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Rationale Archives

RDA/WDS TRUST Principles Outreach and Adoption Working Group
Purpose: This working group aims to clarify the complementary relationship between TRUST Principles (TRUST) for digital repositories, certification processes, and metrics of other principal frameworks (e.g., FAIR, CARE, Desirable characteristics, Data Repository Attributes). TRUST is not a criterion for certification. Instead, it is the principles of how repositories can demonstrate their trustworthiness to users. Get…
March 27, 2024
The RDA Data Rebel Alliance 2.0: Transformative Data Futures
15 FEB 2024 Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Qt9RO3Pf6YDbTSQxlK1j_MuzjKyMJ_ZmHSVYTqTohU/edit?usp=drive_link Submitted by Freyja van den Boom Meeting objectives:  Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality but a hammer with which to shape it – Bertolt Brecht The Data Rebels Alliance invites […]
March 26, 2024
Infrastructures for Research Software: Moving toward adoption
13 FEB 2024 Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ItNozXXs6GSmdAc9cn-bCnLk5boi7fhXcqXUAWuEZLc/edit?usp=drive_link Group(s) submitting the application:  Software Source Code IG Meeting objectives:  “Open science infrastructures are often the result of community-building efforts, which are crucial for their long-term sustainability and therefore should be not-for-profit and […]
March 26, 2024
Policies in Research Organisations for Research Software (PRO4RS) Working Group
13 FEB 2024 Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Tbl-PkP6TgMR5jOZa8QNTyG-PUA8bSHuOKn_phWUJs/edit?usp=drive_link Group(s) submitting the application:  RDA & ReSA: Policies in Research Organisations for Research Software (PRO4RS) Meeting objectives:  This session will facilitate the activities of this joint RDA/Research Software Alliance (ReSA) Working Group (WG) […]
March 26, 2024
Science Communication for Research Data – State of practice and future directions
13 FEB 2024 Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SzUrIgKgjvQJwegSwy24Ya3tS4AVBdkb3-aezeAaVyM/edit?usp=drive_link Group(s) submitting the application:  Science communication for research data Meeting objectives:  This Interest Group focuses on raising awareness around the wider topic of science communication and particularly science communication for research data with […]
March 26, 2024
FAIR for prosthetics design and assessment
13 FEB 2024 Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v4wJMa0g1AR5W_iYCITPae3j8pDQOroCD9-KLknd0h4/edit?usp=drive_link Submitted by Elda Osmenaj Meeting objectives:  The main goal of this BoF session is to bring together a diverse group of data professionals and disciplinary researchers to discuss opportunities and challenges of the application […]
March 26, 2024
Proposed Working Group: Coordinating Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Data Preservation and Scholarly Publication Processes
12 FEB 2024 Submitted by Danie Kinkade Meeting objectives:  This BOF aims to socialize a growing problem experienced in the data publication process and to gage interest in formalizing an RDA Working Group to address it. The ultimate goal of the […]
March 26, 2024
Revitalising data policy impact and alignment
13 FEB 2024 Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1USY9EoTJOXgual5_EAjK71DxvU_4CpzHYVCDj4Dhv2E/edit?usp=drive_link Group(s) submitting the application:  Data policy standardisation and implementation IG Meeting objectives:  Meeting agenda:  Target Audience:  Publishers, funders, institutional librarians and support staff, researchers, and any other stakeholders interested in publisher data sharing […]
March 26, 2024
Addressing agricultural data ethics, agrisemantics and AI
13 FEB 2024 Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vSlZoH-AnnGK1vpWz8UOANhvOmvsZljCvsEI8e3-e3Y/edit?usp=drive_link Group(s) submitting the application:  IGAD Community of Practice Meeting objectives:  Increase awareness of IGAD Community of Practice, recruit participants and get input on workplan for a new Working Group on the Ethics in […]
March 26, 2024
Towards Tools and Guidance for Creating and Handling Structured Metadata
12 FEB 2024 Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T3bxh7d4Cxe-oVyJzb6rcEXG5c949RN0s_6eXZ1QHn4/edit?usp=drive_link Group(s) submitting the application:  Metadata IG Meeting objectives:  Structured metadata with formal syntax and declared semantics is necessary to capitalize on the wealth of research data being created, and to drive innovative reuse. […]
March 26, 2024