[Sarah Jones]

The session will be a mix of presentation and facilitated plenary discussion. Presentations will offer a grounding in the topic and recent developments, outline Working Group plans, and gather feedback and inputs to help progress work.
 
Introductory grounding (30 mins)

Definitions and examples of Open Science Commons

The remit of the new Interest Group and Working Group

Report from the CODATA conference session in Beijing

 
Initiating the Working Group (30 mins)

A typology for Open Science Commons – presenting and critiquing a strawman

Proposals for initial pilot cases – feedback and volunteers

 
Shaping the OSC agenda and global collaboration (30 mins)

Discussion on the overall mandate / mission and how to steer this via the IG

Mapping out a potential timeline and intersections with related WGs and initiatives

1. First group option
RDA Regions

Additional links to informative material
3 BoF sessions have been run at previous events:

At the 11th RDA plenary in Berlin in March 2018 there was a BoF entitled Towards a Global Open Science Commons. This included presentations on the African Open Science Platform, the Australian Research Data Commons, the European Open Science Cloud, the NIH data commons and Canadian activities. 

At International Data Week in Gaborone in November 2018, a SciDataCon session was held on Delivering a Global Open Science Commons. Again a number of presentations were given to profile existing work, after which the group discussion pointed to a number of next steps. 

At the 13th Plenary in Philadelphia in April 2019 there was a BoF entitled Coordinating Global Open Science Commons initiatives. This session focused on group work to advance a typology and identification of areas in which it makes sense to collaborate and coordinate work.

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

Brief introduction describing the activities and scope of the group
The Open Science Commons IG and WG will coordinate global activity on the development of open science platforms. The Interest Group will hold the overall mission and define key activities for development through working groups. It will also socialise the community to the concept and value of such work. The first working group will define a typology for data commons and identify a few areas where we can productively work together in short projects.

Estimate of the required room capacity
Given that we had 40-50 people attending and contributing to breakout exercises last time, we should allow for at least 50, but ideally up to 80 as a bigger group could be accommodated in plenary discussion.

Group chair serving as contact person
Sarah Jones

I declare that I have informed the chairs of all the Working / Interest groups included in this joint meeting application.
Acknowledged

Meeting objectives
The forthcoming Interest Group and Working Group stem from activities and outcomes in three prior BoF sessions on this topic. This session aims specifically to:

Launch the new Interest Group and Working Group

Socialise participants to the concept of Open Science Commons – what they are & aren’t 

Explain the remit of the two groups and advance preliminary work on the typology

Solicit broader inputs and membership from relevant initiatives and stakeholders globally

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Target Audience
Attendees should review materials from the previous BoF sessions and any pre-reading shared.

Discussion