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Pickering B, Biro T, Austin CC, Bernier A, Bezuidenhout L, Casorrán C, Crawley FP, David R, Engelhardt C, Mitrea G, Mochmann IC, Nagrani R, O'Brien-Uhlmansiek M, Parker S, Wang M, Castro LJ, Cournia Z, Dharmawardena K, Diallo G, Dillo I, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Gururaj A, Gutam S, Harrower N, Jonnagaddala J, McNeill K, Mietchen D, Pienta A, Polydoratou P, Tovani-Palone MR. Radical collaboration during a global health emergency: development of the RDA COVID-19 data sharing recommendations and guidelines. Open Res Eur 2021; 1:69. [PMID: 37645170 PMCID: PMC10446077 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13369.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
Abstract
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic required a rapid and effective response. This included ethical and legally appropriate sharing of data. The European Commission (EC) called upon the Research Data Alliance (RDA) to recruit experts worldwide to quickly develop recommendations and guidelines for COVID-related data sharing. Purpose: The purpose of the present work was to explore how the RDA succeeded in engaging the participation of its community of scientists in a rapid response to the EC request. Methods: A survey questionnaire was developed and distributed among RDA COVID-19 work group members. A mixed-methods approach was used for analysis of the survey data. Results: The three constructs of radical collaboration (inclusiveness, distributed digital practices, productive and sustainable collaboration) were found to be well supported in both the quantitative and qualitative analyses of the survey data. Other social factors, such as motivation and group identity were also found to be important to the success of this extreme collaborative effort. Conclusions: Recommendations and suggestions for future work were formulated for consideration by the RDA to strengthen effective expert collaboration and interdisciplinary efforts.
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- Digital Repository of Ireland / Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland
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- Good Clinical Practice Alliance - Europe (GCPA) / Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review (SIDCER), Leuven, Belgium
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- European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents, Paris, France
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- Carol I National Defence University, Bucharest, Romania
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen, Germany
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- The German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), The Hague, The Netherlands
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Fairfax, USA
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- ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, India
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- Digital Repository of Ireland / Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Data Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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- ICPSR-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Austin CC, Bernier A, Bezuidenhout L, Bicarregui J, Biro T, Cambon-Thomsen A, Carroll SR, Cournia Z, Dabrowski PW, Diallo G, Duflot T, Garcia L, Gesing S, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Gururaj A, Harrower N, Lin D, Medeiros C, Méndez E, Meyers N, Mietchen D, Nagrani R, Nilsonne G, Parker S, Pickering B, Pienta A, Polydoratou P, Psomopoulos F, Rennes S, Rowe R, Sansone SA, Shanahan H, Sitz L, Stocks J, Tovani-Palone MR, Uhlmansiek M. Fostering global data sharing: highlighting the recommendations of the Research Data Alliance COVID-19 working group. Wellcome Open Res 2021; 5:267. [PMID: 33501381 PMCID: PMC7808050 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16378.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
The systemic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic require cross-disciplinary collaboration in a global and timely fashion. Such collaboration needs open research practices and the sharing of research outputs, such as data and code, thereby facilitating research and research reproducibility and timely collaboration beyond borders. The Research Data Alliance COVID-19 Working Group recently published a set of recommendations and guidelines on data sharing and related best practices for COVID-19 research. These guidelines include recommendations for clinicians, researchers, policy- and decision-makers, funders, publishers, public health experts, disaster preparedness and response experts, infrastructure providers from the perspective of different domains (Clinical Medicine, Omics, Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Community Participation, Indigenous Peoples, Research Software, Legal and Ethical Considerations), and other potential users. These guidelines include recommendations for researchers, policymakers, funders, publishers and infrastructure providers from the perspective of different domains (Clinical Medicine, Omics, Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Community Participation, Indigenous Peoples, Research Software, Legal and Ethical Considerations). Several overarching themes have emerged from this document such as the need to balance the creation of data adherent to FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable), with the need for quick data release; the use of trustworthy research data repositories; the use of well-annotated data with meaningful metadata; and practices of documenting methods and software. The resulting document marks an unprecedented cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, and cross-jurisdictional effort authored by over 160 experts from around the globe. This letter summarises key points of the Recommendations and Guidelines, highlights the relevant findings, shines a spotlight on the process, and suggests how these developments can be leveraged by the wider scientific community.
