RDA Endorsed Recommendations & Outputs

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What is this about?

The RDA Endorsed Recommendations & Outputs page presents the set of formally endorsed outputs developed by RDA Working and Interest Groups that have passed community review and approval. These outputs include technical standards, guidelines, schemas, workflows, and other infrastructure tools that solve concrete challenges in data sharing, interoperability, and reuse. The page offers filters (by output type, status, domain, region) to explore these endorsed outputs, alongside metadata (authors, review status, working group origin). Each endorsed output comes with a level of endorsement, licensing (CC BY 4.0), and deposit in open repositories like Zenodo, making them accessible and reusable by the broader community.

Why is this important?

This page is important because it showcases the gold standard of RDA’s contributions outputs that have been vetted, endorsed, and deemed ready for broader adoption. Such endorsement provides legitimacy and confidence that the tools and recommendations are robust, community-supported, and sustainable. For researchers, institutions, and infrastructure providers, these outputs serve as trustworthy blueprints for implementing FAIR data practices. They help reduce duplication, promote interoperability, and accelerate uptake across domains and geographies. In effect, the endorsed set helps translate collective expertise into reliable infrastructure for data-intensive research.

For whom is this important?

ResearchersResearch Institutions and UniversitiesData stewards and IT professionalsFunding agenciesPolicy makersInternational organizationsData infrastructure providers

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