RDA's 20th Plenary: Programme

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Mon, 20 March | Tues, 21 March | Wed, 22 March | Thu, 23 March | Fr, 24 March

Research Data Alliance's 20th Plenary (RDA P20) final programme is now available and can be found below. The RDA P20 hybrid meeting will take place 21-23 March 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden and virtually. The main P20 programme includes co-located events components scheduled on the 20 and 24 March 2023. Full list of confirmed co-located events including dates, times and registration links can be accessed via Co-located events page.

All P20 sessions will be held in hybrid format and broadcast to virtual participants via event platform Whova; virtual participants will be able to join any session and interact with in-person attendees. In addition to the live sessions at the conference venue, P20 will be held on Whova, well known event platform from previous RDA's plenaries. No repeat sessions will be held during the 20th Plenary.

RDA P20 session recordings will be available for those registered for the Plenary for 8 weeks and for the wider community eight weeks after the Plenary, on Tuesday, 16 May 2023. 

Plenary pathways are now also available and will help attendees to navigate the RDA breakout sessions from a thematic / topical perspective.

Please note, that this the programme's times and session breakouts are final. All times are in UTC. Social activities such as celebrating 10 years reception and a conference dinner time might slightly change. To check your local time conversions, please click on times.

Monday, 20 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC}

• 08:00 - 11:00  | RDA Council Meeting (Closed meeting) – Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 08:00 - 16:00  | RDA in Norway: Networking event – Decibel room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 08:30 - 12:00  | Progressing Machine Actionable Data Management Plans in DMPRoadmap – Pascal room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 11:00 - 16:15  | Global research Commons: Europe and beyond (EOSC Future) – Conference Hall, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 12:00 - 14:30  | Insights into the practicalities of collaboration, data and software sharing across the globe – Kelvin room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 12:00 - 15:30  | DataCite Connect – Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 13:00 - 16:00  | FAIR environmental data for EOSC and the World: Engineering the ENVRI-Hub – Pascal room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 13:00 - 16:30  | The WorldFAIR Project's Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework – Poppelmanska rummet, Chalmersska huset, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 13:30 - 16:30  | RDA & ReSA FUNDERS FORUM – Visual Arena Studio and Lobby, Lindholmen Conference Centre Gothenburg, Sweden 

Wednesday, 22 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC}

Thursday, 23 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC}

• 08:00 - 09:30 | RDA Plenary Session - Building Platform Partnerships for the Future - - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
• 09:30 - 10:00 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• 10:00 - 11:30 | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 6
  • IG Data Discovery Paradigms: Recommendations for data repositories to improve data discoverability - Decibel room
  • IG Libraries for Research Data IG: Libraries' Role in Supporting UNESCO Open Science Recommendations - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • IG ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences IG: Continuing the Circle of Life of Earth and Environmental Science Data Infrastructure Projects: Maturing PARSEC and ENVRI-FAIR, Beginning New Adventures - Visual Arena Studio
  • IG Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions IG: The Role of Middleware in Data and Metadata Management: National and Institutional Approaches Involving iRODS and Alternatives - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • WG Data Repository Attributes WG: Data Repository Attributes Working Group (DRAWG) Working Meeting - Pascal Room
  • WG Brokering Framework Working Group: Brokering Framework - Update and FInalisation - Kelvin room
  • BoF - Trusted Research Environments for Sensitive Data: FAIRness for "Closed" Data and Processes - Visual Arena Lobby
• 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch break RDA Plenary 20
• 12:30 - 14:00 | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 7
  • IG RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG: TRUST Principles & Certification updates - Pascal Room
  • IG Chemistry Research Data IG: Describing diverse chemistry datasets across distributed data resources - Visual Arena Studio
  • WG FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG: Draft recommendations for making VREs FAIR and FAIR-enabling - Decibel room
  • WG Data Granularity WG: Data Granularity Guidance - Going Once, Going Twice,... - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • CoP IGAD Community of Practice: Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice First Steps and Way Forward - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
  • IG Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC) IG: Towards implementable recommendations: taking advantage of the SHARC open science survey - Kelvin room
  • IG Open Science Graphs for FAIR Data IG: Open Science Graph - Interoperability Framework. A debriefing from the Task Force - Visual Arena Lobby
• 14:00 - 14:30 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• 14:30 - 15:30 | RDA Closing Plenary - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)