This document provides an overview and schedule for the 4th Plenary of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The plenary will take place from September 22-24 in Amsterdam and will focus on the theme of "Reaping the Fruits". It outlines the various plenary sessions, breakout sessions across 10-12 rooms, and a parallel science stream. New this year is an RDA Group Marketplace to facilitate reporting from the many parallel sessions. The document also lists the organizing committee and provides information on related co-located events during the plenary dates.

1. Welcome to the 4th Plenary
Peter Doorn
DANS
De Meervaart Conference Centre
September 22-24, Amsterdam

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“Johnny saw some fine plums hanging,
Oh, like eggs, so very large...”
“Jantje zag eens pruimen hangen
O als eieren zo groot…”
(Reaping the fruits from the first Dutch
children’s book “Kleine gedigten voor
kinderen” by Hieronymus van Alphen,
1778)
Tuesday 23rd, 10:00 AM:
First Work Group Outputs
Theme of the 4th Plenary: Reaping the Fruits

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Breakout Sessions get maximum time: seven sessions in 10-12 rooms!
 17 Working Groups – 15 meetings
 36 Interest Groups – 39 meetings
 12 Birds of a Feather meetings
Three Plenary Sessions:
 Today: Robert-Jan Smits, Neelie Kroes, Carl-Christian Buhr, Barend Mons
 Tuesday: Jos Engelen, Christine L. Borgman, Andrew Treloar
 Wednesday: Panel, RDA business, RDA P5, Closing
Science Stream parallel to breakout sessions, almost continuously (6
sessions) in Red Hall. Topics:
 Data in Motion (today, Monday)
 Industrial Perspectives (Tuesday morning)
 Bridging with the Scientists (Tuesday afternoon)
 Knowledge Networks (Wednesday afternoon)
What’s new this Plenary?

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 Previous Plenaries: “Minute Madness”
 Would now become “Complete Madness”
 Therefore: RDA Group Marketplace
 Supported by our charming Marketplace Ambassador Ms. Gerry
 Every Group has a stand in the Marketplace.
 Chairs are to be at their stands, everybody can move around to visit
the stands they like
 Reporting back has already started
 Marketplace Tabloid “The Plum“
available on big sheets and as
Powerpoint template
How to report back from 65 parallel group sessions?

5. 5 Tuesday: Conference dinner at Zandvoort aan Zee
Seawater temperature: 19.6o

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 Peter Doorn (chair Conference Management Team)
 Jeroen Rombouts (member, also chair Satellite Events Committee)
 Cees de Laat (member, also chair Programme Committee)
 Herman Stehouwer (member, also RDA/E liaison)
 Lisa de Leeuw (member)
 Ingrid Dillo (member)
 Andrew Treloar (liaison from Plenary 3 Organising Committee)
 Hilary Hanahoe (member, also RDA liaison)
 Wouter Los (member)
 Jacco Konijn (member)
 Patrick Aerts (member)
 Timea Biro
 Emilie Kraaikamp
Organising Committee

7. 7 Research Data Netherlands: www.researchdatanetherlands.nl
 Towards a collaborative data
infrastructure
 Mission: the promotion of
sustained access and
responsible re-use of digital
research data
 Cooperation of DANS &
3TU.Datacentre (training, Dutch
Data Award), SURFsara will sign
Wednesday afternoon

8. 8 Special RDA P4 Issue of E-Data & Research
In connection with:
50 years of data archiving
in The Netherlands and
the Dutch Data Award
Featuring several keynote
speakers such as Robert-
Jan Smits, Barend Mons
and Christine Borgman

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 Crowd Computing 2014 23-25 September, Big Data Value Centre, Almere
 3rd EUDAT Conference: Bringing Data Infrastructures to Horizon 2020,
 24-25 September, De Meervaart
 Data Seal of Approval (DSA) Conference 2014, 24 September, De Meervaart
 The Dutch Data Prize Ceremony, 24 September, De Meervaart
 APARSEN/EUDAT/SCIDIP-ES/DPHEP Joint data preservation Workshop, 24
September, De Meervaart
 ODIN ORCID and DataCite: Towards Holistic Open Research, 24 September, De
Meervaart
 EGI Conference on Solutions and Challenges for Big Data Processing, 24-26
September, Science Park, Amsterdam
 AMS Data 2014, 25 September, de Meervaart
 RECODE Workshop WP5: Policy guidelines for open access and data preservation
and dissemination, 25 September, de Meervaart
 PaNdata ODI 2nd Open Workshop, 25 September, de Meervaart
 CReATIVE-B: Workshop 'Global Roadmap for biodiversity research infrastructures',
26 September, Brussels, Belgium
11 Co-located Events

10. 10 Our sponsors

11. Enjoy the Conference,
Enjoy Amsterdam!