RDA COVID-19 Work Group Announces Second Release of Guidelines and Recommendations
The Research Data Alliance and its 10,500+ international members have the second release of the RDA COVID-19 recommendations and guidelines available. Since the first release, the RDA COVID-19 working group has seen the addition of two cross-cutting COVID-19 sub-groups focusing on Legal and Ethical aspects and Software. The seven sub-groups have kept up their relentless pace and the main updates in this version, with respect to the 1st release on the 24 April 2020, include:
Section 3 -Foundational Principles/Recommendations - modifications
Section 4 - Clinical - updated
Section 6 - Epidemiology - revised
Section 8 - Omics - revised
Section 9 - Overarching Research Software Guidelines - new sub-section 9.3 initial guidelines for policy makers included
Section 10 - Overarching Legal and Ethical Guidelines added
Furthermore, the editorial team have incorporated some of the feedback received via the Requests for Comments (RfC) process and sent directly to Co-chairs, Sub-group moderators and the Editorial team.
The social sciences and community participation sub-groups are working on updates and additions for future releases.
Readers are invited to visit each of the sub-group pages (accessible from the COVID-19 Working Group landing page) to see specific ongoing activities and links to documents and resources.
Timing, Future Releases and Weekly Webinars:
In terms of timing, RDA foresees weekly releases between now and 22 May 2020. More information and insights on the plans for those releases, as well as highlights from the sub-groups are given during the weekly webinar every Tuesday at 11UTC – see Events page for details and to access previous recordings and presentations.
Request for Comments:
As always, feedback on the content of the releases, the scope, the direction, is vital for all involved to shape and focus the document and the sections to be a useful and meaningful tool. Providing comments is easy:
Log in to the RDA web site
Go to the Outputs page
Scroll to the bottom of the page
Write your comments in the box (you may upload notes/attachments too if you wish)
Select “Save”
Call for Expertise:
The Clinical Subgroup would greatly appreciate the help from clinical imaging data and immunological data experts. Please join the COVID-19 Clinical group at https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-covid19-clinical or contact the RDA Secretariat at enquiries[at]rd-alliance.org
