1. Research Data Alliance (RDA) What’s in it for you
Research Data Alliance (RDA) What’s in it for you? 22 November 2018 RDA Europe National Node-NL Lisa de Leeuw, Ingrid Dillo DANS
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Wat gaan we doen?
Algemene introductie van de RDA
De Nederlandse RDA node
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3. 2013: EC, NSF, Australian government Vision
Launch
2013: EC, NSF, Australian government
Vision
Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.
Mission
RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.
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4. What is RDA?
RDA is an international member based organization 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 7,300 members globally representing 137 countries, RDA includes researchers, scientists and data science professionals working in multiple disciplines, domains and thematic fields and from different types of organisations across the globe.   
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.
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5. What does RDA do?
Members come together through self-formed, volunteer, focussed Working Groups, exploratory Interest Groups to exchange knowledge, share discoveries, discuss barriers and potential solutions, explore and define policies and test as well as harmonise standards to enhance and facilitate global data sharing & re-use.
RDA members collaborate together across the globe to tackle numerous infrastructure & data sharing challenges related to:
Reproducibility
Data citation
Data preservation
Data type registries
Best practices for domain repositories
Metadata
and so many more!
Legal interoperability
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Work of RDA
7,000 plus volunteers!
Working Groups (32) case statement, tangible and adoptable results within months, geographic spread; tools, policy, practices and products that are adopted and used by projects, organizations, and communities;
Interest Groups (61) short charter, not time limits, solving a specific data sharing problem and identifying what kind of infrastructure needs to be built
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions one off, to test appetite for new topic/problem within RDA community -

7. RDA organigram (in the making)
Working Groups
implementable, impactful outcomes
Technical Advisory Board socio-technical vision and strategy
Secretariat administration
and operations
Organisational Assembly needs, adoption, business advice
Interest Groups domain coordination, idea generation, maintenance, …
Regional Assembly
regional vision and strategy
RAB
OAB
Council organisational vision and strategy
RDA Foundation
Funders Forum

8. Who Can Join RDA?
Any individual or organization, regardless of profession or discipline, with an interest in reducing the barriers to data sharing and re-use and who agrees to RDA’s guiding principles of:
Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral
Individual Membership is
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9. Why Join RDA as an Individual Member?
Individual Member Benefits
Contribute to acceleration of data infrastructure development
Work and share experiences with collaborators throughout the world
Access to extraordinary network of colleagues with various levels of experience, perspectives and practices
Gain greater expertise in data science regardless of whether one is a student, early or seasoned career professional
Enhance the quality and effectiveness of personal work and activities
Improve one’s competitive advantage professionally and positioning oneself for leadership within the broader research community
Individual RDA Members 7,372
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10. Who is RDA rd-alliance.org/about-rda Guiding Principles: Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral
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11. Who is RDA rd-alliance.org/about-rda Guiding Principles: Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral
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13. RDA Geographical Distribution
Guiding Principles:
Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral
RDA members come from 137 different countries
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14. Why Join RDA as an Organisational Member?
Organisational Member Benefits
Provide an organizational perspective on the work of RDA and ability to influence RDA’s direction
Assist in implementation & adoption of RDA Recommendations & Outputs
Participate in all RDA Organizational Forums
Receive regular updates on the work of the RDA
Attend Organizational Assembly meetings and vote on proposed policies for consideration by the RDA Council and for members of the Organizational Advisory Board
Provide advice to RDA Council through the Organizational Advisory Board
Be recognized on the RDA Website and at RDA Meetings as a supporter of data interoperability
48 Organisational & 8 Affiliate Members
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15. RDA Organisational & Affiliate Members
48 Organisational Members
8 Affiliate Members
Guiding Principles:
Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral

16. rd-alliance.org/groups
RDA active Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (1)
Total 93 groups:
32 Working Groups & 61 Interest Groups
Domain Science - focused
Geospatial IG
Global Water Information IG
Agrisemantics WG
Health Data IG
BioSharing Registry WG
Linguistics Data Interest Group
Blockchain Applications in Health WG
Mapping the Landscape IG
Capacity Development for Agriculture Data WG
Fisheries Data Interoperability WG
Marine Data Harmonization IG
On-Farm Data Sharing (OFDS) WG
Quality of Urban Life IG
Rice Data Interoperability WG
RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability IG
Wheat Data Interoperability WG
Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community IG
Agricultural Data IG (IGAD)
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Data IG
Biodiversity Data Integration IG
Structural Biology IG
Chemistry Research Data IG
Weather, Climate and air quality IG
Digital Practices in History and Ethnography IG
From Observational Data to Information IG
ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences IG
