Appendix B: Related Resources¶
The resources below are drawn from across the Blueprint and related working group discussions. They are grouped by theme, with the resource title hyperlinked to its primary URL. Entries with no confirmed URL in the source material are shown in bold without a link, with this noted in the description.
RDA, Governance and Consultation
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| RDA About | General information about the RDA. |
| RDA Guiding Principles | The Guiding Principles with which the Blueprint's openness and governance are designed to comply. |
| Data Director Agentic AI Blueprint Working Group | Working Group activity page for this Blueprint. |
| Global Community Priorities for Agentic AI Development | Outputs of the RDA-Microsoft global community consultation that selected the Data Director as the Blueprint's focus. |
| How RDA Works | Describes the RDA's mission, vision and guiding principles, against which the Data Director was assessed for alignment. |
| RDA Recommendations and Outputs process | The formal RDA process under which this Blueprint is produced. |
| RDA Private Sector Engagement Framework v1.0 | Framework under which Microsoft's facilitation of the Working Group was provided. |
| RDA Guidance on AI Tools Usage | Guidance followed for the use of Claude in drafting and analysis throughout the Blueprint. |
| RDA Decentralised Action Repository recommendations | RDA recommendations that could inspire a decentralised action repository supporting full agent traceability. |
| RDA maDMP Working Group | Maintains a fuller list of DMP tools compatible with machine-actionable Data Management Plans. |
FAIR, CARE and Indigenous Data
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| FAIR Principles | The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable principles underpinning the Data Director. |
| Comprehensive FAIR Principles paper (Wilkinson et al.) | Foundational publication defining the FAIR principles. |
| CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance | Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility and Ethics: principles for Indigenous data governance applied alongside FAIR. |
| Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) | Community standards body providing explicit CARE guidance for Indigenous data. |
| Local Contexts | External system identified as relevant for meaningful engagement with CARE principles. |
| GO FAIR | Community resource referenced for domain-appropriate standards recommendations and the FAIR principles. |
Persistent Identifiers and Identifier Frameworks
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| DataCite | Primary membership model for institutional DOI minting for deposited datasets. |
| FAIRsharing identifier schema catalogue | Catalogues identifier schemas by persistence, resolvability and global uniqueness per the EOSC PID definition. |
| EOSC PID definition | Community-agreed definition of persistent identifier properties referenced in the Blueprint's PID requirements. |
| W3C Decentralised Identifiers (DID) v1.1 | Standard for decentralised identifiers, proposed as a basis for both dataset and agent identity. |
| ORCID | Persistent identifier for researchers; identified as a linking target for related research outputs. |
| ROR (Research Organisation Registry) | Persistent identifier for research organisations; identified as a linking target for related research outputs. |
Repository and Standards Registries
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| FAIRsharing | Curated registry of community-defined standards, databases, policies, identifier schemas and reporting guidelines across disciplines. |
| FAIRsharing MCP server | MCP server enabling direct integration of FAIRsharing with the Data Director. |
| re3data | Registry of research data repositories with filtering by subject, access type and deposit conditions. |
| Cornell Data Storage Finder | Open-source tool for localised repository and storage recommendations; suggested as a possible reference implementation. |
| CoreTrustSeal | Repository certification and trustworthiness scheme; free certification options should be prioritised over paid alternatives. |
FAIR Evaluation and Quality Tools
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| FAIRassist.org | Full list of community FAIR evaluation tools, including those with OSTrails framework integration. |
| F-UJI | Automated FAIR data assessment tool. |
| FAIR EVA | FAIR Evaluation and Validation Assistant. |
| FAIR Checker | FAIR data assessment tool. |
| FAIR Champion | FAIR data assessment tool. |
| FAIRshake | Metadata quality evaluation framework for assessing AI-generated record quality against curation standards; relevant to C15. |
| CESSDA FAIR benchmark | Example of a community-defined FAIR benchmark registered in FAIRsharing. |
| MOMSI FAIRsharing collection | Cross-domain benchmarking reference covering domain-specific and universal standards; confirmed useful for evaluating R3 and R4. |
| Assess-IF framework (OSTrails) | Framework for community-specific FAIR benchmark definition and longitudinal analysis; implements the open framework for FAIR evaluation scores (w3id.org/ftr#). |
| FIPs (FAIR Implementation Profiles) | Community-defined FAIR benchmarks registrable in FAIRsharing. |
Metadata Standards, Schemas and Validation Tools
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| RDA kernel metadata recommendations | Defines essential domain-agnostic metadata fields. |
| FAIR2 metadata specification | Community-driven metadata specification built on MLCommons Croissant. |
| Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) | Ontology repository providing controlled vocabularies across disciplines. |
| NFDI Terminology Service | Terminology service providing controlled vocabularies for research communities. |
| OntoPortal | Domain-specific ontology repository platform. |
| BioPortal | Domain-specific ontology repository (biomedical). |
| AgroPortal | Domain-specific ontology repository (agronomy). |
