Research support, libraries, data stewards, anyone supporting researchers in Horizon Europe projects

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

Open Science requirements, Horizon Europe, train-the-trainer, research support

The learning outcomes of the workshop will be the following:

• Research support staff is better equipped to support their researchers in Horizon Europe Open Science requirements.
• A start is made in producing collective support material.

For several years Open Science requirements and recommendations have been part of the grant agreements of European projects. The European Commission supports Open Science practices to increase the visibility, impact and excellence of project results funded through its funding programmes. The first calls for Horizon Europe were published earlier this year and Open Science is now embedded in it, meaning that the requirements are implemented throughout the Horizon Europe work programmes, in all stages of the project life cycle, from proposal to the final stages of the project. Researchers from across the spectrum of organisations will have questions on how to comply with these requirements and in this workshop we will address the different obligations and discuss best practices and approaches, with special attention for new aspects such as the evaluation of Open Science at the proposal stage.

We aim to scale up Horizon Europe support, and together we want to train more people, produce collective materials and exchange ideas and experiences. In this interactive workshop we aim to discover answers, collaborating with the target audience. The workshop will be coordinated and delivered by members of the OpenAIRE Training Community of Practice of Training Coordinators.

Agenda

Welcome & introduction

Lightning talks

                Alea Lopez de San Roman – Open Science in Horizon Europe [presentation]

                Dagmar Meyer – Open Science in Horizon Europe: ERC [presentation]

                Emilie Hermans: practical guidelines in Ghent University [presentation]

                Ellen Leenarts: SSHOC supporting Open Science [presentation]

Break-out session: exchange of approaches on 3 subjects

                Open Access to publications

                Research Data Management

                Open Science in the Impact section of the proposal

Wrap up

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
Collective funding models for open infrastructures and services

Collective funding models, Open Science Infrastructure, Sustaining OSis, Sustainability

The workshop will help identify the main challenges of collective funding models for Open Science Infrastructure, as well as explore the path forward to make them more efficient. Participants will gain insights into case studies and will have a chance to interact with practitioners, asking questions and learning from one another.

Open Science Infrastructure (OSI) is struggling with the challenge of being invisible. Although OSIs constitute a crucial part of the scholarly communications landscape, facilitating knowledge exchange, supporting libraries in achieving their OS targets, and complying with OS policies, their existence is not always reflected in library budget considerations. The scholarly community relies on OSIs, yet very often without realizing that there are operational and development costs  related to their open existence. These key infrastructures are typically managed by highly competent but under-resourced teams who over-deliver, and it is sadly ironic that their hard work renders their need for additional resources invisible. At worst, these teams risk burnout and overreach, and need to manage a constant need to find new bridge funding.

Many libraries have started to collectively help raise funds across the world for OSIs through SCOSS campaigns, raising more than 3m euros as of August 2021 for DOAJ, Sherpa Romeo, PKP, OpenCitations and DOAB and OAPEN. As SCOSS is now launching its third pledging round with three new services to be announced in the summer, we seek to look deeper into mechanisms of collective funding for OSIs. In the spring, as part of a SCOSS strategy exercise, we launched a global survey asking the wider research community about sustaining Open Science Infrastructure, and the mechanisms through which it should be supported. The proposed workshop will present preliminary results of the SCOSS survey and hear from various stakeholders: from the OSIs supported by the SCOSS program and from institutions who have contributed to a collective effort of funding them. Lessons learnt from this experience will hopefully trigger a wider discussion on the importance of funding the invisible and the potential that collective funding models bring.

Agenda

16.30-16.40   Welcome and intro to SCOSS [presentation]

16.40-17.05 SCOSS survey results (presentation and panel discussion)

17.05-17.55 Panel discussion and engagement with the audience

17.55-18.00 Wrap-up

Policy makers and funders, researchers, research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, publishers and content providers

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Legal aspects of open science; GDPR and IPR exploitation, RDM best practices
Training and skills for open science, Sustaining open science training: people, resources, governance

data anonymization, k-anonymity, km-anonymity

Amnesia is a flexible, user-friendly, free, and open-source data anonymization tool. Specifically, Amnesia transforms relational and transactional data to anonymized datasets where formal privacy guarantees hold by (1) removing direct identifiers (names, SSNs, etc.) and (2) transforming secondary identifiers (birth dates, zip codes, etc.).

