(22 Aug 2022) The Research Data Alliance (RDA) 19th Plenary Meeting took place from the 20th to 23rd June as a part of International Data Week (IDW) 2022 in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. The hybrid conference, organized in collaboration with the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), welcomed 827…
(Sep 2021) About the online event: Date: 18 Oct 2021 to 28 Oct 2021 Following the postponement of International Data Week to June 2022 (hybrid and onsite in Seoul, Republic of Korea), it was decided to hold Virtual SciDataCon 2021 with a series of sessions from Mon 18 October to Thu 28 October. The following themes will be covered:…
(26 Mar 2020) The 15th RDA Plenary Meeting, which was scheduled to take place from 18-20 March 2020 in Melbourne Australia, has been canceled due to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation. However, from 18th March to 10th April 2020 RDA will be facilitating the organisation of a virtual Plenary (VP 15) meeting, offering session convenors…
(10 Jul 2019) Are you curious about the Research Data Alliance (RDA)? Interested in learning how you can engage with RDA initiatives? Do you know about Australia’s influence on global data solutionsthrough participation in RDA? Ahead of the first Australian RDA plenary in 2020, the RDA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are collaborating to present…
(20 December 2018) The latest issue of Research Library Issues (RLI), gathers reflections by six archivists and librarians on the practice of radical collaboration applied to research data management (RDM). Archivist Nancy McGovern describes radical collaboration as “inclusive, involving commitment and effort by most or all members that are broadly representative of the various aspects of the common…
(23 January 2017) The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Council is seeking proposals from organisations or countries interested in hosting the 11th RDA Plenary meeting in early 2018 (from late February to early April). The Research Data Alliance (RDA) brings together a diverse community of data scientists, librarians, computer scientists, and domain scientists coming from both…
(8 July 2016) Research Data Alliance Plenary 8 will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA, from 15-17 September 2016, as part of International Data Week (IDW, 11-17 September 2016). The theme of IDW is ‘From Big Data to Open Data: Mobilizing the Data Revolution’. Organized by the Research Data Alliance, (RDA), CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International…
(27 March 2014) Following the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) DataCite will become an organizational affiliate of RDA. As defined by the RDA Organizational Member Process Document, RDA Affiliates are likeminded organizations that seek to coordinate efforts in mutual areas of interest and to avoid unnecessary duplication…
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…
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes opened the RDA launch event with a speech heralding “a new era of open science”. Commissioner Kroes welcomes the global approach embodied by the RDA and highlighted the need for interoperability, discoverability and an open approach. 150 individuals representing stakeholders from the sciences, infrastructures, libraries, technology providers and so on were…