RDA's 16th Plenary Meeting - Programme

Monday, 9 November 2020

• 3:00 - 3:30 PM UTC | Opening Session 
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  • Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Secretary General
  • Federico Torres Carballo, Vice-Minister of Science and Technology of Costa Rica
  • Amy Walton, Program Director, National Science Foundation
  • Dr. Mona Nemer, Chief Science Advisor to Canada's Prime Minister, Minister of Science and Canada
     
• 3:30 - 4:30 PM UTC | Plenary Session
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Bianca Amaro PhD 
Coordinator of the Brazilian Open Sciences Program
Brazilian Institute of Information on Science and Technology

• 5:00 - 6:30 PM UTC | Breakout 1
  • BoF - Data Movement: What Infrastructure Fabrics are Required? 
  • BoF - Value of Making Data F.A.I.R for Infectious Disease Data Management and Analytics (IDDMA) 
  • IG - Global Open Research Commons: Defining and Classifying Global Open Research Commons to Promote Alignment and Collaboration 
  • IG -  Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem: Toward A Global and Multi-disciplinary Network of FAIR Physical Samples 
  • IG -  Professionalising Data Stewardship: Challenges and Developments 
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  • WG - Blockchain Applications in Health: Comprehensive Guidelines 
  • WG - Data Usage Metrics: Open Meeting 
  • WG - Research Metadata Schemas: Progressing on Developing Guidelines for Publishing Structured Data on the Web 
     
• 7:00 - 7:30 PM UTC | Networking Session - Amigos' Time: Costa Rica Trivia Session
• 8:00 - 8:30 PM UTC | Poster Session
   
• 9:00 - 10:30 PM UTC | Plenary Session 
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Sujeevan Ratnasingham
Associate Director (Informatics), Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
Chief Architect, the BOLD (www.boldsystems.org) and mBRAVE (www.mbrave.net) platforms

• 12:00 - 1:30 AM UTC (10 November)| Breakout 2
  • BoF - Optimizing Sensitive Data for Research 
  • BoF - Visions for Future Research Environments: Services, Processes and Policies (VFRE) 
  • IG -  CODATA/RDA Research Data Science Schools for Low and Middle Income Countries: 5 Years of Success. What Should the Next 5 Years Look Like? 
  • IG -  Early Career and Engagement: Boosting the Data Mentoring Programme and Guiding You to RDA  
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  • IG -  ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences: Digging Deeper - How Do We Globally Describe, Store and Interoperate Earth, Space and Environmental Science Data 
  • IG -  PIDs: Joining Up the World 
  • WG -  RDA COVID19-Epidemiology: Open Meeting 
  • Joint Meeting -  RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability IG and  International Materials Resource Registries WG: Open Meeting 
  • Joint Meeting -  Repository Platforms for Research Data IG and  Domain Repositories IG: Approaches for Selecting Research Data Repository Platforms and Sharing Resources to Facilitate Open Science 
• 1:30 - 2:00 AM UTC (10 November) | Networking Session - Amigos' Time: How do we Achieve a Healthy Balanced Life when Working from Home?

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

• 3:00 - 4:30 PM UTC | Plenary Session  
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  Ana Gabriel Zúñiga, Susana Soto  
  "How Open Government Initiatives are Leading the Way of Open Data in Costa Rica"
  Ana Gabriel Zúñiga - Project Development Manager in Transparency, Hivos Latin America
  Susana Soto - Director, Abriendo Datos Costa Rica

• 5:00 - 6:30 PM UTC | Breakout 3
  • BoF - Citizen Science / Community Participation Data 
  • BoF - Introducing the WG‚ “Discipline-specific Guidance for DMPs” 
  • IG -  Engaging Researchers with Data: What’s Next 
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  • IG -  Metadata: Progressing the Metadata Element Set 
  • IG -  RDA for the Sustainable Development Goals: Open Meeting 
  • IG -  Software Source Code: Existing Efforts & Practices Related to Software Source Code in Academia 
  • WG - InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology (I-ADOPT): Second Working Session 
  • WG -  Persistent Identification of Instruments: The PIDINST Deliverables and the WG’s Call for Adoptions 
  • WG -  RDA-COVID19: Updates and Next Steps 

• 8:00 - 8:30 PM UTC | Poster Session
   
• 9:00 - 10:30 PM UTC | Plenary Session - Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance in the Americas 
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• 12:00 - 1:30 AM UTC (11 November) | Breakout 4
  • BoF - Building a FAIR Roadmap for Research Software 
  • BoF - How to Improve Virtual Collaborative Meetings - Sharing Experiences, Resources and Stories 
  • IG -   Education and Training on Handling of Research Data: Creating and Connecting Data Training Ecosystems 
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  • IG -  ELIXIR Bridging Force: RDA in the Life Sciences 
  • IG -  RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories: Towards Building a Trustworthy Repository Ecosystem 
  • IG -  Virtual Research Environment: VREs/Virtual Labs/Science Gateways - Good Practices for Communicating & Collaborating Effectively and Efficiently within Distributed Communities & Initiatives  
  • WG -  RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model: The Future of FAIR Assessment is Support of Reuse of Research Data 
• 1:30 - 2:00 AM UTC (11 November)  | Networking Session - Amigos' Time: Share a Book you would Recommend to Others

