This BoF aims to gather those exploring or developing dataspaces related to academic and commercial research data sharing so that they can explore shared interests, technical development challenges, and areas for future collaboration via the RDA given ongoing work via the IDSA, the DSCC, and ISO/IEC JTC related to the emerging Dataspace Protocol.
Attendees of this session will learn how data spaces compare to other types of data collaboratives, such as disciplinary research data commons, to better understand how the emerging Dataspace Protocol shifts institutions from data harvesting into common repositories to sovereign, direct managed data flows within a trusted cloud-based space capable of confidential multi-party computing during transit in the cloud.
Representatives from developing research-related dataspaces will be invited to take 5-10 minutes to present their missions and focus, including: ARDC’s dataspace program, the Data Spaces Alliance Finland, and a global scholarly communications data space focused initially on multi-platform open science usage and impact metrics exchange. (Additional data space representatives will be noted as they are confirmed, representatives from European Common Data Spaces are welcomed.) Each dataspace present will be asked to share a short introduction noting their operational status, challenges, and opportunities to date.
All attendees will then join a facilitated discussion related to missing or emerging metadata related to data quality and trust indicators related to new types of direct, sovereign data connectors. Use cases to be explored will include the provision of data for open knowledge graphs and the provision of content for limited AI use.
A group discussion will follow to explore whether there are metadata elements or governance protocols that could benefit from standardization, or other potential areas where an RDA IG or WG could have an impact.
