The Research Data Alliance and Opportunities for Libraries Perth, Australia, 7th August 2019 Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance hilary.hanahoe@rda-foundation.org | @hilaryhanahoe | @resdatall

“emergence of data intensive science and data management mandates extended to traditional libraries” www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Librarians, Archivists & Information Service professionals in RDA Today’s specials … RDA in a nutshell Librarians, Archivists & Information Service professionals in RDA Value of RDA to Libraries and Value of Libraries to RDA RDA Outputs for Libraries Getting involved www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Ambitious … but not impossible The RDA Vision Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Complex … but achievable The RDA Mission Build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data. www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Designed and developed by the Community … for the community Multi, cross- and inter- disciplinary Grass roots approach International, neutral, social platform www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

The heart of RDA … 88 groups Interest Groups Working Groups develop and implement tools, policy, practices & products for data management that are adopted and used by projects, organisations, communities TIMING: 12-18 MONTHS TOTAL: 32 Working Groups focus on solving a specific data sharing problem and identifying what kind of infrastructure needs to be built. TIMING: as long as group is active TOTAL: 56 Interest Groups RECOMMENDATIONS: Concrete deliverables - “Running code”, tools, standards, etc. OUTPUT: Possibly case statements for new WGs, guidelines, best practice, etc. www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Which groups are for you? https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-for-you

Who is the Research Data Alliance? What type of data professionals make up the RDA community and where do they come from? www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

RDA across the globe Guiding Principles: Openness Consensus Balance Harmonization Community-driven Non-profit and technology-neutral 8,800 RDA members from 137 different countries (1,060 Librarians) www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

RDA Organisational Type 68% Academia / Research 14% Gov / Public Admin www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Librarians, Archivists & Information Professionals in RDA www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Libraries offer significant contributions to the RDA by … augmenting and enriching the worldwide network of data experts and information professionals; ​ contributing to the development and maintenance of high-quality, practical solutions for data interoperability in libraries across the globe;​ acting as the bridge and communication hub for all activities surrounding the data creation and publication lifecycle; ​ acting as RDA adopters who amplify, direct, and promote RDA Recommendations for the greatest effect and utility in libraries.​

What is the value of engaging with RDA? Interact with data professionals, researchers, ICT experts and academics;​ Partner with experts to augment the library community and its interoperability solutions;​ Develop strategic, collaborative relationships and partnerships with data producing stakeholders;​ Engage in institution-wide advocacy processes;​ Engage in an international forum;​ Adopt RDA recommendations and outputs to support the strategic aims of your institution. www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Gain greater experience and expertise; ​​ Benefits to you … Gain greater experience and expertise; ​​ Enhance the quality and effectiveness of personal work and activities; ​​ Improve your professional competitive advantage; ​ Access an extraordinary network of international colleagues and organisations. ​​ www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Benefits to RDA? YOU have skills and expertise which can contribute greatly to the development of best practices and guidelines www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

RDA Groups of interest? RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IG Empirical Humanities Metadata Working Group Research Data Collections Working Group Research Data Provenance Interest Group Data Rescue Interest Group Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data Interest Group Libraries for Research Data Interest Group www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Libraries for Research Data Interest Group 490 members – RDA’s largest group Successful Output in 13 languages 23 Things: Libraries For Research Data: An overview by of practical, free, online resources and tools that users can immediately take advantage of to incorporate research data management into the practice of librarianship. www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall https://rd-alliance.org/groups/libraries-research-data.html CC BY-SA 4.0

23 Things in nutshell Learning Resources Citing data Data Licensing & Privacy Data Reference & Outreach Data Preservation Data Management Plans Data Repositories Data Literacy Communities of Practice Metadata www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall https://rd-alliance.org/group/libraries-research-data-ig/outcomes/23-things-libraries-research-data-supporting-output CC BY-SA 4.0

Practical Implementation Programme designed for librarian and research support staff self-paced learning style, relevant examples, combination of thinking and doing exercises and grouping around data management topics build capability and a community of practice around research data management Available for reuse and repurpose anywhere in the world to suit specific needs https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/skills/23-research-data-things/toolkit www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

23 Things for Research Data: adoption cases 23 Research Data Things: developed by ANDS, Nectar, RDS 10 Health and Medical Things: developed by ANDS, Nectar, RDS 10 Marine Science (rd) Things: developed by Edith Cowan University 10 Astronomy Things: developed by ADACS for the astronomy community 10 Eco Data Things: developed as part of the EcoCloud project. 10 FAIR Data and Software Things: ARDC driven global sprint (2018) 10 HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) Data Things http://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/skills/23-research-data-things CC BY-SA 4.0

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Engaging researchers with research data: The Cookbook Illustration by Connie Clare Engaging researchers with research data: The Cookbook by Libraries for Research Data Interest Group https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XnXJeOocmaz-xU0oTmMLpBXrcFTdHmBDQG8bHMq7_GY/edit www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

The National Library of Ireland What? developing a data publication policy, encompassing areas such as the appropriate licensing of born-digital and digitised collections, licensing of metadata, and data citation and persistent identifiers Why? develop a policy which allows for the maximum openness of the data, while considering legislation and policy, including of course copyright legislation How? RDA & CODATA Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines guiding policy definition www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Getting Involved www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

RDA Guiding Principles Openness Consensus Balance Harmonization Community-driven Non-profit and technology-neutral www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Become a community member in quick, easy steps Click “Registration” Complete Form Adhere to RDA Guiding principles Submit Approval (by RDA Secretariat) within 2 working days

What are RDA Plenary Meetings? Organised around the world every 6 months exciting & productive events bringing together a unique community of data science professionals, from multiple disciplines and domains; help move the community forward in creating tangible deliverables that improve data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries; heart of the plenaries are working meetings of RDA Working & Interest groups and new potential groups through Birds of a Feather meetings presentation of new Outputs and Adoption cases www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

15th Plenary Meeting 18-20 March 2020 Melbourne, Australia https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-15th-plenary-meeting-australia

14th RDA Plenary Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 23 – 25 October 2019 Over 60 Working, Interest & Birds of Feather (BoF) sessions 15+ co-located events www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-14th-plenary-helsinki-espoo CC BY-SA 4.0

Getting the most from a Plenary: Actions for the Australasian community RDA Plenary meetings are WORKING meetings. A checklist on getting the most from them: Identify your area of interest Check the existing groups (see RDA for You) Contact your international colleagues Collectively outline your international idea Apply for a Birds of a Feather (BoF) meeting (Oct 2019) Upon approval – prepare well – 90 minutes to conquer the globe  www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

Resources & further information RDA for Librarians, Archivists, Information Management Professionals - https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-disciplines/rda-and- librarianship-archival-science-and-information-science RDA for Newcomers - https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-newcomers- some-notes The Value of the Research Data Alliance for Libraries - https://www.rd-alliance.org/value-research-data-alliance-libraries www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

THANK YOU VERY MUCH RDA Email - enquiries@rd-alliance.org Web - www.rd-alliance.org Twitter - @resdatall LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ResearchDataAlliance Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/ResearchDataAlliance The Research Data Alliance and Opportunities for Libraries Perth, Australia 7th August 2019 Hilary Hanahoe Secretary General, Research Data Alliance Email - hilary.hanahoe@rda-foundation.org Twitter - @hilaryhanahoe www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0