RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Community of Practice Interest Meetings

These two meetings were the first interest meetings held to explore the idea of forming an Earth, Space, and Environmental sSciences Community of Practice through the RDA (Research Data Alliance). Both meetings were held February 6th, 2023. 

Recording links: Meeting 1 and Meeting 2

This Community of Practice would build upon the existing ESIP/RDA Earth, space, and environmental science interest group, with the goal of working together to build domain-specific leading practices for making our science more FAIR and as open as possible.

Communities of practice are a relatively new group type for the RDA; they are designed to build discipline- or domain-specific communities, to provide a place to discuss and provide knowledge and skills within a research domain. They are composed of experts and stakeholders to coordinate across the RDA community to advance data and software sharing, FAIR practices, and open science within a discipline.

We’ll be discussing the ways forming such a Community of Practice might help coordinate within the disciplines of Earth, space, and environmental sciences and potential opportunities for outputs from such a Community of Practice at this interest meeting and would welcome your participation, feedback, and suggestions.