1. Research Data Alliance Data Sharing Dr. Kathleen Fontaine Managing Director, RDA/US GEO Data Sharing Working Group May 2015 Geneva, Switzerland

2. 2 Topics ▪Why We Are ▪Who We Are ▪Examples of Data Sharing ▪Data Challenge RDA/US Work Funded by

3. 3 Many Infrastructure Building Blocks Needed to Accelerate Progress Institutional Data Sharing Practice Data Access and Distribution Policy Data Discovery Tools Common Metadata Standards Digital Object Identifiers Data Citation Standards Data Analytics Algorithms Data Preservation Practice Data Scientists and Expert Support Sustainable Economic Models Curation Practice and Policy Auditing, Certification and Reporting Practice RDA/US Work Funded by

4. 4 Research Data Alliance ▪Created to accelerate the development of research data sharing infrastructure worldwide through ▪building social, organizational and technical infrastructure based on need ▪Discipline, technology, and culture agnostic RDA/US Work Funded by

5. 5 RDA Governance Features Openness, Transparency, and Consensus ▪through high-level governance bodies ▪through community-based groups ▪through individual and organizational contributions ▪through emphasis on real outputs that solve real barriers to research data sharing for real users RDA/US Work Funded by

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13. 13 RDA Organizational Structure RDA Council Responsible for overarching mission, vision, impact of RDA Technical Advisory Board Responsible for Technical roadmap and interactions Secretary-General and Secretariat Responsible for administration and operations Organizational Advisory Board and Organizational Assembly Responsible for organizational and strategic advice Working Groups Responsible for impactful, outcome-oriented efforts Interest Groups Responsible for defining and refining common issues RDA Membership RDA/US Work Funded by RDA Colloquium (Research Funders) Operational and community sponsorship ** * * * heavy user/community involvement * *

14. 14 Create -> Adopt -> Use ▪Birds-of-a-Feather – groups meeting at Plenaries to gauge broader interest in a topic ▪Interest Groups – longer-lived discussion forums that spawn Working Groups as specific pieces of needed infrastructure are identified. ▪Working Groups – 12-18 month efforts to build, adopt, and use specific pieces of infrastructure ▪Code, policy, infrastructure, standards, or best practices that are adopted and used by communities to enable data sharing ▪“Harvestable” efforts for which 12-18 months of work can eliminate a roadblock ▪Efforts that have substantive applicability to groups within the data community, but may not apply to everyone ▪Efforts for which working scientists and researchers can start today RDA/US Work Funded by

15. 15 1.Brokering Governance 2.Data Citation ** 3.Data Description Registry Interoperability ** 4.Data Foundation and Terminology † 5.Data Type Registries † 6.Metadata Standards Directory ** 7.PID Information Types † 8.Practical Policy † 9.RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World 10.RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics 11.RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services 12.RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows 13.Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership 14.The BioSharing Registry: connecting data policies, standards & databases in life sciences* 15.Wheat Data Interoperability WG ** RDA Working Groups † in Output review ** in final phases * in review RDA/US Work Funded by

16. 16 1.Agricultural Data Interoperability 2.Active Data Management Plans * 3.Big Data * 4.Biodiversity Data Integration 5.Brokering 6.Community Capability Model 7.Data Fabric 8.Data for Development 9.Data Foundations and Terminology * 10.Data in Context 11.Data Rescue * 12.Defining Urban Data Exchange for Science IG 13.Development of cloud computing capacity and education in developing world research 14.Digital Practices in History and Ethnography 15.Domain Repositories Interest Group 16.Education and Training on handling of research data 17.ELIXIR Bridging Force 18.Engagement 19.Ethics and Social Aspects of Data * 20.Federated Identity Management 21.Geospatial * 22.Libraries for Research Data 23.Long tail of research data 24.Marine Data Harmonization 25.Metabolomics 26.Metadata 27.National Data Services * 28.PID 29.Preservation e-Infrastructure 30.Quality of Urban Life 31.RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability 32.RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability 33.RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories 34.RDA/WDS Publishing Data Cost Recovery for Data Centres 35.RDA/WDS Publishing Data 36.Repository Platforms for Research * 37.Reproducibility 38.Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community 39.Research Data Provenance 40.Service Management 41.Structural Biology 42.Toxicogenomics Interoperability 43.Vocabulary Services * RDA Interest Groups RDA/US Work Funded by * in review

