List of Outputs
Harmonised Terminologies and Schemas for FAIR Data in Materials Science and Related Domains Working Group: Final Report and Recommendations
Review Status: In Community Review
Modern science and technology require the rapid sharing of knowledge. Ongoing digitalisation further increases the dependence of materials design and development on data originating from diverse disciplines, including physics, chemistry, engineering, and medicine. The FAIR principles facilitate data exchange and support the machine-actionable analysis of research outputs. However, materials science and related disciplines lag behind…
July 24, 2026
Data Director Agentic AI Tool Blueprint
Review Status: Preparing for Council Review
The Data Director Agentic AI Tool Blueprint v1.0 is a community-developed, technology-agnostic specification for an agentic AI tool to support researchers in preparing and depositing research data for publication in alignment with the FAIR principles. Produced by the Data Director Agentic AI Working Group, an RDA-Microsoft collaboration, it defines 12 functional requirements, 17 non-functional requirements,…
June 29, 2026
Disciplinary Data Management Plans That Can Be Used as Examples
Review Status: Endorsed
RDA France, the French chapter of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), established the RDA France – Disciplinary Data Management Plans (DMPs) Working Group in March 2023. The objective was to create a corpus of disciplinary DMPs that can be used as examples. This Regional Output is Version 1 of the list of disciplinary DMPs resulting…
May 25, 2026
RDA BIDT WG recommendation documents
Review Status: Endorsed
The RDA Working Group Building Immune Digital Twins (BIDT) developed a set of open, FAIR-aligned resources and community recommendations to accelerate the creation, reuse, and adoption of Immune Digital Twins (IDTs) and broader Medical Digital Twins (MDTs). Over its lifecycle, the WG combined multidisciplinary expertise (immunology, systems biology, clinical research, standards/ontology, software, ethics and policy)…
March 24, 2026
Managing your drone data through the data life cycle: RDA guidelines for FAIR and responsible RPAS data use
Review Status: Endorsed
The use of Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), also referenced as Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and more generally as drones, is increasingly prevalent across various scientific disciplines, enabling the collection of large volumes of data for diverse research applications. However, the volume of data generated and the absence of standardised workflows often complicate data sharing…
March 13, 2026
Bridging the Data Discovery Gap: User-Centric Recommendations for Research Data Repositories
Despite substantial investment in research data infrastructure, data discovery remains a fundamental challenge in the era of open science. The proliferation of repositories and the rapid growth of deposited data have not resulted in a corresponding improvement in data findability. Researchers continue to struggle to find data that are relevant to their work, revealing a…
March 10, 2026
An analysis of crosswalks from research data schemas to Schema.org
The increased number of data repositories has greatly increased the availability of open data. To enable broad discovery and access to research dataset, some data repositories have begun leveraging the web architecture by embedding structured metadata markup in dataset web landing pages using vocabularies from Schema.org and extensions. This paper aims to examine metadata interoperability…
March 10, 2026
Data Discovery Paradigms: User Requirements and Recommendations for Data Repositories
As data repositories make more data openly available it becomes challenging for researchers to find what they need either from a repository or through web search engines. This study attempts to investigate data users’ requirements and the role that data repositories can play in supporting data discoverability by meeting those requirements. We collected 79 data…
March 10, 2026
PRO4RS WG Recommendations
Review Status: Endorsed
The PRO4RS WG produced outputs to support research performing organisations worldwide to develop, align, and implement policies on research software, as a key component of FAIR and open science/scholarship. It was a joint initiative of the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The PRO4RS recommendations are: The work of the PRO4RS…
February 3, 2026
Scientific Knowledge Graphs Interoperability Framework (SKG-IF): Enabling Data Exchange for SKGs
Review Status: Endorsed
The SKG-IF aims to facilitate seamless exchange of information across diverse Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs), thereby reducing duplication of effort, enriching individual graphs, and establishing SKGs as a central pillar of Open Science scholarly communication. This report outlines the work undertaken in this direction by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Group on the Scientific…
December 12, 2025
The TRUST Principles for digital repositories
As information and communication technology has become pervasive in our society, we are increasingly dependent on both digital data and repositories that provide access to and enable the use of such resources. Repositories must earn the trust of the communities they intend to serve and demonstrate that they are reliable and capable of appropriately managing…
December 9, 2025
Geographies of Trust: AI, Biomedicine, and the Next Era of Federated and Visiting Data Models
This report examines the rapidly evolving landscape of biomedical research platforms that facilitate secure, privacy-preserving access to sensitive datasets—such as genomic sequences and clinical records—without the need to move, download, or replicate data across multiple locations. These platforms adopt models such as Data Visitation and Federation, which enable computational tools to move to the data—allowing…
November 18, 2025