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Open Science Graphs Interoperability Workshop

Organisers & Speakers: Amir Aryani - Research Graph Foundation, Martin Fenner - DataCite, Paolo Manghi - OpenAIRE Infrastructure - ISTI, CNR, Markus Stocker - TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Marilena Daquino - University of Bologna
Duration: 2 hrs
Room: Miragaia Hall

This workshop will focus on real OSG experiences, on their intended use-cases, customers, and value-added services. On the basis of these stories, the attendees will interactively discuss concrete challenges and benefits of OSG interoperability, in order to identify possible use-cases, classes of customers, intended usages, graph information models, and actions towards smooth information exchange across such graphs.

Workshop abstract

The wave of Open Science, urging to achieve science transparency and reproducibility, is demanding scientists, communities, institutions, and policymakers, at defining and adopting methodologies, policies, and tools for publishing research products beyond the scientific article, such as research data, software, digital experiments, etc... As a consequence of this trend, researchers are depositing into scholarly communication data sources metadata and files relative to all these products, together with semantic links between them, and towards other relevant entities, such as those kept in registries for authors, organizations, and data sources (e.g. ORCID, grid.ac, re3data.org). De facto, Open Science publishing practices materialize a federated/de-centralized global Open Science Graph. Needless to say, there is a great interest to contribute to and/or consume the Open Science Graph (OSG) for sharing, discovering, and monitoring open science. Several initiatives are indeed aggregating tailored subsets such sources to build OSGs, subsets of the global OSG, capable of serving specific user needs: Google Scholar, Microsoft Academics, Scopus, FREYA PID Graph, ResearchGraph, OpenAIRE Research Graph, Open Research Knowledge Graph, Human Brain Project Knowledge Graph are just a few of the real-case OSGs being built and consumed out there. Although such activities could easily benefit from each other, as each of them aggregates, materializes, and enriches a potentially different graph as a result of specialized skills, information exchange between the relative provision services takes place bi-laterally. No interoperability framework (i.e. information model, exchange format, protocols) has been devised, suggested, adopted, that would facilitate graph metadata exchange across any OSG.

This workshop will focus on real OSG experiences, on their intended use-cases, customers, and value-added services. On the basis of these stories, the attendees will interactively discuss concrete challenges and benefits of OSG interoperability, in order to identify possible use-cases, classes of customers, intended usages, graph information models, and actions towards smooth information exchange across such graphs.

target audience

This workshop welcomes any possible consumer of discovering or monitoring services built over Open Science Graphs (funders, policy makers, institutions, scientists) and any practitioners or researchers willing to re-use such graphs or building such graphs.

Learning Outcome

By the end of this session participants will:

  • Learn about Open Science graphs and their benefits
  • Learn about the added-value services they empower
  • Key aspects on Open Science Graph interoperability

Agenda

The workshop will last 120 mins, organized as follows:

  • Welcome and Introduction: structure of the session | Paolo Manghi | 5 mins
  • Scholix.org | Martin Fenner | 10 mins [Presentation]
  • Research Graph Foundation | Amir Aryani | 12 mins [Presentation]
  • OpenAIRE Research Graph | Paolo Manghi | 12 mins [Presentation]
  • FREYA PID Graph | Martin Fenner | 12 mins [Presentation]
  • Open Research Knowledge Graph | Markus Stocker | 12 mins [Presentation]
  • OpenCitations Graph| Marilena Daquino | 12 mins [Presentation]
  • Question and Answers, open discussion on interoperability challenges | 45 mins

Speakers

When

17th September, 11:00

See full programme here.