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The Research Data Alliance

The Research Data Alliance. A Personal Perspective Jamie.Shiers@cern.ch. Background. INFRA-2012-3.2 : International cooperation with the USA on common eInfrastructure for scientific data.

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The Research Data Alliance

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  1. The Research Data Alliance A Personal Perspective Jamie.Shiers@cern.ch

  2. Background • INFRA-2012-3.2: International cooperation with the USA on common eInfrastructure for scientific data. • The objective is to establish an EU/USA coordination platform aiming at full interoperability of scientific data infrastructures, and to demonstrate this coordination through several joint EU-USA prototypes that would ensure persistent availability and effective sharing of data across scientific domains, organisations and national boundaries. • Clearly, some work had gone on prior to this call – which funded iCORDI (now RDA Europe) • Other countries also involved: AU, CA, (cn, jp, za …)

  3. History • Pre-kick-off meetings in Sep/Oct 2012 • Garching, Washington • Official launch “plenary 1” in March 2013 in GOT • 2nd plenary: Sep 2013 in DC; 3rd in Mar 2014 in DUB, 4th foreseen for AMS in Sep(?) 2014 • Plenaries so far have had too much (IMHO) focus on “the why” and too little on “the what” • 3rd plenary looks like a step forward with most of the time devoted to WGs and IGs

  4. Governance • RDA Council • RDA Technical Advisory Board • RDA Organisational Members and OAB • IMHO this is somewhat top-heavy for a “light-weight” organisation • But the TAB candidates (for example) seem to have the right technical profiles and motivation • Given time it should converge (2014?)

  5. Personal Involvement • Main involvement has been around Long-Term Data Preservation (exa-scale, decades) • Contacts made through RDA meetings have been invaluable and may (will?) lead to H2020 projects • Preservation Interest Groupstill nascent: up to us as a group to make it useful • Positioning wrt other non-RDA groups, such as the Alliance for Permanent Access? • Interaction with other (WG and IG)s and with funders • Other CERN people, e.g. “digital library”, find it useful / essential for their work

  6. Recommendation • It is understood that future projects and organisations large and small must embrace the output of the RDA • And be active in defining it • Both the EU and NSF seem very keen on it! • There are still (many) questions but we can ensure better answers by participating • Actively participate, at least during 2014, and review • Be consistent across H2020 work-programme

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