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Unless otherwise noted, the slides in this presentation are licensed by Mark A. Parsons under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

A view from the Secretariat

Mark A. Parsons 0000-0002-7723-0950 Secretary General

RDA/US Leadership Meeting 16 May 2016

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May-July Aug-Oct Nov-Jan Feb-Apr May-July Aug-Oct Nov-Jan Feb-Apr May-July Aug-Oct Nov-Jan Feb-Apr

392

9911274

16562048

24042636

28813126

34343698

3976

SouthAmerica1%

NorthAmerica34%

Europe48%

Australasia5%

Asia9%

Africa3%

from 110 countries

https://rd-alliance.org/about-rda/who-rda.html

TheRDACommunity:~4,000+membersfrom110countries

(April2016)

70+ Working and Interest Groups

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RDA Organisational Members

Organisational & Affiliate Members

RDA Affiliate Members

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

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Governance news

• New Council member: Jean-Bernard Minster

• OAB formed. Slots still open for industry members. Amy Nurnberger new co-chair.

• TAB elections coming this September

• New Secretariat member: Lynn Yarmey with focus on community engagement.

• Stefanie Kethers - “Director of Operations”

• Council Subcommitteees

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Strategy: advising Council on the overall strategic direction of RDA and the Foundation.

Sustainability and Funding: developing the overall business model for RDA and strategy for its implementation.

Finance: recommending to Council and monitoring policies and rules for sound financial practice of the RDA Foundation.

Engagement and Communications: tracking progress, evaluating, and reporting on the Engagement and Communications actions to Council, recommending modifications to the strategy as appropriate.

RDA Operations and Coordination: monitoring and advising on the overall operations and general organisational health of RDA.

Support from (new) RDA Subcommittees

rd-alliance.org|@resdatall

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Goal: Over the next 3 years, RDA will be a community that:

▪ Makes engagement easy

▪ Provides an on-going set of outputs that are recognized and adopted

▪ Is recognized as a venue of choice to improve research data interoperability

▪ Is served by an effective, agile, and sustainable organisation

Future Directions: Key Themes and Goal

Coordination Communication

Engagement

rd-alliance.org|@resdatall

Status at http://bit.ly/1R3IKAL

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europe.rd-alliance.org|@RDA_Europe

RDA Europe, the European plug-in to RDA, is mandated to ensure that European political, research, industrial and digital infrastructure stakeholders are aware of, engaged with and actively involved in the global RDA activities.

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RDAEuropeCollaborationProjects/AdoptionCases

RDAEuropeAtlasofKnowledgePilot

Training&Webinars

EngagementthroughEvents&Meetings

Synchronisation&SupportProgrammes

Communications,Plenary&WebSupport

RDA Europe & RDA Future Directions

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Regional activity and coordination

• Europe trying to become more “international”

• EC to support RDA through 2020 and then move to a more operational support model. Proposal due March 2017.

• Much driven by European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative

• Australia trying to increase grass roots engagement

• funding solid at current level for next three years (I think)

• Engagement with other countries—Japan, UK, India, South Africa, China, Argentina

• OAB, Ops and Coordination Committee

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Communications Plan

• Clear, rotating responsibilities for communication channels and content creation

• US editorial team

• EU team

• Australia trying to coordinate Austral-Asian region

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/13dYpJcNIyGpl8WWnB6Obwaboj9_vz_VkMcJdGGdV1QE/edit

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Channels:

• Website

• E-mail Campaigns

• Monthly E-Newsletter

• Social Media

• Webinars

• RDA Magazine

• Other

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Content areas:

• Discipline-specific information

• Recommendations

• RDA’s Value Proposition

• Governance Updates

• Data Sharing Testimonials

• Regional Updates, Member News, Events

• Group Updates

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Outputs

• Recommendation support and enhancement

• phase 2 groups—maintenance and updates

• create a support team

• The value of the community is a central output

• Supporting and other Outputs

• Endorsing Recommendations and adoption reports

• OAB activity to establish episodic review team

• Secretariat experiment on adoption reports

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LookingforwardtoseeingyouALLthere