RDA | Research Data Sharing without barriers Building the social and technical bridges to enable open sharing and re-use of data RDA EURDA USCONTACT US LOGINREGISTRATION 61 O&A Members Active Organisational & Affiliate members Members: 11483 MEMBERSHIP Becoming a member of RDA is simple and open to both individuals and organizations Register now WG & IGs: 98 RDA Groups Discover what RDA Working and Interest Groups and all other Groups are up to and find out how to join them. Explore Groups About RDA The Research Data Alliance With over 10000 members from 145 countries, RDA provides a neutral space where its members can come together to develop and adopt infrastructure that promotes data-sharing and data-driven research   RDA in a Nutshell Who is RDA? 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Recommendations & outputs catalogue RDA Outputs Adoption Use Cases Adoption Stories RDA Europe Adoption Grants Standards Interest in RDA Recommendations RDA for Disciplines RDA domain research This whiteboard is open to all RDA discipline specialists willing to give a personal account of what data-related challenges they are facing and how RDA is helping them   Find your discipline Agriculture Biodiversity Biomedical Sciences Chemistry Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary research Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science Linguistics Social Sciences RDA and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Scholarly Communication RDA Europe Ambassadors Plenaries & Events Plenaries Next Planned Past RDA 16th Plenary Meeting - Costa Rica (Virtual) Training & Webinars Upcoming webinars Past webinars RDA Remote Meeting Guide Events RDA Meetings & Events Other meeting & events WG/IG Collaborative Meetings Past Events News & Media News & Articles RDA Newsletter Reports & Publications Blogs RDA Videos Joint Statements RDA Virtual Plenary 17 Call for co-located events 20-22 April 2021 Call for posters Working and Interest Groups in Community Review Survey on bridging the gap between funders and communities – perspectives on benefits and challenges of FAIR assessments - Deadline February 15th GORC International Benchmarking WG Case Statement - Deadline February 8th UPDATES to the RDA GUIDING PRINCIPLES Inclusive Consensus Openness Harmonization Community-driven Non-profit and technology-neutral RDA UPCOMING PLENARIES Learn more RDA 18th Plenary Meeting RDA 17th Plenary Meeting RDA Publishes Final Version of the RDA COVID-19 Recommendations and Guidelines on Data Sharing READ MORE 2021 RDA Council Elections CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The 2021 Council Nominations Committee is seeking nominations for 3 open Council positions. Follow the link for details. News & Events 03/02/2021 - Join GEO-INPE Webinars on Brazil’s fo... The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is hosting a series of webinars describing Brazil’s Amazon monitoring system, the tools used and the recent technological advances by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).  02/02/2021 - Clearing some of the highest FAIR hur... Date: 04 February 2021 – 12:00 to 13:30 GMT FAIRsFAIR invites researchers to a presentation of the essential techniques to adopt in making data FAIR. 02/02/2021 - GO FAIR WIPs and CHIPs Join the GO FAIR US team on Thursday February 18th at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST for an interactive webinar where you can share your FAIR-related WIPs (Works in Progress) or CHIPs (Challenges in Progress) and receive feedback from community members. 02/02/2021 - Preparedness Planning for Clinical Re... The Good Clinical Practice Alliance and the Multi Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard are presenting a webinar on ‘The Role of Ethics Review in Preparedness and Response During a Public Health Emergency.’ The event will be led Dr.... 01/02/2021 - Northeast Student Data Corps: Inaugur... Newly launched by the Northeast Student Data Corps, the Data Science Career Panel webinar series features experts from academia, government, industry, and nonprofits who share their experiences learning and using data science. 01/02/2021 - CESSDA is Hiring a Project Manager We are looking to hire a Project Manager to work remotely with the CESSDA Main Office. The purpose of the job is:  initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of internal and/or external CESSDA projects. Find out more here.  The... 01/02/2021 - Washington University in St. Louis Li... Reporting to the Head of Library Technology Services at Washington University Libraries, the Systems Engineer will be responsible for the architecture, development, and maintenance of library services and applications supporting the University’s mission.  The incumbent will... 01/02/2021 - February 2021 COVID-19 Research Webin... Meet the scientists seeking new insights on COVID-19. Join this round of lightning talks and Q&A to learn more about these researchers' ongoing efforts in the fight against COVID-19, including opportunities for collaboration. 26/01/2021 - Webinar: FAIR Services & Infrastr... To realise the full potential of a FAIR ecosystem in which research outputs can be easily shared and optimally reused 21/01/2021 - RDA Call for Council Nominations 2021... KEY INFORMATION:  Submit your news Promote your event more Request for Comments Ongoing! Request for comments ongoing! GORC International Benchmarking WG Case Statement Until Monday, 8 February, 2021 Survey on bridging the gap between funders and communities – perspectives on benefits and challenges of FAIR assessments Until Monday, 15 February, 2021 Data Granularity WG Case Statement Until Friday, 5 March, 2021 Follow us Tweets by resdatall The Value of RDA for Individuals Organisations performing Research Students & Early Careers Infrastructure Providers Funders Libraries European Open Science Cloud Regions Covid-19     A Data Hungry Research Field RDA Adoption stories - watch the playlist     Recent blog posts Report from the conference of RDA Node Slovenia: Research Data and European Open Science Cloud From the very beginning to VP15 - an experience report RDA Hackathon on maDMPs – the beginning of a new series? RDA Node Slovenia's Research Data Management Workshop More Recent Group Activity Zero Hunger Aim By: Geospatial IG Dear colleagues, more 97 WORKING AND INTEREST GROUPS   RDA is a pragmatic and agile organization, and through the work of its Working and Interest Groups, directly and logically tackles numerous data infrastructure challenges     Explore RDA Groups   30 RECOMMENDATIONS & OUTPUTS   RDA Outputs are the technical and social infrastructure solutions that enable data sharing, exchange and interoperability   Discover them all   Latest Output Survey on bridging the gap between funders and communities – perspectives on benefits and challenges of FAIR assessments This report provides a consolidated view of the answers collected during a survey conducted in October 2020. This survey took place in the context of the work of the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group and aimed at investigating the differences of perspectives on benefits and challenges of the FAIR assessments between funders and research communities. more Adoption Stories 39 Hints to Facilitate the Use of Semantics for Data on Agriculture the Nutrition https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-disciplines/rda-europe-ambassadorsThe Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) adoption story.  more Discover them all The Value of RDA for Regions   An RDA Region is loosely defined as a “national level” geographic entity or consortium of “national-level” entities, and is intended to be broadly representative.   Read more   News from the Regions 28/09/2020 - How to Manage Research Data. The hand... Europe As part of the RDA Europe 4.0 project, SRCE - University of Zagreb University Computing Centre become the Croatian national RDA node in 2019. In cooperation with the librarians from the University of Rijeka Library, the University of Split Library, the City and University Library Osijek, and the National and University Library in Zagreb, the handbook for researchers was prepared on how to handle research data for their efficient sharing and reuse. 11/09/2020 - Data, data – Big Data! And What? Rese... Europe The idea of ​​open access to research data is wonderful and in harmony with the new paradigm - Open Science. Access to the data is possible for all researchers, system-administrators, pupils and their parents to make unexpected discoveries undiscovered by routine analysis. The dynamics of knowledge acquisition is a complex process whose laws we do not know well yet, and curiosity often does not lead to interesting knowledge (curiosity-driven science ). The important activity of RDA Bulgarian Node is to persuade large data users to accept proposed standards for data collection, storage and recovery in order to make their exchange possible and useful. 21/08/2020 - CARE principles for Indigenous Data G... Australia The work of the RDA Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group is cited as part of CSIRO's contribution to the Indigenous Evaluation Strategy of the Australian Government, referring to the CARE principles for Indigenous data governance released by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance Group 22/07/2020 - The RDA Community called to contribut... Europe On 20th July, the EOSC Executive Board published an open consultation on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The consultation, which closes on 31st of August 2020, asks for the input of EOSC communities and beyond in setting out the future vision of the European Open Science Cloud. 03/06/2020 - Take part in the TRIPLE survey to sup... Europe The TRIPLE projectis inviting all RDA members to take part in its User Research Survey 18/05/2020 - Survey of Open Access (OA) Open Scien... Europe OA & OS Infrastructure (OSI) is defined as sets of services, protocols, standards and software contributing to the research lifecycle – from collaboration and experimentation through data collection and storage, data organization, data analysis and computation, authorship, submission, review and annotation, copyediting, publishing, archiving, citation, discovery and more (IOI definition). The purpose of this survey, commissioned by SPARC Europe, is to gather information on established (operating for at least 2 years) international, national or regional OA & OS infrastructures. 12/05/2020 - The Research Data Alliance contributi... Europe The RDA platform is being significantly leveraged in the creation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). A report issued by RDA Europe 4.0 project describes the key finding from a survey conducted amongst 22 current, EOSC-related projects.  27/02/2020 - Persistent Identifier Policy, Rules o... Europe Several documents are out for consultation from the EOSC Executive Board, a body of representatives from the research and e-infrastructures communities, appointed by the European Commission. If you have missed these, please check out the following links: 18/11/2019 - EOSC meets the research data internat... Europe On the 22nd of October 2019, the University of Aalto, Helsinki, Finland hosted the first EOSC event of 2019: The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC. The event was organised by EOSCSecretariat.eu, the H2020 project mandated to support the EOSC Governance, in collaboration with the EOSC Executive Board and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). 07/11/2019 - RDA EU Travel grants for the 15th RDA... Europe RDA Europe is offering up to 7 Early Careers and 5 Experts grants designed to support participation to the 15th RDA Plenary meeting (18-20 March 2020, Melbourne, Australia). The submission deadline for both is the 3rd of February 2020, 17:00 CET. 29/08/2019 - FAIRsFAIR Open Consultation on FAIR D... Europe The FAIR principles are about making research data Findabl 18/07/2019 - Position open for a Research Developm... US The University of Arizona, one of RDA Organizational Members,  is seeking to fill a Research Development Associate (RDA) in Research Development Services (RDS). 