This document provides an update on the Research Data Alliance (RDA). It summarizes that the RDA community focuses on building infrastructure to reduce barriers to data sharing and accelerate the development of coordinated global data infrastructure. It notes that the RDA has grown significantly since its launch in 2013 and now has over 3,000 members from over 100 countries. It also summarizes several outputs and deliverables from RDA working groups, including standards for data citation, metadata directories and data type registries. Finally, it previews upcoming RDA plenary meetings in places like Paris, Tokyo, and the United States.

1. Update on the Research Data Alliance
July 2015
Updated: 6th
July 2015

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 RDA community focuses on
building social, organizational
and technical infrastructure to
 reduce barriers to data sharing
and exchange
 accelerate the development of
coordinated global data
infrastructure
CREATE  ADOPT  USE
RDA Working Group Infrastructure
Deliverables are:
Focused pieces of adopted code, policy,
infrastructure, standards, or best practices that
enable data to be shared and exchanged
“Harvestable” efforts for which 12-18 months of
work can eliminate a roadblock for a substantial
community
Efforts that have substantive applicability to
“chunks” of the data community, but may not apply to
everyone
Efforts forwhich working scientists and
researchers can start today while more long-term or
far-reaching solutions are appropriately discussed in
other venues
Research Data Alliance created to Accelerate Development of
Research Data Sharing Infrastructure Worldwide
Plenary 2
Washington, DC

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Precipitous Growth
RDA Launch /First
Plenary
March2013
RDA Second
Plenary
September2014
RDA Third
Plenary
March2014
RDA Fourth
Plenary
September2014
RDA Fifth
Plenary
March2015
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Washington,
DC, USA
Dublin, Ireland
Gothenburg,
Sweden
240 participants
First Working Groups
and Interest Groups
380 participants from22
countries
First “neutral space”
community meeting (Data
Citation Summit)
First Organizational Partner
Meet-up
First BOFs
497 Participants from32
countries
First Organizational
Assembly
6 co-located events
14 BOF,
12 Working Groups, 22
Interest Groups
San Diego,
CA, USA
550 Participants
from40 countries
1st
RDA Deliverables
presented
Organizational
Assembly and first
OAB/Council
meeting
10 co-located events
11 BOF,
14 Working Groups,
36 Interest Groups
383 Participants from30
countries
2nd
RDA Deliverables
presented
Organizational Assembly /
Council meetings
1st
Adoption Day & Large
scale data projects meeting
10 BOF, 10 Working Groups,
20 Interest Groups;
10 joint Sessions;
4 thematic Plenary Sessions

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The Research Data Alliance Community Today
Total RDA Community Members: 3029
from 103 countries

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RDA Organizational Structure Complete
RDA Funders Forum
Stakeholder Group
RDA Council
Responsible for overarching mission, vision, impact of RDA
Technical Advisory
Board
Responsible for Technical
roadmap and interactions
Secretary-General and
Secretariat
Responsible for
administration and
operations
Organizational Advisory
Board and
Organizational
Assembly
Responsible for organizational
adoption and strategic advice
Working Groups 16 (June 2015)
Self formed & responsible for impactful, outcome-oriented efforts
Interest Groups 42 (June 2015)
Self formed & responsible for defining and refining common issues
RDAMembership

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RDA Interest (IG) and Working Groups (WG)
by Focus 1

7. 7RDA Interest (IG) and Working Groups (WG)
by Focus 2

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 Data Foundation & Terminology: a model for data in the
registered domain.
 PID Information Types: a common protocol for providers
and users of persistent ID services worldwide.
 Data Type Registries: allowing humans and machines to act
on unknown, but registered, data types.
 Practical Policy: defining best practices of how to deal with
data automatically and in a documented way with computer
actionable policy.
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html
Outputs

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 Metadata standards directory: Community curated
standards catalogue for metadata interoperability
 Data Citation: defining mechanisms to reliably cite dynamic
data
 Data Description Registry Interoperability solutions
enabling cross platform discovery based on existing open
protocols and standards
 Wheat Data Interoperability impacting the discoverability,
reusability and interoperability of wheat data by building a
common framework for describing, representing linking and
publishing wheat data
https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html
Outputs

