The RDA Common Descriptive Attributes of Research Data Repositories outlinesa list of common, concise, high-level descriptors that represent information that can be useful indescribing a research data repository along with examples of how each attribute can be expressed asmetadata in different schemata, limitations and potential complications that each might pose inharmonization, a brief rationale for why each attribute is important and a gap analysis of how easyor difficult it may currently be to locate this information from a data repository. The attributes areconceptual with examples provided for illustration purposes without endorsement of any particularapproach, standard or implementation.