RESEARCH DATA INTEGRATION MODEL IN WEB 2.0 TO WEB3 TRANSITION

Abstract

Europe is traversing an intense period of transformation under the «Digital Decade» policy, being sustained through direct cooperation between the European Commission and the Member States. One of the main goals is to achieve a «digital transformation of businesses» with a specific objective concerning «small businesses and industry have access to data» where «innovative infrastructures converge to work together». This effort will be guided through a set of policies generically called the Digital Compass, but the concrete work will be done through multi-country large scale projects investing in areas like high-performance computing, a common data infrastructure, and blockchain technology among many others. In this paper we look into the transitioning period from Web2 technologies to Web3 technologies where some opportunities are already at hand in the field of research data, scholarly communication, and digital cultural heritage digital objects management. We place our investigation in the larger context of the activities dedicated to the European Year of Skills inviting all effort to upskilling needed for the digital transition. In this context we have analyzed the existing practices and we arrived in a possible transitional model for the data and metadata of research outputs without limiting the scope to it. New opportunities are emerging with the rise of Web3 and the distributed ledgers (blockchain), and these are backed in a proposed integration model.