| RO-Crate validator | Schema validation tool for metadata quality checks. |
| Frictionless Data | Schema validation tool for metadata quality checks. |
| JSON Schema | Schema validation standard applicable to metadata validation. |
| XSD (XML Schema Definition) | XML schema validation reference. |
| SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language) | Schema validation tool for metadata quality checks. |
| Croissant Validator / Croissant ML | Mature, generic metadata format and validator with an active community; proposed as a pilot format, supported by Croissant Baker and Croissant Miner. |
| CEDAR Workbench | Metadata creation and validation tool. |
| Skosmos | Vocabulary publishing and validation tool. |
| FOOPS! | Ontology pitfall scanner for vocabulary validation. |
| PROV-O | Candidate standard for provenance recording with archiving option, identified for tracking AI agent actions and Full Traceability. |
| eScience 2025 provenance paper | Community reference for PROV-O implementation in agentic AI research workflows. |
| ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language) | Policy expression language referenced for machine-readable governance policies; proposed as a FAIR object with identifiers. Demo: odrl.dev.codata.org/demo. |
| FAIR Digital Object (FDO) framework | Supports interoperability through typed, validated objects, enabling metadata at domain-agnostic, domain-specific and application-specific levels simultaneously. |
| Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) | Supports cross-domain metadata mapping; relevant to interoperability requirements. |
Data Management Plan (DMP) Tools
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) | Exposes DMP commitments in a computationally amenable form; confirmed compatible with the Data Director. |
| Argos | DMP tool with machine-readable output; confirmed compatible with the Data Director. |
| DAMAP | DMP tool with machine-readable output; confirmed compatible with the Data Director. |
AI Governance, Safety and Security
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| Australian Cyber Security Centre - careful adoption of agentic AI services | Guidance on careful adoption of agentic AI services, directly relevant to the agentic AI security baseline. |
| Agentic Automation Canvas | Structured tool for honest planning of agentic platforms covering benefits, risks, human oversight and evaluation. Companion paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.15090. |
| Agentic AI expectations vs realised value (companion paper) | Companion paper on the gap between agentic AI expectations and realised value. |
| Policy Cards | Deployment-level governance tool that feeds from the Agentic Automation Canvas. |
| ACHPR Draft African Guidelines on Data Access and Human Rights | Draft guidelines on promoting and harnessing data access for human rights and sustainable development. Relevant to legal/sovereignty prerequisites and Open First. |
| EOSC-Future / RDA ENVISAGE & PILOT Principles for AI | Principles under development relevant to a potential future Ethics by Design architecture principle. |
Environmental Impact
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| OSAI Guidelines on AI environmental impact | Includes Frugal AI principles and Green AI techniques relevant to Low Impact (P14). |
| OSAI AI ecosystem landscaping | Calculators and tooling for environmental monitoring relevant to Low Impact (P14). |
| OECD AI Footprint | Environmental footprint resource relevant to Low Impact (P14). |
| FAS energy footprint measurement | Energy footprint measurement resource relevant to Low Impact (P14). |
| Nature - AI environmental impact | Citable reference for environmental impact considerations relevant to Low Impact (P14). |
Linking, Discovery and Impact Measurement
| Resource (linked) | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| COMET initiative | Supports community-curated enrichment of PID metadata for existing outputs, directly aligned with the retrospective scope of metadata remediation. |
| DataCite MCP | MCP server for dataset discovery, in active development at time of writing; relevant to surfacing related datasets. |
| MicroPublication Biology | Referenced as a potentially relevant resource for linking data to minimal research outputs. |
| CSIRO Impact Measurement Framework | Includes lead indicators for slow-materialising impacts; proposed as a model for longitudinal evaluation of the Data Director's impact. |
Comparator Models for Maintenance and Review
| Resource | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| GitHub (RDA organisation) | Proposed platform for maintaining the Blueprint with tracked, monitored and versioned changes. |
| Zenodo | Proposed platform, potentially synced with GitHub, for DOI minting and versioning of the Blueprint. |
| Springer | Commercial publisher with experience implementing data repositories, referenced as a maintenance comparator. |
| Elsevier | Commercial publisher with experience implementing data repositories, referenced as a maintenance comparator. |
| MDPI | Commercial publisher with experience implementing data repositories, referenced as a maintenance comparator. |
| W3C | Referenced as an example where retro-compatibility has been maintained between implementations and a specification. |
Working Group Tools and Documentation
| Resource (linked) | Description and source section |
|---|---|
| Zoom | Used to facilitate Working Group sessions across global time zones. |
| Google Docs | Used for collaborative session notes. |
| Draw.io | Used for collaborative diagramming. |
| Miro | Used for collaborative working and generating process flow and architecture diagrams. |
| Claude.ai | Used to generate final process flow images, with Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Pro) used for data analysis and writing assistance throughout. |
| learn.microsoft.com | Referenced as a documentation style example for institutional onboarding materials. |