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Research Data Alliance (UK)
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international organization with over 4,300 members from 110+ countries that works to reduce barriers to data sharing. RDA develops infrastructure and activities to accelerate data-driven innovation. It includes data professionals from various disciplines, including academia and sciences. RDA's goal is to enable open sharing of data across technologies and borders to address societal challenges. The UK engages with RDA through supporting working groups to further UK research interests and disseminating RDA recommendations within the UK research community.
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- 1. Research Data Alliance(UK), research data network, St Andrews University Chris Brown , Rachel Bruce, Jisc 30/11/16
- 2. RDA 2 https://www.rd-alliance.org/ RDA is aninternational organisation 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 4,300 members globally representing more than 110 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. Source: https://www.rd-alliance.org/about-rda
- 3. RDA – Gettinginvolved 3 Individuals Observers Contributors Drivers Organisations Insight Adopt Drive National level Coordination & Knowledge Exchange, Strategy & / or Implementation • Members • WGs-IGs-BoFs • Requests for Comments • Plenaries • Member • WGs-IGs-BoFs • RfCs • H2020 projects • Adoption / Uptake • Papers & Events • Meetings & Fora • Training &Workshops • Uptake pilots Source: https://www.rd-alliance.org/about-rda
- 4. RDA – Members 4 392 989 1272 1654 2046 2402 2634 28773122 3431 3694 4016 4273 4476 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 Journalist/Editor/Copywriter CTO/IT Director CEO/Managing Director/Chief Executive IT Specialist/IT Architect Professor Other 27 72 110 204 195 257 400 456 463 503 813 976 Type Actual members (Oct. 2016) Press and Media 27 Policy/Funding Agency 66 Large Enterprise 99 IT Consultancy/Development 146 Small and Medium Enterprise 257 Other (please specify) - obligatory 241 Government/Public Services 690 Academia/Research 2950 Africa 3% Asia 9% Australasia 5% Europe 48% North America 33% South America 2% Source: https://www.rd-alliance.org/about-rda
- 5. RDA – Recommendations& Outputs 5 » Data Foundation &Terminology: a model for data in the registered domain » PID InformationTypes: a common protocol for providers and users of persistent ID services worldwide » DataType 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 » 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 Source: www.rd-alliance.org/recommendaions-outputs
- 6. RDA & Jisc/ResearchCouncils 6 UK Research Data Coordination through support of the Research Data Alliance » UK researchers, developers and infrastructure providers work within appropriate RDA Working and Interest Groups in furthering UK research interests. » The RDA will advise and assist the UK community on developing and participating in relevant RDAWorking and Interest Groups. » Build RDA engagement and general collaboration and communication within the UK research community. » Disseminate and facilitate the adoption of RDA Recommendations and other outputs within the UK and beyond.
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- 8. Engaging » Organisations jointhe RDA and as members can represent their country’s institutions » Members, plenaries ? » How to implement practice from theory » Perhaps UK use cases could feed into the RDA and then come back with toolkits to help with these problems. It’s difficult to know what outputs are available so some RDA outputs, which might have a particular use in UK, could be consolidated into packages for a UK audience? » Jisc , RCUK provide a voice ? » Uptake pilots ? » What would be useful to raise awareness of outputs? 02/12/2016 Title of presentation (Go to ‘View’ menu > ‘Header and Footer…’ to edit the footers on this slide) 8
- 9. Find out more… 9 ChristopherBrown christopher.brown@jisc.ac.uk @chriscb Rachel Bruce Rachel.bruce@jisc.ac.uk @rachelbruce Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Editor's Notes
- #7 Jisc involvement – need network of people to comment for implementations across the globe. Not necessary for more people to go to RDA plenaries but outputs - need to be made of them. UK leader on research infrastructure. Important to facilitate. Jisc and RC together have been engaged and are trying to do in pilot sense of way in which we can have a more UK focussed conversation about its outputs, raising awareness and engagement. This arrangement will support the Jisc aim to ensure that UK research and its outputs are part of the global research infrastructure, in particular helping to inform the best practices and standards that Jisc ( & other related UK infrastructure) can implement to support the creation, management and sharing of research data as a primary research output and knowledge foundation