Tuesday 25th March 2014 (Pre-Conference)
Pre-conference event 1: RDA for newcomers: How can YOU get involved?
This session is aimed at newcomers, to explain the history of RDA, to help you sort through the governance, organising structure, and various Interest Groups and Working Groups. The sessions will be short, and time will be divided evenly between informative presentations, and Q&A/discussion. For newcomers, this is perfect preparation for getting involved in RDA, and for hitting the ground running the next day at the Plenary.
Attendance: Please ensure that you either registered for this on the conference registration form or have advised the organisers that you wish to attend.
Location: Note that the location for this session, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, is different than the main conference location.
| Time | Session | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1400-1415 |
Welcome Professor Mary E Daly, President of the Royal Irish Academy Natalie Harrower, Digital Repository of Ireland |
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| 1415-1430 | A brief history of RDA (Andrew Treloar, Co-Chair RDA Technical Advisory Board) [slides] | Where it came from, why funders felt the need to bring it into existence |
| 1430-1500 |
Making a difference: RDA Working Groups (Herman Stehouwer/Odile Hologne) [slides Herman] |
Rationale for WGs, existing WG list, process for new WGs |
| 1500-1515 |
Afternoon tea |
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| 1515-1545 |
Sharing ideas: RDA Interest Groups (Herman Stehouwer/Odile Hologne) [slides Herman] |
Rationale for IGs, existing IG list, process for new IGs |
| 1545-1615 |
Supporting the community: RDA Governance structures (Mark Parsons, Secretary General) [slides] |
Council, OAB, TAB, Secretariat |
| 1615-1630 |
RDA Plans for the future (Andrew Treloar, Co-Chair RDA Technical Advisory Board) [slides] |
Includes relationships with other groups |
| 1630-1700 | Networking session |
Pre-conference event 2: Coordination meeting between the Technical Advisory Board and the Working/Interest Group Chairs
Attendance: Invitation only
Location: Croke Park (Ard Comhairle) - 13:30 - 18:00
The agenda is as follows:
- Discussion on how to handle Group meetings in RDA Plenaries (~1.5 hour)
- Short presentation and discussion of the WG activities and plans. Each WG is expected to present 3 viewgraphs (WG activities/accomplishment to date, Expectations for the Plenary, Interfaces with the other WGs). This will allow the IGs to think about possible participation of their constituents in WG activities (current activities, future RFCs) and to adjust slightly their meeting schedules to have some discussion of what is going on in the WGs if they find it useful. (1.5 hour)
- Discussion of the preliminary RDA architecture schemas and how the WGs/IGs fit in. (1 hour)
Wednesday 26th March 2014 (Day 1)
Location: Croke Park Conference Centre, Hogan Suite
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 0800-0900 | Registration |
| 0900-0910 | Official welcome from conference committee, logistics |
| 0910-0920 | Official welcome from Irish Minister of State John Perry TD , with responsibility for Small Business at the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation [Watch video recording] |
| 0920-0930 | Official welcome from Australian Ambassador to Ireland, Her Excellency Dr Ruth Adler [watch video recording] |
| 0930-0940 | Professor Mark W.J. Ferguson, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland & Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland [Watch video recording] |
| 0940-1015 | Plenary Session chaired by Dr. Ross Wilkinson, Executive Director, Australian National Data Service and Keynote Address by Prof. Ian Chubb AC, Australia's Chief Scientist [Watch video recording] |
| 1015-1025 | General Q&A |
| 1025-1030 | Closing message for opening session |
| 1030-1100 | Morning tea and IRC poster assessing (Attendees apply stickers to their preferred poster(s) to indicate approval) |
| 1100-1200 |
Plenary Session: Panel on data policy challenges, moderated by Dr Sandra Collins, Director, Digital Repository of Ireland: [watch video recording]
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| 1200-1230 |
