An article about EOSC Data Commons, authored by Enol Fernández, Xavier Salazar and Ilaria Fava (EGI Foundation), has just been published in the ERCIM News special issue on “Advancing Open Science”.
The article, titled “EOSC Data Commons: Building Europe’s Next-Generation Research Data Infrastructure”, presents the project’s vision for strengthening Europe’s federated research data landscape and supporting seamless access to high-quality, interoperable research outputs and services.
After an introduction about the project, setting its operative framework, the article introduces the two core services under development:
Together, these services aim to make it easier to move from discovery to analysis and preservation in a distributed research environment.
The article offers an overview of the project’s technical approach, its use-case-driven development, and its broader contribution to the EOSC Federation and Europe’s open science ecosystem. It reflects the project’s ambition to help make research data more FAIR, more reusable, and more useful for researchers, infrastructure providers, and policy-makers alike
