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Mark Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mark A. Parsons and Francine Berman: "The Research Data Alliance: Making Data Work" Panel: Global scientific data infrastructure Research Data Access & Preservation Summit 2013 Baltimore, MD April 4, 2013 #rdap13
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The Research Data Alliance: Making Data Work
Mark A. Parsons and Francine BermanRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 13Baltimore, MD4 April 2013
Fran Berman
Digital Data has hit the “Tipping Point” as a Global Priority
"Data Deluge," Brett Ryder, The Economist, Feb. 2010
Diverse snow crystal photos by Kenneth G. Libbrecht snowcrystals.com
All of society’s grand challenges require diverse (often large) data to to be shared and integrated across cultures, scales, and technologies.
Research Data Alliance
VisionResearchers around the world sharing and using research data without barriers.
Purposeto accelerate international
data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data
sharing and exchange,use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability.
through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables.
Principles
• Openness
• Consensus
• Balance
• Harmonization
• Community Driven
• Non-profit
Deliverables that make data work
• Adopted code, policy, infrastructure, standards, or best practices that enable data to be shared and exchanged
• “Harvestable” efforts for which 12-18 months of work can eliminate a roadblock for a substantial community
• Efforts that have substantive applicability to “chunks” of the data community, but may not apply to everyone
• Efforts for which working scientists and researchers can start today while more long-term or far-reaching solutions are appropriately discussed in other venues
Building Bridges
• Bridges to the future• data preservation
• Bridges to research partners
• Bridges across disciplines
• Bridges across regions
• Bridges to integration• to solve new problems
• Bridges across communities
Juan Bicarregui
We need to start thinking about software in a way more like how we think about building bridges, dams, and sewers
– Dan Bricklin, Software That Lasts 200 Years
Dynamics of InfrastructureEdwards, et al. 2007 Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design.
• Infrastructures become “ubiquitous, accessible, reliable, and transparent” as they mature.
• Staged evolu@on–“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 consolida@on characterized by gateways that allow dissimilar systems to be linked into networks.”
Ecology of Infrastructure Figure from F. Millerand based on S. L. Star & K. Ruhleder (1996)
When is infrastructure?
When is infrastructure?
Who is infrastructure?
Fran Berman
Proposal for organizational Framework
RDA Strategy and Leadership: CouncilResponsible for overarching mission, vision, sustainability of RDA
Technical Leadership:Technical Advisory
Board (TAB)
Responsible for Technical Roadmap
Administra@ve Leadership:Secretariat
Responsible for AdministraCon and OperaCons
Organiza@onal Partners: Organisa:onal Advisory
Group (OAG)
Responsible for Process and Strategy Reference Document
Government Group (Science Agency Colloquium) Appropriate InternaConal R&D Agency Support
RDA Mem
bership
Community Impact: Working GroupsResponsible for impacHul, outcome-‐oriented efforts
Positive deviance says that if you want to create change, you must scale it down to the lowest level of granularity and look for people within the social system who are already manifesting the desired
future state. Take only the arrows that are already pointing toward the way you want to go, and ignore the others. Identify and
differentiate those people who are headed in the right direction. Give them visibility and resources. Bring them together. Aggregate them.
Barbara Waugh
Leadership Model: Positive Deviance
Slide courtesy Ted Habermann, NOAA
Fran Berman
RDA Working Groups Create Enabling Infrastructure
Data Use, Sharing and Exchange
Founda@ons
Community deployment of adopted / implemented infrastructure, tools, policy, prac@ce, standards
facilita@ng data sharing and exchange
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Working Groups• PID Information Types• Data Type Registries• Data Foundation and Terminology
(pending)• Practical Policy (pending)
Interest Groups:• Legal Interoperability
(Joint w/ CODATA)• The Engagement Group
• UPC Code for Data• Metadata Publishing Data• Defining Urban Data Exchange for
Science The Engagement Group• Marine Data Harmonization• Repository Audit and Certification• Preservation e-Infrastructure• Contextual Metadata• Community Capability Model• Big Data Analytics
Working and Interest Groups
Growing the Organization• Initial Council and Secretariat
forming• Task forces to address technical
issues and organizational members and affiliates
• Sponsorship form US, EC, and Australia
Current Status
Growing the Community• ~300 Members• 15 Interest and Working Groups
established with Website, Forums, Mailing Lists etc.
• Multiple workshops leading to Launch and first Plenary 18-19 March• 31 countries, 5 continents (no
S. America)• >200 participants• >6,500 tweets on #rdalaunch
Fran Berman
“T=0” - 18 March 2013: We are here!
Be involved:– Help RDA live up to its aspirations:
• focused effort,
• tangible progress,
• maximum impact
– Work with colleagues to create Working Groups that will make a difference to the research community
– Get involved in RDA component groups
– Register and participate at rd-alliance.org
Launch from Göteborg!
Fran Berman
Fran Berman29
Next Plenary:16-18 September 2013National Academy of SciencesWashington DC
Some of the Players
• Initial Council:– John Wood, EU– Ross Wilkinson, AU– Fran Berman, US
• Task Groups- Technical Advisory
Board- Organizational members
and affiliates- Outreach and Comm.- Plenary 2
• Secretariat:– Herman Stehouwers, EU– Stefanie Kethers, AU– Mark Parsons, US
• Steering Group- Fran Berman, US- Juan Bicarregui, UK - Leif Laaksonen, EU- Beth Plale, US- Andrew Treloar, AU- Ross Wilkinson, AU- Peter Wittenburg, EU- John Wood, EU
• Sponsors– NSF, in-kind support from
NIST– Australian National Data
Service – European Commission
What can RDA do for RDAP and ASIS&T?Questions and comments to:enquiries@rd-alliance.org
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