Celebrating our 2025 OAEBUDT Accomplishments
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Christina Drummond
Dec 18, 2025, 8:41:32 AM12/18/25
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Greetings Everyone:
2025 has been a pivotal year for us. Please join me in celebrating and enjoy our 2025 Year in Review video (run time of just under four minutes).
Across our teams of collaborators and volunteers, we have produced and piloted a dataspace to resolve some of the wicked problems blocking data driven innovation in scholarly communications!
When we started the year, we had no technical infrastructure built, or documentation to reference. No pilot data connections to learn from. Now we enter 2026 ready to launch with an administered open infrastructure and sandbox that has been tested. We know what we need to refine and what finances we need to get off the ground.
Most importantly, while we produced a solution for distributed usage data reporting and analytics, our Board extended our focus to broadly support all types of controlled data connections for scholarly communications since our infrastructure is data agnostic. In 2026, research partners will begin exploring how the dataspace could help organizations to manage direct data connections with open knowledge graphs and AI agents. We are saying goodbye to the OA Book Usage Data Trust branding as we continue its work within the Scholarly Communications Trusted Dataspace.
The door is now open to organizations wishing to join as founders of the Scholarly Communications Trusted Dataspace, where they can access the sandbox, pilot the usage data connectors, and explore new ways of accessing sensitive data elements from other organizations. If you want to get involved, please just reach out.
I hope you enjoy reviewing our community infrastructure’s milestones in our 2025 Year in Review video and I look forward to collaborating in 2026.
Happy New Year!
Christina
2025 has been a pivotal year for us. Please join me in celebrating and enjoy our 2025 Year in Review video (run time of just under four minutes).
Across our teams of collaborators and volunteers, we have produced and piloted a dataspace to resolve some of the wicked problems blocking data driven innovation in scholarly communications!
When we started the year, we had no technical infrastructure built, or documentation to reference. No pilot data connections to learn from. Now we enter 2026 ready to launch with an administered open infrastructure and sandbox that has been tested. We know what we need to refine and what finances we need to get off the ground.
Most importantly, while we produced a solution for distributed usage data reporting and analytics, our Board extended our focus to broadly support all types of controlled data connections for scholarly communications since our infrastructure is data agnostic. In 2026, research partners will begin exploring how the dataspace could help organizations to manage direct data connections with open knowledge graphs and AI agents. We are saying goodbye to the OA Book Usage Data Trust branding as we continue its work within the Scholarly Communications Trusted Dataspace.
The door is now open to organizations wishing to join as founders of the Scholarly Communications Trusted Dataspace, where they can access the sandbox, pilot the usage data connectors, and explore new ways of accessing sensitive data elements from other organizations. If you want to get involved, please just reach out.
I hope you enjoy reviewing our community infrastructure’s milestones in our 2025 Year in Review video and I look forward to collaborating in 2026.
Happy New Year!
Christina
PS: If you want to reference these slides, know they will be posted in our Zenodo community later this week.
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Christina Drummond
OAeBU Data Trust Executive Director
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