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- Claire C. Austin
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, 351 boul. St-Joseph, Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0H3, Canada
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- Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University, 740, avenue Dr. Penfield, suite 5200, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, UK
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- UKRI-STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 HH58, Ireland
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- Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and the College of Public Health, University of Arizona, 803 E First ST, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA
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- Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephessiou, Athens, 11527, Greece
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- BPH INSERM1219 & LaBRI, Univ. Bordeaux, 146 rue Léo Saignat, F-33000, Bordeaux, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, CHU Rouen, Department of Clinical Research, Rouen University Hospital, 1 Rue de Germont, Rouen Cedex, 76031, France
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- ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Gleueler Str 60, Cologne, 50931, Germany
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- University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing, 814 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5601 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20852, USA
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- Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 HH58, Ireland
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5601 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20852, USA
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- Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Av Albert Einstein 1251, Campinas, São Paulo, 13082-853, Brazil
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- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, C/ Madrid, 128, Getafe (Madrid), 28903, Spain
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- 250D Navari Center for Digital Scholarship, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- School of Data Science, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400249, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Achterstrasse 30, Bremen, 28359, Germany
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- Karolinska Institutet & Swedish National Data Service, Nobels väg 9, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Cancer Research UK, 2 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQ, UK
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- University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- ICPSR, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106-1248, USA
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- OpenEdition/Department of Library Science, Archives and Information Systems, International Hellenic University, P.O. Box 141, Thessaloniki, 57400, Greece
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece
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- INRAE National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, 147 Rue de l'Université, Paris, 75007, France
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- Laurentian University, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada
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- Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Bedford Building, Egham, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Indepedent Researcher, Strada Costiera, Trieste, 34151, Italy
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- Division of Rheumatology, Orthopedics and Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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- Research Data Alliance - US Region (RDA-US), c/o Ronin Institute, 127 Haddon Place, Montclair, NJ, 07043, USA
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Austin CC, Bernier A, Bezuidenhout L, Bicarregui J, Biro T, Cambon-Thomsen A, Carroll SR, Cournia Z, Dabrowski PW, Diallo G, Duflot T, Garcia L, Gesing S, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Gururaj A, Harrower N, Lin D, Medeiros C, Méndez E, Meyers N, Mietchen D, Nagrani R, Nilsonne G, Parker S, Pickering B, Pienta A, Polydoratou P, Psomopoulos F, Rennes S, Rowe R, Sansone SA, Shanahan H, Sitz L, Stocks J, Tovani-Palone MR, Uhlmansiek M. Fostering global data sharing: highlighting the recommendations of the Research Data Alliance COVID-19 working group. Wellcome Open Res 2020; 5:267. [PMID: 33501381 PMCID: PMC7808050 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16378.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 08/31/2023] Open
Abstract
The systemic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic require cross-disciplinary collaboration in a global and timely fashion. Such collaboration needs open research practices and the sharing of research outputs, such as data and code, thereby facilitating research and research reproducibility and timely collaboration beyond borders. The Research Data Alliance COVID-19 Working Group recently published a set of recommendations and guidelines on data sharing and related best practices for COVID-19 research. These guidelines include recommendations for researchers, policymakers, funders, publishers and infrastructure providers from the perspective of different domains (Clinical Medicine, Omics, Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Community Participation, Indigenous Peoples, Research Software, Legal and Ethical Considerations). Several overarching themes have emerged from this document such as the need to balance the creation of data adherent to FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable), with the need for quick data release; the use of trustworthy research data repositories; the use of well-annotated data with meaningful metadata; and practices of documenting methods and software. The resulting document marks an unprecedented cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, and cross-jurisdictional effort authored by over 160 experts from around the globe. This letter summarises key points of the Recommendations and Guidelines, highlights the relevant findings, shines a spotlight on the process, and suggests how these developments can be leveraged by the wider scientific community.
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Affiliation(s)
- Claire C. Austin
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, 351 boul. St-Joseph, Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0H3, Canada
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- Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University, 740, avenue Dr. Penfield, suite 5200, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, UK
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- UKRI-STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 HH58, Ireland
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- Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and the College of Public Health, University of Arizona, 803 E First ST, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA
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- Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephessiou, Athens, 11527, Greece
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- BPH INSERM1219 & LaBRI, Univ. Bordeaux, 146 rue Léo Saignat, F-33000, Bordeaux, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, CHU Rouen, Department of Clinical Research, Rouen University Hospital, 1 Rue de Germont, Rouen Cedex, 76031, France
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- ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Gleueler Str 60, Cologne, 50931, Germany
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- University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing, 814 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5601 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20852, USA
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- Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 HH58, Ireland
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5601 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20852, USA
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- Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Av Albert Einstein 1251, Campinas, São Paulo, 13082-853, Brazil
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- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, C/ Madrid, 128, Getafe (Madrid), 28903, Spain
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- 250D Navari Center for Digital Scholarship, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- School of Data Science, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400249, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Achterstrasse 30, Bremen, 28359, Germany
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- Karolinska Institutet & Swedish National Data Service, Nobels väg 9, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Cancer Research UK, 2 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQ, UK
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- University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- ICPSR, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106-1248, USA
| | - Panayiota Polydoratou
- OpenEdition/Department of Library Science, Archives and Information Systems, International Hellenic University, P.O. Box 141, Thessaloniki, 57400, Greece
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece
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- INRAE National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, 147 Rue de l'Université, Paris, 75007, France
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- Laurentian University, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada
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- Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Bedford Building, Egham, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Indepedent Researcher, Strada Costiera, Trieste, 34151, Italy
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- Division of Rheumatology, Orthopedics and Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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- Research Data Alliance - US Region (RDA-US), c/o Ronin Institute, 127 Haddon Place, Montclair, NJ, 07043, USA
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Debruyne C, Beyan OD, Grant R, Collins S, Decker S, Harrower N. A semantic architecture for preserving and interpreting the information contained in Irish historical vital records. Int J Digit Libr 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00799-016-0180-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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