RDA Europe 4.0 D3.2 Interim ICT Technical Specifications

RDA Recommendations and Outputs are the technical and social infrastructure solutions developed by RDA Working Groups or Interest Groups that enable data sharing, exchange, and interoperability. These outputs have an important impact in two areas: i) solving problems, and ii) incorporation and/or adoption in infrastructure environments by individuals, projects, and organizations. RDA's goal is to expand awareness and adoption of these outputs, and hence their impact, within all regions of the world.

RDA is not a standards development organisation (SDO), but has been building synergies with SDOs and similar organisations so that RDA Recommendations can either get a fast track to becoming standards, be incorporated in or contribute to common goals and activities, and overall foster adoption and build trust and engagement in new user communities.

In particular, RDA Europe is liaising with the European Multi-Stakeholders Platform on ICT Standardisation (MSP - E02758), an advisory expert group on ICT standardisation.

At present, two waves of outputs from RDA Working Groups have been submitted to the European Multi-Stakeholders Platform on ICT Standardisation (MSP - E02758) to be recognised as ICT Technical Specifications. These were developed via the clear and transparent RDA process for producing and endorsing outputs as RDA Recommendations.

Currently eight RDA Recommendations have been recognised as ICT technical specifications:

• TS1 Data Foundation & Terminology Model*

• TS2 PID Information Types API- Persistent Identifier Type Registry*

• TS3 Data Type Registries Model*

• TS4 Practical Policies recommendations*

• TS5 Dynamic-data Citation Methodology**

• TS6 Data Description Registry Interoperability Model**

• TS7 RDA/WDS Repository Audit and Certification Catalogues**

• TS8 RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services**

  *Approved and published in the Official Journal of the European Union “COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2017/1358” of 20 July 2017 on the identification of ICT Technical Specifications for referencing in public procurement https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32017D1358;

  **Approved and awaiting publication.

  Within the RDA Europe 4.0 project a third wave of submission has started. In September 2018, RDA Europe started sounding the interest of WGs in submitting their endorsed recommendations to the MSP. Four expressions of interest have been received by the following Working Groups: Research Data Repository Interoperability WG, Research Data Collections WG, Publishing Data Workflows WG, Wheat Data Interoperability WG.

  The RDA Europe 4.0 project is awaiting from the EC the publication of the second wave of ICT Technical Specifications and the green light to start the third wave of submissions. The full process has been delayed due to the internal reorganisation of DG GROW.