RDA 12th Plenary Programme

Director of Ceremony: Dr Theophilus Mooko – Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology

-8:55am Arrival of His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Botswana, Dr. Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi and University of Botswana delegates.

-9:00am NATIONAL ANTHEM Led by Marimba band and Solo Vocalist.

-9:05am PRAYER Rev. Kresi K. Mbae.

-9:10am INTRODUCTION OF DIGNITARIES Professor David Norris, Vice Chancellor – University of Botswana

-9:20am WELCOME ADDRESS Honourable Minister Mr Ngaka Ngaka, Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology.

-9:30am ENTERTAINMENT – Marimba Band.

-9:35am INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE THEME Prof Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the New Library of Alexandria.

-9:50am ENTERTAINMENT – Traditional dance.

-9:55am KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND OFFICIAL OPENING His Excellency Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi, President of the Republic of Botswana.

-10:30am TOKEN OF APPRECIATION TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE PRESIDENT by Dr Bonnie Carroll , IDW Committee Member.

-10:35am ENTERTAINMENT – Traditional troupe and Marimba Band.

-10:40am VOTE OF THANKS by Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General – Research Data Alliance

-10:55am GROUP PHOTO SHOOT with His Excellency the President, Visiting Ministers, Botswana Ministers, PS-MoTE, Ambassadors, Council Chairman, Chancellor, LOO, Vice Chancellor UB, Keynote Speakers and IDW Committee

(Room: Tsodilo C)

• – BoF GO FAIR
  Room: Okavango 2 (Remote Access Available)
• – BoF Introducing Research Data Management in Engineering
  Room: Serondela 1 and 2 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Health Data: Genomic Data and Privacy
  Room: Moremi 2 and 3  (Remote Access Available)
• – IG PID, WG PID Kernel Information, IG Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem: Persistent Identifiers in Action
  Room: Okavango 1

• – BoF Best Practices for Vocabulary-based Projects: Development, Standardization, Registration, Harmonization and Support
  Room: Moremi 1 (Remote Access Available)
• – BoF Research Data Management and Sharing in Low and Middle-Income Countries
  Room: Okavango 1 
• – IG Disciplinary Collaboration Framework: Building the Corpus of Disciplinary Interoperability Use Cases
  Room: Serondela 4  (Remote Access Available)
• – IG ESIP/RDA Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences IG: Developing Global Connections and Collaborations
  Room: Okavango 2  (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Repository Platforms for Research Data: Exploring Opportunities to Improve Capabilities of Repository Platforms for Research Data
  Room: Serondela 1 and 2 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions
  Room: Tsodilo B3 (Remote Access Available)
• – WG FAIRSharing Registry and Data Policy Standardisation and Implementation IG: Journal Data Policy Standardization for FAIRer Data – Where We Are, What is Next
  Room: Tsodilo A (Remote Access Available)
• –  WG Data Citation
  Room: Moremi 2 and 3
• –  WG Persistent Identification of Instruments: Presenting and Discussing a First Draft Proposal for the PIDINST WG Metadata Schema
  Room: Tsodilo B1 (Remote Access Available)

• – Phaik Yeong Cheah, Associate Professor at Oxford University and Head of Dept at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unity
• – Joy Phumaphi, Executive Secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance
• – Lisa Federer, Data Science and Open Science Librarian, National Library of Medicine

• – Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

• – BoF Research Data Alliance(s) for Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals
  Room: Serondela 1 and 2 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG CODATA/RDA Research Data Science Schools for Low and Middle Income Countries, IG Education and Training on Handling of Research Data: Training in Research Data Skills in an African Context
  Room: Okavango 2 ​(Remote Access Available)
• – IG Data Rescue: Data Rescue in Africa – Challenges and Opportunities
  Room: Moremi 2 and 3 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Domain Repositories: Domain Specific FAIR – Do the Requirements Need Adaptations in Different Disciplinary Contexts?
  Room: Moremi 1(Remote Access Available)
• – IG Libraries for Research Data: Engaging With Researchers and Understanding FAIR Principles
  Room: Okavango 1 
• – IG RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets
  Room: Tsodilo B1
• – WG Brokering Framework, IG From Observational Data to Information: Information Value Chains as Mediated Workflow Components
  Room: Tsodilo B3 (Remote Access Available)
• – WG DMP Common Standards: Use cases for Machine-actionable Data Management Plans
  Room: Tsodilo A (Remote Access Available)
• –  WG RDA/WDS Scholarly Link Exchange:  From Recommendation to Roll-out
  Room: Serondela 4 (Remote Access Available)

