ARGOS in Action: A Demo on Challenging Traditional Data Management Plans with Blueprints
- Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
- Speaker:
- Elli Papadopoulou, , Elli is a digital librarian and research associate at the Institute for the Management of Information Systems of Athena Research Center. Her academic background is in Library Science and Information Systems (BSc) and in Public Policy and Public Management (MSc). Elli is active in Open Science from 2013 and for the past 7 years supports awareness, adoption and implementation of policies and best practices across the Greek academic and research communities serving as the OpenAIRE representative in Greece (NOAD-GR). Elli is also a liaison for Services & Technology Standing Committee in the OpenAIRE Executive Board. She enjoys collaborating with colleagues on Open and FAIR Research Data Management through RDA groups that she co-chairs, managing the ARGOS DMP service and co-chairing the EOSC-A FAIR Metrics and Digital Objects Task Force. In EOSC, she has contributed to policy, technical conceptualisation and implementation activities in different projects since the very beginning of EOSCpilot. This year, she embarked on a new journey serving as deputy coordinator for the INFRA-EOSC OSTrails project. Her research interests are focused on Responsible Research and Innovation, Open Science and FAIR Research Data Management, and AI. , OpenAIRE, Athena Research Center
This demo showcases how ARGOS and its Blueprint model turn traditional Data Management Plans into structured, connected, and reusable tools—aligning policies, teams, and services to support FAIR, collaborative, and effective research output management.
Research today produces an expanding array of data, software, and workflows managed across diverse services and organizational environments. This growing complexity poses challenges for research support teams aiming to implement consistent, policy-aligned practices for Open Science and FAIR data management.
OpenAIRE addresses this need with ARGOS (argos.openaire.eu), a solution designed to streamline research output management from the planning stage. At its core is the Blueprint: a layered model for Data Management Planning (DMP) that connects funder and institutional policies, stakeholder roles, research outputs, and services, accommodating collaboration across teams and contexts.
ARGOS functions both as a form-based DMP tool with curated templates, and as a component embedded in research administration workflows, enabling cross-team governance, versioning, and review. With active contributions and leadership in the Research Data Alliance, TIER2, and OSTrails projects, ARGOS co-defines and implements common standards to automate certain Research Data Management (RDM) processes and enhance interoperability across the research lifecycle.
This demo showcases ARGOS use cases using the Blueprint concept. It challenges the traditional DMP concept and expected format to improve the structure and content in a way that:
a. better reflects common versus individual RDM practices and policies followed by project participants;
b. static DMP documents become dynamic, FAIR and queryable outputs;
c. advances reproducibility and research integrity.
We demonstrate how ARGOS supports data stewards and policy-makers in embedding good data practices at scale, helping institutions and funders guide researchers toward responsible science and innovation.