OSGIS: an introduction to the research data alliance

Introduction on RDA
OSGIS 2014 – Herman Stehouwer

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Why?
“Knowledge is the engine of our
economy. And data is its fuel.”
(Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission)
Data will become the key resource to
tackle the big challenges in the world

3 Why?
How to tackle big challenges if data
is highly fragmented by disciplines,
domains and countries?
RDA is building bridges to overcome the hurdles for
easy data access, data sharing and
interoperability by facilitating collaboration
between experts from all over the world belonging to
different disciplines and organisations

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History
 Started in 2012
 Originally two projects DAITF and DWF. Joined together
with Australia to form the RDA.
 Preparatory meeting in October 2012 in Washington.
 Launch in Gothenburg in march 2013.

5 RDA – How does it work?
Experts and Data practitioners come together in
a bottom-up manner in RDA Working and
Interest Groups to overcome concrete hurdles
They discuss matters at the Plenaries and
on the RDA online platform

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Building bridges that enable data sharing

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Groups
 Work done
 Working groups
 Interest groups
 Working Groups
 Narrow focus
 Short timeframe
 Specific adopters
 Enabling data to shared
 Interest Groups
 May have broader focus
 Can serve multiple functions

8 RDA Working Groups
 Form the Foundation for RDA Community Impact!
 Working Groups envisioned as accelerants to data sharing
practice and infrastructure in the short-term with the overarching
goal of advancing global data-driven discovery and innovation
 RDA Working Group profile:
 Short-term: 12-18 months
 Focused efforts with specific actions
adopted by specific communities
 International participation
 Open, voluntary, consensus-driven
 Complementary to effective efforts
elsewhere
Potential outcomes / deliverables:
• New data standards or harmonization of existing
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standards.
• Greater data sharing, exchange, interoperability,
usability and re-usability.
• Greater discoverability of research data sets.
• Better management, stewardship, and
preservation of research data.

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RDA Interest Groups
• An Interest Group (IGs) can be established prior to a Working Group
for community discussion of issues and areas that facilitate data-driven
research.
• IGs are longer-term groups defining common issues and interests.
•WGs and IGs are collaborating intensively
with groups in comparable initiatives such
as IETF, CODATA, WDS, W3C.
 Possible functions
 Create new WGs
 Communication/Coordination
 Domains
 Themes
 External pariets (WDS, CODATA, etc.)

10 Organizational Structure
Community Impact: Working Groups
Community Planning: Interest Groups
TAB Secretariat OAB
Council
RDA Colloquium

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Working Group Deliverables Users
Data Foundations and
Terminology
Data Model, Defined terminology in a
registry
OIF, EUDAT,
DASISH
Data Type Registries Federation between data type
registries
CNRI, EUDAT,
IDF
Persistent Identifier
Information Types
Core informational types, Prototype
protocol/api that implements these.
DKRZ, CNRI
Practical Policy Example policy sets for tasks (e.g.
replication)
Participants
First Deliverables
 Deliverables not always technical
 DSA-WDS Certification

12 How can you become a member?
 Register to the on-line community and become a
Member of RDA.
 No fees involved for individual participation.
 Membership is open to any individual who subscribes to
the RDA Guiding Principles.
 As a Member one may join and form Working and
Interest Groups and participate in RDA elections.
 https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register
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Working & interest groups get together
and hold face-to-face discussions
13 RDA Plenary Meetings …
Plenary 1 – 18- 20 March 2013
Goteborg, Sweden
 240 participants
 3 WG, 9 IG
New groups proposals & Birds of a
Feather
RDA member networking
Co-located events
Plenary 2 - 18-20 September 2013 in Washington, DC, USA
 6 WG, 17 IG, 5 BOF
Plenary 3 - 26-28 March 2014 in Dublin, Ireland
 16 WG, 35 IG and 20 BOF meetings
 10 co-located workshops & meetings
Plenary 4 - 22-24 September 2014 , Amsterdam, Netherlands

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 RDA Collaborative Web Platform rd-alliance.org
 Interaction with RDA enquiries@rd-alliance.org
 Become a member
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