Hi all,
I hope you are all well and your summer has been a good one.
Here is some news and reminders about RDA Researach Data Architectures
in Research Institutions IG.
1. Gaborone session proposal has accepted
Our TAB liasion Rainer Stotzka has informed us that our session proposal
has been accepted by the Technical Advisory Board (TAB). So, we have a
session and we can start to prepare presentations 🙂
One main topic in our session will be ”Storage architectures,
challenges, and use cases” and there is still some space in the program
for case presentations. If you have a project or similar and liket to
share ideas, best practices or lessons learned in the session (for
example with lightning talk style), please let me know.
TAB is now scheduling sessions and we will should hear about the
timetable in mid August.
International Data Week 2018, and 12th Plenary of the RDA, will take
place on 5-8 November in Gaborone, Botswana
(http://internationaldataweek.org/)
2. Call For Papers Data Science Journal: Special Collection on Research
Data Alliance Results
RDA Secretary General Hilary Hanahoe has reminded us that RDA is
currently advertising a *call for papers to be published in the CODATA
Data Science Journal (DSJ) special collection dedicated to RDA outputs*.
The special collection aims to collect and give visibility to research
results and outcomes stemming from RDA activities.
The deadline for submission is September 1st 2018 and publication fees
will be offered to the first 6 papers accepted (as part of the RDA
Europe grant). Detailed information is available on the RDA website at
https://www.rd-alliance.org/call-papers-data-science-journal-special-col…
and the CODATA DSJ page dedicated to the collection is available at
https://datascience.codata.org/announcement/
3. Governance survey
We have discussed about the governance survey and we have a roadmap for
it (please check the minutes of the last web meeting). Next step is to
collect questions and classified them.
So, please make your question proposal here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14ykmcqUi3LmpthpFzdlhV8yDQibPtiYG…
4. Next meeting
Next web meeting will take place mid August, after we will have
information about plenary session. Please, give your answer to the
Doodle poll before end of the July here:
https://doodle.com/poll/vqinbr7sprkd4i4q.
There is dates and times for different time zones. If it is needed, we
can have couple of discussions.
Currently the most popular time for the web meeting is 20th August 22:00
(UTC):
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20180820T22000…
With the best regards from the unusually hot Helsinki,
Ville
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Mr. Ville Tenhunen, puh./tel. +358 294 140 102, +358 50 576 2862
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