Adoption Stories

Following a successful application to the RDA Europe 4.0 open call for Adoption Grants,  the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski started working on unifying the knowledge concerned with the study of wheat and the factors affecting the health and viability of the cereal. 

A joint bid by the University of Debrecen and the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (LIC-HAS) was awarded an RDA Europe 4.0 Adoption grant, with the aim of employing RDA Recommendations in the evaluation of the already existing data repositories in Hungary and establishing a standardised approach to managing research data workflows. 

Guidelines based on four RDA outputs and recommendations to improve data citation, sharing and reuse in connection to scientific journal publications. 

Crossref adopts the Scholix Metadata Schema for Exchange of Scholarly Communication Links

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud adopts the RDA Metadata Standards Directory Working Group recommendation

Following a successful application to the RDA Europe 4.0 open call for Adoption Grants, the Dutch National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) started it work to tailor the 23 Things to the Dutch research community, as well as producing audience-specific versions of the 23 Things.

Following a successful application to the RDA Europe 4.0 open call for Adoption Grants, the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) began its project to quality check and document the data stored in the Climate Data Store (CDS). The Climate Data Store repository contains various types of data for which summaries are presented at the level of variable and dataset. Adopting and presenting the RDA metadata repository as a trustful reference, and using the various standards gathered there, has helped to improve recommendations on what should be presented in the CDS.

During the RDA 14th Plenary meeting in Helsinki in October 2019, the RDA interviewed Shelley Stall from the American Geophysical Union(AGU). In the interview Stall told the enabling FAIR Data in the  the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences where she explained the adoption processes and the lessons learned. 

Norwegian Centre for Research Data adopts RDA DMP Common Standard for Machine-actionable Data Management Plans Recommendation. 

OpenAIRE adopts an open, universal literature-data cross-linking service, RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services Working Group Recommendation.

During the RDA 14th Plenary meeting in Helsinki in October 2019, the RDA interviewed Chris Graf, Director Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics at Wiley. In the interview Graf told the story of how RDA’s work on data sharing policies helps Wiley extend the requirement for data availability statements to journals.

The Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) Data Centre expected a comprehensive project outcome of completely new simulated High Resolution Climate Scenarios for Austria in the time range from 1965 till 2100 on a daily basis. For consumption,  13 model runs, 5 meteorological parameters like temperature, 3 emission scenarios, over 1600 NetCDF files with an average size of 13 GB were calculated. How could we implement proper data management processes on such data packages? The idea of using the RDA Recommendation on Data Citation of Evolving Data as a pilot “NetCDF Pilot Implementation of Climate Scenarios” came out.   

This adoption story was brought forward by the RDA Europe 4.0 Austrian National Node.

As a participant to groups and meetings from almost the beginning of RDA, INRA became a natural adopter of recommendations from agricultural related working groups and several others. In fact, RDA has contributed to many aspects of INRA’s Open Science policy either directly or indirectly.

This adoption story was brought forward by the RDA Europe 4.0 French National Node.