The Research Data Alliance RDA Beth Plale Indiana

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Beth Plale Indiana University Co-Chair RDA Technical Advisory Board

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Global community-driven org to accelerate data-driven innovation RDA focus: building social, organizational and technical infrastructure to reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange Accelerate development of coordinated infrastructure Plenary 2, Fall 2013 National Academy of Science, DC

RDA Vision and Mission Vision: Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. Mission: RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable data sharing.

The RDA Community today: Over 1000 members from 55 countries Asia 3% Africa 2% Asia-pacific 4% South America 1%

RDA PHILOSOPHY: CREATE ADOPT USE RDA Members come together as Working Groups – 12 -18 month efforts to build, adopt, and use specific pieces of infrastructure Interest Groups – longer-lived discussion forums that spawn Working Groups as specific pieces of needed infrastructure are identified. RDA PHILOSOPHY: CREATE ADOPT USE

RDA Activity Common terms: Governance, Certification, Cost Recovery, Legal Common terms: Education, Engagement, Bridging, Community Social Q 4 Q 1 Q 3 Q 2 Solutions dimension Technical Common terms: Repository, Fabric, Analytics, Identity, Management Data providers Common terms: Interoperability, Harmonization, Integration, Metadata Beneficiary Dimension Data consumers

RDA Activity Q 1: Social/educationally oriented activity that benefits user • Common terms: education, engagement, bridging, community Q 2: Technically-oriented solutions that benefit users • Common terms: interoperability, harmonization, integration, metadata Q 3: Technical solutions that aid in data provisioning • Common terms: repository, fabric, analytics, identity, management Q 4: Policy oriented solutions that aid in data provisioning • Common terms: governance, certification, cost recovery, legal

Working Groups Clusters Q 4 Social Q 1 RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership Brokering Governance Metadata Standards Directory Standardisation of Data Categories and Codes Solutions dimension Data Citation Data Foundation and Terminology PID Information Types Data Type Registries Technical Data Description Registry Interoperability Q 3 Data providers Practical Policy RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics The Bio. Sharing Registry RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services Beneficiary dimension Wheat Data Interoperability Q 2 Data consumers

plale@indiana. edu Visit to RDA Plenary 1 hosts Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden Photo courtesy Leif Laaksonen

Research Data Alliance / US Data Share Program Beth Plale, Kathy Fontaine, Inna Kouper

GOAL Engage early career researchers in RDA activities and promote wider adoption of RDA outputs and data practices

Pilot Program 2013 -2015 RDA/US Scholars Program funded by NSF and led by Beth Plale and Inna Kouper

Pilot Details • • 60 applications 8 interns + 5 fellows selected 10 RDA WGs and IGs involved Posters presented at P 4 and P 5 Initial results showed much interest and success, but more planning and mentoring is needed.

Current Program • Three-year program to support fellows to engage with and benefit from RDA funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation • Focus on RDA outputs and wider adoption • Strong leadership, advisory, and coordination

Timeline Solicit projects from RDA membership Select fellows and match to projects Invite fellows to cohortbuilding workshop Work over 1 -2 summer(s) Evaluation Present at RDA plenary

Examples of projects • Study the human and organizational barriers to technology sharing • Apply a WG product, transfer outputs from WGs • Develop and disseminate RDA research data sharing practices • Develop and test adoption strategies • Study potential adopting organizations and their practices and needs

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