January Newsletter: Plenary 17, RDA Group Updates, Upcoming Webinars and more

16th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC21), 19 April 2021

The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC21) will take place on 19th of April 2021 in Edinburgh, UK,  a co-located event to RDA's 17th Plenary.  This year's theme is 'Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation'. The Call for Papers is now open, and more information on the submission process will follow soon. 

ICTeSSH2021 – International Conference on ICT Enhanced Social Sciences And Humanities 2021, 28 Jun 2021 - 18:00 CEST to 30 Jun 2021 - 18:00 CEST 

The International Conference on Information-communication technologies enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities (ICTeSSH) is a three-day annual conference where stakeholders come together for an open discussion about the changing research ecosystem in SSH fields in the digital age due to the extremely fast development of ICT.

SciDataCon 2021, part of International Data Week 2021, 8 November 2021

Proposals are invited for sessions at International Data Week’s SciDataCon 2021: Data to Improve our World. SciDataCon 2021 is an integral part of International Data Week 2021, which will be held both virtually and onsite in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 8–11 November 2021. Session proposals should be submitted at: http://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2021/. The deadline for proposals is 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2021. 

• New Groups: The Global Open Research Commons (GORC) Working Group
  The GORC Working Group is in the initial phase of formation, with its Case Statement now available for the RDA Community to review and provide feedback. The Case Statement is open for comments through 8 February.
   
• New Supporting Output from the FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group
  This report provides a consolidated view of the answers collected during a survey conducted in October 2020. This survey took place in the context of the work of the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group and is aimed at investigating the differences of perspectives on benefits and challenges of the FAIR assessments between funders and research communities. The RDA Community is encouraged to provide comments on the report through 15 February.
   
• RDA COVID-19 Adoption Survey
  RDA and the RDA COVID-19 Working Group would like to assess the adoption and impact of its RDA COVID-19 Recommendations and Guidelines on Data Sharing, published on 30 June 2020. While we recognize the impact of the global pandemic across multiple domains and areas of practices, we are interested in learning the impact of this output for people and institutions conducting research and supporting data sharing and/or infrastructure across the clinical and public health domains. Please take a few minutes to share your output adoption experience by completing the brief survey.

RDA in a Nutshell

The RDA community counts today more than 11,000 members from 145 countries! Download the January issue of our RDA in a Nutshell slidedeck.

Organisation Member Spotlight - AGU

Organisational membership is critical to the success of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), because organisations are instrumental in implementing the global data exchange systems that RDA enables. Organisational Members of the RDA (OMs) exercise considerable influence in the development of standards for data exchange and are seen as pioneers in realising the full value from research data. Unlocking value from research data is a key competitive advantage in the 21st century, and RDA and its members are at the heart of building this new economic model from exchanging research and scholarship data. Additional information on becoming an Organizational Member can be found here:

• RDA Organisational Membership Processes
• Organizational Membership Application

The AGU is an international non-profit scientific association with nearly 60,000 members. We are dedicated to the furtherance of the Earth and Space sciences, and to communicating our science’s ability to benefit humanity. AGU achieves these goals through publishing scientific journals and other technical publications, sponsoring scientific meetings, supporting education and outreach programs designed to increase public understanding of and support for our science, and a variety of other activities.

Providing incentives, community standards, and easy-to-use tools are some important factors for helping researchers embrace the FAIR Guidelines and support transparency and integrity. We would like to engage more closely with the RDA groups developing guidelines and recommendations for publishers and repositories that bring our community closer to common and best practices. With that goal in mind, AGU would like to contribute to, and benefit from, the work of the RDA.

SciDataCon 2021 Call for Sessions Now Open

Proposals are invited for sessions at International Data Week’s SciDataCon 2021: Data to Improve our World. Learn more. 

Call for Papers on Canonical Workflow Frameworks for Research

Data Intelligence is seeking paper submissions by March 1 for a special issue devoted to “Canonical Workflow Frameworks for Research”. Researchers, data professionals, data managers and curators, IT specialists and others who are using, developing, or experimenting with the effective use of canonical workflows and workflow patterns for data intensive research are encouraged to submit a paper in one of the following four categories:

1. CWFR and the use of FAIR Digital Objects
2. CWFR and current workflow technologies
3. Research-driven workflows
4. Advanced workflow technology(ies)

Learn more about the submission process.

RDA 18th Plenary Meeting, Part of International Data Week 2021, 8–11 November 2021, Seoul, South Korea
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are delighted to announce that the 2021 edition of International Data Week (IDW 2021) will be held on 8–11 November 2021 in Seoul, South Korea. Learn more.

Webinar Series: Introducing International Data Week 2021

• 16 February 2021 | 08:00 - 08:45 UTC
• 4 March 2021 | 13:00 - 13:45 UTC

Learn more.

SAVE THE DATE: International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data, 23–26 October 2023, Salzburg, Austria

The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and RDA have announced  International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data, taking place on 23–26 October 2023, in Salzburg, Austria. Learn more.

Factors of Open Science Data Sharing and Reuse in the COVID-19 Crisis: A Case Study of the South Korea R&D Community

A recent conference paper published in the Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia journal includes interviews with South Korean experts related to the factors that influenced open commutation of scholarly outputs and data in public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 outbreak. The study provided a set of contextual/external, institutional/regulatory, resource, and individual/motivational factors with some relevant examples, with references to the RDA COVID-19 Working Group’s Recommendations and Guidelines on data sharing. Learn more.

Data Science Journal Publishes New Articles to RDA Results Special Collection

The RDA Results Special Collection is a series of articles featured within the Data Science Journal that highlights research results and outcomes stemming from the activities of RDA working groups and interest groups that have recently produced an output. In December and January, the Data Science Journal added the following practice and research papers to the RDA Results Special Collection:

• Fostering Interdisciplinary Data Cultures through Early Career Development: The RDA/US Data Share Fellowship
  Authors: Inna Kouper, Lois A. Scheidt, Beth A. Plale
• Incorporating RDA Outputs in the Design of a European Research Infrastructure for Natural Science Collections
  Authors: Sharif Islam , Alex Hardisty, Wouter Addink, Claus Weiland, Falko Glöckler
• Implementing the RDA Research Data Policy Framework in Slovenian Scientific Journals
  Authors: Janez Štebe , Maja Dolinar, Sonja Bezjak, Ana Inkret
• Role of a Croatian National Repository Infrastructure in Promotion and Support of Research Data Management
  Authors: Kristina Posavec, Draženko Celjak, Ljiljana Jertec Musap
• 39 Hints to Facilitate the Use of Semantics for Data on Agriculture and Nutrition
  Authors: Caterina Caracciolo, Sophie Aubin, Clement Jonquet, Emna Amdouni, Romain David, Leyla Garcia, Brandon Whitehead, Catherine Roussey, Armando Stellato, Ferdinando Villa

To view these and all other recent articles, visit https://datascience.codata.org. To view the entire RDA Results Special Collection, visit https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/research-data-alliance-results/.