FREE UKSG webinar: OA Book Usage Data Trust: An International Data Space for Usage Data and Beyond - UKSG

"While APIs have made it easier for libraries, publishers, policymakers, and information services to access, use and innovate with usage and metadata at scale, time and human resources are still required to manage, compile, and link OA book usage data metrics coming from multiple platforms in multiple formats. 

In 2022, the Mellon Foundation awarded a project team led by the University of North Texas, OpenAIRE, and OPERAS to develop “governance building blocks” for the OA Book Usage Data Trust in line with both the Principles of Open Infrastructure and protocols emerging from the Design Principles for International Data Spaces (IDS). Stakeholders leveraged in-depth community consultations to understand the principles needed to exchange OA book usage data across private and public stakeholders and moved ahead with a data space proof of concept. In 2024, the Data Trust’s Technical Advisory Committee and Board of Trustees selected an experienced IDS technical team to build out the technical OA Book Usage Data Trust infrastructure to develop a limited proof of concept IDS focused on the exchange of COUNTER item-level views and downloads data while collaborating with technical pilot partners (e.g. JSTOR, LibLynx, Michigan University Publishing, Punctum Books, Knowledge Unlatched). This provides an opportunity to explore if the IDS model and functionality can be extended to support additional data exchange use cases.

Within this webinar, we will explore how OAEBUDT development to date helps create a more effective, secure and equitable exchange of data across government, charity and commercial scholarly communications stakeholders. A discussion will be facilitated through a Q&A."