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The Value of the RDA for Regions

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) envisions researchers and innovators openly sharing data to address society's grand challenges. This text highlights the importance of the RDA's work and business components, as well as how the RDA supports and benefits regions in their work and business activities. It also explains how regions contribute to the RDA's work and business. The RDA's role in building social and technical connections, supporting regional leadership, and facilitating international consensus is emphasized.

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The Value of the RDA for Regions

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  1. The Value of the RDA for Regions The research Data Alliance’s vision is researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society

  2. Important distinction between the two major components of the Alliance • The Work of RDA is done by the volunteer community through self-formed, focused Working Groups and exploratory Interest Groups to build the social and technical connections or bridges. • The Business of RDA is to support that community and facilitate the building and using of the bridges that enable open sharing of data. • There are thus several different ways for a region to engage with the RDA. •  ​

  3. Value of RDA to Regions • Strong partnerships with regional members is crucial to success of RDA as international organisation; • Achieved through complementary and mutually-beneficial relationship; • RDA providesforum for international community to connect and share knowledge; • Global perspective a key strength; • Value and benefits are realized through work and business of RDA.

  4. How does the RDA support Regions in their Work? • Disseminating Regional efforts to the Global RDA community; ​ • Facilitating connections and shared interests among Regions; ​ • Supporting Regional leadership to build the RDA community and create impact; • Enabling international consensus to be built on issues of Regional importance.

  5. How does the RDA support Regions in their Business? • Supporting Regional development, administration and leadership; ​ • Establishing a Regional Assembly ensuring it has an appropriate function/role and influence; ​ • Supporting Regional leadership to achieve fundraising goals; • Providing organizational partnership and support for Regionally-hosted RDA plenaries; • Hosting Regional websites; • Providing official support and approval for the use of RDA brand; • Resolving and adjudicating conflicts.

  6. Value of Regions to RDA • Regional composition of RDA creates an international forum; • The forum legitimizes and strengthens RDA recommendations and outputs; • Regions contribute to RDA work through participation in core activities (plenaries, Working/Interest Groups etc); • Regions contribute to RDA business through contributions (in-kind, monetary, plenary hosting etc);

  7. How do Regions contribute to RDA Work? • Supporting the vision, mission and principles of RDA Global at the Regional level; ​ • Fostering a diverse data community by engaging stakeholders within the Region; ​ • Supporting participation in plenaries and RDA-related activities;

  8. How do Regions contribute to RDA Business? • Providing financial contribution; ​ • Providing in-kind support to the Secretariat; ​ • Facilitating the hosting and organizing of plenaries; • Shaping future directions; • Contributing to the governance of the RDA.

  9. Getting engaged • The RDA Regional Engagement framework document and web space are available at https://rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-regions. • Information regarding governance, legitimacy and how new Regions are created are outlined in the framework document. • Contact the RDA Secretary General, Hilary Hanahoe for a one-to-one call to discuss your regional engagement ideas. •  ​

  10. What does RDA do? RDA is building the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data to achieve its vision of researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. ​ • RDA members collaborate together across the globe to tackle numerous infrastructure & data sharing challenges related to: • Reproducibility • Data preservation • Best practices for domain repositories • Legal interoperability • Data citation • Data type registries • Metadata • So much more!

  11. Regions andRDA • Please use these slide sets for your own use • For the complete RDA Value statement for Regions click here • Stay up to date with RDA: • Email - enquiries@rd-alliance.org​ • Web - www.rd-alliance.org​ • Twitter - @resdatall​ • LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ResearchDataAlliance​ • Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General RDA – hilary.hanahoe@rda-foundation.org • Twitter - @hilaryhanahoe

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