RDA EUROPE - First year report on Roadmap to achieve full interoperability of EU-US data infrastructures

In this report we examine the state of current data infrastructures and repositories and conclude that the European landscape is very heterogeneous and that there is no reason to assume that this will change soon. There are stakeholders at European level, at national level and at research organisation level, some organized along scientific dsciplines, some cross-disciplinary. There are an increasing number of commercial services for which the question of trust will be very important for researchers. Improving interoperability and data sharig requires that we find ways of harmonisation which have the potential to overcome the barriers introduced by this diversity. Our conclusions on the state of the current RDA roadmap lead us to five recommendations.