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Translating Research Data Alliance global to the UK 1
Translating Research Data Alliance global to the UK 1
Translating RDA global to the UKRachel Bruce and Christopher Brown, Jisc
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Content
» RDA in a nutshell
» Recommendations and outputs - impact on RDM in universities
» Relevance to Research @ Risk projects in the UK
» RDA UK
» Q&A
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What is RDA?
RDA is an international member based organisation 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 5,700 members globally representing 128 countries, RDA includes researchers, scientists and data science professionals working in multiple disciplines, domains and thematic fields and from different types of organisations across the globe.
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https://www.rd-alliance.org/
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.
RDA – Vision/Mission
VisionResearchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.
MissionRDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.
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18 Flagship Outputsof which 4 ICT Technical Specifications
75 Adoption Casesacross multiple disciplines, organisations & countries
81 Groups working on global data interoperability challengesof which 28 Working Groups & 53 Interest Groups
5,739 Individual Members from 128 Countries67% Academia & Research15% Public Administration11% Enterprise & Industry
43 Organisational Members & 8 Affiliate Membersacross multiple disciplines, organisations & countries
What does the RDA do?
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Members come together through self-formed, volunteer, focussed Working Groups, exploratory Interest Groups to exchange
knowledge, share discoveries, discuss barriers and potential solutions, explore and define policies and test as well as harmonise standards to enhance and facilitate global data sharing & re-use.
RDA members collaborate together across the globe to tackle numerous infrastructure & data sharing challenges related to:
ReproducibilityData preservationBest practices for domain
repositoriesLegal interoperability
Data citationData type registriesMetadataand so many more!
Who can join RDA?
Any individual or organisation, 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
• Harmonisation
• Community-driven
• Non-profit and technology-neutral
Individual Membership is free @ https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register
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RDA worldwide growth
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Total RDA community members 5739
128 Countries
Who is RDA?
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Why 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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Individual RDA Members 5739
Interest/Working Groups by Focus
» Domain science› BioSharing Registry, Fisheries/Rice/Wheat Data Interoperability…
» Community needs› Certification and Accreditation, Summer schools, Teaching…
» Reference and sharing› Data citation, Data security and trust, Publishing data, Data description…
» Partnership groups› Metadata standards, Scholarly link exchange, Privacy implications…
» Data stewardship and services› Brokering framework, Assessment of data fitness for use, Active DMPs…
» Base infrastructure› Array database assessment, Data type registries, PID, Data fabric…
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RDA Recommendations that make data work
“Create - Adopt - Use”
Adopted code, policy, specifications, standards, or practices that enable datasharing
“Harvestable” efforts for which 12-18 months of work can eliminate a roadblock
Efforts that have substantive applicability to groups within the data communitybut may not apply to all
Efforts that can start today
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18 flagship recommendations & outputs with over 75 cases of adoption in different domains, organisations and countries
Adoption & Implementation
RDA Recommendations and Outputs take the form of technical specifications, code,policies or practices, harmonised standards or reference models. In the widest sensethese aim for:
Greater data sharing, exchange, interoperability, usability and re-usability;
Greater discoverability of research data sets;
Better management, stewardship, and preservation of research data;
New data standards or harmonization of existing standards.
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“Solving the problem must include adopters in the process, to ensure that real problems are addressed. Open problem solving is the key.”
RDA Adoption & Implementation Stories - Tell us yours!
