The session has the following objectives:

– To share the results of the work undertaken since the last plenary
— getting community input into the scope of work and the case statement
— applying for endorsement by the RDA,
— and the first community consultation to gather information on the inventory of desirable characteristics of trustworthy repositories and service providers

– To review the inventory with the session participants and obtain a first round of prioritisation and selection of characteristics

– To plan the scope of work to be addressed by the next plenary

– To allow open consultation with participants and provide the opportunity to submit comments on working group activities and outputs to date.

1. Welcome and session overview
2. Brief review of case statement for newcomers
3. Report on phase 1 of WG activities and community consultation 1
3.1 Consultation results
3.2 Draft inventory of desirable characteristics
4. Breakout sessions: prioritising the characteristics of repositories
4.1 From the perspective of service providers
4.2 From the perspective of generalist repositories
4.3 From the perspective of non-data resource outputs – code, publications, semantic artefacts, and more
5. Feedback from breakouts
6. Open discussion
7. Planning and next steps

Repository managers, research data management architects and experts, service providers and repository software developers