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 Organisations & initiatives seen as pioneers in
realizing full value from research data
 exercise considerable influence in the
development of standards for data exchange
and will provide valuable insights to the entire
range of RDA activity
 regularly briefed on developments in data
interoperability with equally regular opportunity
to provide feedbackon activity and suggestions
on next steps
Organisation & Affiliate Members

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RDA Organisational Members

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Organisational Members Composition

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RDA Affiliate Members
41% 35% 18% 6%
Academia/
Research SMEsOther Policy/
Funding Agency

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RDA Plenary 3 (Dublin)
 March 26-28, 2014
 Theme : “Playing YOUR part”
 500 attendees from 35 countries
 Hosted by Ireland and Australia
 Co-located events:
 EUDAT Training
 MUMIA Meeting on Verifiable Results in Multi-
lingual/Multi-faceted Search: Challenges in
Sharing Data, Tools and Results Workshop
 SIM4RDM: Building Collaborations to address
research data management workshop
 APARSEN-EUDAT-SCIDIP-ES Workshop on
Data Preservation and Re-use
 Focus on emerging professionals :
 RDA/EU sponsored 22 European Early Career
Researchers and Scientists
 RDA/US sponsored 8 Student Interns

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 September 22-24, 2014
 Theme : “Reaping the Fruits”
 550 attendees from 40+ countries
 Co-hosted by Netherlands
 Co-located conferences:
 EUDAT Conference
 Crowd Computing 2014
 Data Seal of Approval Conference 2014, etc.
 1st RDA deliverables presented:
 Data Type Registries
 PID Information Types
 Practical Policy
 Data Foundation and Terminology
 Focus on emerging professionals :
 RDA/EU sponsored 14 European Early
Career Researchers and Scientists
 RDA/US sponsored 8 Student Interns and
5 Early Career and Student Fellows
RDA Plenary 4 (Amsterdam)

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 March 8-11, 2015
 Theme : “Adopt-a-Deliverable”
 383 attendees from 30 countries
 Supported by the San Diego Super
Computing Center
 1st
Adoption Day & Large scale data
projects meeting
 2nd
Set of RDA deliverables presented:
 Data Citation: Making Data Citable
 Data Description Registry Interoperability
 Metadata Standards Directory
 Wheat Data Interoperability
 Focus on emerging professionals :
 RDA/EU sponsored 5 European Early Career
Researchers and Scientists
 RDA/US sponsored 5 Fellowship winners
RDA Plenary 5 (San Diego, CA)

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RDA Plenary 6 (Paris)
When?
23-25 September 2015
Where?
CNAM, Paris, France
What?
Enterprise Engagement
with a focus on Research
Data for Climate Change
https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html

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Future Plenaries
RDA Plenary 8 during International Data Week 2016
When? 11-16 Sept 2016
Where? East Coast, USA
Co-located with? SciDataCon2016
RDA Plenary 8 during International Data Week 2016
When? 11-16 Sept 2016
Where? East Coast, USA
Co-located with? SciDataCon2016
RDA Plenary 7
When? 1-3 March 2016
Where? Toyko, Japan
RDA Plenary 7
When? 1-3 March 2016
Where? Toyko, Japan
RDA Plenary 9
When? March 2017
Where? Barcelona, Spain
RDA Plenary 9
When? March 2017
Where? Barcelona, Spain

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Next Steps forRDA
Continuing pipeline of infrastructure deliverables
adopted and used to accelerate data sharing
Increasing coordination of infrastructure
Increasing cross-boundary collaborations
between domains, sectors, organizations
International and regional programs focusing on
workforce, outreach, expansion of infrastructure
impact
New partners in the Organizational Assembly
Focused strategy to support development of
industry infrastructure for data sharing
More Infrastructure
Partnership with
Industry
Synergistic Programs
Effective Community

21. The Data Harvest, December 2014 © RDA Europe
The Data Harvest Report
How sharing research data can
yield knowledge, jobs and grow
A RDA Europe Report

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