Readying the CSU's: U.S.–Japan Collaboration on Research Data Management for Public Access Compliance
Location
Online
Start Date
21-10-2025 11:40 AM
End Date
21-10-2025 12:20 PM
Description
This California State University federally funded project explores how transnational collaboration can inform institutional readiness for research data management (RDM) in response to public access mandates. As the largest public university system in the United States, the California State University (CSU) system faces significant challenges in meeting the requirements of the 2022 White House OSTP Memorandum on Public Access to Taxpayer-funded research, particularly around the data-sharing component. Currently, CSU campuses maintain open-access repositories for publications but lack a system-wide infrastructure for research data. In contrast, Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII) and its Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS) offer a compelling national model through the GakuNin RDM system, which supports interoperable, scalable, and researcher-centered data sharing.
Funded by the NSF the project brought together CSU librarians, research administrators, and infrastructure leaders with RCOS counterparts in Tokyo, Japan to explore socio-technical models of RDM. Through a series of bilateral workshops and meetings held in Tokyo and next year in California, the project supports capacity building, knowledge transfer, and institutional planning efforts. By fostering mutual learning between two regions facing similar mandates for open science, the project aims to lay the groundwork for a more equitable and interoperable future of data sharing. The Principal Investigator will present Early-stage findings that offer insight into collaborative pathways for infrastructure development and policy implementation, which can inform both local (CSU) and international scholarly communications networks.
Readying the CSU's: U.S.–Japan Collaboration on Research Data Management for Public Access Compliance
Online
This California State University federally funded project explores how transnational collaboration can inform institutional readiness for research data management (RDM) in response to public access mandates. As the largest public university system in the United States, the California State University (CSU) system faces significant challenges in meeting the requirements of the 2022 White House OSTP Memorandum on Public Access to Taxpayer-funded research, particularly around the data-sharing component. Currently, CSU campuses maintain open-access repositories for publications but lack a system-wide infrastructure for research data. In contrast, Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII) and its Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS) offer a compelling national model through the GakuNin RDM system, which supports interoperable, scalable, and researcher-centered data sharing.
Funded by the NSF the project brought together CSU librarians, research administrators, and infrastructure leaders with RCOS counterparts in Tokyo, Japan to explore socio-technical models of RDM. Through a series of bilateral workshops and meetings held in Tokyo and next year in California, the project supports capacity building, knowledge transfer, and institutional planning efforts. By fostering mutual learning between two regions facing similar mandates for open science, the project aims to lay the groundwork for a more equitable and interoperable future of data sharing. The Principal Investigator will present Early-stage findings that offer insight into collaborative pathways for infrastructure development and policy implementation, which can inform both local (CSU) and international scholarly communications networks.
