Philosophy, Structure, and Governance of RDA
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The document summarizes the Research Data Alliance (RDA), including its vision of open data sharing across disciplines to address societal challenges, groups working on specific issues, and governance structure involving a council, secretariat, and technical advisory board to guide its work. RDA has over 4,000 members from over 100 countries working in various interest and working groups to develop standards and recommendations to make data sharing and use more effective.
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Philosophy, Structure, and Governance of RDA
- 1. Unless otherwise noted, the slides in this presentation are licensed by Mark A. Parsons under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License Research Data Alliance: Philosophy, Structure, and Governance Mark A. Parsons 0000-0002-7723-0950 Secretary General RDA for Newcomers Denver, CO, USA 15 September 2016
- 2. Research Data Alliance Vision Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. Mission RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.
- 3. Recommendations that make data work “Create - Adopt - Use” • Adopted code, policy, specifications, standards, or practices that enable data sharing • “Harvestable” efforts for which 12-18 months of work can eliminate a roadblock • Efforts that have substantive applicability to groups within the data community but may not apply to all • Efforts that can start today RDA Principles Openness Consensus Balance Harmonization Community Driven Non-profit
- 4. “Create - Adopt - Use” (in 12-18 months) Systems Interoperability Adopted Policy Sustainable Economics Common Types, Standards, Metadata Traffic Image: Mike Gonzalez Adopted Community Practice Training, Education, Workforce
- 5. Solving the problem must include adopters in the process. Image courtesy bigthink.com
- 6. Open problem solving is key. Figure courtesy webbirdmedia.com
- 7. No defined architecture. Figure courtesy edrawsoft.com See Blog post at https://rd- alliance.org/blogs/building- infrastructure-through-strategies- interconnection.html
- 8. Map of the internet by the Opte Project [CC-BY] via Wikimedia Commons
- 9. Africa 3% Asia 9% Australasia 5% Europe 48% North America 34% South America 1% Total RDA Community Members: 4345 from 111 countries Who is RDA? Type Members (Sept. 2016) Press & Media 27 Policy/Funding Agency 64 Large Enterprise 99 IT Consultancy/Development 143 Small and Medium Enterprise 249 Other 235 Government/Public Services 671 Academia/Research 2857 TOTAL 4345 www.rd-alliance.org/about-rda 392 989 1272 1654 2046 2402 2634 2877 3122 3431 3694 4016 4273 4345 May - July Aug - Oct Nov - Jan Feb - Apr May - July Aug - Oct Nov - Jan Feb -Apr May - July Aug -Oct Nov - Jan Feb- Apr May - July Aug - Oct www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall Total 73 groups: 27 Working Groups & 46 Interest Groups
- 10. Some themes amidst the difference 1. Persistent Identifiers for data, documents, people, organisations, instruments—Everything! 2. Certifying Trust in assertions, evidence, organisations, processes… 3. The value of Conversations, Relationships, and Mediation — an agile network effect.