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

• 3:00 - 4:30 PM UTC | Plenary Session 
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Juan Pane PhD 
"Open Data and Transparency in Latin American Countries: The Case of COVID-19 Data"
Chief Innovation Officer, Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible
(Center for Sustainable Development), Paraguay

• 4:30 PM UTC | Community Tribute

• 5:00 - 6:30 PM UTC | Breakout 5
   
  • BoF - Leveraging Shared Expertise for Data Curation and Discovery 
  • BoF - Linguistic and Disciplinary Barriers to Heritage Science Data Interoperability 
  • IG -  Agricultural Data Interest Group: Open Meeting
  • IG -  Data Discovery Paradigms: What Information about Data Do Users Desire for Discovery? 
  • IG -  Health Data: Transparency and Trust in Health Data 
  • IG -  International Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Enacting Indigenous Data Sovereignty through Indigenous Data Governance 
  • IG -  Libraries for Research Data: A Taste of FAIR Updates, Implementations and Trainings for Research Libraries 
  • IG -  Surveying Open Data Practices: Open Meeting 
  • Joint Meeting -  Research Data Management in Engineering IG and  Metadata IG: Open Meeting 
• 6:30 - 8:00 PM UTC | Networking Session: Do-a-Thon
• 8:00 - 8:30 PM UTC | Poster Session
• 9:00 - 10:30 PM UTC | Plenary Session - RDA Adoption Opportunities and Highlights 
  • RDA Adoption Overview and Highlights slides
  • RDA COVID-19 WG Panel Discussion slides

• 12:00 - 1:30 AM UTC (12 November) | Breakout 6
  • BoF - Computational Notebooks 
  • BoF - Generalist Repositories - The Challenges of Well-documented, Reusable Data 
  • IG -  International Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Defining Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Indigenous Data  
  • IG -  Preservation Tools, Techniques, and Policies: Researcher’s Tools for Attaining Knowledge Preservation 
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  • IG -  RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability: Data Infrastructure for Collaborations in Materials Research 
  • IG -  Social Dynamics of Data Interoperability: Open Meeting 
  • WG -  Epidemiology: Epidemiology Common Standard for Surveillance Data Reporting 
  • WG -  FAIR 4 Research Software (FAIR4RS): Progress Update 

• 1:30 - 2:00 AM UTC (12 November) | Networking Session - Amigos' Time: RDA Snacks

Thursday, 12 November 2020

• 5:00 - 6:30 PM UTC | Breakout 7
  • BoF - Creating the Open Science Registry on Rewards and Incentives 
  • BoF - Data Granularity 
  • IG -  Biodiversity: Data Integration 
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  • IG -  Data Fabric: FAIR Digital Object Landscape 
  • IG -  Data Policy Standardisation at RDA: Open Meeting 
  • IG -  Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions: Electronic Lab Notebooks in the Institutional RDM Ecology 
  • IG -  Research Data Management in Engineering: Data Provenance & Research Software in Engineering 
  • WG -  Raising FAIRness in HRPOs: Guidelines for Health Research Performing Organizations to Implement FAIR Data Policy 
  • WG -  DMP Common Standards: Machine-actionable DMPs – Tell Us Your Story! 
  • Joint Meeting -  International Indigenous Data Sovereignty IG and  FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Implementing the CARE Principles: The CARE-full Process 
• 7:00 - 7:30 PM UTC | Networking Session - Amigos' Time: Share Favorite Recipes and Cooking Tricks
• 9:00 - 10:30 PM UTC | Breakout 8
  • BoF - Data Concierge - Extending the Services, Roles, and Support of Data Stewards for the Success of International Research Partnerships 
  • BoF - Data Trust Network Governance and Sustainability 
  • BoF - Global Open Research Commons International Benchmarking 
  • IG -  Research Funders and Stakeholders on Open Research and Data Management Policies and Practices: Open Meeting 
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  • IG -  Vocabulary Services: FAIR Semantics, the Semantic Web Universe and Everything 
  • WG -  CURE-FAIR: Current state of curation practices that support computational reproducibility 
  • WG -  Data Versioning: The Future of the Data Versioning IG - From Principles to Actionable Recommendations 
  • WG -  Scholix: Stakeholder Uptake and Next Steps for Article/Data Linking 
  • Joint Meeting -  Metadata IG and  Social Science Research Data IG:  Metadata Standards in Use and Convergence 

• 10:30 - 11:00 PM UTC | Closing Session 
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  • Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Secretary General
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