Partnership Groups
RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets IG
RDA/WDS Publishing Data IG
RDA / TDWG Metadata Standards for attribution of physical and digital collections stewardship WG
RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange Working Group
ELIXIR Bridging Force IG
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RDA active Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (2)
Total 93 groups:
32 Working Groups & 61 Interest Groups
Reference and Sharing - focused
Research Data Collections WG
Research Data Repository Interoperability WG
Data Citation WG
Data Usage Metrics WG
Data Description Registry Interoperability WG
Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Data Security and Trust WG
Empirical Humanities Metadata WG
National Data Services IG
RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IG
International Materials Resource Registries WG
Reproducibility IG
Provenance Patterns WG
Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC) IG
Storage Service Definitions WG
Community Needs - focused
Early Career and 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 WG
Ethics and Social Aspects of Data IG
Public Health Graph WG
International Indigenous Data Sovereignty IG
CODATA/RDA Research Data Science Schools for Low and Middle Income Countries
Open Questionnaire for Research Data Sharing Survey IG
Data for Development IG
Archives & Records Professionals for Research Data IG Data for Development IG
Development of Cloud Computing Capacity and Education in Developing World Research IG
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RDA active Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (3)
Total 93 groups:
32 Working Groups & 61 Interest Groups
Data Stewardship and Services – focused
Libraries for Research Data IG
Long tail of research data IG
Brokering Framework WG
DMP Common Standards WG
Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem IG
Exposing Data Management Plans WG
Preservation e-Infrastructure IG
WDS/RDA Assessment of Data Fitness for Use WG
Preservation Tools, Techniques, and Policies IG
Data Versioning WG
RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG
FAIR Data Maturity Model WG
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Cost Recovery for Data Centres IG
Active Data Management Plans IG
Repository Platforms for Research Data IG
Data in Context IG
Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions IG
Data Rescue IG
Research Data Provenance IG
Domain Repositories IG
Data policy standardisation and implementation IG
Virtual Research Environments IG
Base Infrastructure – focused
Disciplinary Interoperability Framework IG
Big Data IG
Array Database Assessment WG
Brokering IG
Data Type Registries WG
Metadata Standards Catalog WG
Metadata IG
PID IG
PID Kernel Information WG
Software Source Code IG
Persistent Identification of Instruments WG
Vocabulary Services IG
Data Fabric IG
Federated Identity Management IG
Data Foundations and Terminology IG
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19. What are 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
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20. RDA Plenary Meetings: benefits of attending
Exchange knowledge, share discoveries, discuss barriers and potential solutions
Learn about new trends, strategies, research developments, directions and policies
Expand your network and meet new committed and passionate data science professionals, working in multiple disciplines
Expand your network and meet new data science professionals, working in multiple disciplines, including but not limited to academia, library sciences, earth science, astronomy and meteorology
Contribute to acceleration of data infrastructure development
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83 Breakout meetings
19 Working Groups
37 Interest Groups
12 Joint Working & Interest Groups
15 Birds of a Feather
4 Final Recommendations presented
3 New Recommendations
Collaboration projects with AGU and ISO on adoption and impact metrics
74 posters applications
2018
661 participants from 41 countries
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22. Digital Frontiers of Global Science rd-alliance.org/plenaries
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23. IDW 2018 in a Nutshell

24. RDA’s 13th Plenary Meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2- 4 April 2019
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25. RDA Recommendations that make data work
“Create - Adopt - Use”
Adopted code, policy, specifications, standards, or practices that enable data sharing
“Harvestable” efforts for which months of work can eliminate a roadblock
Efforts that have substantive applicability to groups within the data community but may not apply to all
Efforts that can start today
25 flagship recommendations & outputs with over 75 cases of adoption in different domains, organisations and countries
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26. RDA Recommendations & Outputs
THE RDA OUTCOMES LEGEND
Recommendations: are the flagship outputs of RDA. They are RDA’s equivalent of the “specifications” or “standards” that other organisations create and endorse. The process for creating and endorsing these is already defined.
Supporting Outputs: are the outputs of RDA WGs and IGs that are fruit of RDA work, but are not necessarily adoptable bridges. “Upon request”, these sort of outputs go through a community comment period and if no major objections or gaps are identified they get the RDA Brand.
Other Outputs: include workshop reports, published articles, survey results, etc. Anything a WG or IG wants to register and report. Upon request, these are published and discoverable on the RDA website but have no level of endorsement.
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27. Example of an RDA Recommendation
RDA/WDS Repository Audit and Certification Catalogues: Creates harmonized Common Procedures for certification of repositories at the core level, drawing from the procedures already put in place by the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) and the ICSU World Data System (ICSU- WDS).
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28. Examples of RDA Supporting Outputs
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.
