3 Researcher communities; citizen scientists; ESFRIs and other research infrastructures; EOSC organizations

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data Citizen science: barriers and opportunities for collaboration

Citizen Science, EOSC, FAIR data

Familiarity with standards and best practices in citizen science across a variety of academic domains.

Many science facilities are now providing open access to their data, making them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. By far the widest constituency of data users and contributors is the science-inclined public, for whom citizen science is the natural mode of engagement. However, 'citizen science' means different things to different communities. For some it means co-creation of research projects, while for others it means volunteer contributions to data collection or data mining being run by experts. Both approaches require dialogue and debate between the public volunteers and professionals.

This workshop will explore the best practices from these radically different approaches in different disciplines, the common challenges encountered, and lessons learned. Our focus will be on practicalities and live demonstrations. We will begin with short plenary presentations from experienced stakeholders in citizen science across many disciplines, from biological sciences and ecology to archaeology and the humanities to astronomy and physics. We will invite short technical presentations on the citizen science functionalities being developed (or still aspirational) in the European Open Science Cloud by research infrastructure clusters and e-infrastructures. This will be followed by engaging live demonstrations, then we will convene a lively panel discussion on lessons learned and best practices. In parallel, and in real time, recommendations will be collated into a live document of conclusions and recommendations, which will be submitted shortly after the workshop to a suitable journal and published under green or gold open access.

Agenda

Data managers, applied researchers (e.g., industrial applications) and open science researchers, ontologists/knowledge engineers who are looking for guidance towards making their data FAIR, members of various ontology-based standardisation projects

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data
FAIR data policy and practice: from theory to implementation

FAIR principles, FAIRness assessment, FAIR in practice

Learning outcomes of the workshop:

• FAIR principles
• FAIRness assessment 
• Implementation challenges
• Best practices

FAIR principles provide a unique framework for creating a machine actionable data management environment supporting Open Science and Open data but also data and information exchange within organizations such as industries. In this session, we aim at discussing the theory and practice of implementing FAIR Principles for applied science and industrial research. The workshop is a meeting point for OntoCommons (www.ontocommons.eu), an EU Horizon 2020 project that aims to improve the state of the art in ontology data documentation in science and industry, and several key initiatives focusing on FAIR (such as GOFAIR, FAIRsFAIR, FairSharing) and the Open Science community. Through this workshop we aim at gathering inputs and suggestions for implementing FAIR and Open Science/Data from the Open Science community. We will briefly introduce key general projects and initiatives related to FAIR, the ongoing work in OntoCommons and discuss how OntoCommons can leverage their work to support a better integration of FAIR principles into current and forthcoming industrial demonstrators including Open Science demonstrators.

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Policymakers, members of transnational collaborations and international research communities

Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data

Open Science Policies, IPR and GDPR, International collaborations

By the end of the workshop a top five, of key open science policy recommendations will be produced.

The development and alignment of policies relating to Open Science (OS) are crucial for the successful implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Currently, a multitude of policies exist at various levels (national, funding body, publisher and organisational). Among these, there are observable differences in the expectations on researchers around data management planning, data handling, and data accessibility. The lack of harmonisation across these policies causes confusion among those who need to comply with them, limit cross institutional data use and can hinder rather support uptake of Open Science practices. For example, there are great variations in how data protection and intellectual property are addressed and there could be legal consequences that a researcher in an international collaboration may need to be aware of. To avoid difficulties, the content of the policies themselves needs to be made FAIR to enable clear comparison by both human and machines. Several INFRAEOSC projects have been working to develop recommendations to facilitate policy alignment across the European Research Area with the ultimate aim of realising the EOSC vision. In this workshop, organised by the InfraEOSC-5 Task Force on National Policies and Governance, we will introduce some of the practical recommendations relating to the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reuse of OS policies and work to collectively draft a set of “5 key actions towards common open science policies”. This workshop is targeted toward policymakers and members of transnational collaborations at all levels and aims to foster the emergence of a community of practice that can help put the 5 key actions into practice.

