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
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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
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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