Working Groups

Participation in CDIF is driven by our specialized Working Groups. Members typically represent organizations or major research projects committed to cross-domain interoperability.

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Full Working Group

The Full Working Group provides overall strategic direction and oversight for the CDIF framework and its evolution.

Key Topics

Strategy Governance Strategic Partnerships Resource Allocation

Meeting Frequency

Monthly

Group Members (20)

Alexandra Kokkinaki

Member

National Oceanography Centre, British Oceanographic Data Centre

United Kingdom

Semantics and Standards

Darren Bell

Member

UK Data Service

United Kingdom

Data Modelling Metadata Schema Creation RDF ODRL

Donald Hobern

Member

Australian Plant Phenomics Network

Australia

Data Standards Data Management Research Infrastructure Biodiversity Plant Phenomics

Deirdre Lungley

Member

UK Data Service

United Kingdom

AI Computational Linguistics Social Science Infrastructure SDC

Douglas Fils

Member

University of California San Diego; San Diego Supercomputer Center

USA

FAIR Semantics AI/ML

Michelle Edwards

Member

Canada

RDM Data Analysis Metadata

Flavio Rizzolo

Member

Statistics Canada

Canada

Data Architecture Interoperability Standards Computer Science

Hector Perez Ponce

Member

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

Germany

Signal Processing and Automation

Carly Huitema

Member

University of Guelph

Canada

Iseult Lynch

Member

Lynch

United Kingdom

Environmental Chemistry Nanomaterials Toxicology/Ecotoxicology FAIR Data

Lauren Maxwell

Member

Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg; Ecraid Foundation

Germany

Pandemic Preparedness Data & Sample Interoperability Data Reuse Epidemiology Data & Biomedical Ethics

Lesley Wyborn

Member

Australian National University

Australia

Megan Wong

Member

Australian Research Data Commons

Australia

Soil and Environmental Information FAIR Data Community Building Semantics Semantic Service Project Management

Richard Dennis

Member

Eindhoven University of Technology

The Netherlands

AI Big Data Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

Pascal Heus

Member

Freelance / CODATA

Canada

Information Technology Metadata Data Science

Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Member

Alfred Wegener Institute

Germany

Semantics & Ontology Data Architecture & Data Science Digital Strategy Linked Open Data Biodiversity Informatics Ocean Science & Marine Microbiology

Hea Lim Rhee

Member

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information

Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Digital Curation Research Data Metadata Archiving

Stephen Richard

Member

CODATA

USA

Geoscience Spatial Data Metadata Catalog Systems

Thomas Exner

Member

Seven Past Nine

Germany

Data Management FAIRification Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design

Yann Le Franc

Member

e-Science Data Factory

France

Research Data Management Semantics AI/ML

Access Rights

to be determined

Key Topics

to be determined

Meeting Frequency

to be determined

Group Members (10)

Matti Heikkurinen

Member

CODATA

Switzerland

Large-scale IT Infrastructure Management Policies

Deirdre Lungley

Member

UK Data Service

United Kingdom

AI Computational Linguistics Social Science Infrastructure SDC

Steven McEachern

Member

University of Essex

United Kingdom

Social Science Data Infrastructure

Felix Emeka Anyiam

Member

University of Port Harcourt

Nigeria

Public Health Health Sciences Biostatistics Epidemiology Research Ethics Quantitative Research Methods

Thomas Exner

Member

Seven Past Nine

Germany

Data Management FAIRification Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design

Darren Bell

Member

UK Data Service

United Kingdom

Data Modelling Metadata Schema Creation RDF ODRL

Lauren Maxwell

Member

Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg; Ecraid Foundation

Germany

Pandemic Preparedness Data & Sample Interoperability Data Reuse Epidemiology Data & Biomedical Ethics

Javier Cruz

Member

DrumWave

Brasil

Data Interoperability Semantic Data Modelling Metadata Standards FAIR Data Data Rights & Governance AI-assisted Schema Mapping Cross-Domain Data Integration

Milan Ojstersek

Member

University of Maribor

Slovenia

Metadata Interoperability

Slava Tykhonov

Member

CODATA

France

Catalogued Packaging

to be determined

Key Topics

to be determined

Meeting Frequency

to be determined

Group Members (13)

Richard Dennis

Member

Eindhoven University of Technology

The Netherlands

AI Big Data Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

Lesley Wyborn

Member

Australian National University

Australia

Jay Greenfield

Member

CODATA

USA

AI Research Science

Donald Hobern

Member

Australian Plant Phenomics Network

Australia

Data Standards Data Management Research Infrastructure Biodiversity Plant Phenomics