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Research Funders, Publishers, Service providers, Researchers

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities

Data Availability Statements, Data Management Plans, Research Data Management Lifecycles, Research Outcomes

During the session, attendees / participants will be able to identify the points needed in both DMPs and DAS and work towards addressing them. The session is expected to:

• From the session presentations and feedback, develop an initial checklist/roadmap of the top items to address/work on as a community to improve DMPs/DAS
• Produce a whitepaper/website/paper from the roadmap/checklist of higher-level DMP/DAS points to communicate to the research scholarly community and address together

Data Management Plans (DMPs) and Data Availability Statements (DAS) provide context on activities and outcomes in Research Data Management Lifecycles (RDMLs) and encompass different aspects of the scholarly communication process. On the one hand, DMPs ensure researchers’ compliance with research funding and research organizations’ requirements, to carefully manage and appropriately share research data and outputs. On the other hand, DAS are integrated into scientific publishers' workflows to promote the availability of their publications’ underlying research data and outputs. Efforts are underway to standardize the structure and content of DMPs and DAS at both technical and policy levels. In this session you will hear from four key stakeholder groups regarding their approaches towards addressing challenges and opportunities in DMPs and DAS:

• Dutch Research Council (NWO) - Champions research data management policy alignment with research funders in Europe. One of the first organizations to implement Science Europe core requirements for DMPs, NWO actively promotes these requirements to other stakeholders. 
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) - Advances data/software sharing policies and approaches in publishing through a broad coalition of partners and stakeholders. Beginning with its position statement on data (1997), AGU continues to improve its guidance and move towards machine-actionable DAS and research articles.
• Research Data Alliance (RDA) DMP Common Standards Working Group (WG) – Develops a community-wide information model, as well as specifications and access mechanisms for machine-actionable DMPs (maDMPs). The WG recently released its maDMP recommendations for fostering greater collaboration, integration, and automation of maDMPs across research workflows.
• Argos - An open extensible service through OpenAire that simplifies the management, validation, monitoring and maintenance of DMPs. Argos constructs DMPs as machine-actionable outputs that are also shared through Zenodo according to Open and FAIR practices. Furthermore, the Argos paradigm inspires discussions and solutions towards the automation, linking, and machine-actionability of DAS and DMPs.

Agenda

A funder's perspective on DMPs - Maria Cruz, Dutch Research Council [presentation]

Open Research at AGU and Wiley - Christopher Erdmann, American Geophysical Union and Hannah Smith, Wiley [presentation]

Citing machine-actionable DMPs – How can we make it work? - Tomasz Miksa, TU Wien & SBA Research [presentation]

Argos: How tools can facilitate our DMP discussions - Elli Papadopoulou, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center / OpenAIRE [presentation] 

Discussion

The session will be of interest to those working in research support, infrastructure development - in particular related to the EOSC-, library staff, data stewards, as well as anyone involved in train-the-trainer activities.

Interdisciplinary collaborations : Networks, services, methods
Training and skills for open science

Research Data Management, Catalogues, Train-the-trainer, Semantic interoperability, Capacity building

Learning objectives:

• Participants are aware of catalogues that have been developed.
• Catalogues have exchanged experiences and best practices on standards and rules of participation and have identified the challenges
• Possible actions to tackle these challenges and to increase interaction have been identified

RDM training and support has been identified as a major challenge in many organisations. Increasingly resources are invested in data steward teams to take up the task of training researchers. Naturally data stewards must also be trained to take up the job at hand. Many materials are produced to support professional development and train-the-trainer activities for researchers, data stewards and others involved in enabling FAIR and Open research. Many European funded projects have developed catalogues or intend to do so, sometimes with a particular discipline or profile in mind. They each have their peculiarities but encounter similar challenges and decisions to make. In the EOSC context a catalogue of catalogues has been proposed by the Training and Skills WG, to improve FAIRness of training materials. Building on two previous events organised by INFRAEOSC-5 projects, and ongoing collaboration with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) interest group on Education and Training in Handling Research Data (IGETHRD), this workshop will help consolidate further steps to improve sustainability of catalogues, and their technical and semantic interoperability. In this workshop we aim to describe and compare several catalogues developed. We will investigate solutions to interact and we will formulate advice on how to proceed in the future to sustainably catalogue the training resources needed for researchers and data stewards to make digital research objects that are FAIR and open'.

