removing barriers to data sharing: the research data alliance

Removing Barriers to Data Sharing: the

Research Data Alliance

Amy L. Nurnberger0000-0002-5931-072XRDA Organizational Advisory Board, Co-chairColumbia University, Research Data Manager@DataAtCU

Internet2 – 2016 TechExMiami, FL

28 September 2016

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Research Data Driving Solutions to Complex Scientific and Societal ChallengesWho is most at

risk to contract asthma?

How can we increase

wheat yields?

How accurate is the Standard Model of Physics?

Image: Lucas Taylor

How can we best address energy needs and sustain the environment?

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@RESDATALL

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Data-Sharing Driving Innovation Across Sectors and Communities


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


Institutional Data Sharing Practice

Data Access and Distribution Policy

Data Discovery Tools

Common Metadata Standards

Digital Object Identifiers

Data CitationStandards

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)



Research today: Research infrastructure ≈ e-infrastructure


Research today: Research Infrastructure = e-infrastructure

Dealing with vastVolumes

VelocitiesVarieties

Of DATA



… So much to gain from collaboration …

Why a Research Data Alliance?


“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?


Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

What RDA is about:


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, scientists, data practitioners & information technologists from around the world are invited to work together to achieve the vision

What RDA is about:


Reality bikes: “There is no reason to think that collaborators have common

goals”

Bicycle slide

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Dynamics of infrastructureEdwards 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 locations results in

variations on the original design, as well as the emergence of competing systems.”

◦ Finally, a “process of consolidation characterized by gateways that allows dissimilar systems to be liked into networks”

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◦ Adopted code, policy, specifications, standards, or practices that enable data sharing

◦ Harvestable efforts for which 12-18 months of work can eliminate a roadblock, or act as a catalyst

◦ Efforts that have substantive applicability to groups within the data community but may not apply to all

◦ Efforts that can start today

Used courtesy Mark Parsons

Deliverables that make data work

Create → Adopt → UseRDA

Principles• Openness• Consensus• Balance• Harmonizatio

n• Community

driven• Non-profit


Domain Science – focused: 4 WG & 13 IGCommunity Needs – focused: 1 WG & 6 IGReference and Sharing – focused: 8 WG & 4 IGData Stewardship and Services – focused: 4 WG & 12 IG Partnership Groups: 3 WG & 2 IG

RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus www.rd-alliance.org/groups

Base Infrastructure – focusedArray Database WGData Foundation and Terminology WGData Type Registries WGMetadata Standards Catalog WGMetadata Standards Directory WGPID Information Types WGPractical Policy WGData Fabric IG

Data Foundations and Terminology IGData in Context IGBig Data IGBrokering IGFederated Identity Management IGMetadata IGPID IGService Management IGVocabulary Services IG

Total 73 groups: 27 Working Groups & 46

Interest Groups


THE RDA OUTCOMES LEGEND

Recommendations: RDA’s equivalent of the “specifications” or “standards” that other organisations create and endorse.

Supporting Outputs: are the outputs of RDA WGs and IGs that are fruit of RDA work, but are not necessarily adoptable bridges.

Other Outputs: include workshop reports, published articles, survey results, etc. Anything a WG or IG wants to register and report. Upon request, these are published and discoverable on the RDA website but have no level of endorsement.

https://rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/

RDA Recommendations & Outputs


Data Foundation & Terminology: a model for data in the registered domain.

PID Information Types: a common protocol for providers and users of persistent ID services worldwide.

Data Type Registries: allowing humans and machines to act on unknown, but registered, data types.

Practical Policy: defining best practices of how to deal with data automatically and in a documented way with computer actionable policy.

https://rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-and-outputs



Metadata standards directory: Community curated standards catalogue for metadata interoperability

Data Citation: defining mechanisms to reliably cite dynamic data

Data Description Registry Interoperability solutions enabling cross platform discovery based on existing open protocols and standards

Wheat Data Interoperability impacting the discoverability, reusability and interoperability of wheat data by building a common framework for describing, representing linking and publishing wheat data


https://rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-and-outputs


Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS: A convergent DSA-WDS certification standard to help eliminate duplication of effort, increase certification procedure coherence and compatibility thus benefitting researchers, data managers, librarians and scientific communities.

RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics: improved research data metrics and corresponding services, with the final goal of increasing the overall availability and quality of citations and research data itself.

RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services: A universal interlinking service between data and the scientific literature.

RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows: enhance the possibilities for greater discoverability and a more efficient and reliable reuse of research data benefitting other stakeholders like publishers, libraries and data centres.https://rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-

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Call for Adoption of RDA Outputs

If you are interested in adopting one of these outputs, please contact [email protected] or visit https://rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outcomes/become-rda-adopter


mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

https://rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outcomes/become-rda-adopter




Africa3% Asia

9%

Australasia5%

Europe48%

North America33%

South America1%

Total RDA Community Members: 4345

from 111 countries

Who is RDA?Type

Members(Sept. 2016)

Press & Media 27Policy/Funding Agency 64Large Enterprise 99IT Consultancy/Development 143Small and Medium Enterprise 249Other 235Government/Public Services 671Academia/Research 2857TOTAL 4345

www.rd-alliance.org/about-rda

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

392

9891272

16542046

24022634

2877 3122 34313694

40164273

4345


45 RDA Organisational Members

Organisational & Affiliate Members

6 RDA Affiliate Members

https://rd-alliance.org/organisation/rda-organisation-affiliate-members.html

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The value for Organizational Members

Image, stature, and effectiveness 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 national and international

funding agencies• Member of world community that shares goals and

addresses common issues



Network effects• Networking opportunity to share and promote best

practices and promote standard adoption when appropriate

• Access to collegial consultancy resources when developing a data management strategy for a new project

• Interacting with other Organisational Members (OMs) in the OA sessions at RDA Plenaries



Organizational and technical interactions• 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 activities, and suggest

future directions and next steps, by commenting on group formations and outputs

• Providing advice to the RDA Council through the Organisational Advisory Board

• Access on a regular basis to publication of RDA Foundation budget and financial status


RDA Plenaries

What you get when you attend:Working Meeting: Updates & ProgressKnowledge Exchange, Networking &

Direct InteractionBest Practice, Outputs & AdoptionNew ideas, collaborators, partners….

www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries WWW.RD-ALLIANCE.ORG@RESDATALL

Had a GREAT time!WWW.RD-ALLIANCE.ORG@RESDATALL

https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-ninth-plenary-meeting.html


https://rd-alliance.org/plenaries

RDA 10th Plenary Meeting

Montreal, Canada

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Montréal, Canada

Hosted byWith the support of Research Data Canada

Removing Barriers to Data Sharing: the Research Data AllianceWWW.RD-ALLIANCE.ORG/@RESDATALL

RDA GlobalEmail - [email protected] - www.rd-alliance.orgTwitter - @resdatallLinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ResearchDataAllianceSlideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/ResearchDataAllianceFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Research-Data-Alliance/459608890798924RDA EuropeEmail - [email protected] - europe.rd-alliance.orgTwitter - @RDA_Europe

RDA USEmail - http://us.rd-alliance.org/contact-usWeb - us.rd-alliance.orgTwitter - @RDA_US

Amy L. [email protected]

Thanks to all those in RDA who lent slides!RDA IN A NUTSHELLMARK PARSONSJUAN BICARREGUI

What is RDA? RDA is an international organization focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data driven innovation worldwide.

With more than 4,300 members globally representing more than 110 countries, RDA includes data science professionals from multiple disciplines, including but not limited to academia, library sciences, earth science, astronomy and meteorology.

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.

www.rd-alliance.org/about-rda WWW.RD-ALLIANCE.ORG@RESDATALL

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 potential solutions, 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:

ReproducibilityData preservationBest practices for domain

repositoriesCurriculum developmentData citation

Data type registriesMetadataand so many more!


Who Can Join RDA?◦ Any individual or organization, 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◦ Harmonization◦ Community-driven◦ Non-profit and technology-neutral

Membership is free @ http://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register


Getting involvedIndividualsObservers

Contributors

Drivers

Organisations Insight Adopt Drive

National level Coordination & Knowledge

Exchange, Strategy & / or Implementation

• Members• WGs-IGs-BoFs• Requests for

Comments• Plenaries

• Member• WGs-IGs-BoFs• RfCs• H2020 projects• Adoption / Uptake

• Papers & Events• Meetings & Fora• Training & Workshops• Uptake pilots

www.rd-alliance.org/get-involved.html WWW.RD-ALLIANCE.ORG@RESDATALL

Why Join RDA?Individual RDA Member Benefits

◦ Contribute to acceleration of data infrastructure development

◦ Work and share experiences with collaborators throughout the world

◦ Access to extraordinary network of colleagues with various levels of experience, perspectives and practices

◦ Gain greater expertise in data science regardless of whether one is a student, early or seasoned career professional

◦ Enhance the quality and effectiveness of personal work and activities

◦ Improve one’s competitive advantage professionally and positioning oneself for leadership within the broader research community

Organizational RDA Member Benefits

◦ Provide an organizational perspective on the work of RDA and ability to influence RDA’s direction

◦ Assist in implementation of RDA Outputs◦ Participate in all RDA Organizational Forums◦ Receive regular updates on the work of the

RDA◦ Attend Organizational Assembly meetings and

vote on proposed policies for consideration by the RDA Council and for members of the Organizational Advisory Board

◦ Provide advice to the Council through the Organizational Advisory Board

◦ Be recognized on the RDA Website and at RDA Meetings as a supporter of data interoperability

www.rd-alliance.org/get-involved.html WWW.RD-ALLIANCE.ORG@RESDATALL

RDA Plenary 6 (Paris) – 23- 25 Sept 2015RDA 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, VizonomyFocus on emerging professionals :

RDA/EU sponsored 12 European Early Career Researchers and Scientists & RDA/US sponsored 8 Fellowship winners

www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting-paris-france

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 Science2. Persistent Identifiers: Enabling

Services for Data Intensive Research


7 RDA Recommendations/outputs presented:Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDSRDA/WDS Publishing Data BibliometricsRDA/WDS Publishing Data ServicesRDA/WDS Publishing Data WorkflowsWheat Data Interoperability RecommendationsRDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World Interim Recommendations

Brokering Governance Interim Recommendations11 adoption presentations

www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-seventh-plenary-meeting-tokyo-japan

• 30 international speakers over 5 plenary sessions

• 7 outputs & 11 adoption cases• 8 Working Group meetings• 25 Interest Group meetings• 10 Birds of a Feather• 9 Joint meetings• 2 Organisational Member

meetings• RDA for Newcomers Meeting

357 attendees from 33

countries


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