- 11. Funders Forum Interest Groups domain coordination, idea generation, maintenance, … RDAMembership Working Groups implementable, impactful outcomes Council organisational vision and strategy Technical Advisory Board socio-technical vision and strategy Secretariat administration and operations Organisationa l Advisory Board needs, adoption, business advice RDA Foundatio n
- 12. RDA is you … The members … The Community Contributing to acceleration of data infrastructure development Working and sharing experiences with collaborators throughout the world Accessing extraordinary network of colleagues with various levels of experience, perspectives and practices Gaining greater expertise in data science regardless of whether one is a student, early or seasoned career professional Enhancing the quality and effectiveness of personal work and activities Improving competitive advantage professionally and positioning oneself for leadership within the broader research community Creating, managing & driving RDA Working & Interest groups with fellow global colleagues and Commenting on Outputs
- 13. Funders Forum Interest Groups domain coordination, idea generation, maintenance, … RDAMembership Working Groups implementable, impactful outcomes Council organisational vision and strategy Technical Advisory Board socio-technical vision and strategy Secretariat administration and operations Organisationa l Advisory Board needs, adoption, business advice RDA Foundatio n
- 14. RDA Secretariat Responsible for the administration and daily operations. Contact: secretariat@rda-groups.org rd-alliance.org Mark Parsons - Secretary General Timea Biro - RDA/EU and Trust-IT Services Ltd. Kathy Fontaine – volunteer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hilary Hanahoe – RDA/EU and Trust-IT Services Ltd Fotis Karayannis – RDA/EU and ATHENA Research Center Stefanie Kethers – Australian National Data Service Yolanda Meleco - RDA/US and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Sara Pittonet Gaiarin – RDA/EU and Trust IT Services Ltd Lynn Yarmey– RDA/US and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- 15. TAB Members Wenbo Chu National Science and Technology Infrastructure Center of China Simon J D Cox CSIRO Australia Stephen Diggs - Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Ingrid Dillo Data Archiving and Networked Services Peter Fox - Tetherless World Constellation Chair Françoise Genova - Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre CDS (TAB co- chair) Larry Lannom Corporation for National Research Initiatives Carole Palmer Information School at the University of Washington Susanna-Assunta Sansone University of Oxford e- Research Centre Rainer Stotzka Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Andrew Treloar Australian National Data Service (TAB co- chair) Peter Wittenburg Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
- 16. Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Responsible for the technical direction of the RDA and provides technical expertise and advice to Council, as well as helping to develop and review RDA Working and Interest Groups to promote their impact and effectiveness. TAB members normally serve for a term of 3 years and may be re-elected. Each year, approximately one‐third of the TAB stand down and their positions will be filled by election. TAB Representatives are elected by RDA membership. TAB Election: opens today! Contact: tab@rda-groups.org
- 17. TAB Members Wenbo Chu National Science and Technology Infrastructure Center of China Simon J D Cox CSIRO Australia Stephen Diggs - Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Ingrid Dillo Data Archiving and Networked Services Peter Fox - Tetherless World Constellation Chair Françoise Genova - Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre CDS (TAB co- chair) Larry Lannom Corporation for National Research Initiatives Carole Palmer Information School at the University of Washington Susanna-Assunta Sansone University of Oxford e- Research Centre Rainer Stotzka Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Andrew Treloar Australian National Data Service (TAB co- chair) Peter Wittenburg Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
- 19. 44 RDA Organisational Members Organisational & Affiliate Members 6 RDA Affiliate Members https://rd-alliance.org/organisation/rda-organisation-affiliate-members.html
- 20. To provide an organizational perspective on the work of RDA and ability to influence RDA’s direction To assist in implementation of RDA Outputs To participate in all RDA Organizational assembly meetings To receive regular updates on the work of the RDA To attend Organizational Assembly meetings and vote on proposed policies for consideration by the RDA Council and for members of the Organizational Advisory Board To provide advice to the Council through the Organizational Advisory Board To be recognized on the RDA Website and at RDA Meetings as a supporter of data interoperability Why do global organisations join RDA?
- 21. RDA Council Responsible for the oversight, sustainability, and overall success of RDA, including approval of candidate Working and Interest Groups to ensure alignment with RDA goals. rd-alliance.org Fran Berman - Co-Chair, RDA Council & Chair, RDA/US Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Patrick Cocquet - Chief Executive Officer, Cap Digital Jean-Bernard Minster – Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Kay Raseroka - Independent consultant and Trainer, IFLA Building Strong Library Associations Satoshi Sekiguchi - Deputy Director General, Directorate for Information Technology and Electronics, AIST Michael Stanton - Director of Research and Development at the Brazilian NREN (RNP) Doris Wedlich - Chief Science Officer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Ross Wilkinson - Executive Director, Australian National Data Service John Wood - Co-chair, RDA Council & Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities
- 22. Funders Forum Interest Groups domain coordination, idea generation, maintenance, … RDAMembership Working Groups implementable, impactful outcomes Council organisational vision and strategy Technical Advisory Board socio-technical vision and strategy Secretariat administration and operations Organisationa l Advisory Board needs, adoption, business advice RDA Foundatio n
- 23. Looking forward to seeing you ALL there www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall
- 25. RDA in a Nutshell WWW.RD-ALLIANCE.ORG/ @RESDATALL RDA Global Email - enquiries@rd-alliance.org Web - www.rd-alliance.org Twitter - @resdatall LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ResearchDataAlliance Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/ResearchDataAlliance Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Research- Data-Alliance/459608890798924 RDA Europe Email - info@europe.rd-alliance.org Web - europe.rd-alliance.org Twitter - @RDA_Europe RDA US Twitter - @RDA_US
Editor's Notes
- Point here is to emphasize our principles (which influence the business model) and our implementation based philosophy which has driven our growth but also demands more coordination.
