1. The Research Data Alliance: Business session
2nd April 2019
Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance

2. The Business of RDA is to support that community and facilitate the building and using the bridges that enable open sharing of data.
The Work of RDA is done by the volunteer community through self-formed, focused Working Groups, exploratory Interest Groups
RDA members collaborate together across the globe to tackle numerous infrastructure & data sharing challenges related to:
Reproducibility
Data preservation
Best practices for domain repositories
Legal interoperability
Data citation
Data type registries
Metadata
and so many more!
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3. Organisational Bodies
Technical Advisory Board (TAB) socio-technical vision and strategy
Secretariat administration and operations
Organisational Advisory Board (OAB) needs, adoption, business advice
Working Groups
implementable, impactful outcomes
Individual & Organisational Membership
Interest Groups domain coordination, idea generation, maintenance, …
Council organisational vision and strategy
RDA Foundation
Funders Forum
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4. Business Session Agenda
16:00 – 16:10 – Welcome & Seceretariat Update, Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance
16:10 – 16:15 – Council Update, Ingrid Dillo, RDA Council Co-chair
16:15 – 16:20 – Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Update, Francoise Genova, RDA TAB Co-chair
16:20 – 16:25 – Organisational Assembly / Organisational Advisory Board Update, Kevin Ashley, RDA OAB Co-chair
16: :45 – Questions from and Interaction with the Community
16: 45 – 17:45 – RDA Outputs Session
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5. Secretariat Update
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6. RDA Secretariat Hilary Hanahoe
Secretary General Research Data Alliance
Daniel Bangert Outreach & impact support  Göttingen State and University Library
Alexandra Delipalta Plenary support  Digital Curation Centre
Ilaria Fava Document Management Support Göttingen State and University Library
Fotis Karayannis Affiliates & Organisational members Liaison ATHENA Research Center
Stefanie Kethers Director of Operations Australian Research Data Commons
Anthony Juehne Adoption Manager Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
Yolanda Meleco Communications Manager Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Marieke Willems  Outreach & Impact Coordinator  Trust-IT Services Ltd
Bridget Walker Executive Assistant Research Data Alliance
Lynn Yarmey Socio-technical Coordinator Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sara Pittonet Gaiarin Web Manager Trust-IT Services Ltd

7. Pillars of Adoption Support
Aims
Activities
BOF - RDA Adoption: Enhanced Dissemination of Adoption Stories – Wed 3 April, Commonwealth D BOF - RDA Adoption-Making RDA Outputs and Recommendations Easier to Adopt – Thurs 4 April, Commonwealth A2 Adoption Webinars and Trainings Share your adoption stories alliance.org/adoption-story-submission
Enhancing the findability and intelligibility of outputs
Supporting adoption through education and training
Monitoring adoption stories and impact.
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8. collaboratively build a welcoming and inclusive RDA
Code of Conduct
collaboratively build a welcoming and inclusive RDA
All details at
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9. RDA Code of Conduct first points of contact
Stefanie Kethers Secretariat
Director of Operations Australian Research Data Commons
Hilary Hanahoe
Secretary General Research Data Alliance
Amy Nurnberger OAB Co-chair Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Lynn Yarmey Secretariat
Socio-technical Coordinator Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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11. RDA P14 is headed to Finland
HELSINKI/ESPOO
OCTOBER 23-25, 2019
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12. 14th Plenary Meeting, 23-25 October 2019
DATA MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
Call for Co-located events open NOW until 20 May 2019
3 day event
Includes half day Unconference component

13. Value of RDA ….
Benefits & Opportunities of RDA for different stakeholders
Accessible from rd-alliance.org (home page – scroll down)
Feedback & Requests for additional ones most welcome
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14. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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The Research Data Alliance Business Update 2 April 2019, 13th RDA Plenary Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Hilary Hanahoe
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