RDA's 18th Plenary - Pathways

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Welcome to the RDA Plenary Pathways for P18!

Find your breakout sessions by theme.

The Plenary Pathways are meant to enhance the plenary experience, to highlight convergences, and to propose divergences you may not have considered. We hope you find them useful.

Please find the Pathways below:

The FAIR Agenda

Wednesday 3 November 2021, 07:00 - 08:30	BO1: IG  PID: All About Persistence (repeated in BO12)
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 07:00 - 08:30	BO1: IG  Virtual Research Environment IG (VRE-IG): VREs/Virtual Labs/Science Gateways: Is FAIRness Sufficient to Increase Trust in VREs and to Foster Critical Thinking? (repeated in BO5)
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO2: BoF - Representing and Communicating Data Quality Information
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO2: WG  FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS): FAIR principles for research software (FAIR4RS) and next steps to support their adoption (repeated in BO6)
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00	BO3: BoF - Skills and training curriculums to support FAIR for Research Software
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00	BO3: WG  CURE-FAIR: Connecting the Dots on Curating for FAIR and Reproducible Research
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 07:00 - 08:30	BO4: IG  Data Discovery Paradigms IG: Mapping the road ahead for the Data Discovery Paradigms
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 07:00 - 08:30	BO4: WG  InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology (I-ADOPT WG): Closing session of InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology (I-ADOPT) WG
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: BoF - Steps towards defining FAIR principles for Machine Learning (ML) (repeated in BO9)
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: IG  Professionalising Data Stewardship: Moving Towards Professionalising Data Stewardship
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: IG  RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories: TRUST Principles and challenges on implementation
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: IG  Virtual Research Environment IG (VRE-IG): VREs/Virtual Labs/Science Gateways: Is FAIRness Sufficient to Increase Trust in VREs and to Foster Critical Thinking? (repeated from BO1)
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: WG  Research Metadata Schemas: Recommendations for publishing structure metadata on the web
Thursday 4 November, 22:30 - 00:00	BO6: BoF - Supporting FAIR microbiome data: Harmonizing across samples and analysis to support data publication and promotion (repeated in BO11)
Thursday 4 November, 22:30 - 00:00	BO6: WG  FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS): FAIR principles for research software (FAIR4RS) and next steps to support their adoption (repeated from BO2)
Thursday, 9 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO7: IG  RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets: Re-launch of the Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets IG (repeated in BO10)
Thursday, 9 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO7: IG  Social Dynamics of Data Interoperability: 10 Key social challenges for sharing data
Thursday, 9 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO7: IG  Data Versioning: Advancing Data Versioning: From Principles to Actionable Recommendations
Thursday, 9 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO7: WG  FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG: FAIR for VREs - The Path Forward (repeated in BO12)
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: WG  Data Granularity WG: Data Granularity - collect, connect, affect
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: IG  Software Source Code: Software Source Code and Reproducibility
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8,: IG  Vocabulary Services: Moving toward VSSIG 2.0 (repeated in BO10)
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO9: BoF - Steps towards defining FAIR principles for Machine Learning (ML) (repeated from BO5)
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO9: WG  Raising FAIRness in health data and health research performing organisations (HRPOs): WG on Raising FAIRness in health data and health research performing organisations
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO10: IG  RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets: Re-launch of the Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets IG (repeated from BO7)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO10: IG  Vocabulary Services: Moving toward VSSIG 2.0 (repeated from BO8)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: BoF - Supporting FAIR microbiome data: Harmonizing across samples and analysis to support data publication and promotion (repeated from BO6)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Research Data Management in Engineering: IG Research Data Management in Engineering - Data Quality and FAIR metrics in Engineering
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Sensitive Data: Towards a common understanding of sensitive data across regions and disciplines
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO12: IG  PID: All About Persistence (repeated from BO1)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO12: WG  FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG: FAIR for VREs - The Path Forward (repeated from BO7)
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: BoF (OA Sponsored) - Research data in data spaces
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: IG  Social Science Research Data: Data and Metadata Quality in the Social Sciences
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: WG  FAIR Data Maturity Model: Widening: What is the FAIR Data Maturity Model and How it Can be Used

Training and Data Management Planning

Wednesday 3 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO2: IG  Education and Training on handling of research data: Stimulating global participation in training by advancing the discovery, access, and reusability of RDM training resources (repeated in BO9)
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00	BO3: IG  Linguistics Data: The Tromsø Recommendations for Citation of Research Data in Linguistics: Outreach
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: IG  CODATA/RDA Research Data Science Schools for Low and Middle Income Countries: CODATA-RDA Schools for Research Data Science group updates and new challenges
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: WG  Discipline-specific Guidance for Data Management Plans: WG Discipline-specific Guidance for DMPs
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: IG  Engaging Researchers with Data: What drives researchers to engage with data management?
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: WG  DMP Common Standards WG: Maintenance and Adoptions of the Common Standard for machine-actionable DMPs
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO9: IG  Education and Training on handling of research data: Stimulating global participation in training by advancing the discovery, access, and reusability of RDM training resources (repeated from BO2)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO10: IG  Libraries for Research Data: Open Science Initiatives in Asia
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: BoF - Biomedical Data Management, Data Sharing Policy and Implementation: Perspectives from Global Funders, Repositories, and Researchers

