Hilary Hanahoe: No Data, No Party. AGILE 2025, Dresden

Описание: This keynote was held on June 12, 2025 as part of the AGILE Conference 2025 in Dresden, Germany.

Title: No Data, No Party: the importance of responsibly shared, well managed data in a global digital era

Abstract: Research Data Management (RDM) is certainly not a new concept. It dates to the advent of mainstream computers, and yet decades later we are still struggling with standards, concepts and solutions to ensure RDM is the guest of honour at the party, not the gate crasher (or on the waiting list). Why is RDM perceived as a challenge and an effort to introduce into the research and scientific workflow? With the advances in data infrastructures and resources available to support RDM, as well as the high expectations and uncertainties about high quality data to ensure AI’s positive impact, responsible data sharing is the way forward. With the work already done by the Research Data Alliance’s global community can we be confident that open (or available) research data can be made secure, permanent, persistent and trustworthy?

Bio: Hilary Hanahoe is the Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international, non-profit, volunteer organisation addressing the need for open and interoperable sharing and re-use of research data and building the social, technical and cross-disciplinary links to enable such sharing and re-use on a global scale. Currently, RDA has a community of over 14,500 individual data professionals from 151 countries collaborating on different open science and open data activities, operating under six fundamental guiding principles of openness, consensus, harmonisation, community-driven, inclusivity, not for profit and technology neutrality. Hilary is passionate about the work of the Research Data Alliance and its vibrant, volunteer community working to enable the open sharing and reuse of data across the globe.