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About the Research Data Alliance
RDA plenary meetings are held every six months. The meetings have few plenary sessions — an opening session with keynote speakers and reports of work products, a closing, and a business session — and other than they keynotes, no invited speakers. RDA has 7000 members, and is world-wide with 50% of its membership from Europe. RDA is organized into birds of a feather sessions, which may lead to permanently standing interest groups, which may lead to scoped and temporary workgroups that produce work products for ratification by RDA. RDA currently has over 100 workgroups. The conference has 30 minute breaks, which include small poster sessions, gatherings at breakfast and lunch, a conference dinner, and a reception. These provide ample opportunities for conversation. In a typical workgroup meeting of 30 people, 75% are new people. The six month schedule, and the focus on work products and working groups creates a very vibrant, action-oriented environment.
Over the course of the three days I had productive conversations (in no particular order) with: Maryann Martone, Fiona Murphy, Amir Aryani, Gary Berg, David Wilcox, Tom Cramer, Michele Minielli, Josh Greenberg, Anne Theissen, Soren Sören Auer, Horey Grant Elsevier Labs? , Corey Harper, David Dubin, Mark Leggott, Mark Musen, Leslie McIntosh Borelli, Nick Weber, Kathleen Shearer, Wolfram Horstmann, Raphael Ritz, Nick Weber, Peter Fox, Anne Theissen, Martin Fenner, Anna APOAmanda Lawrence, Erik Schultes, ?? Ottawa, Erik Car Australia
Wednesday
Opening Session
Keynotes. SAP. Neuroscience. Both talks emphasized the role of data as a central nervous system for an organization.
Panel. Brennan, NLM
Bof towards a global open science commons
juan B the 7 c’s of open science communication, collection, curation, computation, capacity, creation, collaboration
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Nick Weber. NIH Data Commons. Building across their institutes. Date, software, workflows, docs, articles. Nick.weber@nih.gov
IG. Kathleen Shearer and Wolfram Horstmann. Long tail of
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Research data
IG is interested in issues that arise as a result of the diversity of academic activities, and those not generally served by big data.
The focus was on repository activities. That’s a shame. The problems occur much earlier in the research cycle.
Having spent fours years helping the researchers from a position in the deans office in the the college of liberal arts and sciences, I became well aware of problems facing these disciplines. That was 25 years ago and the issues have not changed— lack of resources, lack of data science skills, lack of colleagues who can participate in the various disciplines. A small investment goes a long way in the “long tail.”
IG Gary Berg-Cross. Data Foundations and Terminology
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See slides. Raphael Ritz. Dft-tool.rd-alliance.org http://hdl.handle.net/21.11109/dft-2.0@#Active_Collection_2 Reptor turns a web server into a repository. Not a query tool.
Amir Aryani. Privacy.
Conference dinner at the Berlin Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs! And more conversation about the future of research data.
Thursday
Plenary Session. Recommendations and Outputs
Dtr-1 data typing. Adopted by Deep Carbon ISO 11179
David Wilcox bagit for repository interchange. Include basic metadata data cite 4.0 schema github.com/RDADataRepositoryInteropWG
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WG chair, Erik Car response was “we’re using PROV” It will be up to VIVO-ISF to decide if and how to deal with PROV.
Presentation by Erik Car (?) regarding his use case tool.
I made a comment regarding lumping and splitting the use cases to get to a set that represent reusable patterns. This is the expected activity as use cases are collected.
Most people were more interested in use cases for provenance than in provenance patterns.
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At the conference venue. Light fare. More conversations.
Friday
IG Vocabulary services
Task groups could lead to work groups. 150 members. Self-organizing. Very disorganized. Tackling and re-tackling middle level ontology questions. Several questions from participants indicating confusion.
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Fellow from GESIS
My talk.
Anna Amanda Lawrence from APO
Closing Plenary
661 registrants. 41 countries. 179 from Germany.
P12 Will be in Gbarrone Gabarone Botswana, November 2018. With International Data Week
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