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Encouraging an ecological evolution of data infrastructureMark A. Parsons0000-0002-7723-0950Secretary General

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Working Glocally—Bridging across scales

Glocalization “means the simultaneity—the co-presence—of both universalizing and and

particularizing tendencies.” — Roland Robertson

Glocalism is playing at multiple scales at once.

Mission of the Research Data Alliance

RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.

December 2015

58 Working and Interest Groups

Solving the problem must include adopters in the process.

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Open problem solving is key.

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No defined architecture.

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Examples of unplanned interconnection• Two for the price of one:

• An RDA outsider at the Washington University St. Louis adopted RDA Foundational Terminology and found it beneficial in establishing data models and workflows their community Air Quality Community Catalog. As they went along they also found that using the RDA Data Type Registry model was helpful in making the implicit assumptions of the data more explicit.

• One type of interconnection leads to another. • Two unrelated RDA groups centered at different parts of the word

are able to broaden traceable connections from data center to publisher then to researcher and institute. All centered around the data and resulting in improved credit, metrics, and provenance.

• Centrality of PIDs

‹#›An Area of Convergence and Agreement

Internet Domain

nodes with IP numbers

packages being exchanged

standardized protocols

Data Domain

objects with PID numbers

objects being exchanged

standardized protocols

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RDA Plenary 7 (Tokyo)

https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-seventh-plenary-meeting.html

12-16 September 2016in

Denver, Colorado, USA

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