17. 17 Data Type Registries Deliverables: System of data type registries, formal model for describing types, working model of a registry. Initial Adopters and Users: CNRI, International DOI Foundation, Deep Carbon Observatory Practical Policy Deliverables: Survey of policies in production use, test bed of machine actionable policies, deployment of 5 policy sets, policy starter kits Initial Adopters and Users: RENCI, DataNet Federation Consortium, CESNET, Odum Institute, EUDAT Persistent Identifier Information Types Deliverables: Minimal set of PID types, API Initial Adopters and Users: Data Conservancy, DKRZ Data Foundations and Terminology Deliverables: Common vocabulary for data terms, formal definitions and open registry for data terms Initial Adopters and Users: EUDAT, DKRZ, Deep Carbon Observatory, CLARIN, EPOS Sharing Data - Through Output Solutions RDA/US Work Funded by

18. 18 Sharing Data - Through First Generation Adoptions RDA/US Work Funded by Materials Genome Initiative, Laura Bartolo, Kent State University Our RDA Adoption Demonstration Project focuses on the Data Type Registry and PID, with guidance and feedback from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a lead Federal agency developing the key models, tools, standards, and data for the MII. Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute In this presentation, we will describe the design and the practical guidelines for the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), and our efforts to implement comprehensive data management policies based on recommendations from RDA's Working Group on Practical Policies. Early outcomes: Implementation of RDA DFT Recommendations for DataFed.net, Aaron Addison, Washington University St. Louis The DataFed.net data catalog lists numerous datasets related to atmospheric and air-quality data over time. The metadata surrounding this data catalog is being examined in the context of the recently released RDA outcome focused on the work the Data Foundation and Terminology (DFT) working group has published. This real-world examination of a RDA outcome is working to adopt a common terminology for both the community of practice as well as machine driven applications. Deep Carbon Observatory, Stephan Zednik, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) community is building a cyber-enabled platform for linked science, made available to the community by a multi-institutional data portal. Persistent identifiers and domain specific data types have been identified as key technological issues the portal must address. This presentation focuses on the DCO portal’s planned adoption of RDA DTR and PID methodologies and technologies as a means to address the DCO community's need for persistently identifiable and understandable data type information.

19. 19 Sharing Data - Through Joint Efforts - A Sample ▪Although not formally organizations partners just yet, several GEO-related data sharing efforts are underway within RDA Brokering Governance Working Group RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability Working Group RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability Interest Group RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories Interest Group RDA/WDS Publishing Data Cost Recovery for Data Centres Interest Group RDA/WDS Publishing Data Interest Group RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services Working Group And many, many more RDA/US Work Funded by

20. 20 Brokering Governance Working Group The goal is to address the Governance of the brokering framework middleware and interconnect existing international e-infrastructures. The Working Group will address the following: 1. Brokering configuration and strategies; 2. Brokering governance and agreements; 3. Publications and transparency; 4. Community adoption and sustainability. Effective middleware governance has the potential to support longer-term development under a variety of funding models, to simplify and standardize access models, and establish a basis for the continued value of brokered systems. To ensure sustainable, stable development and effectiveness in an operational environment of brokering systems reliant on middleware service architectures, an effective model for the governance and reuse of that middleware must be agreed upon. We propose to consider and recommend a set of best practices for governing and managing brokering middleware. These practices will work to ensure future interoperability, access, and use to brokering middleware independent or in light of various development and funding models to support long-term planning of brokered, integrated systems. These will be of value not only to interoperability architects and to developers (who can plan integrated systems assuming the continued use and support of brokering middleware) but also to system managers and end users. Work packages Business Models (Brokering) Service Agreements Use-cases Use Cases ICSU/WDS (leader: Michael Michael Diepenbroek); Danube Data Infrastructure (Max Craglia); GEO-BON (Wim Hugo); SAION (Bente Lilja Bye). RDA/US Work Funded by