75 Adoption Cases https://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-outputs/adoption-recommendations
Find out how you can become an Adopterhttps://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outcomes/become-rda-adopter
Addressing data challengeshttps://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-and-outputs
Research@Risk
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Project / Area Group
Research Data Shared Service National Data Services
Research Data Discovery Service Data Discovery Paradigms IG
IRUS4Data/Data Citation Data Citation IG
Next generation research environment Virtual Research Environment IG (VRE-IG)
Persistent Identifiers PID IG
Research Data Long tail of research data IGData Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) WGActive Data Management Plans IG
Metadata Metadata IGMetadata Standards Catalog WGData in Context IG
Data Policies Data policy standardisation and implementation IG
RDA & UK support
» Timeframe:› 1 June 2016 to 31 May 2017› 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018
» Jisc is supporting RDA and is coordinating body for UK engagement» Working in partnership with RCUK (especially STFC)» Deliverables:
› Coordinate UK data systems, researchers and infrastructure providers, within the context of RDA
› Provide diverse and expert advice on data efforts› Improve the efficiency of UK data infrastructure development
» Supports Jisc’s aim to ensure that UK research and its outputs are part of the global research infrastructure, in particular helping to inform the best practices and standards that Jisc (& other related UK infrastructure) can implement to support the creation, management and sharing of research data as a primary research output and knowledge foundation
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RDA & Jisc/Research Councils
UK Research Data Coordination through support of the Research Data Alliance
» UK researchers, developers and infrastructure providers work within appropriate RDA Working and Interest Groups in furthering UK research interests.
» The RDA will advise and assist the UK community on developing and participating in relevant RDA Working and Interest Groups.
» Build RDA engagement and general collaboration and communication within the UK research community.
» Disseminate and facilitate the adoption of RDA Recommendations and other outputs within the UK and beyond.
» Local engagement to ensure wider impact and see RDA in practice
» Engage with UK organisations to solicit their membership and advice on the usefulness and applicability of RDA Recommendations to UK research and related organisations
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RDA UK Workshop – Nov 2016
» Group 1 – Trust and Certification
› RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories Interest Group
› Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WG
» Group 2 – Data Citation
› Data Citation Working Group
» Group 3 – Metadata Standards
› Metadata Standards Catalog Working Group
› Metadata Standards Directory WG
» Group 4 – Publishing Data
› RDA/WDS Publishing Data Interest Group
› RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG
› RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services WG
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One-day workshop to provide attendees with information about how the RDA is working to achieveits vision. Including representatives from specific working and interest groups highlighting their workand discussing how this work can be used practically in universities and data centres in the UK.
RDA Engagement
» The RDA is a window to different communities, a place to find solutions
» RDA->RDA Europe->RDA UK - confusing at what level to engage
» Useful to have a national data forum where national issues are discussed, which can be brought to the RDA
» Need to reach out to practitioners who are never going to attend RDA plenaries and a national group should allow them to voice their concerns and ask questions
» Need a channel for linking people who are interested in the working groups -enables everyone to feed into the groups and learn from them
» Outputs need to be promoted and reach a maximum audience
» Need a way to feed back from UK practitioners back into the expert groups
» UK use cases could feed into the RDA and then come back with toolkits to help with these problems
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RDA Engagement & Jisc
» Role for Jisc› Profiling RDA work › Engage with UK practitioners and make the connections› Review of suitability of outputs and refining for particular contexts e.g. pilots to test
outputs (DSA, Data Citation)› Focus on specific areas relevant to wider research audience› Encourage researchers to attend plenaries and meetings where useful› Only a pilot at this stage (testing things out)
– RDA Workshop http://bit.ly/RDA_Workshop_Nov2017– RDA sessions at RDN (3rd and 4th)
› Hope to build a more streamlined/common understood process› Expand our Research Data Network (http://bit.ly/RDN_RDA)
– Conduit for RDA work and highlighting relevant outputs to the community– Significant international research data initiatives (RDA, EUDAT, ANDS, etc)
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RDA Europe 4.0
» European support for the RDA focussed on governance and strategy
» Building engagement
» 9-22 National RDA Nodes
» 27 month project
» Starting 2018
» UK partners – STFC and DCC
» STFC and Jisc as RDA UK node
» Grow the RDA to make it sustainable and part of Business As Usual
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Further Information
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https://www.rd-alliance.org@resdatall@RDA_Europe#rdauk
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/research-datahttps://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/http://bit.ly/RDN_RDA#JiscRDM
jisc.ac.uk
Rachel BruceChristopher Brown
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