How do Working and Interest Groups work?

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Introduction Working and Interest Groups Joining Adoption Starting Current Taxonomy Relations

Overview

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Why? Make Research work better

Mission The Research Data Alliance (RDA) builds the social and

technical bridges that enable open sharing of data

Vision We see researchers and innovators openly sharing data

across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society

Introduction

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What is an Interest Group? Group around a common Interest Interest defined in a short charter Lightweight, many degrees of freedom

What is a Working Group? Concrete problem Short timeframe (~18 months) Concrete Output (data exchange) Clear Adoption

Working and Interest groups

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Be registered on the website Subscribe to the group Get active in the discussion / produce the work Good idea: talk to existing members

At Plenaries At other meetings Using email

Joining

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Key Issue Expected of WGs Please adopt relevant outcomes

Adoption

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( BoF Session at Plenary ) Write a Charter

+ Chairs + Initial membership

Approval by TAB/Council

Starting an Interest Group

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( BoF Session at Plenary / From Interest Group ) Write a Case Statement

Charter Value Engagement with existing work Work Plan Adoption Plan Initial Membership

One month community review Review by TAB Council determines if there is consensus For more detail: https://www.rd-alliance.org/case-

statements.html

Starting a Working Group

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Working Groups and Interest Groups 16 and 31 Too many to name them all

Some WGs that will deliver by end of year: PID Information Types WG Data Type Registries Metadata Standards Directory WG Data Foundation and Terminology Practical Policy Data Categories and Codes

Current Groups

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Cross-Discipline

Technical

Non-Technical

Discipline specific

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Functional Layers Access Functional Layers Management

Find/Reference Find/Reference

Ref-Resolution Ref-Resolution

Access Access

interpret Manage

re-use/process Curate

Archive

Federate

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Cross-Disciplinary

GroupsTechnical Metadata

WG

Metadata Standards Directory

A/D/E

DDRI A

IG

Research Data Provenance A/D/E

Data in Context A/D/E

Metadata A/D/E

Example of Pewi Taxonomy

A Find/Reference

D Interpret

E Re-use / Process

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Informal relations WG Collaboration Group

Data Foundation Terminology PID Information Types Metadata Practical Policy Data Type Registries

No Formal (technical) relations

Relations between groups

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