21. 21 RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability RDA/US Work Funded by The proposed Research Data Alliance – CODATA Working Group on Legal Interoperability of Research Data (RDA-CODATA WG), will be established to address and promote the following objectives: ▪Define legal interoperability of research data and articulate why it is important for data interoperability and reuse. ▪Document and analyze up to four case studies in the areas of geoscience, biodiversity research, social sciences, and humanities of legal interoperability solutions in interdisciplinary and international contexts. ▪Develop and publish core principles and guidelines of best practices through which legal interoperability can be achieved, and link to related information resources online. ▪Work with key stakeholder groups to get the core principles and guidelines of best practices adopted. ▪Generally promote better understanding and greater use by the stakeholder groups in the research community of the agreed approaches to legal interoperability of research data, focused on highlighting and enabling better integration and reuse of such data.

22. 22 RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories RDA/US Work Funded by In order to guarantee data sharing, the long-term preservation of these data in sustainable digital repositories is a sine qua non. Data that are created and used by science and scholarship need to be managed, curated and archived, making sure that the substantial investments in preparing and presenting the content and tools will not be lost. Researchers need to be sure that the resources the repositories offer remain meaningful and usable over time. Moreover, the repositories themselves need to have sustainable business models. Preservation and sustainability raise challenges in many areas. The main issues related to long term preservation and sustainability remain basically unresolved, as many organizational, technical, financial and legal aspects remain open. Certification is therefore fundamental in guaranteeing the trustworthiness of digital repositories and thus in sustaining the opportunities for long-term data sharing. The Interest Group will build on previous work in the area of certification. It will deliver the global overview and the necessary recommendations and requirements that allow the effective implementation of certification of digital repositories on a national, European and even global level.

23. 23 Sharing Data - Through Challenges RDA/US Work Funded by ▪The 6th Plenary RDA Meeting to be hosted in Paris from 23-25 September 2015, will feature a special focus on research data for climate change, leveraging on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) to be held in Paris in December 2015. ▪As a part of this special focus Cap Digital & RDA have created a special Challenge designed to connect Climate Change related Data Sets with startups, SMEs and larger organizations with practical application for these data. ▪In this phase we are interested in receiving applications from holders of datasets on: ▪Air quality; ▪Energy; ▪Urban Activity. ▪In addition to a description of the datasets, we would also like to receive indications on the possible applications that might constitute a challenge goal. Submissions must be made on-line and are accepted until midnight CET 21st May 2015. For any queries please contact p6-challenge@rd-alliance.org ▪This challenge intends to demonstrate how the work of RDA is a key to solve numerous climate change related issues through enterprise engagement. The course of this challenge will be the following: ▪Selection of relevant data sets for inclusion in the challenge (21st May) ▪Open challenge to enterprises to propose practical application pilots (22nd May – 22nd June) ▪Challenge announcement and publication on a dedicated web platform during Futur en Seine, the international digital festival in Paris in June. ▪Identification of 3 application pilots to be taken forward; (30th June) ▪Presentation of results & announcement of the challenge winner during the 6th Plenary Climate Change Data Challenge Day; (24th Sept) ▪Demo of the winner’s solution and data set during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in December (to be confirmed).

24. 24 Upcoming RDA Meetings ▪Plenaries every six months, in September and March Sept 2015 (P6) - Paris March 2016 (P7) - Japan Sept 2016 (P8) - US (DC area), International Data Week hosted by RDA/US, CODATA US and ICSU; joint with SciDataCon 2016 ▪Check the RDA website for global meetings, and the RDA/Europe and the [soon to be available] RDA/US sites for regional meetings RDA/US Work Funded by

25. 25 Thank You and Questions fontak@rpi.edu enquiries@rd-alliance.org rd-alliance.org RDA/US Work Funded by