages from Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Secretary General, Rosie Hicks, CEO of ARDC and Brendan Dalton, CIO at CSIRO.

Friday 13th March 2020 update

Further to the cancellation of the 15th Plenary Meeting from 18-20 March 2020, together with the local organising committee, the RDA Technical Advisory Board and RDA Secretariat, we would like to honour and build on the huge amount of work that you have all invested in preparing your breakout session meetings and your participation at the event. From 18th March to 10th April 2020 we will be facilitating the organisation of a virtual Plenary (VP 15) meeting, offering session convenors the opportunity to organise and participate in virtual breakout sessions. The Virtual Plenary Programme is constantly updating and is available here.

An overview schedule for C3DIS and RDA Plenary 15 during the week of 16-20 March 2020:

Schedule for C3DIS and Plenary 15: 16 and 17 March 2020: C3DIS Main conference, RDA Plenary side meetings; 18 March 2020: C3DIS Main conference, RDA Plenary core day 1, with joint C3DIS / RDA Plenary keynotes, 19 and 20 March: C3DIS Workshops, RDA Plenary Core days 1&2

Important deadlines:

  • Friday, 25 October 2019 – Call for Sessions Opens (Group session, Joint meeting, BoF session)
  • Thursday, 28 November 2019 – Call for Sessions Closes – extended to 5 December 2019, 23:59 UTC – the call is closed!
  • Monday, 30 December 2019 –  Notification of Acceptances 
  • Wednesday, 29 January 2020 – Programme Published

Call for Posters

  • Friday, 6 December 2019 – Call for poster opens
  • Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 23:59 UTC (deadline extended) – Call for posters closes
  • 7 February 2020 – Notifications of acceptance

Call for co-located events

  • Friday, 6 December 2019 – Call for co-located events opens
  • Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 23:59 UTC (deadline extended) – call for co-located events closes
  • 7 February 2020 – Notifications of acceptance
  • Co-located events are published here