• – BoF The International Dimension of a Sustainable and FAIR-enabled European Open Science Cloud
  Room: Tsodilo A
• – BoF Strengthening International Research Data Sharing in the Social Sciences
  Room: Serondela 3 
• – IG Data Foundations and Terminology: Version 3 of the RDA Data Concept Definitions
  Room: Tsodilo B1 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Digital Practices in History and Ethnography
  Room: Moremi 1 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Mapping the Landscape: Connecting Landscapes – Alignment Processes Among Data Products, Services, Ontologies, and Tools
  Room: Serondela 4 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Metadata, IG RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets, IG RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability: Shareable Data – Metadata, Issues of Privacy and Legal Implications
  Room: Serondela 1 and 2  (Remote Access Available)
• – IG National Data Services
  Room: Moremi 2 and 3 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Open Questionnaire for Research Data Sharing Survey: The issues, Emerging Survey Findings, User Interests and Future Directions
  Room: Tsodilo B3 
• – IG Reproducibility, IG Health Data, IG Ethics and Social Aspects of Data, WG Blockchain Applications in Health
  Room: Okavango 1 (Remote Access Available)
• – WG Data Usage Metrics
  Room: Okavango 2 (Remote Access Available)

– Shelley Stall

– Wim Hugo

– Wouter Haak / Martin Fenner

• – Jörg Helmschrot, Director of Science and Technology and Capacity Development, SASSCAL
• – Rob Adam, Director, South African Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope

• – BoF on Data Properties as Economic Goods
  Room: Okavango 2
• – BoF Geospatial Sciences Professionals for Botswana
  Room:  Okavango 1 (Remote Access Available)
• – BoF Preserving Scientific Annotations
  Room: Serondela 3 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Chemistry Research Data: Connecting Research Data Across Communities – Shared Challenges
  Room: Moremi 1 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Early Career and Engagement: Supporting Early Career Researchers and Creating a Space for Social Engagement
  Room: Serondela 1 and 2 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Ethics and Social Aspects of Data: Data Reuse Ethics – Specifying Roles and Responsibilities
  Room: Tsodilo B1 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG From Observational Data to Information: A Digital Frontier of Global Science- Information Infrastructures Building Upon the Meaning of Data
  Room: Serondela 4 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem: From Interest to Action – Toward Implementation of a Trans-disciplinary Data Infrastructure for Physical Samples
  Room: Tsodilo B3 (Remote Access Available)
• – WG Empirical Humanities Metadata
  Room: Moremi 2 and 3 (Remote Access Available)

• – BoF Non-standard Digital Research Outputs
  Room: Tsodilo B1 (Remote Access Available)
• – BoF SWORD Protocol Version 3
  Room: Serondela 4 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Data Discovery ParadIGms: Reports from Task Forces and Way Ahead
  Room:Moremi 2 & 3 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Data for Development: Capacity Building for East Africa for Data Management and Participation in International Surveys
  Room: Moremi 1 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG ELIXIR Bridging Force, WG FAIRSharing Registry, IG Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD), IG Biodiversity  Data Integration, IG RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability – Access and Benefits Sharing and the Nagoya Protocol
  Room: Tsodilo A (Remote Access Available)
• – IG International Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Global South, Rural areas and Developing Countries
  Room: Okavango 1  (Remote Access Available)
• – WG Blockchain Applications in Health: Tokenomics and Cryptocurrencies in Health
  Room: Tsodilo B3 (Remote Access Available)
• – WG Data Versioning
  Room: Okavango 2 (Remote Access Available)

• – Ian Foster, Director, Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• – Fosca Giannotti, Director of Research, Information Science and Technology Institute “A. Faedo”

• – BoF Big Data: How Data Science can be Serving the Public Interest.
  Room: Serondela 1 and 2
• – IG Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD)
  Room: Tsodilo B3 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Data Fabric
  Room: Okavango 1
• – IG From Observational Data to Information, IG Virtual Research Environment (VRE-IG): Transforming Data into Information and Knowledge – The Role of Virtual Research Environments
  Room: Tsodilo B1 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Global Water Information
  Room: Serondela 3 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC): Towards Recommendations for Crediting the Sharing in Research – Addressing Challenges within African Academic Infrastructures
  Room: Moremi 2 and 3 (Remote Access Available)
• – IG Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Data: Collaborations on Drone Data
  Room: Serondela 4 (Remote Access Available)
• – WG WDS/RDA Assessment of Data Fitness for Use
  Room: Okavango 2 (Remote Access Available)

• – Elizabeth Marincola, Senior Advisor for Communications and Advocacy, African Academy of Sciences
• – Tshilidzi Marwala, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Johannesburg
• – Simeon Materechera, Director, Indigenous Knowledge Systems Center, North West University