Agenda

9.30 - 9.40       Welcome by the Community of Practice for training coordinators by Iryna Kuchma, EIFL [presentation]

9.40 - 10.00     Updates and introductions:

• RDA IG ETHRD minimal metadata learning resources  focus group by Elizabeth Newbold, STFC [presentation]
• Terms4FAIRskills by Laura Molloy, CODATA and Allyson Lister, University of Oxford [presentation]
• Two minute madness on catalogues: 
  • EOSC Pillar by Paula Oset Garcia, Ghent University [presentation]
  • SSHOC Training Discovery Toolkit by Ellen Leenarts, DANS [presentation]
  • Dariah Campus by Vicky Garnett, DARIAH [presentation]
  • ELIXIR TeSS by Celia van Gelder, DTL [presentation]
  • EOSC Future by Lucia Vaira, LifeWatch ERIC [presentation]

10.00 - 10.55               Challenges and discussions:

• Controlled vocabularies
• Data model            
• Curation process
• Sustainability

10.55 – 11.00              Wrap-up

This session is aimed at anyone involved or interested in training in open science related topics. The session has a practical focus so is particularly relevant to those who develop, coordinate or deliver training.

Training and skills for open science
Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods

open science, training, skills, best practices, online training, hybrid training

Participants will:

• Learn from the experiences of several training initiatives in how best to teach open science online
• Share their own experiences and discuss issues around delivering online and hybrid training
• Contribute to shared community resource gathering best practices in a range of topics and disciplines.

Since the pandemic began, open science trainers have had to move training online. For some, this wasn’t new but for many, learning how to run training online became essential. New skills had to be learned quickly and over the last 18 months many different techniques and tools have been tried out. In this workshop session we aim to reflect on the last 18 months and what has been learned by various members of the open science training community. We will ask what worked, what didn’t and what the future of open science training looks like as we move into hybrid face-to-face and online approaches. We will also discuss what going online has meant for open science - has training online brought particular challenges or benefits for open science? This session is global in scope but will highlight experiences mainly from Europe. The workshop will be highly interactive in order to allow participants to share their own experiences and to ask questions. There will be a mix of short presentations, interactive polling and breakout groups. The workshop will be coordinated and delivered by members of the OpenAIRE Training Community of Practice of Training Coordinators, including contributions from EOSC Synergy, OpenAIRE, SSHOC, ELIXIR, LIBER, the FORCE11 REPO project, and more. The outputs will be written up in an open report.

Agenda

Welcome & introduction - Helen Clare, Jisc/EOSC Synergy and Iryna Kuchma, EIFL/OpenAIRE [presentation]

Short talks:

• The Principles of Open Research Data Publication Taught Through Game-Based Learning - Samuel Simango, Stellenbosch University [presentation]
• ORION Open Science - Open Science MOOC and Train the Trainer MOOC Dr. Luiza Bengtsson, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine [presentation]
• SSHOC online bootcamps, Ellen Leenarts, Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Hague / SSHOC project [presentation]

Breakouts - sharing experience

Feedback from breakouts

Summary and next steps for online training communities

RDM and FAIR trainers, research support staff, librarians, Vice-Rectors for Research and European and national policy makers

Training and skills for open science
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data

FAIR data, Open Science, universities, skills training, sustainability, impact

By the end of this workshop participant will:

• Have learned more on national-driven and institutional initiatives focused on fostering the implementation of Open Science practices.
• Have a greater understanding and recognition of relevant legal, organisational, and cultural differences between national and regional systems.
• Have drawn inspiration from good practices across Europe.

Diverse initiatives are being developed and implemented by universities across Europe  to foster the uptake of the research data management (RDM) and FAIR data skills necessary to bring forward the transition to Open Science. Lessons can be learned from bringing together their experience in different legal, organisational and cultural contexts, providing inspiration and points for reflection for other universities transitioning to  Open Science.

The workshop will discuss with participants the analysis of good practices of universities across Europe that are being gathered by the FAIRsFAIR project. Preliminary results from this ongoing study will be presented, highlighting the drivers, impact and implementation steps behind the initiatives taken by institutions to integrate RDM and FAIR data skills in university curricula. The shift towards hybrid models of teaching data-related skills is also addressed in the analysis, showing how the COVID-19 pandemic created not only challenges but also surprising opportunities for the implementation of Open Science practices in universities.

Findings will include information on legal, organisational and cultural differences between regional and national systems in Europe, which will allow to contextualise university initiatives. Comments and feedback from participants beyond Europe will be welcomed and will further improve the cross-border exchange of good practices.