Plenary Session: New IG/WG group proposals chaired by Prof. Stefan Decker, INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics The lifeblood of the RDA are the interest and working groups. The purpose of this session is to give the participants of the RDA plenary the opportunity to voice and measure the interest in topics which are not yet covered by existing interest and working groups or proposals and see if there is a critical mass. For that purpose we ask participants in this session to put forward a topic which may lead to an interest or working group. We then will ask participants to sign up to groups which are of interest to them. We will provide the means for a first short informal meeting to see what the topic may contribute to the RDA and what follow up activities can be. So if you are willing to put forward to topic, please be prepared to step up, introduce yourself and the topic you would like to put forward! And please be prepared to sign up to exciting activities! ROOM ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEW GROUPS ARE HERE: http://goo.gl/JfVWcB (see TableMapping doc) |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch and IRC poster assessing (Attendees apply stickers to their preferred poster(s) to indicate approval) & General: Interested chair session about DFT results |
| 1330-1500 | WG / IG / BoF Breakout Session 1 |
| WG PID Information Types 1 IG Preservation Infrastructure 1 IG for Photon and Neutron Science 1 IG RDA-WDS Publishing Data : introductory session IG RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability 1 IG Metadata (MIG) BoF Urban Quality of Life Indicators 1 BoF Education and skills development on Data Intensive Science |
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| 1500-1530 | Afternoon tea and IRC poster assessing (Attendees apply stickers to their preferred poster(s) to indicate approval) |
| 1530-1700 | WG / IG / BoF Breakout Session 2 |
| WG PID Information Types 2 IG Agricultural Data Interoperability IG Federated Identity Management 1 BoF Cost Estimation Data Curation Services BoF Geospatial Information BoF WG Big Data Infrastructure BDI BoF Heritage Data WG RDA-WDS Publishing Data Workflows Organisational Assembly IG RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability 2 BoF Urban Quality of Life Indicators 2 |
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| 1700- 1715 | Poster session welcome by Prof. Alan Smeaton, Director Insight Centre for Data Analytics and address by Dr. Eucharia Meehan, Director, Irish Research Council (IRC), followed by Award of prize for most stickered poster |
| 1715-1800 | Reception sponsored by Irish Research Council |
| 1800- | Dinner at people's own arrangement |
Thursday 27th March 2014 (Day 2)
Friday 28th March 2014 (Day 3)
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 0830 | Registration opens |
| 0900-0945 | Plenary Session chaired by Dr Natalie Harrower, Manager, Education & Outreach, Digital Repository of Ireland and Keynote Address by Prof. Milena Žic Fuchs, Chair of the Standing Committee for the Humanities, European Science Foundation [watch video recording]  |
| 0945-1030 | Plenary Session on RDA Business: Council/Governance issues, OAB, Q&A (Dr Mark Parsons, RDA Secretary-General) [watch video recording] |
| 1030-1100 | Morning Tea & General Poster Session |
| 1100-1230 | WG / IG / BoF Breakout Session 6 |
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IG Brokering 1 |
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| 1230-1330 | Lunch & General Poster Session |
| 1330-1500 | WG / IG / BoF Breakout Session 7 |
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BoF The Role of Publishers in Access to Data |
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| 1500-1530 | Afternoon tea & General Poster Session |
| 1530-1600 | Plenary Session: BoF/IG/WG Reportback on progress Part 2 (Dr.ir. Herman Stehouwer) [Slides] |
| 1600-1630 | Publicity for P4 & Official close (Peter Doorn, DANS) |
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 PanelOnDataPolicyChallenges_PatriciaClarke.pdf | 391.31 KB |
| PanelOnDataPolicyChallenges_MercèCrosas.pdf | 75.72 KB |
| PanelOnDataPolicyChallenges_SimonHodson.pdf | 790.35 KB |
| PanelOnDataPolicyChallenges_CarlosMoraisPires.pdf | 1.04 MB |
| PanelOnDataPolicyChallenges_RossWilkinson.pdf | 413.44 KB |
| DrTonyHey_MicrosoftResearchConnections.pdf | 7.2 MB |
| MilenaZicFuchs_EuropeanScienceFoundation.pdf | 486.26 KB |
| _Herman_WGs and IGs - Newcomers.pdf | 1.04 MB |
| _reportback2.pdf | 5.94 MB |
| reportback1.pdf | 2.4 MB |
| Andrew at newcomers.pdf | 3.65 MB |
| parsons_rda_p3_org.pdf | 1.12 MB |
| TAB-business27Mar2014.pptx.pdf | 317.41 KB |