The January 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is devoted to the new Research Data Alliance. The contents include:
Special Issue on the Research Data Alliance
Editorial by Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Building Global Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Exchange Through the Research Data Alliance
Guest Editorial by Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross Wilkinson, Australian National Data Service; John Wood, The Association of Commonwealth Universities
A R T I C L E S
Synthesis of Working Group and Interest Group Activity One Year into the Research Data Alliance
Article by Beth Plale, Indiana University
Data Type Registries: A Research Data Alliance Working Group
Article by Daan Broeder, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Improving Access to Recorded Language Data
Article by Simon Musgrave, Monash University, Australian National Corpus
Opening and Linking Agricultural Research Data
Article by Esther Dzalé Yeumo Kaboré, French National Institute for Agricultural Research; Devika Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute; Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Office of the United Nations
Organizational Status of RDA
Article by Mark A. Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The complete table of contents with abstracts is here.