Heinrich Widmann

Member

German Climate Computing Center

Germany

Climate Science Semantic Interoperability

Franck Cotton

Member

Making Sense

France

Metadata Standards

Martina Stockhause

Member

Institute of Physics of Cantabria / Spanish National Research Council

Germany / Spain

High-volume Data Climate Model Data Traceability/Provenance Complex Citation Repository-publisher Workflows

Stephen Richard

Member

CODATA

USA

Geoscience Spatial Data Metadata Catalog Systems

Milan Ojstersek

Member

University of Maribor

Slovenia

Metadata Interoperability

Slava Tykhonov

Member

CODATA

France

Leandro Liborio

Member

Science and Technology Facilities Council / UKRI

United Kingdom

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Muon Science Material Science

Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Member

Alfred Wegener Institute

Germany

Semantics & Ontology Data Architecture & Data Science Digital Strategy Linked Open Data Biodiversity Informatics Ocean Science & Marine Microbiology

Aileen Day

Member

PSDI / University of Southampton

United Kingdom

Metadata Materials Sciences Chemistry Databases

Context

to be determined

Key Topics

to be determined

Meeting Frequency

to be determined

Group Members (28)

Beth Knazook

Member

Digital Repository of Ireland

Ireland

Cultural Heritage Humanities

Lesley Wyborn

Member

Australian National University

Australia

Simon Cox

Member

Independent Expert

Australia

Earth and Environmental Science Information Engineering / Ontologies

Jay Greenfield

Member

CODATA

USA

AI Research Science

Raymond Obuch

Member

USGS Emeritus Data Management

USA

Metadata

Donald Hobern

Member

Australian Plant Phenomics Network

Australia

Data Standards Data Management Research Infrastructure Biodiversity Plant Phenomics

Alexandra Kokkinaki

Member

National Oceanography Centre, British Oceanographic Data Centre

United Kingdom

Semantics and Standards

Alina Mierlus

Member

Spain

Epistemology and Philosophy of Language Working Knowledge of Data Science ML/AI Semantic Web Web Programming and Open Tools

Stuart Chalk

Member

University of North Florida

USA

Chemical Informatics Data Modelling Knowledge Graphs Ontology Development

Álvaro Paredes L.

Member

Data Observatory

Chile

Data Engineering AI

Karen Jacqueline Cloete

Member

University of South Africa; University of Nova Gorica

South Africa

Environmental Nanoscience Agro-nanotechnology Circular Bioeconomy Environmental Health Science-policy Interfaces

Douglas Fils

Member

University of California San Diego; San Diego Supercomputer Center

USA

FAIR Semantics AI/ML

Javier Cruz

Member

DrumWave

Brasil

Data Interoperability Semantic Data Modelling Metadata Standards FAIR Data Data Rights & Governance AI-assisted Schema Mapping Cross-Domain Data Integration

Stephen Richard

Member

CODATA

USA

Geoscience Spatial Data Metadata Catalog Systems

Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga

Member

Cardiff University

United Kingdom

Data Management Research Infrastructures

Brian Matthews

Member

Science and Technology Facilities Council / UKRI

United Kingdom

Data Infrastructure Data Management Scientific Data Metadata

Yann Le Franc

Member

e-Science Data Factory

France

Research Data Management Semantics AI/ML

Milan Ojstersek

Member

University of Maribor

Slovenia

Metadata Interoperability

Slava Tykhonov

Member

CODATA

France

Leandro Liborio

Member

Science and Technology Facilities Council / UKRI

United Kingdom

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Muon Science Material Science

Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Member

Alfred Wegener Institute

Germany

Semantics & Ontology Data Architecture & Data Science Digital Strategy Linked Open Data Biodiversity Informatics Ocean Science & Marine Microbiology

Megan Wong

Member

Australian Research Data Commons

Australia

Soil and Environmental Information FAIR Data Community Building Semantics Semantic Service Project Management

David Linke

Member

Leibniz-Institut for Catalysis

Germany

Catalysis Chemical Engineering RDM

Carly Huitema

Member

University of Guelph

Canada

Iseult Lynch

Member

Lynch

United Kingdom

Environmental Chemistry Nanomaterials Toxicology/Ecotoxicology FAIR Data

Rodrigo Roa

Member

Data Observatory

Chile

Compliance Ethics Law Management Strategy

Jindrich Fejfar

Member

Library of Czech Academy of Sciences

Czech Republic

Ilona Trtíková

Member

Institute of Sociology / Czech Academy of Science

Czech Republic

Sociology Information Science

Mapping

to be determined

Key Topics

to be determined

Meeting Frequency

to be determined

Group Members (19)

Deirdre Lungley

Member

UK Data Service

United Kingdom

AI Computational Linguistics Social Science Infrastructure SDC

Richard Dennis

Member

Eindhoven University of Technology

The Netherlands

AI Big Data Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

Flavio Rizzolo

Member

Statistics Canada

Canada

Data Architecture Interoperability Standards Computer Science

Hea Lim Rhee

Member

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information

Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Digital Curation Research Data Metadata Archiving

Stuart Chalk

Member

University of North Florida

USA

Chemical Informatics Data Modelling Knowledge Graphs Ontology Development

Álvaro Paredes L.

