RDA-Brazil completes six months of activity: Join the group
The Brazilian knot of the Research Data Alliance – RDA-Brazil group, is completing six months of activities and aims to amplify its participant base to reinforce the contribution of the country in the global discussions about management of scientific data and Open Science.
The group was created with the purpose to serve as a neutral and democratic space for exchange of information among researchers, research data managers, data scientist, public policy-makers, Information Science professionals and other actors interested in sharing initiatives and best practices of sharing, reuse and management of research data.
Currently, the group coordination is provided by the representatives of the institutions: Embrapa, Fiocruz, Ibicit, RNP and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC).
To join the group, just follow the following steps:
- Create an account in the RDA site
https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/login
- Access the group page and click on “Join Group”
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-brazil
Although RDA collaboration platform, which hosts the Brazilian group, is in English language, the messages and the contents spread in the RDA-Brazil group are predominantly in Portuguese.
In addition to Brazil, more than 20 countries and regions have national groups available in the RDA platform. Totally, there are 90 discussion groups categorized according to scientific subjects, research challenges or topics related to scientific data management or infrastructure.
The desire to create a Brazilian branch of RDA started in 2015, when Michael Stanton, director of Research & Development of the National Education and Research Network (RNP) at that time, was indicated as a member of the international board of RDA, but the group started working in September 2019 led by the researcher Patrícia Bertin from Embrapa. Currently, professor Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros from Unicamp is one of the 8 members of the RDA board, who is responsible for the general supervision of the activities, strategic definition and sustainability of RDA.
About Research Dara Alliance (RDA)
It is an international initiative that aims to establish the technical and social connections necessary for the open sharing of scientific data. The vision of RDA is to make it feasible for researchers to be able to share their data by means of different technologies, regardless of scientific domain or geographic location, in order to address the big challenges of the society in a global scale.
RDA was created in 2013 based on articulation by the research community, and it was supported financially by the European Commission, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Australian Government’s Department of Innovation. Currently, more than 1600 individuals from more than 70 countries are involved in RDA´s activities, dedicated to improving the data management and exchange. Participation in RDA is open to anyone, who accepts its opening principles, consensus, balancing and harmonization, with an approach guided by the community and without profit.