Data Granularity WG rev-002

The latest version of the Case Statement from July 2021 has been endorsed by the RDA Council.  This latest version, version 2, was submitted in July 2021. Version 1 underwent community review in February / March 2021 and was reviewed by TAB.

The Data Granularity Task Force of the Data Discovery Paradigms Interest Group (DDPIG) of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) proposes to form an RDA Data Granularity Working Group (WG).  This WG would address issues of data granularity in data discovery, access, interoperability, analysis, citation, and more. More efficient and effective reuse of data requires that users can find and access data at various levels of granularity. The WG will explore key questions and collect and share valuable information for how to best support data granularity, providing guidance to help data professionals to determine the best level of granularity for user discovery, access, interoperability and citability. 

The activities and final recommendations of the Data Granularity WG will build upon and complement existing and ongoing work of several RDA Working and Interest Groups that touch upon the subject of data granularity. The final deliverable for the WG is a set of collected use cases and a guidance document of data granularity approaches for prioritized use cases, including terminology, methods to evaluate approaches, and a summary of community feedback.

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