Other Output
November 8, 2016
Initial thoughts and recommendations on RDA as a Standardisation body
- Output Type: Other Output
- Output Status: Not Endorsed
- Primary Domain: Natural Sciences
Coordination Group
Coordination Group
RDA Council Strategy Subcommittee – 8 November 2016
Context
The RDA has a clear and transparent process for producing and endorsing its outputs as “Recommendations”[1].
Standards are reference documents that represent a consensus in a field and are based on the field’s collective knowledge. Standardisation can facilitate interoperability and innovation and build user trust in products, services and systems.
The first four RDA Outputs have been through European Multi-Stakeholders Platform on ICT Standardisation (E02758) to be recognised as Technical Specifications[2]. The European Commission see this as a very positive outcome and would encourage RDA to put more Recommendations through this process. We have not clarified the views of other funders.
The standardisation process raised some questions about the robustness and openness of the RDA process, which were successfully addressed by Hilary Hanahoe to the satisfaction of the Multi-stakeholder panel although this was quite a lot of work.
There may be lessons learned from this process that could be useful to improve the RDA process of endorsing its outputs as recommendations.
Questions for consideration with the RDA membership
Does RDA wish for its Recommendations to be recognised by other bodies?
If so, should RDA review its processes so that Recommendations are more easily adopted by other standardisation bodies?
Should RDA enter into discussions with one or more formal standardisation bodies in some way so that RDA Recommendations can get a fast track to becoming standards? (The mechanism is likely to be different for each standards organisation so they will have to be considered individually)
Recommendations
The strategy Subcommittee have considered these questions and make the following recommendations for consideration with the RDA membership before presentation to the RDA Council:
Drafted by Juan Bicarregui, RDA OAB Co-Chair & RDA Council Subcommittee Member
[1] https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/creating-and-managing-rda-groups/working-…
[2] (http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2758)
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