GDI: D5.2 - Second annual report on coordination and outreach

This report describes the coordination and outreach activities performed by work package 5, and collaborating work packages, since D5.1—Report on coordination and outreach, towards the establishment of a federated infrastructure for access to genomic and associated phenotypic data. Over the reporting period (01/10/2023 - 01/10/2024) existing coordination and communication methods have been changed to address issues and risks that have been identified, which includes:

• Establishment of inter-product and inter-pillar task forces

• Adjustment of the Pillar II meetings to help increase engagement

• Holding face-to-face technical and coordination meetings

• Establishment of cross-pillar meetings

During the reporting period milestone 7 was achieved, which required the planning of a demonstrable user story and associated coordination with work package 3 and participating nodes. As of 2nd October 2024, we are actively coordinating and planning the milestone 8 which demonstrates the infrastructure supporting a Pillar III use case.

In terms of outreach, GDI has become a driver project of GA4GH, and as such now has the opportunity to influence the standards that enable genomic data sharing on a global scale. As such GDI has been represented at GA4GH meetings, and in the GA4GH Steering Committee. To maximise the impact of GDI, and realise the vision of interconnected domain specific data spaces, GDI has participated and collaborated with other infrastructures and projects, both at European and global level, to ensure that the solutions being developed and deployed by GDI are interoperable with these other infrastructures and projects.