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The Research Data Alliance and WorldFAIR

Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance (RDA)

WorldFAIR opening session to the WorldFAIR webinar series

Friday 26 May 2023

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A global greenhouse

RDA is an international community-driven, member-based organisation focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data-driven innovation worldwide.

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Vision, Mission & Values

Vision

Researchers and innovators openly share and re-use data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

Mission

RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data.

RDA Guiding Principles

Openness
Consensus
Inclusive
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral

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The HEART of RDA

Working Groups

develop and implement tools, policy, practices & products for data management that are adopted and used by projects, organisations, communities
TIMING: 12-18 MONTHS
TOTAL: 42 Working Groups

Interest Groups

focus on solving a specific data sharing problem and identifying what kind of infrastructure needs to be built.
TIMING: as long as group is active
TOTAL: 60 Interest Groups

RECOMMENDATIONS: Concrete deliverables - “Running code”, tools, standards, etc.

OUTPUT: Possibly case statements for new WGs, guidelines, best practice, etc.

Communities of Practice

Domain / disciplinary focus, coordination and awareness raising role. “Umbrella group”
TIMING: as long as CoP is active (review every 18 months)
TOTAL: 1 CoP on Agricultural Data

OUTPUT: New WGs & IGs, bridge building across RDA and externally.

26/05/2023

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The RDA Family

Individuals

(13,400+)

“a strategic think tank to enhance a constructive dialogue and collaboration on themes relevant to data science and to present the latest research results in many areas”

Organisations

(75+)

“one of the few places where researchers and data managers / information professionals directly interact and collaborate to develop solutions and best practices”

Nations / Regions

(35+)

“a global perspective to assist in sharing best practices, experiences and common needs to achieve efficiency and reduce duplication of efforts”

Create groups, collaborate & generate outputs

Adopt, Implement, Customise

Localise (linguistically & culturally), network

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RDA roots in regions

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RDA roots in disciplines

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RDA roots in Open Research Commons

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RDA Global Open Research Commons Groups

GORC Interest Group (IG):

Developing a roadmap for global alignment to help set priorities for Commons development and integration.

GORC Working Group (WG):

collecting and curating a set of attributes that will allow Commons developers to compare features across science clouds and commons.

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GORC IG: Typology and Definitions Document available

GORC-IG Essential Elements of a Commons

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RDA roots in FAIR

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RDA in Practice: The FAIR Principles

RDA FAIR DATA GROUPS

RDA FAIR DATA OUTPUTS

FAIR Data Maturity Model: specification and guidelines
Member survey on bridging the gap between funders and communities – perspectives on benefits and challenges of FAIR assessments V2.0
Results of an Analysis of Existing FAIR Assessment Tools
10 Things for Curating Reproducible and FAIR Research
Challenges of Curating for Reproducible and FAIR Research Output
Summary of Virtual Layer Recommendations
Persistent identifiers: Consolidated assertions
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG Recommendations
Data Discovery Paradigms: User Requirements and Recommendations for Data Repositories
Eleven Quick Tips for finding Research Data
A survey of current practices in data search services

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RDA in Practice: FAIR Software

RDA Groups for FAIR Software

FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) WG
Software Source Code IG
Skills and training curriculums to support FAIR research software IG

RDA Outputs for FAIR Software

FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles

researchsoft.org

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RDA and WorldFAIR

Natural collaboration with CODATA
Strengthen international cooperation to increase and mainstream FAIRness of data and digital objects.
Connect disconnected initiatives on data management, data stewardship and FAIR data practices, across borders and disciplines, as enablers of open science.
Increased FAIR data sharing within and across scientific disciplines and innovation sectors

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rd-alliance.org @resdatall

Organised by

Hosted by:

https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/international-data-week-2023-salzburg

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Value of RDA in …

practical, collaborative, and global progress

Supporting

experiences & knowledge

Sharing

silos & duplication of efforts

Reducing

Community driven data solutions, services, tools for all

Facilitating

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Thank you

Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance

Email - hilary.hanahoe@rda-foundation.org

Twitter - @hilaryhanahoe

LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ hilary-hanahoe

Research Data Alliance (RDA) Secretariat

Email - enquiries@rd-alliance.org

Web - www.rd-alliance.org

Twitter - @resdatall

LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ResearchDataAlliance