Global open research commons: model adoption and next steps
peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-11-15
Summary:
"The Global Open Research Commons Interest Group (GORC IG) is working on a set of deliverables to support coordination amongst national, pan-national and domain specific organizations as they work to build the interoperable resources necessary to enable researchers to address societal grand challenges. The realized vision of GORC will provide frictionless access to all research artifacts including, but not limited to: data, publications, software and compute resources; and will rely on metadata, vocabulary, and identification services being available to everyone everywhere, at all times. The GORC IG is working to develop a roadmap for global alignment to help set priorities for Commons development and integration. In support of this, the GORC IG has developed the GORC IG typology of commons essential elements supporting output.
The GORC International Model WG works under the umbrella of the GORC IG. The WG’s goal was to evaluate and recommend a model for attributes for global research commons that allows researchers and developers to coordinate services and create roadmaps for international interoperability. In pursuit of this goal the WG instituted a speaker series where representatives of Commons from around the world share the current state and vision of their initiatives with the WG and Task Groups were formed to focus on specific areas of the model, which is framed and structured according to the GORC IG typology of commons essential elements. The GORC International Model (V1.0) and accompanying report were endorsed by RDA in October, 2023.
The main objective of the GORC WG since RDA21 has been to support and facilitate adoption of the model, in an effort to test it as well as to prepare for the model to be resubmitted as an RDA recommendation. The critical next decisions for the GORC IG and WG will be to determine what proposed projects to tackle and in what format...."