Semantics, Ontology, Standardisation

Wednesday 3 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO2: WG  National PID Strategies: Aligning and coordinating national PID strategies (repeated in BO9)
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 07:00 - 08:30	BO4: WG  InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology (I-ADOPT WG): Closing session of InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology (I-ADOPT) WG
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: WG  Research Metadata Schemas: Recommendations for publishing structure metadata on the web
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: BoF - Metadata for Data Indexing and Data Discovery in Materials Science and Engineering
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: WG  DMP Common Standards WG: Maintenance and Adoptions of the Common Standard for machine-actionable DMPs
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: BoF - Metadata for Data Indexing and Data Discovery in Materials Science and Engineering
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: IG  Vocabulary Services: Moving toward VSSIG 2.0 (repeated in BO10)
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO9: WG  National PID Strategies: Aligning and coordinating national PID strategies (repeated from BO2)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO10: IG  Vocabulary Services: Moving toward VSSIG 2.0 (repeated from BO8)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Chemistry Research Data: Developments in the Digital Chemistry Space: An Update
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Metadata: Metadata Crosswalks and Relationship to the Metadata Elements
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: Joint session: IG  Metadata, IG  Preservation Tools, Techniques, and Policies: Metadata Needed for Curation
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: Joint session: WG  RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix), WG  Data Usage Metrics: Scholix/Data Usage Metrics WG joint session: from data citation to data metrics

Data Infrastructures - Organisational to Global

Wednesday 3 November 2021,07:00 - 08:30	BO1: IG  PID: All About Persistence (repeated in BO12)
Wednesday 3 November 2021,07:00 - 08:30	BO1: IG  Virtual Research Environment IG (VRE-IG): VREs/Virtual Labs/Science Gateways: Is FAIRness Sufficient to Increase Trust in VREs and to Foster Critical Thinking? (repeated in BO5)
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO2: WG  National PID Strategies: Aligning and coordinating national PID strategies (repeated in BO9)
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00	BO3: BoF - New Developments in Earth and Environmental Science Data Infrastructures and Repositories
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00	BO3: IG  ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences - New Developments in Earth and Environmental Science Data Infrastructures and Repositories
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00	BO3: WG  GORC International Model: Building the International Model for the Global Open Research Commons (GORC) (repeated in BO6)
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 07:00 - 08:30	BO4: IG  Data Discovery Paradigms IG: Mapping the road ahead for the Data Discovery Paradigms
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 07:00 - 08:30	BO4: IG  Global Open Research Commons IG: The Global Open Research Commons: update and connections to related work (repeated in BO12)
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 07:00 - 08:30	BO4: IG  Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions: Challenges in improving interoperability within your research institution
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: BoF (OA sponsored) - Environmental impact of data
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: IG  RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories: TRUST Principles and challenges on implementation
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: IG  Virtual Research Environment IG (VRE-IG): VREs/Virtual Labs/Science Gateways: Is FAIRness Sufficient to Increase Trust in VREs and to Foster Critical Thinking? (repeated from BO1)
Thursday 4 November, 22:30 - 00:00	BO6: WG  GORC International Model: Building the International Model for the Global Open Research Commons (GORC) (repeated from BO3)
	BO7: IG  RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets: Re-launch of the Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets IG (repeated in BO10)
Thursday, 9 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO7: IG  Social Dynamics of Data Interoperability: 10 Key social challenges for sharing data
Thursday, 9 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO7: WG  FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG: FAIR for VREs - The Path Forward (repeated in BO12)
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: WG  Data Granularity WG: Data Granularity - collect, connect, affect
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO9: IG  Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem: Sample Identifier and Metadata Practices/Tools to Enable Interdisciplinary Sample Data Discovery, Integration, and Reuse Across Multiple Data Systems.
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO9: WG  National PID Strategies: Aligning and coordinating national PID strategies (repeated from BO2)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO10: IG  Libraries for Research Data: Open Science Initiatives in Asia
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO10: IG  RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets: Re-launch of the Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets IG (repeated from BO7)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Chemistry Research Data: Developments in the Digital Chemistry Space: An Update
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Sensitive Data: Towards a common understanding of sensitive data across regions and disciplines
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO12: ​​​​​​IG  Global Open Research Commons IG: The Global Open Research Commons: update and connections to related work (repeated from BO4)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO12: IG  PID: All About Persistence (repeated from BO1)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO12: WG  FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG: FAIR for VREs - The Path Forward (repeated from BO7)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO12: Joint session: IG  Repository Platforms for Research Data, IG  Domain Repositories: Cooperative Innovation Among Resilient Repository Platforms for Open Research Data
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: BoF (OA Sponsored) - Research data in data spaces
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: BoF -  Defining Common Attributes for Data Repositories

