Name: Main Results from RDA Repo2Pub Working Group: Do We Need to Update the COPDESS Commitment Statement?
Start: 2026-07-29T16:00:00-0500
End: 2026-07-29T17:30:00-0500

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Main Results from RDA Repo2Pub Working Group: Do We Need to Update the COPDESS Commitment Statement?

Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT

Location TBA

Sign-in & Notes

This session has two parts. Part 1 reports on the nearly finalized RDA Repo2Pub Working Group, which conducted interviews with 8 publishers and 8 repositories to analyze pain points in the Research Publication workflow between publishers, domain repositories, and researchers — identifying cross-stakeholder dependencies and bottlenecks. Part 2 revisits the COPDESS Statement of Commitment (publicly launched January 2014, updated in 2017 with the FAIR data initiative). Since 2017, repository-publisher interactions have become more complex, AI is now integral to research, and there are many more players. The session assesses whether the Commitment Statement needs revision.

Audience
Researchers, repositories, data providers, publishers, and editors

Speakers

Lesley Wyborn

Data Strategist, Australian Research Data Commons

Kerstin Lehnert

Doherty Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University

Kerstin Lehnert is Doherty Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Director of the Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance that operates EarthChem, the System for Earth Sample Registration, and the Astromaterials Data System. Kerstin... Read More →

Shelley Stall

Vice President, Open Science Leadership, American Geophysical Union

Shelley Stall is the Vice President of the American Geophysical Union’s Open Science Leadership Program. She works with AGU’s members, their organizations, and the broader research community to improve data and digital object practices with the ultimate goal of elevating how research... Read More →

Danie Kinkade

Information Systems Specialist / Director BCO-DMO, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Natalie Raia

Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure Research Principal, University of Arizona

Natalie Raia is a Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure Research Scientist in the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona. She collaborates with library and information scientists, systems engineers, researchers, publishers, and academic societies to develop and drive... Read More →

Matthew Warke

Bobby Saba

Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA

Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience

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