On August 2, 2021 a group of concerned scientists and US funding agency and federal government officials met for an informal discussion to explore the value and need for a well-coordinated US Open Research Commons (ORC); an interoperable collection of data and compute resources within both the public and private sectors which are easy to use and accessible to all.
@article{arxiv.2208.04682,
title = {Playing catch-up in building an open research commons},
author = {Philip E. Bourne and Vivien Bonazzi and Amy Brand and Bonnie Carroll and Ian Foster and Ramanathan V. Guha and Robert Hanisch and Sallie Ann Keller and Mary Lee Kennedy and Christine Kirkpatrick and Barend Mons and Sarah M. Nusser and Michael Stebbins and George Strawn and Alex Szalay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04682},
year = {2022}
}