CJ Woodford FAIR Data Podcast

This week on the FAIR Data Podcast, Rory is joined by CJ Woodford, World Data System International Technology Office Research Associate with Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria.  

CJ and Rory kick off the discussion with a look at the evolution of Data Commons and CJ shares details regarding the inception of the Global Open Research Commons international model (GORC), as well as the main objectives of the working group involved in its development.  

While discussing his own involvement in the project, CJ mentions some of the challenges and lessons encountered along the way, including issues surrounding transparency and accessibility. Rory and CJ go on to look at some of the core components of the GORC model, and the ways in which they were sub-categorized and sorted during the structuring of the model.  

Support for the GORC model is rapidly growing, e.g. a description of REASON, a proposed research commons for Norway based on the GORC, model, has just been published at https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10410201.

Join us for this illuminating discussion and learn more about the GORC model, undoubtedly a major leap in the realm of research data commons with the potential for great impact!