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  • Status: Recognised and Endorsed
  • Group Focus: Disseminate, Link, and Find, Policy, Legal Compliance, and Capacity

The Global Open Research Commons International Implementations Working Group (GORC II WG) will maintain the recommendation and supporting outputs from the GORC International Model WG (GORC IM WG), specifically for the GORC International Model (GORC IM, most recent version is V1.1, also available as a comment-enabled Google Sheet), through the improvement of its usability by and relevance to the commons and research infrastructure community. We will do this by 

  1. identifying and defining implementations of the GORC IM that may then be referenced as examples for commons development, including both classes of possible implementations based on commons type and specific, actual implementation examples by existing commons (D1);
  2. Improving usability by creating an interactive container for the GORC IM that includes documentation, thematic subsets of the mode, and mappings with existing frameworks, models, vocabulary, and principles (D2); and 
  3. Ensuring updated relevance to current literature and community considerations on commons and research infrastructure by continuing our literature analysis and subsequent updates to the IM (D3) as the field of research commons evolves.

The GORC II WG, similar to the GORC IM WG, will work under the umbrella of the GORC IG. Starting in April 2025, we will invite WG members and the wider community to monthly WG meetings to showcase, discuss, and confirm intermediate outputs and versions of deliverables. Task Groups and inter-RDA group liaison Task Forces will also meet and work asynchronously on these outputs.

The kick off meeting for the GORC II WG will be at the RDA 24th Plenary in April 2025.