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Group Session November 22, 2025

Global Open Research Commons WG: 12 Month Update

Plenary: RDA 26th Plenary Meeting (VP26)

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Meeting objectives

Collaborative session notes:

Open session notes

To review progress against the three deliverables in the GORC II Statement of Work:

  • 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);
  • 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 
  • 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.

And to share proposed updates to the GORC IG typology and roadmap.

Meeting presenters

CJ Woodford

Meeting agenda

0-10: Welcome 

11-20: Overview of GORC IG Typology of Essential Elements and IM 

21-30: Connections to other work

  • Outcomes from P25/IDW 2025 sessions [5 min]
  • Task force/task group updates [5 min]

31-40: D2 – Current state of adoption tools

41-70: D3 – Proposed changes to International Model

71-85: Open discussion about how the GORC IM may be helpful to the community, influencing the final 6 month’s workplan

86-90: Thanks and next steps

Target audience

Working group members: Research funders, infrastructure providers and data services active in delivering Research / Data Commons initiatives

Group Activities and Scope

The GORC IG is working to develop a roadmap for global alignment to help set priorities for Commons development and integration. In support of this, the GORC IG has developed the GORC IG typology of commons essential elements as a supporting output. The IG is reviewing this typology over time, informed by different adoption usecases, and also coordinating relevant Working Groups (Health Data Commons WG, GORC International Implementations WG).

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.

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Short Group Status

12 months after establishment, working on deliverables.

Applicable Pathways

FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Adoption, Implementation, and Deployment
Data Infrastructures and Environments - Generalist
Semantics, Ontology, Standardisation

Avoid conflict with the following groups

What potential collaborations or synergies do you see between your Group/Birds of a Feather session topic and other RDA Groups or external organisations?

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

Breakout 1. Monday, 16 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC
Breakout 4. Tuesday, 17 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC
Breakout 7. Wednesday, 18 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC