September Newsletter: Plenary Highlights, Group Updates, TAB Election and more
RDA's 14th Plenary: Highlights and Reminders
- The Plenary Pathways are the result of a joint effort between the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and the Organisational Assembly to provide attendees a guide through the rich diversity of topics that the plenary presents within the breakout sessions. As such, they are meant to enhance the plenary experience rather than constrain, to highlight convergences, and to propose divergences you may not have considered. Read more.
- Unconference, Newcomers and Adoption Sessions – We are planning on taking these events to the next level for Plenary 14, by bringing interactivity and collaboration to the agenda. Be sure to add these sessions to your P14 calendar.
- View Unconference Agenda
- Adoption Session - See below article for details.
- Newcomers Session - Details coming soon.
- Poster Competition - Be prepared to cast your vote for your top five favorite posters during the P14 Poster Session. An online voting form will be shared with all attendees at the start of the meeting.
- Accommodations - Be sure to book your overnight accommodations soon. A peak in demand may cause prices to increase significantly in the coming weeks. Read more.
- Registration - The current registration rate is €533. On-site registration will be available but at a higher rate of €620. Register here.
Look for more information on social media and in your emails regarding the meeting.
Let’s Talk about RDA Data Solutions for Research Domains: Join the Adoption and Outputs Session at P14
Join the Adoption and Outputs session at the 14th RDA Plenary on 25 October 2019 starting at 14:00. This session aims to give visibility to disciplinary approaches supported by RDA while providing a great way to network and speak to the discipline drivers: discipline-focused Working and Interest Groups, adopters and promoters of the RDA Recommendations and Outputs, and domain-specific Ambassadors.
The RDA community is the proud producer of solutions to research data sharing challenges. Whether your challenge is social or technical, you can freely use the Recommendations and Outputs produced. To date, the RDA community has developed 32 outputs for which over 100 cases of adoption have been documented. The Plenary 14 Adoption and Outputs session will present this rich palette of solutions in a domain clustered overview and interactive setting.
What to expect?
Six research domain inspired networking areas will be set up in the main Plenary meeting room where Working and Interest Group co-chairs, adopters, and domain ambassadors will tell you all about how RDA Recommendations and Outputs advance data access and re-use sharing in their related research domains. All participants are encouraged to visit the different areas, talk to the groups, learn about what they are doing, and share their own experiences and challenges.
Which areas are we talking about?
- Agriculture
- Climate
- Social Sciences and Humanities
- Engineering
- Health
- Sustainable Development Goals
Get involved
We are also calling all RDA members with an interest in these specific areas to visit the networking areas, and actively participate in the session. Please email enquiries@rd-alliance.org if you want to highlight your outputs, recommendations, or adoption use-cases and inspire further uptake in your research domain.
2019 Technical Advisory Board Election: Meet the Candidates!
RDA is pleased to announce the candidates nominated for the 2019 TAB election. For this election, five members will be added to TAB. Online voting will open on 23 October 2019 at Plenary 14 in Helsinki, Finland, and will remain open for two weeks through 6 November 2019. View the list of our 2019 candidates.
Adoption Stories: Core Trust Seal
The Core Trust Seal Data Repositories’ requirements catalogue and procedures reflects the core characteristics of trustworthy data repositories, and is the culmination of a cooperative effort between the Data Seal of Approval and the World Data System of the International Science Council under the umbrella of the RDA to harmonize their data repository certifications. The RDA Secretariat has collected a global set of 5 adoption stories to inspire its further uptake by sharing a wide variety of challenges faced, implementation processes and lessons learned.
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) – Netherlands
- Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre CDS (Centre de Données astronomique de Strasbourg) – France
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIRO) Data Access Portal (DAP) – Australia
- Australian Data Archive (ADA) – Australia
- Chinese Astronomical Data Centre– China
Member Spotlight - Jens Klump
Jens is the Geoscience Analytics Team Leader in the Mineral Resources unit of CSIRO. Before moving to Australia and joining CSIRO, he spent 13 years at the German Research Centre for Geosciences building research data infrastructures. Through these activities, he became involved with precursors of RDA, like CODATA. Jens was introduced to RDA in 2013 and watched the organisation develop through the years. He has been able to identify areas to which he can contribute and in turn receive input on his own work. Read more.
Organisational Member Spotlight - Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
AARNet Pioneering the Internet in Australia since 1989 AARNet is a not-for-profit company that provides ultra high-speed Internet and Communications services only to Australia's research and education sector. Our customers are universities, research institutes, cultural organisations, schools and vocational training providers. https://www.aarnet.edu.au/
RDA in a Nutshell – September Statistics
Did you know RDA publishes a summary of community statistics each month? This summary provides a small glimpse into the growth of RDA. Highlights as of September 2019 are as follows:
- 9,064 individual members from 137 countries
- 102 groups working on global data interoperability challenges
- 49 organisational members and 8 affiliate members
- 32 flagship outputs
- 75 adoption cases
CODATA Data Science Journal Special Collection on Research Data Alliance Results: Submit your Paper Today
The Data Science Journal special collection aims to gather and promote research results and outcomes stemming from the Research Data Alliance activities. In particular, it collects high quality papers describing the latest results of RDA working groups (WGs) or interest groups (IGs) focusing particularly on use cases that highlight the added value of the RDA solutions for different challenges related to research data sharing and management. Read more and/or Submit a Paper.
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting - Australia
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is confirming the 15th Plenary Meeting will take place from 18 - 20 March 2020 in Melbourne, Australia, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, MCEC (https://mcec.com.au/). The event host is CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) with the support of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Australia is one of the founding regions of RDA in 2012, and is a proven supporter and driver of RDA. The RDA Plenary meeting will be organised in conjunction with the Annual C3DIS (Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science), taking place in Melbourne on 16 - 18 March 2020. C3DIS aims to build a national community of scientists, researchers, and computing, data and information management specialists. Please take note of the upcoming timeline:
- Friday, 25 October 2019 - Call for Sessions Opens
- Thursday, 28 November 2019 - Call for Sessions Closes
- Friday, 20 December 2019 - Notification of Acceptances
- Wednesday, 22 January 2020 - Programme Published
Mark the dates in your diary and check https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-15th-plenary-meeting-australia for updates.
- 1311 reads