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Group Session January 24, 2025

Which Repository? Community consultation on attributes of repositories & supporting services

Plenary: RDA 24th Plenary Meeting – Fully Virtual

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Meeting objectives

Collaborative session notes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gGnofcYH4PrMbDcTJV0Ka6Sn3oj1x-O3/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104358842683409363823&rtpof=true&sd=true

  • The WG has compiled a comprehensive inventory of the desirable characteristics, features, and attributes of repositories, their supporting services, based on a landscape study and community review. In our work plan, we envisage a number of community consultations to ensure that the inventory is prioritised from the perspective of a number of stakeholder groups (end users, repository and service providers, software providers, and so on) to understand which characteristics, features, attributes, software, or supporting services should be prioritised for a number of future applications, including modular certification, those that apply to TRSPs, those that apply to software repositories, to software providers, etc. At plenary 24, you will have the opportunity to review the inventory with us and contribute to the identification and prioritisation of repository and service characteristics for improved appraisal, selection, and optional modular certification of repositories and their supporting software and associated services.
  • The working group has significant synergy with two recently commenced EU-funded projects – EOSC FIDELIS and EOSC EDEN. We will devote some time to discuss these initiatives and plan collaboration between the projects and our working group.

Meeting presenters

Lauren Maxwell, Wim Hugo, Allyson Lister, Mari Kleemola (TBC), Vasso Kalaidzi (TBC).

Meeting agenda

  • Introduction and review of case statement, work to date (5 mins)
  • Introduction to EOSC EDEN and FIDELIS (15 mins)
  • Introduction to the landscape analysis and inventory, break-out into stakeholder groups and perspectives, instructions for prioritisation of the inventory (10mins)
  • Break-out groups (45 mins)
  • Next steps, collaboration, wrap-up (15 mins)

Target audience

Users, managers, and curators of repositories, experts interested in appraisal, characterisation, and certification of repositories and associated services, certification authorities, and those interested in TRUST principles.

Group Activities and Scope

  • The working group was established in December 2024.
  • The working group has developed a first draft of the deliverable: to identify and vet a set of criteria for trustworthy repository service providers would directly enable the identification and classification of trustworthy repositories who are currently not eligible or unable to acquire trustworthiness status, thus supporting the creation of “European network of trustworthy repositories” (EOSC FIDELIS) and contributing to “the concept and requirements of trustworthy repositories are harmonised” (EOSC EDEN)

Additional links to informative material

Materials from the plenary session in Costa Rica as background.

 

Short Group Status

Our group commenced activities at Plenary 23 in Costa Rica, and this session will provide an opportunity for community review of the work done in the interim.

Applicable Pathways

FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Evaluation and Policy
FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Adoption, Implementation, and Deployment
Data Infrastructures and Environments - Generalist

Please indicate at least (3) three breakout slots that would suit your meeting.

Breakout 1. Monday, 7 April, 07:00-08:30 UTC
Breakout 3. Tuesday, 8 April, 07:00-08:30 UTC
Breakout 4. Tuesday, 8 April, 14:00-15:30 UTC