Removing Barriers to Data Sharing: the Research Data Alliance
1. Removing Barriers to Data Sharing:
the Research Data Alliance
Amy L. Nurnberger
0000-0002-5931-072X
RDA Organiza=onal Advisory Board, Co-chair
Columbia University, Research Data Manager
@DataAtCU
Internet2 – 2016 TechEx
Miami, FL
28 September 2016
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This work is licensed under a Crea=ve Commons AOribu=on 4.0 Interna=onal License.
4. World-wide Efforts Focusing on Infrastructure to
Support Research Data Sharing, Access, Use
Science, Humanities, Arts
Communities
E-Infrastructure professionals,
data analysts, data center staff, …
Data
Scientists
Libraries, Archives,
Repositories, Museums
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5. 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
Many Infrastructure Building Blocks
Needed to Accelerate Progress
Data Use and
Re-use
Data Discovery and
Data Sharing
Research Dissemination and
Reproducibility
Data Access (now) and
Preservation (later)
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8. … So much to gain from collaboration …
Why a Research Data
Alliance?
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9. “We are taking our work beyond Europe's borders, to reach
global scale. To make the scientific resources of the world work
together, interoperating and open to discovery. For example we
are working with partners like the US and Australia in the
Research Data Alliance to make scientific progress broader,
deeper and more workable”.
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible
for the Digital Agenda - Open Access to science and data = cash and
economic bonanza, 19 November 2013
… So much to gain from collaboration …
Why a Research Data
Alliance?
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10. Researchers and innovators openly share data across
technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand
challenges of society.
What RDA is about:
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11. Researchers and innovators openly share data across
technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand
challenges of society.
… building the social and technical bridges that enable global open sharing of data…
Researchers, scien>sts, data prac>>oners & informa>on technologists
from around the world are invited to work together to achieve the vision
What RDA is about:
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12. Reality bikes: “There is no reason to think that
collaborators have common goals”
Bicycle slide
Used courtesy Mark Parsons
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14. Dynamics of infrastructure
Edwards et al. 2007. Understanding infrastructure dynamics, tensions and
design
Infrastructures become “ubiquitous, accessible, reliable, and
transparent” as they mature
Systems → Networks → Inter-networks
◦ “system-building, characterized by the deliberate and successful
design of technology-based services”
◦ “technology transfer across domains and loca=ons results in
varia=ons on the original design, as well as the emergence of
compe=ng systems.”
◦ Finally, a “process of consolidaFon characterized by gateways that
allows dissimilar systems to be liked into networks”
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21. Call for Adop[on of RDA
Outputs
If you are interested in
adop0ng one of these
outputs, please contact
enquiries@rd-alliance.org
or visit
h;ps://rd-alliance.org/
recommenda0ons-and-
outcomes/become-rda-
adopter
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22. Africa
3% Asia
9%
Australasia
5%
Europe
48%
North America
34%
South America
1%
Total RDA Community Members: 4345
from 111 countries
Who is RDA?
Type
Members
(Sept. 2016)
Press & Media 27
Policy/Funding Agency 64
Large Enterprise 99
IT Consultancy/Development 143
Small and Medium Enterprise 249
Other 235
Government/Public Services 671
Academia/Research 2857
TOTAL 4345
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392
989
1272
1654
2046
2402
2634
2877 3122 3431
3694
4016
4273
4345
May -
July
Aug -
Oct
Nov -
Jan
Feb -
Apr
May -
July
Aug -
Oct
Nov -
Jan
Feb -
Apr
May -
July
Aug -
Oct
Nov -
Jan
Feb-
Apr
May -
July
Aug -
Oct
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24. The value for Organiza[onal
Members
Image, stature, and effecFveness among peers
• Recognized as developers and adopters of standards and
protocols
• Increased influence for their work on data
interoperability in their sectors, markets, and
geographies
• Speaking with influence to na=onal and interna=onal
funding agencies
• Member of world community that shares goals and
addresses common issues
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25. The value for Organiza[onal
Members
Network effects
• Networking opportunity to share and promote best
prac=ces and promote standard adop=on when
appropriate
• Access to collegial consultancy resources when
developing a data management strategy for a new
project
• Interac=ng with other Organisa=onal Members (OMs) in
the OA sessions at RDA Plenaries
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26. The value for Organiza[onal
Members
OrganizaFonal and technical interacFons
• Having a voice inside RDA, providing advice on the needs
of their sectors and the problems faced in data exchange
• Ability to provide feedback on RDA ac=vi=es, and suggest
future direc=ons and next steps, by commen=ng on
group forma=ons and outputs
• Providing advice to the RDA Council through the
Organisa=onal Advisory Board
• Access on a regular basis to publica=on of RDA
Founda=on budget and financial status
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30. hjps://rd-alliance.org/plenaries
RDA 10th Plenary Mee[ng
Montreal, Canada
Roger-Gaudry pavilion, Université de Montréal by Colocho, CC By SA 3.0, cropped
Montréal, Canada
Hosted by
With the support of Research Data
Canada
31. Removing Barriers to
Data Sharing: the
Research Data Alliance
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RDA Global
Email - enquiries@rd-alliance.org
Web - www.rd-alliance.org
Twitter - @resdatall
LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/
ResearchDataAlliance
Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/
ResearchDataAlliance
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/
Research-Data-Alliance/459608890798924
RDA Europe
Email - info@europe.rd-alliance.org
Web - europe.rd-alliance.org
Twitter - @RDA_Europe
RDA US
Email - http://us.rd-alliance.org/contact-us
Web - us.rd-alliance.org
Twitter - @RDA_US
Amy L. Nurnberger
ANURNBERGER@COLUMBIA.EDU
Thanks to all those in
RDA who lent slides!
