RDA for the Sustainable Development Goals

RDA P16 was the first plenary that the Sustainable Development Goals Interest Group hosted a session after approval and endorsement of the IG. However, the IG builds upon work conducted at the previous four plenaries, including a joint session at P14, a BOF during RDA P12, and a joint session at RDA P13 which have opened discussion of main themes, gaps, and coordination needs related to SDGs data. Since P16, there have been well-attended sessions to continue to frame the cross-sector and cross-disciplinary data needs for the SDGs, which will benefit from the continuation of this IG session. Particularly recently, work underway within the RDA secretariat has focused on how RDA outputs and recommendations can be disseminated and packaged to support efforts of other organizations or community development initiatives. Such efforts include increasing organizational collaboration and integration of RDA outputs within education curricula, directly aligning with the mission of the UN interoperability collaborative. The RDA for SDGs IG conducted a tentative mapping of RDA WGs, Outputs, Recommendations, and Adoption case-studies to the 17 SDG goals, presented at RDA P18. Since P18, there has been ongoing development of the tool OntoSDG to better align ongoing RDA work with the SDGs.