Center for Knowledge Infrastructures

RDA-France Conference in Partnership with National Open Science Plan for France

Paris, 5 December 2018

The Research Data Alliance, in less than six years since its founding, has grown to more than 7000 members, has held 12 international plenary meetings, and convened a vast array of groups interested in data sharing and data-drivenresearch.During this period of time, the array of countries, communities, funding agencies, and individual scholars concerned about open access to data has continued to expand. Concurrently, awareness of the challenges of open science, open data, open access, and eResearch also has grown. Data sharing is an essential requirement for open science, but it is not an end in itself. Making data reusable, and keeping data available in scientifically useful forms for long periods of time, are much harder problems. As the RDA community grows and matures, it faces complex issues of data stewardship, trust, economics, infrastructure, standards, and policy. This talk will explore briefly the landscape of data sharing and reuse across research domains, identifying some of the areaswhere RDA might be most influential.