Context of this Charter The IG Data Fabric was originally founded in 2013 with the scope to harmonize and to orchestrate RDA’s core components for a data infrastructure. Over the years one of the group’s topics shifted more and more to the introduction and specification of FAIR Digital Objects as an overarching concept building up research data infrastructures. The name of the IG Data Fabric is puzzling, confuses potential new RDA members, and promises a steep learning curve to the broad landscape of...

TAB Review: https://rd-alliance.org/group/wiki/data-fabric-ig-tab-review-final.html Data Fabric (DF) IG Several RDA groups are working on core components supporting a basis for a Data Infrastructure for reproducible science. These include: PID IG, PIT WG, PP WG, MD WG and IG, Provenance IG, Brokering IG, DFT WG and others. Some of these groups are Working Groups and will finish in 2014. Yet we miss an overarching concept & discussion framework for most of these groups to relate the components with the overall data lifecycle landscape and identify gaps,...