17/07/2019 - Final call for European Organisations... Europe RDA Europe, the European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance, is expanding its network of  national nodes. Currently nineteen, (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK) the national nodes aim to foster adoption of RDA outputs in the region. 10/07/2019 - Research Data Alliance meet and greet... Australia Ahead of the first Australian RDA plenary in 2020, the RDA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are collaborating to present an “RDA meet and greet tour” in Australia from 22 July to 8 August. The tour provides an opportunity to find out more about the work of RDA and to meet Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Secretary General.  04/07/2019 - Vacancy: Head of Data Services for Wa... US Recruitment has begun for the position of Head of Data Services for Washington University Libraries. The incumbent will report to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services. Review of applications will begin on July 15, and continue until the position is filled. 21/05/2019 - RDA EU Ambassadors deadline extended:... Europe RDA EU Ambassadors Grants Call for applications: deadline extended until May 27, 2019. 28/03/2019 - Data Management Plans (DMP) Community... Australia and Oceania This Data Management Plans (DMP) Community of Practice is targeted at people in Australia and the wider Oceania region who are interested in discussing, building and improving data management plans (DMPs) best practice and technical tools. Liz Stokes from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) will initially co-ordinate the group. The first meeting for 2019 is on Tuesday, 9 Apr 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 AEST. 07/03/2019 - Services to Support FAIR Data: a seri... Europe OpenAIRE, RDA Europe, FAIRsFAIR and EOSC-hub are happy to announce a series of three workshops, two in April and one in September, called ‘Services to Support FAIR Data’.  The purpose of this workshop series is to explore how existing infrastructures can work together and understand how to deliver services that support the creation of FAIR research outputs. 19/02/2019 - Widening engagement and bringing forw... Europe Agricultural sciences, Engineering, Earth Sciences or High energy physics, these are just a set of the domains that have Ambassadors appointed under the umbrella of the recently launched RDA Europe Ambassadors programme. 15/02/2019 - Webinar on the What, Why and how of t... Europe On February 21 at 2.00 PM CET, RDA Europe 4.0 organises a Q&A webinar to give a detailed overview of Adoption Grants programmes and the application process for the grants, evaluation criteria while aiming to answer questions from the participants. 22/01/2019 - AOSP Releases New Report: The Future... Africa In March 2018, the first version of this document was developed as a result of an expert group meeting held in Pretoria. Resulting amendments were then incorporated into this version, which was launched at the Science Forum South Africa in December 2018. 20/12/2018 - And the winners are…. Meet RDA Europe... Europe RDA Europe is pleased to announce the results of the first call for new RDA Europe national nodes. We were delighted to receive ten applications, four of which were very strong and have been selected to support the mission and work of the Research Data Alliance in Europe. 19/12/2018 - RDA EU open calls for Early Careers,... Europe RDA Europe 4.0, as the European plug-in to RDA, currently has 3 open calls to support growing the community of research data experts and practitioners.  RDA Europe offers grants for Early Careers, Experts to attend Plenary 13 in Philadelphia and for organisations to develop a use-case for adoption of RDA outputs. 07/09/2018 - Whole Tale - RDA/US Fellowship Call f... USA The Whole Tale project, in cooperation with the US region of the Research Data Alliance (RDA/US) and its early career fellowship program RDA/US Data Share, invites applications for the joint WT-RDA/US Early Career fellowship program. Latest posts from the National Groups Vabilo na prvi sestanek terminološke sekcije By: RDA in Slovenia II Latin American and the Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop By: RDA in Brazil Informations sur la Plénière. Appels à commentaires. Listes RDA-France. Focus sur le Groupe FAIR for Research Software By: RDA in France more RDA FOR DISCIPLINES   The “RDA for disciplines” whiteboard is open to all RDA discipline specialists willing to give a personal account of what data-related challenges they are facing and how RDA is helping them.     Find your discipline   RDA and the Digital Humanities With the development of digital humanities research practice, the humanities domain is producing... RDA and Agriculture Agricultural data have become increasingly important for the national and global development and... RDA and Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science The Research Data Alliance builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of... RDA and Chemistry Chemical research data is fundamentally the most important product that chemists create as it... RDA and the Biomedical Sciences Biomedical sciences are a set of applied sciences, employing portions of natural or formal... RDA and Linguistics Data are fundamental to the field of linguistics. Examples drawn from natural languages provide... RDA and the Social Sciences The Research Data Alliance (RDA) hosts about 60 Interest Groups and more than... RDA and Scholarly Communication Many of the RDA’s group activities have concentrated on ways to support data’s discoverability,... RDA and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) This page has been developed by... RDA and Biodiversity Image by... RDA for Interdisciplinary research     Next Planned Past PLENARIES RDA 17th Plenary Meeting - Edinburgh (Virtual) The Digital Curation Centre in collaboration with Jisc and STFC-UKRI will be hosting RDA'S 17th Plenary meeting on 20-22 April 2021. more About Who is RDA? 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