RDA IN A NUTSHELL
MARK PARSONS
JUAN BICARREGUI
33. What does RDA do?
Members come together through self-formed, volunteer, focussed Working
Groups, exploratory Interest Groups to exchange knowledge, share
discoveries, discuss barriers and poten0al solu0ons, explore and define
policies and test as well as harmonise standards to enhance and facilitate
global data sharing.
RDA members collaborate together regionally and with the global RDA
community to tackle numerous infrastructure challenges related to:
v Reproducibility
v Data preserva=on
v Best prac=ces for domain
repositories
v Curriculum development
v Data cita=on
v Data type registries
v Metadata
v and so many more!
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34. Who Can Join RDA?
◦ Any individual or organiza>on, regardless of profession or discipline,
with an interest in reducing the barriers to data sharing and
exchange and who agrees to RDA’s guiding principles of:
◦ Openness
◦ Consensus
◦ Balance
◦ Harmoniza>on
◦ Community-driven
◦ Non-profit and technology-neutral
Membership is free @ hjp://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register
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35. Geeng involved
Individuals
P Observers
P Contributors
P Drivers
Organisa=ons
P Insight
P Adopt
P Drive
Na=onal level
ü Coordina=on & Knowledge
Exchange, Strategy & / or
Implementa=on
• Members
• WGs-IGs-BoFs
• Requests for
Comments
• Plenaries
• Member
• WGs-IGs-BoFs
• RfCs
• H2020 projects
• Adop>on /
Uptake
• Papers & Events
• Mee>ngs & Fora
• Training & Workshops
• Uptake pilots
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36. Why Join RDA?
Individual RDA Member Benefits
◦ Contribute to accelera>on of data
infrastructure development
◦ Work and share experiences with
collaborators throughout the world
◦ Access to extraordinary network of
colleagues with various levels of
experience, perspec>ves and prac>ces
◦ Gain greater exper>se in data science
regardless of whether one is a student,
early or seasoned career professional
◦ Enhance the quality and effec>veness of
personal work and ac>vi>es
◦ Improve one’s compe>>ve advantage
professionally and posi>oning oneself for
leadership within the broader research
community
OrganizaFonal RDA Member
Benefits
◦ Provide an organiza>onal perspec>ve on the
work of RDA and ability to influence RDA’s
direc>on
◦ Assist in implementa>on of RDA Outputs
◦ Par>cipate in all RDA Organiza>onal Forums
◦ Receive regular updates on the work of the
RDA
◦ Aend Organiza>onal Assembly mee>ngs and
vote on proposed policies for considera>on by
the RDA Council and for members of the
Organiza>onal Advisory Board
◦ Provide advice to the Council through the
Organiza>onal Advisory Board
◦ Be recognized on the RDA Website and at RDA
Mee>ngs as a supporter of data
interoperability
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37. RDA Plenary 6 (Paris) – 23- 25
Sept 2015
§ RDA deliverables presented:
§ Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS
§ RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics
§ RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services
§ RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows
§ 7 Adoption cases: Deep Carbon Observatory, Platform for
Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, Datafed.net, the Materials
Innovation Infrastructure, EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure,
German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) & Common Language
Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN)
§ Focus on enterprise & climate change:
§ 20 enterprises showcased solutions
§ 3 climate change data challenge winners – Biovel, Plume Labs,
Vizonomy
§ Focus on emerging professionals :
§ RDA/EU sponsored 12 European Early Career Researchers and
Scientists & RDA/US sponsored 8 Fellowship winners
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Theme: “Enterprise Engagement
with a focus on Climate Change”
700 attendees from 40+ countries &
hosted by Cap Digital – France
Co-located conferences:
1. eInfrastructures & RDA for Data
Intensive Science
2. Persistent Identifiers: Enabling
Services for Data Intensive
Research
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38. 7 RDA Recommendations/outputs presented:
§ Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS
§ RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics
§ RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services
§ RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows
§ Wheat Data Interoperability Recommendations
§ RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud
Computing in the Developing World Interim Recommendations
§ Brokering Governance Interim Recommendations
§ 11 adoption presentations
www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-seventh-plenary-mee[ng-tokyo-japan
• 30 interna=onal speakers over
5 plenary sessions
• 7 outputs & 11 adop=on cases
• 8 Working Group mee=ngs
• 25 Interest Group mee=ngs
• 10 Birds of a Feather
• 9 Joint mee=ngs
• 2 Organisa=onal Member
mee=ngs
• RDA for Newcomers Mee=ng
357 aZendees
from 33
countries
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