Research Data Alliance

The Research Data Alliance aims to accelerate and facilitate research data sharing and exchange. The purpose of the Research Data Alliance is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables.

The Research Data Alliance is being brought into existence by an initial three research funding organisations:

• The Australian Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Data Service supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program and the Education Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative
• The European Commission through the iCordi project funded under the 7th Framework Program
• The United States of America through the RDA/US activity funded by the National Science Foundation