- Adoption built in!
- 1st. We insist that organisations committed to adopting the solution being developed are involved. That ensures that we are addressing real problems. those early adopters are important.
- 2nd. all our WGs are open. Open problem solving is key. We want to capture the enthusiasts and get all the relevant perspectives. We’re big into consensus, but we define it quite loosely. Basically we say if there is a constituency using the output developed, that’s a level of consensus. And problem solving really needs to be done in a glocal way too. The agriculture community has figured out a way to do this really well. The have established an agricultural IG in RDA which kinda acts like their network facilitator—their Willie Nelson. The IG then identifies specific issues to address and whether they need to be addressed within the ag community or whether they should be addressed in a more global forum like some of the other RDA working groups, or if they need to establish a new WG to address particular issues. They spun up a wheat interoperability WG and are now working on a soils data WG. So we know this. We know to solve problems. Be use case driven. But too often we get caught up in our own engineering concerns of building the system. This leads me to another point.
- Not only do we not believe in heavy top-down approaches we explicitly eschew developing a central “architecture.” We let our WGs work on whatever they think is important and really only unite under a set of guiding principles. We agree with my friend Øystein Godøy who said I don’t want to build a system so much as a set of tools. (social and technical tools). Furthermore we observe how these tools these bridges interconnect. We don’t define how they interconnect. And we are already beginning to see that organic interconnection in RDA. We have nearly 60 groups. and about a dozen formal recommendations plus some other important outputs. And they are finding ways to interconnect on their own.
- Second these new systems (infrastructures?) follow a similar rather organic pattern of light central control of broad and diverse local systems. It’s much like the internet. Much like ecosystems. Indeed this is how networks work. Diverse hubs connected through often very weak ties.
- PIDs, trust, and the value of Community relationships. And these themes are all closely interrelated and discussion continues Mark Bide remarks at the 20th anniversary of the DOI: "if the barriers to achieving universality of identity management are not primarily technical, if the same identifier system can equally be used to identify scholarly journal articles and Hollywood movies, where do they lie? It is often assumed by those on the outside of the standards world that standards are simply about technology. The best technical solution will always win. In reality, what those of us who have worked in standards know — one of our guilty secrets — is that standards implementation is mostly about establishing acceptable social norms to which people willingly adhere. How does that come about? The answer is primarily encapsulated in a single word, a single concept: trust. He goes on to say that "while we all talk about "neutrality" in the standards world, there is another hidden and often unacknowledged secret in standards making: no standard can ever be wholly neutral. Every standard has an unspoken "point of view", a set of assumptions that informs its entire specification. [But] It is also important that the specification represents a consensus "point of view" among those who implement it Trust is similarly central to data sharing. Data sharing is where the friction occurs and therefore where trust is prominent and essential
- Use this to illustrate what coordination elements need support
- Guiding Principles: Openness Consensus Balance Harmonization Community-driven Non-profit and technology-neutral
- Use this to illustrate what coordination elements need support
- They’ll have ribbons. Ask them questions. TAB is having an election
- They’ll have ribbons. Ask them questions. TAB is having an election
- Guiding Principles: Openness Consensus Balance Harmonization Community-driven Non-profit and technology-neutral
- Discuss Foundation and FF