Overview of WGs, IGs and BoFs Francoise Genova, TAB, CNRS/CDS Francoise.genova@astro.unistra.fr https://rd-alliance.org/

RDA Groups RDA is a bottom-up organisation Topics are proposed by the community Work organised into Groups with a Charter and international membership Interest Groups (IG) Working Groups (WG) Specific to Plenaries, to initiate discussion which can lead to propose a Group Bird of the Feather (BoF) https://rd-alliance.org://working-and-interest-groups/group-process-procedures.html

Working Groups 18 months to produce outcomes = deliverables which should « facilitate tangible progress for a significant cohort within the international data community » Among possible topics: New data standards or harmonisation of existing standards Greater data sharing, exchange, interoperability, usability and re-usability Greater discoverability of research data sets Better management, stewardship, and preservation of research data etc. https://rd-alliance.org://working-and-interest-groups/goals-and-outcomes.html

A huge diversity RDA builds Technological and sociological bridges

https://rd-alliance.org/groups RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (1) Domain Science - focused Toxicogenomics Interoperability IG Structural Biology IG Biodiversity Data Integration IG Agricultural Data Interoperability IG Wheat Data Interoperability WG Digital Practices in History and Ethnography IG Geospatial IG Marine Data Harmonization IG Metabolomics Data Interoperability IG RDA/CODATA Materials Data Infrastructure and Interoperability IG Research Data Needs of the Photon and Neutron Science Community IG Defining Urban Data Exchange for Science IG The BioSharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases in the life sciences WG Urban Quality of Life Indicators IG Community Needs - focused Development of Cloud Computing Capacity and Education in Developing World Research IG Community Capability Model IG Data for Development IG Engagement IG Education and Training on handling of research data IG RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World IG https://rd-alliance.org/groups

https://rd-alliance.org/groups RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (2) Reference and Sharing - focused Reproducibility IG Data Citation WG Data Description Registry Interoperability Working Group Standardization of Data Cat. and Codes WG RDA / WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics WG RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IG Data Stewardship and Services – focused RDA/WDS Repository Audit and Certification DSA- WDS Partnership WG Domain Repositories Interest Group Research Data Provenance IG Preservation e-infrastructure IG Brokering Interest Group ELIXIR Bridging Force IG RDA / WDS Publishing Data Services WG Libraries for Research Data IG*RDA / WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG RDA / WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG Long-tail of Research Data IG RDA / WDS Publishing Data Cost Recovery for Data Centres IG RDA/WDS Publishing Data IG Base Infrastructure - focused Big Data Analytics IG Data Foundation and Terminology WG Brokering Governance WG Federated Identity Management IG Metadata Standards Directory WG Metadata IG Practical Policy WG PID Interest Group PID Information Types WG Service Management IG Data Type Registries WG Data in Context IG Data Fabric IG https://rd-alliance.org/groups

Diversity is not chaos Landscape evolution followed by the Technical Advisory Board Bottom-up clustering of groups, e.g. Data Fabric IG Publishing Cluster Regular Chair and TAB/Chair meetings Many Joint Sessions on topics of common interest https://rd-alliance.org://working-and-interest-groups/goals-and-outcomes.html

Data Creation and Re-Use Cycle in the Labs management, preserving, analyzing, annotating, etc. new data from old complex, nonlinear process widely distributed landscape

Data Fabric Interest Group Data Fabric IG looks for common components and services to make this work as efficient and reproducible as possible Other WG/IGs looking at data publication workflows and citation

DFIG – grouping of WG/IGs REPRO Prov PP BDA BROK CERT FIM REP DMP DOM CERT CITDD

Publishing Cluster, many in collab. with Publishing Data Bibilometrics Cost Recovery Workflows Services CIT CITDD DDRI LTD CERT

Find your way in the meeting

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https://rd-alliance.org://groups From the web site Each session comes with a detailed description Context, links, objectives, agenda Information on the Groups e.g. from the full list https://rd-alliance.org://groups

P7 BoFs (i.e. new topics) Initial breakout for the Data Typing WG Health Data: Health Data challenges Data Search Management and curation of physical samples Research Data Repository Interoperability Metadata Standards for attribution of physical and digital collections stewardship Text and Data Mining E-Infrastructure for Global Change Research IG Virtual Research Environment Weather, Climate and Air Quality

Personal message Talk and listen to people Many things to gather from the Group meetings and from informal discussion Find your own path – In some cases attendents start with a plan and find that other things are finally more relevant to their needs