Christina Drummond
Executive Director – OA Book Usage Data Trust
University of North Texas
This session summarizes lessons learned from a pilot of a state-of-the-art MVP dataspace infrastructure and governance community by JSTOR, Liblynx, Michigan Publishing, Punctum Books, Knowledge Unlatched, in partnership with OPERAS-EU and Think-IT. The briefing will introduce the draft ISO Dataspace Protocol approach to controlled data exchange at scale to then showcase how the open infrastructure facilitated controlled sharing of sensitive data across publishers, content aggregators, and analytics providers. Specific dataspace customizations made for scholarly communications stakeholders and usage metrics exchange will be noted, alongside how governance mechanisms were piloted to retain trust among participants. Perspectives gathered from pilot participant interviews on dataspace participation benefits and ROI will be shared. Finally, the sustainability model and launch timeline will be outlined as the effort transitions off grant support in 2026. Future avenues for research and development include topics emerging from the October 2025 Research Data Alliance Plenary that explored resource and standards needed to launch dataspaces for open science and scholarly communications. The briefing builds upon prior CNI presentations on national infrastructure for usage and impact metrics.
https://github.com/OAEBUDT/oaebudt-dataspace#
https://zenodo.org/communities/2022to2025-oa-book-usage-ids-governance-building-blocks
https://oabookusage.org
