OA Book Usage Data Trust | Rulebook Draft Community Consultation

The OA Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT) effort is piloting the Industry Data Space (IDS) model in scholarly communications, building upon emerging design principles, technical architectures, and standards. Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the OAEBUDT is developing ‘Governance Building Blocks' for its IDS, to guide the rules and accountability measures for OAEBUDT participation. To inform the development of model standard contractual clauses, this project is developing an OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook to specify the principles that generate trust through OAEBUDT participation, usage data management, processing, and provision.

In this community consultation, they invite feedback on the initial OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Stewardship Rulebook drafted to ensure trust in the data exchange facilitated via the OAEBUDT data space.

To access the draft rulebook document, please follow this link. 

To provide your feedback, please follow this link. 

Please note the rulebook draft will have some sections that will be developed as the project progresses and are therefore placeholders for now. 

Written comments can be submitted through the form above until the 7th of March 2024. 

Submitted comments will be discussed among the OAEBUDT project team, including advisors and the OAEBUDT community governance. Unattributed submissions will also be published on the project’s Zenodo community. By submitting comments through this form you agree to the publication, sharing and reuse of your comments under a CC0 license or CCBY license.

Contact: For any questions please contact Ursula Rabar, OAEBUDT Community Manager, at ursula.rabar@operas-eu.org.