RDA and European research infrastructures

The mapping of RDA TIGER-supported RDA Working Groups to the ESFRI Roadmap 2021 and the ERIC landscape demonstrates a strong alignment in technological focus and a clear relevance to the challenges faced by European Research Infrastructures.

The analysis of the impact of RDA WG activities and outputs can be explored via the kumu.io platform visualisation below.

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ESFRI Roadmap and RDA TIGER-supported RDA WGs

The ESFRI Roadmap 2021 and the ESFRI Landscape Analysis 2024 identified a number of challenges impacting the ESFRI landscape. RIs are becoming increasingly integrated and cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary; they need to be conceived and deployed at an increasingly global scale to respond to complex scientific and socio-economic challenges. The ESFRI landscape is also facing complex organisational and funding challenges arising from the need for interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches, as well as from the continued integration of the R&I ecosystem in Europe and the development of EOSC and the expected consolidation of e-infrastructure service provisioning and federation of services.

ESFRI Cluster projects support collaboration between ESFRIs and linking them to EOSC. There are currently 5 such clusters: PaNOSC, ENVRI, LifeScience RI, ESCAPE, and SSHOC. RDA WGs develop technical and social solutions that can support RIs in responding to the challenges related to increasing consolidation, integration and federation. RDA TIGER-supported RDA WGs, like for example the RDA Global Open Research Commons International Model (GORC IM) WG and the RDA GORC International Implementations (GORC II) WG, offer outputs that support interoperability between research environments and infrastructures and their work can help ESFRIs to respond to challenges impacting the RI landscape in Europe.

RDA TIGER-supported RDA Working Groups and the ERICs

Moving from the ESFRI landscape level to individual RI level, we continue to see that RDA WGs develop technical and social solutions relevant to European RIs. The mapping here considered RDA TIGER-supported RDA WGs and ERICs with reference to the RDA taxonomy for the technology focus (see Annex 3 for a discussion of methodology). The mapping reveals a landscape of overlapping interest and activity areas. 

A number of RDA TIGER-supported RDA WGs develop discipline-agnostic technical and social solutions related to access management and licenses, search and discovery, ingest and appraisal that are of relevance to most ERICs. These WGs include groups like the RDA Global Open Research Commons International Model (GORC IM) WG and the RDA GORC International Implementations (GORC II) WG that developed and now maintain the GORC IM, which provides a framework for developing individual research commons and for furthering interoperability between research commons, but also RDA WGs like the RDA National PID Strategy WG, RDA FAIR Mappings WG, RDA Data Granularity WG, RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG, and RDA Mapping the Landscape of Digital Research Tools II (MaLDReTH II) WG that respond to more specific, but still discipline-agnostic challenges related to access management and licenses, search and discovery, and ingest and appraisal. 

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