Data Lifecycles - Versioning, Provenance, and Reward

Wednesday 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00	BO3: BoF - Skills and training curriculums to support FAIR for Research Software
Thursday 4 November, 22:30 - 00:00	BO6: BoF - Supporting FAIR microbiome data: Harmonizing across samples and analysis to support data publication and promotion (repeated in BO11)
Thursday, 9 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00	BO7: IG  Data Versioning: Advancing Data Versioning: From Principles to Actionable Recommendations
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: BoF (OA Sponsored) - The future of "trustworthiness" and reliability of repositories and services: Trust, FAIR, CARE
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: BoF - Supporting FAIR microbiome data: Harmonizing across samples and analysis to support data publication and promotion (repeated from BO6)
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Metadata: Metadata Crosswalks and Relationship to the Metadata Elements
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: Joint session: IG  Metadata, IG  Preservation Tools, Techniques, and Policies: Metadata Needed for Curation
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: Joint session: WG  RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix), WG  Data Usage Metrics: Scholix/Data Usage Metrics WG joint session: from data citation to data metrics

Professional Networking and Social Aspects

Wednesday 3 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO2: IG  Early Career and Engagement: Enabling capacity building for RDA activities through ECR engagement
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00	BO3: IG  Linguistics Data: The Tromsø Recommendations for Citation of Research Data in Linguistics: Outreach
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: IG  Engaging Researchers with Data: What drives researchers to engage with data management?
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: BoF (OA Sponsored) - Domain-specific implementation of RDA recommendations and community coordination
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data: (IG-ARPRD) Moving the past forwards: shaping our future IG to serve archives and records professionals
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO12: Joint session: IG  Repository Platforms for Research Data, IG  Domain Repositories: Cooperative Innovation Among Resilient Repository Platforms for Open Research Data

Discipline Focused Data Issues

Wednesday 3 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO2: IG  Agricultural Data (IGAD): Interest Group on Agricultural Data: A roadmap for our Community of Practice - CoP
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO2: IG  RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability: International Materials Data: Joint Meeting
Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30	BO5: WG  Discipline-specific Guidance for Data Management Plans: WG Discipline-specific Guidance for DMPs
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: BoF - Metadata for Data Indexing and Data Discovery in Materials Science and Engineering
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO8: BoF (OA Sponsored) - Domain-specific implementation of RDA recommendations and community coordination
Tuesday 9 November 2021, 23:00 - 00:30	BO9: WG  Raising FAIRness in health data and health research performing organisations (HRPOs): WG on Raising FAIRness in health data and health research performing organisations
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: BoF - Biomedical Data Management, Data Sharing Policy and Implementation: Perspectives from Global Funders, Repositories, and Researchers
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data: (IG-ARPRD) Moving the past forwards: shaping our future IG to serve archives and records professionals
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO11: IG  Research Data Management in Engineering: IG Research Data Management in Engineering - Data Quality and FAIR metrics in Engineering
Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30	BO14: IG  Social Science Research Data: Data and Metadata Quality in the Social Sciences

Other

Pathway(s): Environmental impact of data	Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30		BO5: BoF (OA sponsored) - Environmental impact of data
Pathway(s): Reproducibility, Curation of research outputs	Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 22:30 - 00:00		BO3: WG  CURE-FAIR: Connecting the Dots on Curating for FAIR and Reproducible Research
Pathway(s): Data citation, machine actionability	Thursday, 9 November 2021, 07:30 - 09:00		BO7: IG  Data Fabric: FAIR Digital Object Use Cases and Success Stories
Pathway(s): Data Stewardship	Thursday 4 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:30		BO5: IG  Professionalising Data Stewardship: Moving Towards Professionalising Data Stewardship
Pathway(s): Policy Development	Wednesday 3 November 2021,07:00 - 08:30		BO1: IG  Data policy standardisation and implementation: RDA Data Policy Standardisation and Implementation IG: Considering the impact of strengthened data policies
Pathway(s): Reproducibility	Tuesday 9 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30		BO8: IG  Software Source Code: Software Source Code and Reproducibility
Pathway(s): Policy alignment	Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30		BO14: Joint session: IG  Research Funders and Stakeholders on Open Research and Data Management Policies and Practices,  IG  Data policy standardisation and implementation,  WG  FAIRsharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases RDA: Funder-Publisher Policy Alignment

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IGs
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 IG established

WGs
 Not yet endorsed  
 WGs Getting started (~0-6 months after RDA endorsement)    
 WGs Producing deliverables (~6-12 months after RDA endorsement)
 WGs Wrapping up (from ~12 months after RDA endorsement)
 WGs Maintaining deliverables (maintenance group)