{"id":592,"date":"2015-10-03T13:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T13:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:54:02","slug":"cranking-it-out-codata-and-rda-plenary-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/03\/cranking-it-out-codata-and-rda-plenary-6\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cranking it out’: CODATA and RDA Plenary 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance was held last week (23-25 September 2015) at CNAM, the Conservatoire national des arts et m\u00e9tiers.\u00a0 <\/span>This was the largest RDA plenary so far with roughly 700 participants.<\/p>\n

\"rda6plenary_axelle_lemaire_(c)_capdigital_550px\"A highlight for me was Barbara Ryan\u2019s keynote<\/a> and the impromptu and well-informed talk given by the French Minister of State for Digital Affaires, Axelle Lemaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was a somewhat different Plenary for me than previous ones.\u00a0 <\/span>RDA Plenaries have a chaotic, \u2018unconference\u2019 feel, with a lot of \u2018Birds of a Feather\u2019 sessions to collect together interested parties and Interest Groups working out their activities, as well as Working Groups reporting on their progress.\u00a0 <\/span>It is an exciting model, with huge potential, but it also requires perseverance and patience; for people both to stand up for their ideas and to be willing to collaborate and compromise.\u00a0 <\/span>These are good things, of course.\u00a0 <\/span>Watching them evolve is fulfilling, fascinating and frustrating in equal measure, as it must be.<\/p>\n

\"rda6plenary_intdataweek2016_zoom_(c)_capdigital\"<\/a>This year was different because I am heavily involved in three very active and productive Groups and I had to focus on these and other meetings, at the expense of engaging with BOFs and other TGs or WGs.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m sure the cycle will swing round again, but this was a Plenary to be more focused and productive.<\/p>\n

The CODATA community was very actively involved and there are a number of joint Working Groups and Interest Groups.\u00a0 <\/span>Here are the key activities:<\/p>\n

RDA-WDS Interest Group on Cost Recovery for Data Repositories<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"RDA_Logotype_CMYK\"<\/a>Along with Ingrid Dillo of DANS and the WDS Scientific Committee, and Anita de Waard of Elsevier Research, I am one of the co-chairs of this co-branded RDA-WDS Interest Group.\u00a0 <\/span>The focus of the activity is to analyse current income streams for data repositories, to understand how they are changing and what new sources of income may be available if the repository needs to evolve its business model to ensure sustainability.\u00a0 <\/span>In depth interviews were conducted with some 25 data repositories and the findings of those interviews have now been written up into a draft report.<\/p>\n

In a shared session with the RDA Interest Group on Domain Repositories, we presented the key findings of the report which include a landscape analysis of the types of income streams and a typology of the overall business models encountered.\u00a0 <\/span>Participants of the session then conducted a SWOT analysis of these business models.\u00a0 <\/span>The results of this will be published soon.<\/p>\n