The workshop will be of interest to RDM and FAIR teachers, trainers and practitioners, as well as European and national policy makers. Participants will be invited to reflect on their own institutional experiences in an engaging and interactive way, through breakout rooms and a digital workspace set in Mural.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction of the FAIRsFAIR project
  • Bregt Saenen, FAIRsFAIR and European University Association [presentation]
• Learning lessons from FAIR data implementation: first findings from the report “Good practices in FAIR competence education”
  • Federica Garbuglia, FAIRsFAIR and European University Association [presentation]
• FAIRsFAIR Data Steward instructor training series: our approach and some observations
  • Elizabeth Newbold, FAIRsFAIR and Science and Technology Facilities Council [presentation]
• Supporting the implementation of FAIR data skills in university teaching
  • Joy Davidson, FAIRsFAIR and University of Glasgow, Angus White, FAIRsFAIR and University of Glasgow [presentation]
• Supporting the implementation of FAIR data skills in university teaching
  • 3 breakout rooms on sharing best practices for universities
• Wrap up
  • Bregt Saenen, FAIRsFAIR and European University Association

Institutional Repository Administrators, Researchers, National, international aggregators, Funders

Value added data products/services from open science
Open metrics infrastructures: how to combine, what is next

Open Science, Open Metrics, Usage Statistics

The objectives of the workshop are: 

• Presentation of the Open Science Usage Metrics Exchange (OpenSUMex) Guidelines and Framework
• Feedback from stakeholders

Tracking usage of research output and publishing statistics is a value-added service of Open Science research infrastructures. On the content provider level, usage statistics can serve administrators as a tool to evaluate the success of their platform. On the individual item level, they can demonstrate popular items, like datasets, software, or other research output to research community. In addition, usage statistics can indicate the relevance of a research output over the course of time and up to the present, and therefore they can be considered a useful indicator to analyze trends. Different organizations facilitate the above tasks by monitoring and analyzing usage data and exploit usage metrics like research items downloads and metadata views. The final outcomes are published via services like DataCite, IRUS-UK, OpenAIRE, or national aggregators like LA Referencia. A number of parameters are involved for tracking, e.g the identifier of the requested item, the timestamp of the request, etc., whilst publishing of usage statistics is realized by exploiting the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP), that enables publishers to report and compare usage of resources in a consistent way. Although these practices are employed by most usage statistics services, there are several issues that need to be tackled, due to the complexity of the research products and their diversity. Definition of a set of guidelines, together with a framework that can facilitate and standardize the collection and exchange of scholarly usage events could alleviate those issues. The Open Science Usage Metrics Exchange (OpenSUMex) Guidelines and Framework is developed to cover these requirements by defining the guidelines and provide the framework to exchange usage metrics information. The resulting usage metrics could identify multiple counted events that could be comparable across scholarly infrastructures and exploited by a variety of stakeholders from research community, like repository managers, authors, funders, etc.

Agenda

10min: Introduction

25min: Workshop topic 1: Guidelines

25min: Workshop topic 2: Framework

30min: Discussion

Research librarians & researchers

Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
Collaborative platforms for all research artifacts, Innovations in publishing and research dissemination, Collective funding models for open infrastructures and services

Peer-review, ORE, publishing, Open Science, Scholarly Communication

Participants are expected to get acquainted with the peer-review process behind the ORE platform as well as learn more about open peer review and actively join in the discussion around the best practices and challenges of innovative peer review.

This workshop will be co-organised by LIBER and Open Research Europe (ORE). Open Research Europe is an open access publication platform for the publication of research resulting from Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe funding in all subject areas. The workshop will explain the peer review model behind the platform which is fully open and transparent as well as invite expert speakers to talk about innovative peer review.

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to ways of streamlining the peer review process and applying alternative peer review methods using new technologies and open access models. There are several developments that the world of scientific communication is currently facing in relation to these new processes and methods such as finding a balance between speeding up the process without compromising quality, integration with research evaluation and understanding the role of citizens and machines in peer review. The new developments in the field of Innovative Peer Review can lead to great opportunities for research libraries, especially in the areas of service development, engagement, and training. During the workshop best practices will be shared about new open peer review approaches, with the opportunity to discuss these new developments in a group discussion. The workshop is addressed at research librarians and researchers with and without experience with the ORE platform with an interest in open and innovative peer review. Specifically, research libraries professionals in publishing and editorial units, or managers of advanced repositories and library staff who work on Open Science software, or who are responsible for promoting Open Science in their institutions are invited to join.

Agenda

Welcome & introduction, Giannis Tsakonas, Library & Information Center, University of Patras

Open Research Europe - Publishing Model & Peer Review Process - Kelly Woods, F1000 [presentation]

Open Peer Review - One Step Forward in the Cultural Change of Scholarly Communications - Judit Fazekas-Paragh, University of Debrecen University and National Library, OpenAIRE [presentation]

Q&A