The former RDA Data Versioning Working Group has published a set of principles to describe existing data versioning use cases and practices. The presentation of the data versioning principles, a community review and discussions at the RDA VP1 in November 2020 showed that the application of the data versioning principles reach further than data management but has implications for attribution, authority, and ethics of data publication and sharing.
The proposed activities for the Data Versioning IG are planning activities to:
- Develop a set of recommendations from the data versioning principles;
- Promote their adoption; and
- Analyze how they can be applied to questions of attribution, authority, and ethics arising from data publication and sharing.
The objectives of this meeting are to introduce the IG charter (endorsed in July 2021) and to develop a plan to execute the proposed activities.
Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l2j7mx5m8ed1honZk-9FoJCXOapsby1_pDSZR8fN5Tk/edit?usp=sharing
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Introduction to the group
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Introduction to the data versioning principles of the Data Versioning WG final report
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Discussion on a plan to develop actionable recommendations from the data versioning principles; (parallel breakout sessions)
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Discussion on the relevance and potential applications of the data versioning principles to attribution, authority, and ethics of data (re)publication and sharing.
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Discussion of connections with other RDA groups
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Wrap up with actions
- Data curators
- Data facility managers / data policy managers
- data developers
- data publishers
- researchers / data users
The former RDA Data Versioning Working Group (2018-2021) worked on collating and identifying methods that had already been adopted or became ad hoc practices for data versioning. Based on this analysis, the group formulated a set of principles to describe data versioning use cases and practices. At a related BoF at the RDA VP15 in 2020, a community review and discussions showed that the application of the data versioning principles reach further than data management and had implications for attribution, authority, and ethics of data publication and sharing.
The new Data Versioning IG was approved in July 2021 and is a combination of taking the principles developed by the former Versioning WG, combined with the issues raised by the VP15 BoF. The proposed activities of the newly formed IG are:
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Developing a set of actionable recommendations from the published data versioning principles;
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Promoting their adoption; and
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Determining how they can be applied to address the increasing number of questions of attribution, authority, and ethics arising from data publication and sharing.
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P8 Denver (Sept 2016): BOF Data Versioning: Is there a need to develop agreed best practice for versioning of Dynamic Data Sets?
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P9 Barcelona (April 2017): Constituting the Data Versioning IG
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P10 Montreal (Sept 2017): Data Versioning IG
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P11 Berlin (March 2018): Data Versioning WG first meeting
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P12 Gaborone (Nov 2018): Data Versioning WG working meeting
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P13 Philadelphia (April 2019): Data Versioning WG draft report and recommendations
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P14 Helsinki (October 2019): Data Versioning WG final report and recommendations, preparation for TAB adoption.
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VP15 Melbourne (March 2020): Data Versioning WG: Final Report and Next Steps
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VP16 Costa Rica (November 2020): Transition to Data Versioning IG to promote adoption and work on emerging topics in data versioning
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VP17 Edinburgh (April 2021): Advancing Data Versioning: From Principles to Actionable Recommendations
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Endorsed Charter of the Current Data Versioning Interest Group: https://www.rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/case_statement/RDA%20Data%20Versioning%20IG%20Charter%202021_final.pdf
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Case Statement of the former Data Versioning Working Group: https://rd-alliance.org/group/data-versioning-wg/case-statement/data-ver...
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Final report of the Data Versioning WG https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00042
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Use cases collected and analysed by the Data Versioning WG https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00041
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RDA P15 (March 2020) BOF on Re-publication and Duplication of Data: Authority, Identity, Ethics
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eResearch Australasia October 2020 BoF on Re-publication and Duplication of Data: Authority, Identity, Ethics
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Klump, J., Wyborn, L., Wu, M., Martin, J., Downs, R.R. and Asmi, A., 2021. Versioning Data Is About More than Revisions: A Conceptual Framework and Proposed Principles. Data Science Journal, 20(1), p.12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2021-012
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