Maria Praetzellis
Associate Director, University of California Curation Center
California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President
Rory Macneil
Chief Executive Officer
Research Space
Rob Day
Director of Sales
Research Space
As institutions build out Research Commons, a central challenge is achieving vertical interoperability: ensuring that the many different tools researchers use across the lifecycle (from planning and data collection to analysis, publishing, preservation, and reporting) can work together seamlessly. Unlike horizontal interoperability, which connects systems of the same type, vertical interoperability links diverse systems so that information and persistent identifiers flow without duplication or loss. This project briefing will explore how vertical interoperability is emerging as a critical design principle in Research Commons at national (e.g., Canada, Australia, UK), regional (e.g., the New England Research Cloud), and institutional (e.g., Harvard Data Connect) levels. It will introduce two Research Data Alliance (RDA) frameworks that are informing this work, the Global Open Research Commons model and the MaLDReTH map of tools used in the research lifecycle, and highlight how they are being applied in practice. The briefing will consider what these developments reveal about the future of research data management and offer insights into how interoperability choices being made now may shape institutional strategies in the years ahead.
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/global-open-research-commons-ig/activity/
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/mapping-the-landscape-of-digital-research-tools-ii-maldreth-ii/activity/
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2433321
https://www.researchspace.com/blog/the-time-is-now-vertical-interoperability-between-research-tools-an-essential-enabler-for-the-fairification-of-datax
