[CODATA-international] REMINDER, DEADLINE IS MON 21 NOV: Call for Working Group and Review Circle Members: Standard Glossary for Research Data Management (IRIDIUM)

[Simon CODATA]

CODATA invites participants for a Working Group and a broader set of reviewers to advance a new international glossary of research data management terms and definitions. Dubbed the IRIDIUM (International Research Data Management) Glossary, this is an evolving partnership initiative growing out of a pilot project last year. You can review the current glossary at http://dictionary.casrai.org/Category:Research_Data_Domain <http://dictionary.casrai.org/Category:Research_Data_Domain>  (it is currently branded as a ‘dictionary’ but will be rebranded, post-pilot, as a ‘glossary’).
 
This work is a partnership between CODATA, CASRAI http://casrai.org/ <http://casrai.org/>, and Research Data Canada https://www.rdc-drc.ca/ <https://www.rdc-drc.ca/>. It is intended that other partners and national services will be added in the near future.
 
Please consider the issues statement, CASRAI Annual Process and the Tasks of the 2017 IRIDIUM WG Described below.
 
Please complete the form at https://casrai.org/opencall17/iridium <https://casrai.org/opencall17/iridium> to be considered for the Working Group or Review Circle.  The deadline to complete the form is 23.59 Eastern on Monday 21 November.
 
Issue Statement
Improvement of research data management is a rapidly developing field that is increasingly recognized as a key element in advancing research and innovation in government, academic, and private sectors. A major difficulty in any newly emerging field is the lack of consistent terminology and precise, definitive definitions of these terms. Such a complex endeavour involving people and technologies from different fields, and transcending each of those fields, requires a standardization and harmonization of terms and definitions used. Currently, there is no formal international standard for terminology in the field of research data management, although some standards contain some relevant terms. In the meantime, there is a pressing need for a common, practical vocabulary. The aim of this activity is to advance a stable and sustainably governed international glossary of community accepted terms and definitions, and to keep it relevant by maintaining it as a ‘living reference’ that is updated as necessary.
 
The CASRAI Annual Process:
CASRAI maintains a standard master glossary of terms and definitions (including but not limited to RDM terms). This master glossary is maintained and developed via an annual cycle of coordinated Subject Experts at the Steering, Working and Review levels.  The work on the ‘Standard Glossary for Research Data Management (IRIDIUM)’ will follow this process.
 
1.     Annual Open Call (to which the current call is related) issued jointly by all CASRAI Steering Committees to signal upcoming work cycles, seek feedback on scoping and volunteer subject experts for the noted priorities;
2.     Steering Committees process all submissions and form Working Groups (WG) and Review Groups (RG);
3.     From January through to March all WGs deliberate (coordinated and facilitated by the CASRAI Secretariat) on their part of the master glossary (in 3 monthly cycles of online calls with term and definition writing assignments between calls);
4.     In April the WGs open their work to the wider RG community for comments;
5.     In May the WGs finalize their work based on the RG feedback and submit to the applicable Steering Committee for formal approval before publishing in the online glossary;
6.     In June begins a wider promotion and adoption period for the WG outputs - and the planning cycle starts again for the next annual period.
 
The tasks of the 2017 IRIDIUM WG will be to:
 
1.     Identify priority terms absent from the pilot glossary;
2.     Revue existing terms, identify definitions which need to be revised and improve those definitions;
3.     Scope above items into a proposed work Package for the 2017 cycle;
4.     Participate in the 4 month deliberations and review to develop the new and revised glossary definitions.
 
It is hoped, additionally, that WG members will be available in April to participate in an online webinar to present the works to the wider community before the review period starts. 

With very best wishes,

Simon.
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Updated CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830>

Call for Working Group and Review Circle Members: Standard Glossary for Research Data Management (IRIDIUM) <http://www.codata.org/working-groups/standard-glossary-for-research-data-management-iridium>

Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.162241>
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Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | http://www.codata.org

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