Eleven Quick Tips for Finding Research Data: to educate and train research students and early career researchers, and to help researchers more effectively and precisely discover data that meets their specific needs.
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29. Examples of RDA Supporting Outputs
Income Streams for Data Repositories: insight for Data Centre managers and Research Infrastructures into alternative options for cost recovery, substantiated by the results from a survey of over twenty data centres around the globe, and in different domains.
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30. Adoption & Implementation
“Solving the problem must include adopters in the process, to ensure that real problems are addressed. Open problem solving is the key.”
Addressing data challenges
75 Adoption Cases
Find out how you can become an Adopter
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31. RDA node NL: introduction
RDA in The Netherlands
Node: DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services)
Currently 308 RDA members in the Netherlands; involvement as group co-chairs and other RDA activities
existing RDA involvement:
Number of RDA individual members in the country & Mapping of how the node members contribute to existing RDA Working Groups/Interest Groups:
At the end of April 2018, RDA counted 293 members from the Netherlands, 135 of which are subscribed to one or more RDA Working and/or Interest group(s).
11 RDA members from the Netherlands are chairs of 14 different Working and/or Interest groups.
Interaction with RDA / RDA Europe to date
Group co-chairs:
Domain Repositories Interest Group (Peter Doorn)
RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories (Ingrid Dillo)
Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WG (Ingrid Dillo)
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Cost Recovery for Data Centres IG (Ingrid Dillo)
Other RDA Activities:
Technical Advisory Board & Council (Ingrid Dillo)
Organisational Advisory Board (Peter Doorn)
Local organizer of RDA Plenary 4, September 2014, Amsterdam
Local organiser of the 5th RDA Europe Science Workshop, 17&18 January 2018
Interim Secretary General (Ingrid Dillo) and part of the RDA secretariat (Lisa de Leeuw)
24/04/2018
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32. RDA node NL: involved parties
Engaging with government, national funding bodies, research organisations, and other networks (RDNL, OpenAIRE NOAD, GO- FAIR-node)
Sustainability through existing channels like RDNL, Open Aire NOAD, future GO-FAIR node
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO - the main national funding body for scientific research),
Research Data Netherlands (RDNL),
National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM),
Network Digital Heritage (NDE),
the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW),
the Dutch Universities,
UKB working group research data,
National Platform Open Science,
E-science centre:
CentERdata:
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE),   
OpenAIRE NOAD (NL),
National GO-FAIR-node (NL),
To increase the contribution and engagement of European and national stakeholders in RDA, we will liaise with and involve:
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), especially the National Open Science team,
Research Funders (Science Europe and its member organisations),
Academies of Sciences (ALLEA),
Knowledge Exchange,
23/03/2018
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33. RDA node NL: priorities
Promoting RDA outputs and recommendations
Certification
PID
certification (of trusted digital repositories), which ties into the RDA recommendation Repository Audit and Certification Catalogues. This could also be used as a cross national nodes theme.
PID Interest Group: in connection with the H2020 project FREYA
23/03/2018
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34. RDA node NL: communication
Liaising with specific communities: Social Sciences and Humanities
Disseminating RDA activities and outputs in Dutch via journal publications and other communication channels
Spreading the RDA gospel in national and international workshops and conferences with a focus on the Social Sciences and Humanities.
RDA organised events will be widely spread over the Netherlands through the various communications channels of the principal actors and (inter)national projects and infrastructures the principal actors are engaged with.
Disseminate the major RDA activities (plenary meetings, support programmes, ambassadors, early career programmes, etc.) though the available communication channels of the RDA-NL working group. This will also include the RDA members already registered in the Netherlands.
2 Articles on RDA and its activities and outputs in Dutch in the journal edata en research, see:
3 workshops on the following topics under the theme of awareness raising:
RDA general introduction and the benefits of joining RDA – Q3 2018
Certification - Q2 2019
PID (in collaboration with the FREYA project) - Q1 2020
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35. rd-alliance.org/groups
RDA and the social Sciences
To give an overview of the RDA work that is specifically interesting for social sciences researchers, Ricarda Braukmann from Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) - the national RDA node for the Netherlands and RDA ambassador for the social sciences and humanities - performed an analysis assessing the relevance of the RDA work for this specific community.
The analysis performed should be seen as a starting point for science researchers that are new to the RDA and wish to receive some guidance through the large amount of work and topics covered by the RDA. The report analyses RDA Groups, considered highly relevant if they covered topics that should be of interest for social sciences researchers in general. These topics, for instance, include dealing with privacy-sensitive data or RDA work on research data management. Groups that may be interesting for social sciences researchers depending on their exact field of research or particular interest were labeled as moderately relevant, while groups that did not fit into these prior categories were labeled as being low in relevance.
The report and related data set can be found here:
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LinkedIn -
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