{"id":4061,"date":"2017-04-26T01:49:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T05:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.mozilla.org\/blog\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2017-04-26T01:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T05:49:05","slug":"msl-rda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/msl-rda\/","title":{"rendered":"MSL on the Road: RDA in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0April 5-7th, 2017, the R<\/strong>esearch D<\/strong>ata A<\/strong>lliance (RDA) hosted their 9th plenary meeting in partnership with the\u00a0Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputaci\u00f3n<\/a> (BSC-CNS). Over the two days, participants attended and hosting working and interest group meetings \u00a0to evolve research data standards and compose recommendations for more reproducible, interoperable, and legible data management in open scientific research, and the Mozilla Science Lab was in attendance to support and document!<\/p>\n

Read on to learn what more and sign up for the next RDA plenary to get involved!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Conference<\/h2>\n

Started as a community initiative in 2013, the RDA formed from a collaboration between \u00a0the European Commission, the US NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian Department of Innovation. It’s mission remains to design\u00a0social and technical infrastructure for open data sharing, and so it is well aligned with our Mozilla Science mission to promote open science in research communities. To date, RDA boasts 5,400 members from 123 countries, and their plenary conferences serve as reunion meetings for the distributed and community driven Working Groups and nascent Interest Groups striving to set standards for research data. Recommendations and outputs from these collaborative groups and sessions are posted publicly on the RDA site<\/a>, and the transparency of their working initiatives was particularly inspiring.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Researchers in-situ at the pre-conference sessions<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

This year, the plenary was in Barcelona, Spain, and the most salient themes of interest for the Science Lab involved interest\/working groups on education and training for research data management, digital preservation, and data rescue. Projects like BioSharing.org<\/a>, EOSCPilot<\/a>, and Foster Open Science<\/a> were featured as part of a broader european network of open science curriculum, standards documentation and initiatives to promote open practice in scientific research. Our campaigns and programs to support Data Rescue events (like Data Rescue PDX<\/a>),\u00a0open data sharing, events and education attest to our alignment with these topics and our interest in collaborating with standards bodies on appropriate open schema to share with all.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Conference swag + scheduling!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Curious about our ongoing initiatives, projects, and campaigns for open science? Read\u00a0our awesome round-up of activities for April in this blog:\u00a0https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/20\/april-mozilla-standing-science\/.<\/p>\n

RDA in Brief<\/h2>\n

Check out the links below to review conference proceedings and catch-up on the recorded sessions!<\/p>\n