1. The Research Data Alliance and Opportunities for Libraries
Perth, Australia, 7th August 2019
Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance

2. “emergence of data intensive science and data management mandates extended to traditional libraries”
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3. Librarians, Archivists & Information Service professionals in RDA
Today’s specials …
RDA in a nutshell
Librarians, Archivists & Information Service professionals in RDA
Value of RDA to Libraries and Value of Libraries to RDA
RDA Outputs for Libraries
Getting involved
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4. Ambitious … but not impossible
The RDA Vision
Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.
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5. Complex … but achievable
The RDA Mission
Build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data.
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6. Designed and developed by the Community … for the community
Multi, cross- and inter- disciplinary
Grass roots approach
International, neutral, social platform
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7. The heart of RDA … 88 groups
Interest Groups
Working Groups
develop and implement tools, policy, practices & products for data management that are adopted and used by projects, organisations, communities
TIMING: MONTHS
TOTAL: 32 Working Groups
focus on solving a specific data sharing problem and identifying what kind of infrastructure needs to be built.
TIMING: as long as group is active
TOTAL: 56 Interest Groups
RECOMMENDATIONS: Concrete deliverables - “Running code”, tools, standards, etc.
OUTPUT: Possibly case statements for new WGs, guidelines, best practice, etc.
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8. Which groups are for you?

9. Who is the Research Data Alliance?
What type of data professionals make up the RDA community and where do they come from?
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10. RDA across the globe
Guiding Principles:
Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral
8,800 RDA members from 137 different countries (1,060 Librarians)
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11. RDA Organisational Type
68% Academia / Research
14% Gov / Public Admin
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12. Librarians, Archivists & Information Professionals in RDA
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13. Libraries offer significant contributions to the RDA by …
augmenting and enriching the worldwide network of data experts and information professionals; ​
contributing to the development and maintenance of high-quality, practical solutions for data interoperability in libraries across the globe;​
acting as the bridge and communication hub for all activities surrounding the data creation and publication lifecycle; ​
acting as RDA adopters who amplify, direct, and promote RDA Recommendations for the greatest effect and utility in libraries.​

14. What is the value of engaging with RDA?
Interact with data professionals, researchers, ICT experts and academics;​
Partner with experts to augment the library community and its interoperability solutions;​
Develop strategic, collaborative relationships and partnerships with data producing stakeholders;​
Engage in institution-wide advocacy processes;​
Engage in an international forum;​
Adopt RDA recommendations and outputs to support the strategic aims of your institution.
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15. Gain greater experience and expertise; ​​
Benefits to you …
Gain greater experience and expertise; ​​
Enhance the quality and effectiveness of personal work and activities; ​​
Improve your professional competitive advantage; ​
Access an extraordinary network of international colleagues and organisations. ​​
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16. Benefits to RDA?
YOU have skills and expertise which can contribute greatly to the development of best practices and guidelines
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17. RDA Groups of interest? RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IG
Empirical Humanities Metadata Working Group
Research Data Collections Working Group
Research Data Provenance Interest Group
Data Rescue Interest Group
Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data Interest Group
Libraries for Research Data Interest Group
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18. Libraries for Research Data Interest Group
490 members – RDA’s largest group
Successful Output in 13 languages
23 Things: Libraries For Research Data: An overview by of practical, free, online resources and tools that users can immediately take advantage of to incorporate research data management into the practice of librarianship.
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19. 23 Things in nutshell Learning Resources Citing data
Data Licensing & Privacy
Data Reference & Outreach
Data Preservation
Data Management Plans
Data Repositories
Data Literacy
Communities of Practice
Metadata
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20. Practical Implementation
Programme designed for librarian and research support staff
self-paced learning style, relevant examples, combination of thinking and doing exercises and grouping around data management topics
build capability and a community of practice around research data management
Available for reuse and repurpose anywhere in the world to suit specific needs
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21. 23 Things for Research Data: adoption cases
23 Research Data Things: developed by ANDS, Nectar, RDS
10 Health and Medical Things: developed by ANDS, Nectar, RDS
10 Marine Science (rd) Things: developed by Edith Cowan University
10 Astronomy Things: developed by ADACS for the astronomy community
10 Eco Data Things: developed as part of the EcoCloud project.
10 FAIR Data and Software Things: ARDC driven global sprint (2018)
10 HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) Data Things
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23. Engaging researchers with research data: The Cookbook
Illustration by Connie Clare
Engaging researchers with research data: The Cookbook
by Libraries for Research Data Interest Group
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24. The National Library of Ireland
What? developing a data publication policy, encompassing areas such as the appropriate licensing of born-digital and digitised collections, licensing of metadata, and data citation and persistent identifiers
Why? develop a policy which allows for the maximum openness of the data, while considering legislation and policy, including of course copyright legislation
How? RDA & CODATA Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines guiding policy definition
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25. Getting Involved
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26. RDA Guiding Principles
Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral
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27. Become a community member in quick, easy steps
Click “Registration”
Complete Form
Adhere to RDA Guiding principles
Submit
Approval (by RDA Secretariat) within 2 working days

28. What are RDA Plenary Meetings?
Organised around the world every 6 months
exciting & productive events bringing together a unique community of data science professionals, from multiple disciplines and domains;
help move the community forward in creating tangible deliverables that improve data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries;
heart of the plenaries are working meetings of RDA Working & Interest groups and new potential groups through Birds of a Feather meetings
presentation of new Outputs and Adoption cases
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29. 15th Plenary Meeting 18-20 March 2020 Melbourne, Australia

30. 14th RDA Plenary Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 23 – 25 October 2019
Over 60 Working, Interest & Birds of Feather (BoF) sessions
15+ co-located events
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31. Getting the most from a Plenary: Actions for the Australasian community
RDA Plenary meetings are WORKING meetings.
A checklist on getting the most from them:
Identify your area of interest
Check the existing groups (see RDA for You)
Contact your international colleagues
Collectively outline your international idea
Apply for a Birds of a Feather (BoF) meeting (Oct 2019)
Upon approval – prepare well – 90 minutes to conquer the globe 
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32. Resources & further information
RDA for Librarians, Archivists, Information Management Professionals - librarianship-archival-science-and-information-science
RDA for Newcomers - some-notes
The Value of the Research Data Alliance for Libraries -
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33. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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The Research Data Alliance and Opportunities for Libraries Perth, Australia 7th August 2019
Hilary Hanahoe
Secretary General, Research Data Alliance -
Twitter - @hilaryhanahoe
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