Introduction to Analyses Supporting an Understanding of RDA

An assignment from Göteborg Meeting – help understand :

Where have we gotten in 4 years (and what is missing?)

What is actionable/adoptable, how do they fit together?

What (action) is missing?

Does RDA have a core? Does it have many cores?

Ad Hoc Analysis Group Leveraged “Available” Data to partially address some of this.

Among the Topics that Analysis wrestled with:

  • How to provide an overview and history of RDA groups topics
  • Interactions between groups (current, past, potential),
  • Some idea of trends in the above, such as who is a lineage parent of a WG?

If data is available analysis of this could be supported by:

  • A high-level topical view of what RDA is about.
  • A medium level view that shows the terms defining the topics.
  • A high-level group view of RDA.
  • A high-level view that summarizes what topics RDA groups are pursuing.
  • View that shows shared topical relations between RDA groups.
  • Medium level view that shows joint meetings among RDA groups.
  • Medium level views that show influence of prior groups on later .
  • Trending analysis for important initiatives such as FAIR......

Some of this we have attempted with available “data”

Small example of work - Some Interpretation of 6 Word Results:

what RDA is about?

RDA RDR Interop Group / List of Words
Research Data Repository Interoperability WG / repository-platform
Research Data Repository Interoperability WG / research-data
Research Data Repository Interoperability WG / interoperability
Research Data Repository Interoperability WG / data-packages
Research Data Repository Interoperability WG / replication
Research Data Repository Interoperability WG / migration

Generalization from these words:

RDA Interoperability is about research data (maybe in a domain) and its packages. It involves research infrastructure/platforms and supports the functions or services of replication and migration (or reproducability)

General Idea: enumerate the forms of data – packages (sets, collections..)\and enumerate

types of infrastructure (repository..)

types of services

  • Analysis example 2 : View that shows shared topical relations between RDA groups.

By P5 did RDA maturity promote Interesting Joint Sessions?

  1. RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability, WG Data Type Registries, WG PID Information Types, IG Data Fabric & IG Domain Repositories
  2. IG Research Data Provenance & IG Reproducibility
  3. IG Metadata, WG Metadata Standards Directory, IG Data in Context, IG Research Data Provenance
  4. IG Agriculture Data Interoperability & WG Wheat Data Interoperability (Domain flavor)
  5. WG Data Description Registry Interoperability, IG PID, WG RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services (experience of 3 RDA Gp to tease out specific issues related to identifiers and interoperability)
  6. IG Domain Repositories, IG RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories - (receive practical information on the standard of your preference and get started with the certification process.)
  7. IG Geospatial & IG Big Data Analytics (Domain and analytic synergy)