RDA's 21st Plenary - Programme

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The final programme of breakout sessions for the Research Data Alliance's 21st Plenary (RDA P21), part of International Data Week (IDW 2023). 

IDW 2023 programme (incl. RDA P21) can be veiwed HERE

How to navigate the RDA P21 programme ⇒

Programme Navigation Guide

 

Group color coding legend (status)

IGs (Interest Groups)
 Not yet endorsed    
 IG established

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

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BoF - Birds of a Feather

Pathways coding

11 research data-related topics of interest, known as 'pathways', have been identified by colours. This should help you navigate the programme and select sessions of interest. All P21 sessions are summarised under each pathway category and can be found here. You can choose the sessions you would like to attend using the pathway colour coding below:

 FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Principles
 FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Adoption, Implementation, and Deployment
 Data Infrastructures and Environments - Institutional
 Data Infrastructures and Environments - Regional or Disciplinary
 Data Infrastructures and Environments - International
 Training, Stewardship, and Data Management Planning
 Semantics, Ontology, Standardisation
 Data Lifecycles - Versioning, Provenance, Citation, and Reward
 Discipline Focused Data Issues
 Research Software
 Other

  Sun 22 October | Mon 23 October | Tues 24 October | Weds 25 October | Thurs 26 October | Fri 27 October

Venue room allocation will be announced in September 2023. 
All times below are in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) and local Austria (AT) times. All sessions times are final.
Session recordings will be available for the wider community six weeks after IDW2023.

*Please note that Thursday, October 26, is a public holiday in Austria. All shops will be closed.

 Sunday 22 October 2023.  Side meetings (by invitation only)

• UTC 07:30 - 09:00 | AT 09:30 - 11:00 | Opening Plenary Session: Welcome to IDW 2023 'Spatial Data Science: Geographic Context Matters'
• UTC 09:00 - 09:30 | AT 11:00 - 11:30 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• UTC 09:30 - 11:00 | AT 11:30 - 13:00 | SciDataCon Parallel Session 1
• UTC 11:00 - 12:00 | AT 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
• UTC 12:00 - 13:30 | AT 14:00 - 15:30 | RDA P21 Breakout Session 1
  • IG  Metadata IG: Structuring Semantic Information with Respect to Conventional Metadata (Syntactic) Structures |   
  • BoF - Understanding and Capturing the Uptake of Digital Research Infrastructure |   
  • Joint session: RDA Organisational Assembly, IG CODATA/RDA Research Data Science Schools for Low and Middle Income Countries, IG Early Career and Engagement IG: ECI and LMIC engagement in the RDA | 
  • BoF - Why aren't we talking about Collections as Data? |  
  • WG Data Repository Attributes WG: Recommended Descriptive Attributes for Data Repositories |  
  • IG Software Source Code IG: Mastering the Art of Research Software Metadata and Metrics |   
  • IG ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences IG: Where are the FAIR Earth, Space and Environmental Science Discipline Data Repositories? |   
  • BoF - Valorisation of data and software in the open science world | 
• UTC 13:30 - 14:00 | AT 15:30 - 16:00 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• UTC 14:00 - 15:30 | AT 16:00 - 17:30 | SciDataCon Parallel Session 2
• UTC 17:00 - 21:00 | AT 19:00 - 23:00 | IDW2023 Music Reception & Networking (at Salzburg Residenz Palace)

Day II. Tuesday 24 October 2023

• UTC 07:00 - 08:30 | AT 09:00 - 10:30 | RDA P21 Breakout Session 2

• RDA / CODATA Data Systems, Tools, and Services for Crisis Situations WG: Advancing the RDA/CODATA Data Systems, Tools, and Services for Crisis Situations WG |   
• IG Vocabulary Services IG: Building Collaborative Bridges: Fostering Collaborations within RDA |   
• IG Data Discovery Paradigms IG: Ten recommendations for data repositories/catalogues to improve data discoverability |   
• IG Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions IG: Data Retention and Disposal infrastructure and policies |   
• BoF - The RDA Data Rebels Alliance, Tranformative Data Futures |   
• IG Active Data Management Plans IG: Active Data Management Plans: how far have we come in the changing landscape |   
• IG Ethics and Social Aspects of Data IG: Identifying and discussing key topics in ethics for the RDA Community: Developing together a revised agenda for the Ethical and Social Aspects of Data (ESAD) Interest Group |   
• BoF - Very Large Open Datasets for Machine Learning in Personalized Medicine |   

• UTC 08:30 - 09:30 | AT 10:30 - 11:30 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• UTC 09:30 - 11:00 | AT 11:30 - 13:00 | Plenary Session 'Inclusivity in Open Science while advancing research assessment and career pathway impact'
• UTC 11:00 - 12:00 | AT 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
• UTC 12:00 - 13:00 | AT 14:00 - 15:00 | RDA Organisational Assembly Closed Meeting (by invitation only)
• UTC 12:00 - 13:30 | AT 14:00 - 15:30 | SciDataCon Parallel Session 3
• UTC 13:30 - 14:00 | AT 15:30 - 16:00 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• UTC 14:00 - 15:30 | AT 16:00 - 17:30 | RDA P21 Breakout Session 3
  • BoF - FAIRification of Genomic Tracks: data-driven life science through granular discovery of biological sequence annotations with uniform metadata |    
  • Joint session: IG Working with PIDs in Tools IG, IG National PID Strategies Interest Group: PID Exchange - a curated information resource for PID adopters |   
  • BoF - NTRO Gaggle - Boosting non text support through experiential and collaborative effort |   
  • IG Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community IG: Tools and Methods working towards the FAIR Facility |    
  • WG Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation (AIDV) WG: Transforming the AIDV-WG's deliverables into horizontal actions across data disciplines, sectors, and systems: Engaging digital communities in incorporating ELSI in data and AI tools and systems for achieving the UN SDGs and real-world outcomes |   
  • Joint session: IG Research Data Management in Engineering IG, IG RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability IG: Engineering Terminology and Schema for LIMS |   
  • BoF - The Way to FAIR: From the instrument to the researcher -- Calibrating the ecosystem |   
  • WG Complex Citations Working Group: Complex Citations: Next steps towards a Demonstration Prototype |   

• UTC 15:30 - 15:45 | AT 17:30 - 17:45 | Break 
• UTC 15:45 - 17:15 | AT 17:45 - 19:15 | RDA Adoption & Impact Plenary Session
• UTC 17:15 - 18:30 | AT 19:15 - 20:30 | IDW2023 On-site Poster Session Networking & Reception (Apply for the RDA poster session here)

 Day III. Wednesday 25 October 2023 

• UTC 07:00 - 08:30 | AT 09:00 - 10:30 | SciDataCon Parallel Session 4
• UTC 08:30 - 09:30 | AT 10:30 - 11:30 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• UTC 09:30 - 11:00 | AT 11:30 - 13:00 | RDA P21 Breakout Session 4
  • BoF - Wind energy community standards |  
  • BoF - Community-based catalogue of requirements for trustworthy technical repository service providers |   
  • IG Engaging Researchers with Data IG: Researchers' engagement with data management: from cookbook to toolkit | 
  • Joint session: IG Repository Platforms for Research Data IG, IG Domain Repositories IG: Data Repositories Discovering Unpublished and Diverse Data Usage and Impact |   
  • BoF - Bridging the Data/HPC divide: lessons learned from the community talks |   
  • IG FAIR for Machine Learning (FAIR4ML) IG: Building towards FAIR for Machine Learning |   
  • IG Data Versioning IG: Revising the Versioning Principles: The Road to Actionable Recommendations | 
  • BoF - Let’s talk about FAIR mappings! Towards common practices for sharing mappings and crosswalks |    

• UTC 11:00 - 12:00 | AT 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
• UTC 12:00 - 13:30 | AT 14:00 - 15:30 | Plenary Session 'Data and global challenges: data, science, trust and policy'
• UTC 13:30 - 14:00 | AT 15:30 - 16:00 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• UTC 14:00 - 15:30 | AT 16:00 - 17:30 | RDA Regional Assembly Closed Meeting (by invitation only)
• UTC 14:00 - 15:30 | AT 16:00 - 17:30 | SciDataCon Parallel Session 5
• UTC 15:30 - 15:45 | AT 17:30 - 17:45 | Break 
• UTC 15:45 - 17:15 | AT 17:45 - 19:15 | CODATA / WDS Organisational Plenary Sessions
• UTC 17:15 - onwards | AT 19:15 - onwards | IDW2023 Bar Hopping Social Event

 Day IV. Thursday 26 October 2023

• UTC 07:00 - 08:30 | AT 09:00 - 10:30 | RDA P21 Breakout Session 5
  • WG RDA-OfR Mapping the landscape of digital research tools WG: Mapping the landscape of digital research tools working meeting |    
  • BoF - Launching an RDA Domain Ambassadors IG |  
  • Joint session: WG GORC International Model WG, IG Global Open Research Commons IG: Global open research commons: what it takes and the road to get there. Reflections and discussion on creating a commons attribute model and a commons integration roadmap |   
  • IG Reproducibility IG: Introducing the reestablished Reproducibility IG |  
  • IG FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG: FAIR Digital Object Fabric: Shaping the Fabric |   
  • IG Linguistics Data IG: Developing a Needs Analysis for Open Scholarship in Linguistics and the Language Sciences |   
  • BoF - 2nd BOF: Trusted / Secure Research Environments for Sensitive / Confidential Data: FAIRness for "Closed" Data and Processes | 
  • IG Sensitive Data IG: Sensitive Data classifications and protocols across regions | 
• UTC 08:30 - 09:30 | AT 10:30 - 11:30 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• UTC 09:30 - 11:00 | AT 11:30 - 13:00 | SciDataCon Parallel Session 6
• UTC 11:00 - 12:00 | AT 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
• UTC 12:00 - 13:30 | AT 14:00 - 15:30 | RDA P21 Breakout Session 6
  • BoF - Policies for Advancing Research Software in Research Performing Organisations |  
  • IG Evaluation of Research IG: Evaluation of Research: Kick-off Plenary Meeting - Community perspectives |  
  • IG Education and Training on Handling of Research Data IG: Fiesta ETHRD-IG! Community celebration of education & training material and metadata richness |  
  • IG Life Science Data Infrastructures IG: Key aspects of FAIR for infrastructure solutions in the biomolecular life sciences |   
  • IG PID IG: Equity and Inclusion: universal access to PIDs |   
  • BoF - Collecting and Managing Data from Citizen Science Research Projects |  
  • IG RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG: TRUST Principles and Repository Certification Landscape |  
  • BoF - Describing Chemical, Physical and Biological samples digitally: Seeking harmonization |   

• UTC 13:30 - 14:00 | AT 15:30 - 16:00 | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
• UTC 14:00 - 15:30 | AT 16:00 - 17:30 | Closing Plenary Session 'Ethics, data science, and AI in dialogue with one another and society'