Short abstract:

This paper will highlight the work of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international, member-based organisation, focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange.

Long abstract:

An organisation and a community, the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international, member-based organisation has focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data- driven innovation. The RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and reuse of data, working towards a future where researchers and innovators openly share and re-use data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

This paper will present the RDA’s work and process of co-creating knowledge in the form of community-created and peer-reviewed Outputs and Recommendations, and the value of the real-world applicability of the developed solutions. We address associated challenges that an organisation as diverse as RDA may face, introducing RDA TIGER, the EC-funded project that provides support services that address these challenges and support the RDA WG’s, ultimately enabling the creation of high quality Outputs. We also look at RDA as a platform for enabling and facilitating cross-RI collaborations.

With RDA recently having celebrated its 10-year anniversary, over 14,000 members from 151 countries, 89 Groups working on addressing challenges and co-creating solutions for global data interoperability challenges, 71 Outputs and over 200 Adoption Cases, highlighting the Work of RDA as an example of a truly global and cross-disciplinary community who comes together to both produce scientific knowledge but also enhance good practice for the good of the wider scientific and research community will produce valuable insights.