Description template for breakout sessions:

State: Nov. 4 2015,

RDA TaskForce Outbreak Sessions (Kathy, Yolanda, Timea, Hilary, Stefanie, Rainer)

Required information:

  • Contact person
  • Group(s) and group chairs according to
  • WG/IG
  • Joint meeting
  • BoF no group
  • Title of the Meeting
  • Introduction with
  • Brief description of the scope of the group(s)
  • State of the group(s)
  • Links to supplementary material, such as Case Statements, documents, etc.
  • Objectives of the meeting
  • Targeted audience and how to prepare for the meeting
  • Agenda
  • Where will the minutes be published?

Example for a WG/IG or joint session description:

Contact person: Rainer Stotzka

Joint meeting of WG Practical Policy and IG Data Fabric (fictional session!)

Chairs: Alan Blatecky, Yunquiang Zhu, Peter Wittenburg (IG Data Fabric), Reagan Moore, Rainer Stotzka (WG Practical Policy)

Title of the Meeting:

Knitting a Research Data Fabric Model using Policies

Introduction

The IG Data Fabric was founded in 2014 and aims to discuss overarching conceptsand frameworks for RDA components with the overall data lifecycle landscape and identify gaps, obstacles and possible incompatibilities. For further information see

  • Discussion paper “Data Management Trends, Principles and Components – What Needs to be Done Next?”,
  • IG Data Fabric Use Case Collection,
  • IG Data Fabric wiki,

The WG Practical Policy collected and described computer-actionable policiesto enforce management, automate administrative tasks, validate assessment criteria, and automate scientific analyses. The group terminated in 2014 and produced recommendations ( which are endorsed by RDA.

The objectives of the meeting are

  • Analyzing the existing practical policies and identifying gaps in a research Data Fabric model using policies
  • Creating consensus which follow-up work is required to fill the gaps
  • Identifying partners for preparing a WG case statement

Targeted audience and how to prepare for the meeting:

For this open session we invite data practitioners, policy makers and community adopters who are familiar with the WG Practical Policy and IG Data Fabric state of the art, e.g. and Short contributions with 1-2 slides are welcome; please notify the organizer Rainer Stotzka until April 1.

Agenda(moderation: Rainer Stotzka)

  1. Short introduction of the group’s results and problem description (Peter Wittenburg, Reagan Moore) - 20 minutes
  2. Discussion to identify gaps (all participants) - 40 minutes
  3. Creating the scope of a new WG case statement (all participants) - 20 minutes
  4. Summary of the results (Peter Wittenburg, Reagan Moore)

The minutes of the meeting will be published one week after the session at the latest

a)as an attachment to the session’s web page and

b)in the IG Data Fabric wiki at

Example for a BoF session:

Contact person: Thomas Jejkal

BoF on Research Data Repository Interoperability (fictional session!)

Chair: Thomas Jejkal

Title of the Meeting:

Preparation of a WG Case Statement

Introduction

Research data are stored in a wide variety of repository platforms, using disparate data modeling and metadata standards, file formats, and conventions. In the complex lifecycle of a research data object it willbe necessary to migrate or share data between repository platforms. Currently there exists nearly no “exchange standard” or interoperability between different repository platforms making migration of research data objects difficult to impossible.

The Research Data Repository Interoperability Working Group plans to establish consensus for an interoperability specificationof research data repository platforms. This may include (but is not limited to) a generic API and import/export formats.

Due to its scope this WG ideally fosters relations to a number of RDA WGs and IGs that may be able to contribute with their results to or benefit from this WG’s work, e.g. Repository Platforms for Research Data, Data Fabric IG, Data Description Registry Interoperability WG, Data Type Registries WG.

For further information see

  • Group Page @ rd-alliance.org
  • Case Statement (draft)
  • Notes 1st telephone conference

The objectives of the meeting are

  • Presentation, discussion and finalization of the objectives of the case statement
  • Identification of additional partners

Targeted audience and how to prepare for the meeting:

The target audience of this meeting may include research data repository developers and providers as well as users interested in the topic of research data repository interoperability. In order to get the basic idea behind this BoF group reading the documents available via the RDA group page could help. As a declared goal of this session is to finalize the case statement, reading the current draft of the case statement and preparing comments and suggestions for improvement would be helpful for the session organizers.

Agenda(moderation:Thomas Jejkal)

  1. Presentation of the idea behind this BoF and the Case Statement (Thomas Jejkal) - 15 minutes
  2. Specification of the objectives of the WG, (discussions, all participants) - 45 minutes
  3. Identification of other potential group members (all participants) - 10 minutes
  4. Summary of the results, actions, and identification of contributions of the group members (Thomas Jejkal)

The minutes of the meeting will be published latest one week after the session as an attachment to the session’s web page and in the RDA filedepot associated with the RDA group page.