RDA — Research Data Alliance

Overview

The Research Data Alliance is an international member organisation that builds social and technical infrastructure for open data sharing, founded in 2013 with joint support from the European Commission, US NSF, NIH, and the Australian Government. It operates through community Working Groups and Interest Groups that produce concrete, consensus-based outputs in 18-month cycles, covering topics such as metadata standards, persistent identifiers, FAIR data, and domain-specific data sharing practices. Its most widely adopted output relevant to this vault is the FAIR Data Maturity Model, a set of indicators for assessing FAIR compliance. A dedicated RDA Neuroscience Interest Group connects the RDA ecosystem to neuroscience standards bodies including INCF and EBRAINS, ensuring neuroscience use cases are represented in RDA working group outputs. The French national node is coordinated via CNRS Open Science.

Connections

• Contributes to: FAIR Principles (FAIR Data Maturity Model)

Resources

• https://rd-alliance.org
• https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/fair-data-maturity-model-wg (FAIR Data Maturity Model WG)
• https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/neuroscience-ig (Neuroscience Interest Group)
• https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/research-data-alliance-rda/ (RDA France node, coordinated by CNRS-DIST)