Global Life Science Data Infrastructures at the 20th RDA Plenary

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with multiple events including the 20th RDA Plenary which will be held 21-23 March 2023 with attendees welcome both in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden and online.

At this Plenary, a session entitled Infrastructure supporting the FAIR data principles in life science research practice is being co-hosted by the RDA Life Science Data Infrastructures Interest Group (which Australian BioCommons is thrilled to co-chair with colleagues from the USA, Europe and Africa) and the RDA FAIRSharing Working Group.

We’re interested in understanding the various types of digital asset management challenges that life science data infrastructures around the world are working to solve on behalf of their user communities, exploring how infrastructure solutions support the FAIR principles with respect to various types of digital assets - e.g. data, tools, workflows, and ultimately working towards synthesis of best practice recommendations that can help life science infrastructures better support FAIR digital assets and enhance their infrastructure’s FAIR capabilities both across the global life sciences landscape and around the research data lifecycle.

Prior to the meeting, members of the Life Science Infrastructure Interest Group will have collectively surveyed the operators of 10-20 infrastructures across the world that support digital asset management in the life sciences to ascertain which aspects of the research data lifecycle each support, and how mature these resources are when it comes to enabling the underlying data assets to be FAIR.

We will also hear about a selection of case studies from different life science data infrastructures across USA, Europe, Africa and Australia - including Gareth Price, Scientific Lead of Galaxy Australia.

We welcome all RDA 20 Plenary attendees who wish to contribute to this global conversation, so please join us in the RDA Breakout session 2 - either in person in Gothenburg on Tuesday afternoon 21 March or online from Australia (Wednesday, 22 March at 01:00-02:30 AEST).

You can also join the RDA Life Science Infrastructure Interest Group at any time by following the ‘Join Group’ link on our RDA page.