Member

Data Observatory

Chile

Data Engineering AI

Sukhdeep Kaur

Member

Panjab University

India

Disaster Risk Management AI Governance STI Policy Research

Noemi Betancort

Member

SuUB Bremen; RDC Qualiservice

Germany

Qualitative Data Metadata Unstructured Data

Douglas Fils

Member

University of California San Diego; San Diego Supercomputer Center

USA

FAIR Semantics AI/ML

Javier Cruz

Member

DrumWave

Brasil

Data Interoperability Semantic Data Modelling Metadata Standards FAIR Data Data Rights & Governance AI-assisted Schema Mapping Cross-Domain Data Integration

Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga

Member

Cardiff University

United Kingdom

Data Management Research Infrastructures

Pierre-Antoine Champin

Member

W3C; Inria

France

Semantic Web & Linked Data

Yann Le Franc

Member

e-Science Data Factory

France

Research Data Management Semantics AI/ML

Milan Ojstersek

Member

University of Maribor

Slovenia

Metadata Interoperability

Marcin Wichorowski

Member

Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences

Poland

Data Management Systems AI Oceanography Project Management

Slava Tykhonov

Member

CODATA

France

Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Member

Alfred Wegener Institute

Germany

Semantics & Ontology Data Architecture & Data Science Digital Strategy Linked Open Data Biodiversity Informatics Ocean Science & Marine Microbiology

David Amadi

Member

CODATA

Kenya

RDM FAIR Data Metadata Standards Semantic Interoperability

Jindrich Fejfar

Member

Library of Czech Academy of Sciences

Czech Republic

Provenance

to be determined

Key Topics

to be determined

Meeting Frequency

to be determined

Group Members (31)

Matti Heikkurinen

Member

CODATA

Switzerland

Large-scale IT Infrastructure Management Policies

Dorothea Iglezakis

Member

University of Stuttgart

Germany

Research Data Management Semantics Metadata Computer Science Psychology

Thomas Exner

Member

Seven Past Nine

Germany

Data Management FAIRification Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design

Lesley Wyborn

Member

Australian National University

Australia

Simon Cox

Member

Independent Expert

Australia

Earth and Environmental Science Information Engineering / Ontologies

Jay Greenfield

Member

CODATA

USA

AI Research Science

Raymond Obuch

Member

USGS Emeritus Data Management

USA

Metadata

Donald Hobern

Member

Australian Plant Phenomics Network

Australia

Data Standards Data Management Research Infrastructure Biodiversity Plant Phenomics

Lisa Griffith

Member

Digital Repository of Ireland

Ireland

Digital Preservation

Alexandra Kokkinaki

Member

National Oceanography Centre, British Oceanographic Data Centre

United Kingdom

Semantics and Standards

Sachin Pandey

Member

Oracle

USA

AI ML Big Data Analytics

Flavio Rizzolo

Member

Statistics Canada

Canada

Data Architecture Interoperability Standards Computer Science

Franck Cotton

Member

Making Sense

France

Metadata Standards

Alina Mierlus

Member

Spain

Epistemology and Philosophy of Language Working Knowledge of Data Science ML/AI Semantic Web Web Programming and Open Tools

Martina Stockhause

Member

Institute of Physics of Cantabria / Spanish National Research Council

Germany / Spain

High-volume Data Climate Model Data Traceability/Provenance Complex Citation Repository-publisher Workflows

Ivana Ivanova

Member

Curtin University

Australia

GIScience Spatial Data Quality Metadata Interoperability Frameworks Provenance Automated Quality Assessment

Douglas Fils

Member

University of California San Diego; San Diego Supercomputer Center

USA

FAIR Semantics AI/ML

Lauren Maxwell

Member

Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg; Ecraid Foundation

Germany

Pandemic Preparedness Data & Sample Interoperability Data Reuse Epidemiology Data & Biomedical Ethics

Javier Cruz

Member

DrumWave

Brasil

Data Interoperability Semantic Data Modelling Metadata Standards FAIR Data Data Rights & Governance AI-assisted Schema Mapping Cross-Domain Data Integration

