status: Completed
Chair (s): Andreas Rauber, Mark Parsons
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: [field_secretariat_liaison]
The Data Citation WG has delivered its outputs and is now primarily focusing on supporting adoption by maintaining these outputs, assisting institutions in implementing the recommendations and sharing the lessons learned.
The RDA Working Group on Data Citation (WG-DC) brings together experts addressing the issues, requirements, advantages and shortcomings of existing approaches for efficiently and precisely identifying and citing arbitrary subsets of (potentially highly dynamic) data. It's recommendations are based upon on (1) timestamping and versioning changes to evolving data and (2) identifying arbitrary subsets by assigning PIDs to the queries selecting the according subsets and are applicable across all types of data, such as e.g. collections of files, relational databases, multidimensional data cubes or regions in images..
The final recommendations of the WGDC are available at https://rd-alliance.org/system/files/documents/RDA-DC-Recommendations_151020.pdf (2-page flyer), with a slightly more extensive report having been published in the Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 12:1, 2016 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4048304)
The WGDC has moved on into an adoption phase, supporting numerous data centers in implementing these recommendations and collecting feedback and lessons learned on the way. Please follow the discussion forum and wiki for updates on the status of these pilots. We are running a series of webinars where adopters present their implementations of the recommendations and their experiences in setting up the according services. Details on these webinars, recordings, slides and supporting materials are available from the WGDC Webinar page at
https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/data-citation-wg/webconference/webconference-data-citation-wg.html
A comprehensive review of the recommendations, the wide range of reference implementations as well as a survey of all adoptions reported over the years has recently been published in the Harvard Data Science Review: Rauber, A., Gößwein, B., Zwölf, C. M., Schubert, C., Wörister, F., Duncan, J., … Parsons, M. A. (2021). Precisely and Persistently Identifying and Citing Arbitrary Subsets of Dynamic Data. Harvard Data Science Review, 3(4). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.be565013
If you are interested in adopting these recommendations, would like to present your implementation of the recommendations, or if you have any questions concenring their interpretation, please let us know.
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Invitation: CoARA ERIP Launch Meeting, Wednesday 20 March, 12:00 to 14:00 CET, Hybrid: Palais des Académie Brussels and on Zoom
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RDA P21 @ IDW 2023 - Notification of Outcome
Dear Chairs of the Data Citation WG Thank you for your RDA P21 session application. The Technical Advisory Board has assessed all the proposals and, on this occasion, your P21 session application titled Adoption Meeting of the Working Group on Dynamic Data Citation (WGDC) has not been approved. The session selection process was very competitive and, due to the limited capacity for sessions at P21, we could not accept sessions from maintenance groups, giving priority to active groups as per the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) guidelines.0 | Add new comment
RDA WGD: Slides from Break-out Session at P20
Dear all, Thanks a lot to all of you who joined the break-out session of our working group yesterday at the plenary in Gothenburg. It was phantastic to meet so many people again, to hear about hings being done and planned, ... I uploaded the slides from our break-out session into our repository. You can access them at https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/141/file-repository Any comments, additions, feedback etc. are highly welcome. As usual,0 | Add new comment
RDA 20th Plenary - Notification of Acceptance
Dear Chairs of the Data Citation WG Your RDA 20th Plenary (P20) session application titled Adoption Meeting of the WG on Dynamic Data Citation has been approved. Please take into consideration the feedback below that should be included in a revised version of your application, highlighting the modifications, by Tuesday 13 December 2022, close of business: Please include time and speaker detail to indicate presentation / audience interaction. * Draft programme to be published on Friday, 16th December 20220 | Add new comment
Implementing the Data Citation Recommendations
Dear all, as we have seen a few new members join the WG over the past few weeks I would like to use this email to - welcome the new members! - inform all of you that we've submitted a request to hold a session at the next RDA Plenary (March 21-23 in Gothenburg), which I hope will be granted to get all of us together again to discuss the recommendations, new adoptions, questions and challenges identified, and any support needed. With this in mind I'd like to invite anybody who has been / is currently0 | Add new comment
Invitation to participate in 'A Decade of Data: 10 Years of the RDA' events and activities
by Connie Clare
Good day, The RDA Secretariat would like to invite the Data Citation WG to participate in ‘A Decade of Data’: Celebrating 10 Years of the Research Data Alliance’. 10 months to celebrate 10 years of the RDA0 | Add new comment
Slides from RDA WGDC Break-out Meeting at P19
Dear all, Thanks a lot to all of you who joined the break-out session of our working group t the last plenary. I think the meeting went really well, and we have a few new exciting opportunities coming up. I have uploaded the slides from the plenary meeting into our repository. You can access them at https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/141/file-repository For your convenience, the slides are also directly attached to this email.0 | Add new comment
RDA WGDC Break-out Meeting at P19
Dear all, I am looking forward to meeting you soon face-to-face or hybrid for the break-out meeting of our Working Group to discuss the latest progress, ideas and questions concerning data citation. If you have any specific questions that you would like to discuss, share some (plans for) adopting/implementing the recommendations, or if you have some setting or aspects that make you think it might be difficult to implement the recommendations, please let me know. We can then plan0 | Add new comment
RDA Plenary 19 Draft Programme Now Available
Dear Group Chairs, The RDA 19th Plenary draft programme is now available: https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-19th-plenary-programme-0. Please note that the Plenary programme is a part of the International Data Week programme that can be accessed at https://www.rd-alliance.org/international-data-week-2022-programme.0 | Add new comment
WGDC Meeting at P19 in Seoul
Dear all, We will have a chance to meet again - and with a bit of luck even in person for those planning on travelling to Seoul! We will have a break-out session again (precise time slot still to be determined) at P19, where we will have a chance to catch up on all the developments that have happened since our last meeting, hear stories about new developments under way, and possibly also discuss some new ideas of applying the principles to some maybe unusual settings (such as, e.g.0 | Add new comment