The former RDA Data Versioning Working Group has delivered the RDA supporting output: Versioning data is about more than revisions: A Conceptual framework and proposed principles in 2021, a concise version of the output has been published to the Data Science Journal consequently. Presentations and communications of the data versioning principles showed that the research data community desires to have actional guidelines on implementing the principles.
The objectives of the session include:
- To update on the latest group’s activities.
- To develop a roadmap for the group to advance the development of data versioning guidelines.
Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RStE4E3RMSGZFXxbFhvokY5c0ze0WX5C7aLY...
- Introduce the group (10 minutes)
- Review of the data versioning use cases (10 minutes)
- 3 - 4 Lightning talks from members: new use cases or has anything changed? (20mins)
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new use cases and any changes with previous use cases,
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feedback about the data versioning principles (either the principles themselves or any requirement for actionable guidelines),
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describe a use case with the FRBR model.
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- Breakouts (40mins)
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Explore use cases in the FRBR framework
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Gather requirements for actionable guidelines
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Way forward (10 minutes)
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Collect additional data versioning cases
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Establish task force to work on actionable guidelines
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Data curators, Data facility managers / data policy managers / data users, data developers, data publishers/ researchers.
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:
- Developing a set of actionable recommendations from the published data versioning principles;
- Promoting their adoption; and
- 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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VP18 Virtual (OCtober 2021: Advancing Data Versioning: From Principles to Actionable Recommendations
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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