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RDA Globalwhat happened

Doris Wedlich, Peter WittenburgKIT, MPCDF

2What is RDA?

RDA is an international member based organization focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data driven innovation worldwide.

With more than 4,500 members globally representing 115 countries, RDA includes data science professionals from multiple disciplines, including but not limited to academia, library sciences, earth science, astronomy and meteorology.

RDA is building the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data to achieve its vision of researchers and innovators

openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

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3Who Can Join RDA?

Any individual or organization, regardless of profession or discipline, with an interest in reducing the barriers to data sharing and re-use and who agrees to RDA’s guiding principles of:

Openness Consensus Balance Harmonization Community-driven Non-profit and technology-

neutral

Individual Membership is free @ https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register

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4Why Join RDA?

Individual Member Benefits Contribute to acceleration of data infrastructure development Work and share experiences with collaborators throughout the

world Access to extraordinary network of colleagues with various

levels of experience, perspectives and practices Gain greater expertise in data science regardless of whether

one is a student, early or seasoned career professional Enhance the quality and effectiveness of personal work and

activities Improve one’s competitive advantage professionally and

positioning oneself for leadership within the broader research community

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5Why Join RDA?

Organisational Member Benefits Provide an organizational perspective on the work of RDA

and ability to influence RDA’s direction Assist in implementation & adoption of RDA

Recommendations & Outputs Participate in all RDA Organizational Forums Receive regular updates on the work of the RDA Attend Organizational Assembly meetings and vote on

proposed policies for consideration by the RDA Council and for members of the Organizational Advisory Board

Provide advice to RDA Council through the Organizational Advisory Board

Be recognized on the RDA Website and at RDA Meetings as a supporter of data interoperability

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6RDA worldwide growth

115 Countries

Total RDA community members 4527

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7Who is RDA member?

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8Organisational & Affiliate Members

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46 RDA Organisational Members

6 RDA Affiliate Members

9Next Plenaries

10What‘s new?

RDA Advising Committees for

Operations & Coordination Committee (RDA-OCC)

Engagement and Communications -> RDA Ambassador program (link regional/global)

RDA Council Subcommittees

Strategy Sustainability and Funding Finance

11What‘s done in RDA Europe?

RDA Europe Synchronisation Meeting Coordination of activities (grant proposals) Planning of

events and training courses Exchange about new developments How to contribute to European Open Science Cloud

RDA regional meetings

12RDA in contact with Policy makers

RDA meets Heads of EC-DGs

Meeting Robert-Jan Smits DG RTDMark Parsons &Peter Wittenburg 21.11.2016

Meeting Roberto Viola DG Connect andRobert-Jan Smits DG RTD RfII Doris Wedlich 22.11.2016

Meeting Augusto Burgueno ArjonaJohn Wood, Patrick Cocquet, Mark Parsons....06.04.2016

EC-DGs: European Commission Directorate General

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75%-80% of Data Scientist time for DM&A~ 50 Billions of devices creating a Data Monster!Are we ready to fight the monster – NO

... not at the end of the development

14Federations of Trustful Repositories

Social contractsto enable

integration,seamless accessand built on trust

at the core trustful centres being assessed byData Seal of

Approval / World Data Systems

- discipline focus- national focus

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DFT core model issimple.Messages are on purpose verysimple.Need to learn tospeak with onevoice.If all SW builderswould adhere to it, we would havegained a lot!

RDA DFT – Simple powerful data model

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Value AddedServices

DataSources

PersistentIdentifiers

PersistentReferenceAnalysis Citation

AppsCustomClients Plug-Ins

Resolution System Typing

PID

Local Storage Cloud Computed

Data Sets RDBMS Files

Digital Objects

PID recordattributes

bit sequence(instance)

metadataattributes

points to instances describes properties

describes properties& context

point toeach other

PID System is just a catalyser for new layered services and new businesses.

Need to change – need a momentum.

PIDs to initiate Momentum

17Results/Impact of RDA

• 15 formal Recommendations and several supporting outputs. (very fast work for an international organisation, and reflects the passion of the community.

• these outputs have been adopted and actually put into use by at least 75 organisations

• 4 of those Recommendations have been formally accepted as EC specifications

• persistent identifiers (for data, documents, people, organisations, workflows, etc.) now accepted everywhere as basic

• PIDs may be approaching the tipping point of becoming the generic interoperability solution we pine for.

• RDA DFT essentially with same messages as FAIR(Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-Usable)

• data citation is becoming a routine practice.

18Results/Impact of RDA

• RDA community itself is perhaps the most valued aspect of RDA to date. It is a place where I can throw problems and take out solutions.

• partnered with CODATA in developing a successful data management curriculum for researchers

• CODATA and RDA are working together strategically to engage Africa• National RDA meetings in UK, Italy, Germany, France,

Finland/Nordics, etc.• Industry is finally showing interest and the Barcelona plenary should

advance the connection significantly

19Results/Impact of RDA

• Some highlights of deliverables and outputs (in no particular order): • The OECD has adopted the RDA cost recovery model for

repositories• Springer/Nature uses the Data Publishing Workflows reference

model as a business tool• The Data Seal of Approval and the World Data System came

together in RDA to harmonize their repository certification schemes• “23 Things Libraries can do to get involved with data

management” has become a "best seller" in 11 languages.• There is growing research discipline engagement with the model

defined by the Agricultural IG: wheat interoperability, now rice interop and more to be expected.

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