Community Cross-fertilisation Workshops

The RDA’s Thematic Community Cross-fertilisation Workshops 

The community cross-fertilisation workshop series is part of the RDA’s strategic plan to celebrate and commemorate its 10th Anniversary in 2023. 

Aligned with the 10th Anniversary schedule, a virtual workshop will take place each month from February to November 2023 to bring RDA Working groups, Interest groups and Communities of Practice with a similar focus together with members of the wider research data community to discuss the future of the following research data management themes:

During each thematic workshop, participants will have the opportunity to answer and discuss the following questions:

1. What are the main challenges that should be addressed within the theme over the next two years? 

2. How can the RDA community groups address these challenges over the next two years? 

3. What initiatives and/or communities could the RDA community implement/collaborate with to advance the theme? 

Benefits for participants and the RDA community 

These thematic workshops present a valuable opportunity to:

• Connect and strengthen collaboration between RDA groups with similar interests and focus.

• Facilitate discussion about a particular theme related to research data management that is of relevance to the RDA community. 

• Showcase and celebrate community group efforts and achievements to date. 

• Identify gaps, needs and challenges within the community, and exchange knowledge, experience and ideas to address them.

• Provide chairs and members with a voice to direct, define and align goals and group activities. 

Workshop Pilots

In order to determine the feasibility of the thematic community cross-fertilisation workshop series and to plan for its execution in 2023, pilot workshops on ‘RDA for Data Management Planning’ and ‘RDA for Agricultural Data’ took place in November 2022. 

Following the success of these pilot, the Community Development Management team organised further workshops throughout the year, aligned with each monthly theme.

The workshops are not be recorded but the collaborative notes are made openly available to the wider research data community following the event, and a summary document is published on Zenodo.

Summaries for the Pilots can be accessed here: 

Acknowledgements 

With grateful thanks to Rossella Aversa, Francis Crawley, Lindsay Ferrara, Francoise Genova, Hilary Hanahoe, Maggie Hellström, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Reyna Jenkyns, Sarah Jones, Rebecca Koskela, Katherine McNeill, Laura Molloy, Karen Payne, Jonathan Petters, Frankie Stevens, Andrew Treloar, Bridget Walker and Michael Witt for their valuable contributions during the development of this workshop series.

Get in touch 

If you have questions or comments about the community cross-fertilisation workshop series, please feel free to contact our Community Development Manager, Connie Clare (connie.clare@rda-foundation.org).