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The Research Data Alliance: globally co‐ordinated action against barriers to data publishing and sharing
Author(s) -
TRELOAR Andrew
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/20140503
Subject(s) - interoperability , alliance , publishing , data sharing , government (linguistics) , computer science , state (computer science) , data publishing , metadata , data science , software , action (physics) , world wide web , set (abstract data type) , knowledge management , business , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , algorithm , medicine , quantum mechanics , programming language
This article discusses the drivers behind the formation of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), its current state, the lessons learned from its first full year of operation, and its anticipated impact on data publishing and sharing. One of the pressing challenges in data infrastructure (taken here to include issues relating to hardware, software and content format, as well as human actors) is how best to enable data interoperability across boundaries. This is particularly critical as the world deals with bigger and more complex problems that require data and insights from a range of disciplines. The RDA has been set up to enable more data to be shared across barriers to address these challenges. It does this through focused Working Groups and Interest Groups, formed of experts from around the world, and drawing from the academic, industry, and government sectors.