1. The Research Data Alliance: a (data) window to the world
RDA Meet & Greet, Brisbane, 2nd August 2019
Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance

2. Slides at https://www.rd- alliance.org/rda-meet- greet-australia

3. What’s in a word? research data management open science open data
data commons
FAIR
science cloud

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. RDA Guiding Principles
Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral
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7. 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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8. 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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9. RDA across the globe 8,642+ RDA members from 137 different countries
Guiding Principles:
Openness
Consensus
Balance
Harmonization
Community-driven
Non-profit and technology-neutral
8,642+ RDA members from 137 different countries
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10. RDA Organisational Type
68% Academia / Research
14% Gov / Public Admin
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11. 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

12. How is Australia represented in RDA?
350+ Community Members (4%) representing 140 organisations
18 Working / Interest Group co-chairs (5%)
RDA Council RDA Technical Advisory Board
RDA Secretariat
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13. The heart of RDA … 90 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: 34 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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14. Which groups are for you?

15. RDA Recommendations & Outputs
SUPPORTING OUTPUTS
OTHER OUTPUTS
Equivalent of the “specifications” or “standards” that other organisations create and endorse. 19 Recommendations of which 8 ICT Technical Specifications
Outputs of RDA WGs and IGs that are fruit of RDA work, but are not necessarily adoptable bridges. 13 Supporting Outputs
Anything a WG or IG wants to register and report, e.g. workshop reports, articles, survey results, etc.
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16. Data standards for Agriculture: INRA adoption of RDA Outputs
Wheat Data Interoperability Guidelines
Agrisemantics WG recommendations
Data Fabric
“23 Things: Libraries for Research Data”
FAIRsharing Registry
Dynamic Data Citation
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17. Climate Data Modelling: DKRZ adoption case
Data Foundation and Terminology
PID Information Types
Data Fabric
Data Type Registries
Dynamic Data Citation
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18. CoreTrustSeal: adoption cases
Implemented in 61 repositories worldwide to date
Australian Data Archive (ADA)
CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP) – 2018
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Data repository certification based on the DSA–WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements catalogue and procedures
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19. 23 Things for Research Data: adoption case
A practical and easy to use 23 Research Data things programme created by ANDS with over 1,500 participants.
Repurposed:
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.
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20. Other (known) adoption cases
Dynamic Data Citation – NCI (National Computational Infrastructure), ANU, AU
Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) Framework - ARDC
Data Description Registry Interoperability Model – University of Sydney, NCI, ANDS -> Research Data Switchboard
FAIRsharing Registry - EMBL-Australia Bioinformatics Resource
Wheat Data Interoperability Model - Australian Center for Plant Functional Genomics
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21. Staying informed | Getting involved
ARDC facilitates Communities of Practice, of which 5 are directly linked to RDA Working | Interest groups:
Australian Vocabulary SIG
Data librarians community
Data Management Plans IG
Research Data Provenance IG
Trusted Data Repositories community

22. RDA Plenary Meetings
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23. 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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24. 15th Plenary Meeting 18-20 March 2020 Melbourne, Australia

25. 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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26. 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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27. Collaborate, Co-operate, Co-create
If you want to go fast, go alone If you want to go far, go together African Proverb

28. Special thanks to our Australian champions
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is supported by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

29. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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The Research Data Alliance: a (data) window to the world RDA Meet & Greet, 2nd August 2019 Brisbane, Australia
Hilary Hanahoe
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30. RDA Further Information Resources e-Communication Package
RDA Recommendations and Outputs
RDA Value statements for:
Individuals
RDA in a Nutshell Slide set
Organisations performing Research
RDA in one word Video
Student/Early Careers
Funders
Libraries
The European Open Science Cloud
Regions
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