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Specific activities the Task Force will is expected to engage in include:
- Developing an online list of interoperability-related pilot projects and references to their interoperability related resources and accomplishments
- Gathering information from NDS resource and service providers regarding their current mechanisms for import/export/exchange of data publications and their interest/involvement in interoperability pilot projects
- Tracking (in collaboration iwth pilots) relevant external interoperability efforts (e.g. the proposed RDA Interoperabilty WG)
- Reporting to the TAC and conveying TAC feedback to NDS Share providers, pilot projects, and the NDS Membership
- Reporting at NDS National Meetings and helping to organize cross-group interoperability sessions at such meetings
- Alerting the TAC when one or more options exist that could be recommended as baseline interoperability requirements for NDS Share resources
Proposal for an Open NDS Interoperability Pilot
Charter:
To contribute to the realization of the NDS Vision and take a first-step in making a broad range of published data accessible across the ecosystem of tools and services necessary to realize that vision, the participants in the Open NDS Interoperability Working Group Pilot propose the following:
The establishment of a standard mechanism(s) for any tool to access the full set of data and metadata comprising a data publication, regardless of source, and to work individually and collectively across the NDS Consortium to implement those interfaces within existing tools. Further, we propose to develop suite of test data and tools to assess conformance to the agreed standards. These mechanisms are an important initial step in enabling data to flow seamless across tools and services in a National Data Service ecosystem. Our group anticipates that the proposed work will enable a broad range of further efforts, from assessments of the variations in data types, formats, size, purpose, metadata vocabularies across disciplines and tools, to efforts that would define defining minimal metadata standards that would enable interoperability at the level deeper levels required for functionality such as federated faceted search or data fusion.
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