Key background reading

The WG’s outputs have been endorsed by RDA in October 2023 and are available online: model (V1.0), report (V1.0).

The most recent WG session was held at P21 during IDW2023 in Salzburg (hybrid), which was a combined session with the IG. October 2023; P21 slides, notes, recording, and post-session group notes are available online.

Further reading

A  WG session was held at P20 Gothenburg (hybrid) along with a co-located workshop. March 21 and 24 2023 respectively; P20 slides, notes, and recording as well as the workshop slides, notes, and partial recording are available online.

A WG session was held at P19 Seoul/Virtual. June 21 and 23 2022; Slides, notes, and session recordings (main recording, repeat recording) are available online.

A WG session was held at P18 (Virtual).  November 3rd and 4th 2021; Slides, notes (main, repeat) and session recordings (main recording, repeat recording) are available online

A WG session was held at P17 in Edinburgh/Virtual. Slides and notes (main, repeat) are available online.

A Benchmarking BoF session was held at P16 in Costa Rica. Slides and notes are available online.

The Data Together leadership (representing RDA, CODATA, GOFAIR and WDS) have convened a series of meetings to discuss how to effectively coordinate their GORC initiatives. At the CODATA 2019 ‘Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms’ conference in Beijing in September 2019, a session was held on Coordinating Global Open Science Commons Initiatives. A follow up introduction event was held in June 2021. Representatives from the WG also organized and participated in the SCIDATACON 2021 Session: Update from the Global Commons on October 21st, 2021.  In all cases a number of presentations were given and further discussion was focused on understanding possible areas for consensus building and collaboration, surveying initiatives that aim to coordinate Open Science activities and reduce ’siloing’, refining the initial typology and framework and examining the potential for further coordination and interoperability. In addition, WG chairs are also participating in OSCER, the Open Science Commons Executive Roundtable.

Suggested literature for the Groups also includes:

• Principles for Open Scholarly infrastructures https://cameronneylon.net/blog/principles-for-open-scholarly-infrastructures

• Elinor Ostrom’s Principles for Managing A Commons https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons

• The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) https://www.iasc-commons.org 

The Global Open Research Commons IG will coordinate global activity on the development of Open Science platforms such as the EOSC, AOSP and ARDC. The Interest Group holds the overall mission and defines key activities for development through working groups, the first of which is focusing on the features/attributes of ORCs, and documenting a subset of international clouds/commons. It will also socialise the community to the concept, definition and value of Research Commons. 

The GORC International Model WG works under the umbrella of the  Global Open Research Commons (GORC) IG. Both entities are working towards a roadmap for the integration of research services in pursuit of cross-country and cross-discipline global open research commons. The WG’s goal was to evaluate and recommend a model for functions/attributes for global research commons that allows researchers and developers to coordinate services and create roadmaps for international interoperability. In addition, when possible, the group captured KPIs or metrics that can be used to track engagement or success of services provided by Commons. In pursuit of this goal the WG  instituted a speaker series where representatives of Commons from around the world share the current state and vision of their initiatives with the WG. The WG has been developing a narrative document containing descriptions of functions and attributes of different commons  in parallel with the speaker series and released draft versions of commons attribute models. Task Groups were formed to focus on specific areas of the model. Both the model and a report with information from the narrative document were endorsed by RDA in October, 2023.

The GORC-WG has since been working on making parts of the model machine-actionable and facilitating adoption of the model, including investigating and developing adoption tools and approaches.