EOSC in practice: the Research Data
Alliance (RDA)
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SARA GARAVELLI
TRUST-IT SERVICES
RDA EUROPE 4.0 COORDINATOR
VisionResearchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.
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THE RESEARCH DATA ALLIANCE
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building the social and technical bridgesthat enable open sharing of data
28 FLAGSHIP OUTPUTS
of which 4 ICT Technical
Specifications
75 ADOPTION CASES
across multiple disciplines,
organisations & countries
94 GROUPS WORKING ON GLOBAL DATA
INTEROPERABILITY CHALLENGES
of which 33 WORKING GROUPS & 61 INTEREST GROUPS
7,372 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS FROM 137 COUNTRIES
67% Academia & Research14% Public Administration11% Enterprise & Industry
48 ORGANISATIONAL MEMBERS & 8 AFFILIATE MEMBERS
MissionRDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.
The strategic partner to represent the data community in EOSC
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RDA 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 & re-use.
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❖and so many more!
Apply to an RDA open call for individuals
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Total fundingavailable169,000 €
Open Calls for Ambassadors
CALL FOR AMBASSADORSS AT A GLANCE
Each grant up to 7,000€
Total number of grants: 12
Two waves:❖ September – Decemer 2018❖ February - April 2019
Expected outputs:❖Facilitate communication,
engagement and uptake with data practitioners and organisations in your domain/discipline.
❖Reflect back from data communities to inform RDA’sfuture agenda.
Who can apply?
❖Recognised domain experts and skilled communicators.
❖Influencers engaging collaborators across different data communities, particularly your domain/discipline specific community(-ies).
❖Part of an active data community with a good understanding of the European Data Infrastructures landscape.
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grants.rd-alliance.org
Deadline: 5 December 2018
Webinar 27th of November at 12:00 CET
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• organised around the world every 6 months• bringing together a unique community of data science
professionals, from multiple disciplines and domains; •move the community forward in creating tangible
deliverables that improve data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries;•working meetings of RDA Working & Interest groups
and new potential groups through Birds of a Feathermeetings• presentation of new Outputs and Adoption cases
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Open Calls for Experts & Early Careers to support participation
to the RDA Plenary meetings
https://rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-thirteenth-plenary-meeting-philadelphia-us
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RDA’s 13th Plenary MeetingPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania2- 4 April 2019
Call for ECRs & Experts open grants.rd-alliance.org
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RDA’s 14th Plenary MeetingHelsinki, Finland
23-25 October 2019
A neutral forum where existing EOSC initiatives can collaborate
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• To promote the EOSC services/resources/approaches at EU & global level
• To gather feedback and address specific data challenges in a global environment
• To roll out RDA outputs & recommendations
Open Calls for Adoption Grants
CALL FOR ADOPTION GRANTS AT A GLANCE
Each grant up to 15,000€
Total number of grants: 8
One wave:❖October - December 2018
Expected outputs:❖Carry out small-scale projects
to demonstrate and disseminate adoption of RDA’s outputs and ICT Technical Specifications.
Who can apply?
❖Active organisations who can demonstrate take-up of RDA’s outputsand ICT Technical Specifications.
RDA Europe 4.0 is offering 8 grants to support the adoption of RDA Recommendations and Outputs.
Find out more about the grants and how to apply!
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Call opening soon
RDA ICT Specs can facilitate bringing the EOSC to the market
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The goal of the ICT technical specifications is to introduce the RDA recommendations for referencing in public procurement processes
• 8 RDA flagship recommendations have been identified as ICT technical specifications
•A third wave of submission is being initiated• Research Data Repository Interoperability WG
•Wheat Data Interoperability WG
• Research Data Collections WG
• Publishing Data Workflows WG
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The RDA national nodes are pioneering the MSs engagement for
future sustainability
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Join/become an European National Nodes
EU National Nodes receive “seed funding” from RDA Europe 4.0 grant.
9 nodes established
With 3 calls to fund a further 13 nodes:
1st Call: May-Aug 2018
2nd Call: Jan-April 2019
3rd Call: June-Sept 2019
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https://grants.rd-alliance.org/OpenCalls/rda-europe-call-new-nodes
Total fundingavailable462,000 €
Regional Engagement
As the RDA community rapidly grows, strong partnerships with its Regional members are crucial to its success as an international organisation.
November 2018 (Gaborone @ IDW2018 & RDA 12th Plenary meeting) presentation of RDA regional engagement strategy & partnership agreement outline.
The framework document is publiclyavailable and we welcome comments from all RDA stakeholders.
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Definition of an RDA region
a “national level” geographic entity or
consortium of “national-level” entities, and is
intended to be broadly representative.
Webinar on 5 December2018
RDA Europe
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Twitter - @RDA_Europe
Sara Garavelli, RDA Europe 4.0 Coordinator
Email – [email protected]
Twitter - @saragaravelli
21 November 2018Vienna, Austria
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