A multi-institutional stakeholder group in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2016 released a milestone document titled "Concordat for Open Research Data", which can be found at:

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/concordatonopenresearchdata-pdf/

There is an announcement about the release at:

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/concordat-on-open-research-data-launched-28-jul-2016

and a helpful blog post by Rachael Bruce at the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/introducing-the-new-sector-agreement-for-open-research-data-28-jul-2016

giving some additional background.

It would be wonderful to see stakeholders in the United States adopt a similar set of shared principles.



Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI