The document discusses the value of research infrastructure providers engaging with the Research Data Alliance (RDA). It outlines that RDA works to enable open sharing of research data globally across disciplines to address societal challenges. As research is global, infrastructure providers need globally compatible services, and RDA ensures this. The document provides reasons for providers to engage with RDA, such as access to an international network and opportunities to collaborate on data standards. It also describes ways providers can engage, such as joining RDA groups or attending meetings.

1. The Value of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) for
Research Infrastructure Providers
The research Data Alliance’s vision is researchers and innovators openly
sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the
grand challenges of society

2. Research infrastructure
providers need to meet the
needs of researchers.
Research disciplines are
global, therefore providers of
infrastructure for researchers
need to ensure the provision
of services compatible with
those used by
their international
collaborators.
In the area of research
data management and
services, the pre-
eminent organisation for
ensuring globally
developed services is
RDA.
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3. Why should research
infrastructure providers engage
with RDA?
• RDA is a gateway to an extraordinary network of
international colleagues and organisations
• RDA offers a neutral forum for the creation of open,
international agreements for research data
interoperability
• RDA is a global community offering a unique
opportunity to collaborate with leading research
organisations, institutes and funders
• RDA Membership provides access to an international
forum facilitating harmonization, integration and/or
implementation of standards and methods for research
data interoperability
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4. Why should research
infrastructure providers engage
with RDA?
• RDA membership provides opportunities to partner with
international expertise
• Knowledge gained through membership provides a
means of managing risk with regard to research data
management and data quality
• Entities and individuals have the opportunity through RDA
to participate in Proof of Concept activities trialing the
latest approaches driving research data practice and
innovation
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5. Why does RDA want to partner with
research infrastructure providers?
• RDA is a multi-disciplinary and cross-domain global
initiative
• RDA offers an all-encompassing community of
stakeholders
• The global community is working towards the
harmonisation of research data management and
research infrastructure providers have skills and
expertise which can contribute greatly to the
development of best practices and standards
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6. What significant contributions
can research infrastructure
providers offer to RDA?
• Augment and enrich the worldwide network of
international data experts and information
professionals to address data challenges via RDA
groups
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of
high quality, practical solutions for data interoperability
in research infrastructure providers across the globe
• Act as the bridge and communication hub for all
activities relating to the challenges of providing
research infrastructures
• Acting as RDA adopters who amplify, direct and
promote RDA Recommendations for the greatest effect
and utility in research infrastructure
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7. How can research
infrastructure providers
engage with RDA?
Join:
• Become part of a large and international
data community
• Provide an organisational perspective of
RDA and influence its direction
• Assist in the implementation and adoption
of RDA’s Recommendations
• Join RDA as an organisational member and
contribute an annual fee
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8. How can research
infrastructure providers
engage with RDA?
Participate:
• Nominate research infrastructure staff to be
involved in the Working Group and Interest
Groups of relevance to research
infrastructure providers
• Propose a new group to discuss and resolve
a research data challenge that your research
infrastructure are facing
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9. How can research
infrastructure providers
engage with RDA?
Attend:
• Send representatives from your
research infrastructure to
engage with the RDA
community at the RDA biannual
plenary meetings
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10. How can research
infrastructure providers
engage with RDA?
Adopt RDA Outputs:
• Adoption of RDA Recommendations and Outputs can
support the strategic aims of research infrastructure
providers in relation to research data management and,
data curation and preservation
• Promote the adoption of RDA Recommendations and
Outputs through your national and domain connections
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11. What does RDA do?
RDA members collaborate across the globe to tackle
numerous infrastructure & data sharing challenges
related to:
• Reproducibility
• Data preservation
• Best practices for domain repositories
• Legal interoperability
• Data citation
• Data type registries
• Metadata
• So much more!
RDA is building the social and technical bridges that enable open
sharing and re-use 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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12. Research Infrastructure
Providers and
RDA
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For the complete RDA Value statement for
Research Infrastructure Providers click here
Stay up to date with RDA:
• Email - enquiries@rd-alliance.org
• Web - www.rd-alliance.org
• Twitter - @resdatall
• LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ResearchDataAlliance
• Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General RDA –
hilary.hanahoe@rda-foundation.org
• Twitter - @hilaryhanahoe
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