Research Data Alliance

Research Data Alliance
Abbreviation RDA
Motto "Research data sharing without barriers"
Formation 2013 (2013)
Type Non-profit
NGO
Purpose "To build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data."[1]
Membership
4200+
Mark Parsons
Website www.rd-alliance.org

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a research community organization started in 2013 by the European Commission, the American National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian Department of Innovation. Its goal is to build social and technical infrastructure to enable the open sharing of data.[2] The RDA is a major recipient of support in the form of grants from all of its constituent members' governments.[3][4]

As of September 2016, the RDA has over 4,300 individual members from 111 countries.[2]

Structure

The RDA's main vehicle for outputs are 18-month long working groups that generate recommendations aimed at the RDA community. In addition to working groups, interest groups with no fixed lifetime can produce either informal or "supported" outputs which carry some degree of RDA endorsement.

Meetings

The RDA organises two major plenary conferences a year that are often co-located within other international data sharing initiatives such as the 8th RDA plenary being part of "International Data Week, 2016" convened by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA).[5] RDA aims to spread the plenary meetings across many of its members' locales with recent plenaries being held in Tokyo, Paris, San Diego, Amsterdam, Dublin, Washington DC and Gothenberg, Sweden.[6] Future plenaries may be located in developing nations.

Partnerships

The RDA provides national data sharing organisations, such as the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), an "influence over the kinds of data sharing environments that Australian researchers will work with when they collaborate with international colleagues".[7] The RDA is partnered with many major international data initiatives such as DataCite[8] and frequently forms joint working groups with them, such as with the World Data System.[9]

References

  1. ↑ https://rd-alliance.org/about-rda
  2. 1 2 Research Data Alliance (2016) "Who is RDA?". Web Page. Updated 2016-04-05, Accessed 2016-04-09
  3. ↑ Rensselear Polytechnic (2013). "Research Data Alliance/US To Expand Reach and Scope With $5 Million NSF Grant". Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ European Commission (2015). "Research Data Alliance - Europe 3". Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ International Data Week committee (2016). "8th RDA Plenary Meeting". Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ Research Data Alliance (2016). "Plenaries". Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ Australian National Data Service (2016). "Research Data Alliance - Why is ANDS involved with the RDA?". Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  8. ↑ DataCite (2016). "RDA - Research Data Alliance". Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ ICSU-WDS (2013). "RDA–WDS Interest Groups Initiated". Retrieved April 9, 2016.
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