Scott BrimDeputy Technology Officer

Internet2

ICTBioMed21 March 2013

Research Data Alliance Summary

Context

RDA: http://rd-alliance.org “Short term, harvestable efforts to accelerate the

sharing and exchange of research data” Who am I? I was there for both Internet2 and IETF Attendees: over 200, perhaps 250, mostly

from Europe and the USA

High Level Schedule

Mission History Governance Global alliance Humanities Breakouts Collaboration with other data initiatives Reports What next?

Issues in Governance

Future directions not clear it’s okay to get it wrong and reiterate as needed

Council, Technical Advisory Board, Working Groups, “Interest Groups”

What does membership mean? Long-term financial stability IPR policy

Breakouts

Issues to Think About

This is all in vain if the data generators don’t go along with it

Data scientists get no respect Legal issues around combining data Metadata must be evolvable The role of “boundary organizations” Changing paradigms around: data,

computing, transport