Stephen Richard

Member

CODATA

USA

Geoscience Spatial Data Metadata Catalog Systems

Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga

Member

Cardiff University

United Kingdom

Data Management Research Infrastructures

Yann Le Franc

Member

e-Science Data Factory

France

Research Data Management Semantics AI/ML

Milan Ojstersek

Member

University of Maribor

Slovenia

Metadata Interoperability

Marcin Wichorowski

Member

Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences

Poland

Data Management Systems AI Oceanography Project Management

Slava Tykhonov

Member

CODATA

France

Leandro Liborio

Member

Science and Technology Facilities Council / UKRI

United Kingdom

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Muon Science Material Science

Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Member

Alfred Wegener Institute

Germany

Semantics & Ontology Data Architecture & Data Science Digital Strategy Linked Open Data Biodiversity Informatics Ocean Science & Marine Microbiology

Megan Wong

Member

Australian Research Data Commons

Australia

Soil and Environmental Information FAIR Data Community Building Semantics Semantic Service Project Management

David Linke

Member

Leibniz-Institut for Catalysis

Germany

Catalysis Chemical Engineering RDM

Carly Huitema

Member

University of Guelph

Canada

Iseult Lynch

Member

Lynch

United Kingdom

Environmental Chemistry Nanomaterials Toxicology/Ecotoxicology FAIR Data

Quality

to be determined

Key Topics

to be determined

Meeting Frequency

to be determined

Group Members (18)

Matti Heikkurinen

Member

CODATA

Switzerland

Large-scale IT Infrastructure Management Policies

Steven McEachern

Member

University of Essex

United Kingdom

Social Science Data Infrastructure

Thomas Exner

Member

Seven Past Nine

Germany

Data Management FAIRification Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design

Richard Dennis

Member

Eindhoven University of Technology

The Netherlands

AI Big Data Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

Lesley Wyborn

Member

Australian National University

Australia

Raymond Obuch

Member

USGS Emeritus Data Management

USA

Metadata

Alexandra Kokkinaki

Member

National Oceanography Centre, British Oceanographic Data Centre

United Kingdom

Semantics and Standards

Sachin Pandey

Member

Oracle

USA

AI ML Big Data Analytics

Ivana Ivanova

Member

Curtin University

Australia

GIScience Spatial Data Quality Metadata Interoperability Frameworks Provenance Automated Quality Assessment

Lauren Maxwell

Member

Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg; Ecraid Foundation

Germany

Pandemic Preparedness Data & Sample Interoperability Data Reuse Epidemiology Data & Biomedical Ethics

Natalie Meyers

Member

SDSC

USA

Informatics AI/ML FAIR & SW Preservation

Brian Matthews

Member

Science and Technology Facilities Council / UKRI

United Kingdom

Data Infrastructure Data Management Scientific Data Metadata

Milan Ojstersek

Member

University of Maribor

Slovenia

Metadata Interoperability

Marcin Wichorowski

Member

Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences

Poland

Data Management Systems AI Oceanography Project Management

Slava Tykhonov

Member

CODATA

France

Iseult Lynch

Member

Lynch

United Kingdom

Environmental Chemistry Nanomaterials Toxicology/Ecotoxicology FAIR Data

Rodrigo Roa

Member

Data Observatory

Chile

Compliance Ethics Law Management Strategy

Ilona Trtíková

Member

Institute of Sociology / Czech Academy of Science

Czech Republic

Sociology Information Science

Software

to be determined

Key Topics

to be determined

Meeting Frequency

to be determined

Group Members (13)

Matti Heikkurinen

Member

CODATA

Switzerland

Large-scale IT Infrastructure Management Policies

Pascal Heus

Member

Freelance / CODATA

Canada

Information Technology Metadata Data Science

Deirdre Lungley

Member

UK Data Service

United Kingdom

AI Computational Linguistics Social Science Infrastructure SDC

Richard Dennis

Member

Eindhoven University of Technology

The Netherlands

AI Big Data Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

Sachin Pandey

Member

Oracle

USA

AI ML Big Data Analytics

Stuart Chalk

Member

University of North Florida

USA

Chemical Informatics Data Modelling Knowledge Graphs Ontology Development

Natalie Meyers

Member

SDSC

USA

Informatics AI/ML FAIR & SW Preservation

Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga

Member

Cardiff University

United Kingdom

Data Management Research Infrastructures

Milan Ojstersek

Member

University of Maribor

Slovenia

Metadata Interoperability

Marcin Wichorowski

Member

Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences

Poland

Data Management Systems AI Oceanography Project Management

Slava Tykhonov

Member

CODATA

France

Leandro Liborio

Member

Science and Technology Facilities Council / UKRI

United Kingdom

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Muon Science Material Science

Hector Perez Ponce

Member

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

Germany

Signal Processing and Automation