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<p><b>What should be the research data sharing priorities? Have your
say!</b><br>
Is there a topic that you feel should be a priority for the global
research data sharing agenda? Make sure you <a
href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/9th-plenary-bof-meeting-application-form">submit
an application for a “Birds of a Feather”</a> at the upcoming <a
href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-ninth-plenary-meeting-barcelona">RDA
Plenary 9 meeting</a>. BoF sessions explore emerging data
sharing topics and new potential working or interest group themes.
This is the first step for putting your data challenge on the
global research data sharing agenda.</p>
<p>RDA organizes <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries">Plenary
meetings</a> working events, built around the breakout sessions
of the RDA Working, Interest and Birds of a Feather Groups every
six months. The 9th RDA Plenary Meeting will take place in
Barcelona, 5 to 7 April 2017. Co-organized by the Barcelona
Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) with the support of RDA Europe,
the 9th RDA Plenary revolves around the theme of “Data
Infrastructures for Open Science”.</p>
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New to RDA? </b><b>Are the RDA Groups relevant for you?</b><br>
Any RDA member may initiate or join a Working, Interest or Birds of
a Feather group . To become a member of the RDA, individuals <a
href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register">can register</a>,
free of charge, with the RDA online community and confirm their
support for the RDA Guiding Principles. It is open to anyone
interested in contributing to the advancement of data-sharing and
data-driven research. <br>
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<a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org">The Research Data Alliance
(RDA)</a> brings together a diverse community of data scientists,
librarians, computer scientists, and domain scientists coming from
both the public and private sector with one common goal – to remove
the barriers to data sharing and reuse. It is a global member based
alliance with close to 4,700 members coming from 115 countries. <br>
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RDA members work together in self formed focused <a
href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/working-groups">Working
groups</a> and exploratory <a
href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/interest-groups">Interest
Groups</a>, looking at a range of technical and social challenges
to data sharing. Examples of the <a
href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-and-outputs">many
concrete outputs</a> from RDA groups include Legal
Interoperability guidelines related to the intellectual property of
data, 23 things: Libraries for Research data with practical guidance
on how to incorporate research data management into the practice of
librarianship.<br>
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For additional assistance or information, feel free to contact the
RDA Secretariat at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:enquiries@rd-alliance.org">enquiries@rd-alliance.org</a><br>
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Best wishes for the holiday season and the New Year!<br>
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Many thanks, <br>
Timea <br>
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