The key idea regarding data anonymization is that identifying information is removed from the published data by presenting identifying information in an obscure or generalized way so that sensitive information cannot be connected to a person. Hence, a significant challenge is to provide the best trade-off between privacy guarantee strength and anonymized data quality. Amnesia supports k-anonymity and km-anonymity, two formal privacy guarantees which facilitate Open Access without compromising user privacy.

The Amnesia tool is available both as an online service and a local application focusing on enabling users to understand, tailor and guide the anonymization processes while exploring the quality of the anonymized data. The latest version of the tool (Amnesia 1.2.6) introduces a significant API upgrade comprising additional internal functions exposed as ReST services that allow more precise control on the anonymization engine (Amnesia API documentation link here).

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Collaborative platforms for all research artifacts, Interoperability across domains and services, Local and global collaborations: people and networks, Research analytics and visualizations, Text and data mining for/from research, Thematic Clouds

Data discovery and access, Datasets, Virtual Research Environment, EOSC, Ocean

Blue-Cloud is the thematic EOSC for the marine domain, delivering a collaborative virtual environment to enhance FAIR and Open Science, underpinned by simplified access to an unprecedented wealth of marine data resources and interoperable added-value services and products.
Blue-Cloud federates leading European marine data infrastructures and e-infrastructures, allowing researchers to combine, reuse, and share quality data across disciplines and countries.
The federation takes place at the levels of data resources, computing resources and analytical service resources. A Blue-Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service (DDAS) is developed to facilitate sharing with users of multidisciplinary datasets. A Blue Cloud-Virtual Research Environment (VRE) was established to enable the sharing of computing and analytical services for specific applications.
The DDAS architecture is based upon a combination of the GeoDab metadata broker service of CNR-IIA, and the SeaDataNet CDI service modules as developed by MARIS, IFREMER, and EUDAT. The overall concept is that the DDAS harvests metadata from the data infrastructures federated in Blue-Cloud by means of protocols such as CSW or OAI-PMH, providing discovery and access to users through a user-friendly interface.
The VRE is developed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR), built on the D4Science infrastructure and the gCube open source technology. Services include Data Analytics (Data Miner, Software and Algorithms Importer (SAI), RStudio, JupyterHub), Spatial Data Infrastructure to store, discover, access, and manage vectorial and raster georeferenced datasets, and services and components enabling users to document and then either share with selected colleagues or make available online any generated product (e.g. analytical methods, workflows, processes, notebooks). Being enriched with automatically generated provenance metadata, those products enable reusability, repeatability and reproducibility and promote Open Science.
In this demo, we will explain how to access and use these services, which are open for testing to researchers from all domains of ocean science.

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Open metrics infrastructures: how to combine, what is next?, Research analytics and visualizations

open science, monitoring, observatory, policy, practices

The Open Science Observatory presents a collection of indicators and visualizations that help interested stakeholders (policy makers and research administrators among others) better understand the Open Science landscape in Europe across countries. The platform assists the monitoring, and consequently the enhancing, of open science policy uptake across different dimensions of interest, revealing weak spots and hidden potential. Based on the OpenAIRE Research Graph, following open science principles and an evidence-based approach, the indicators can be used to provide timely and reliable insights on the evolution of open science in Europe and assist in promoting good practices. The Open Science Observatory is available at https://osobservatory.openaire.eu

Agenda

• Open Science Observatory - Ioanna Grypari, Athena Research Center [presentation]
• Q&A

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Innovations in publishing and research dissemination, Research analytics and visualizations

Open Science Information Access, Persistent Identifiers, OpenAIRE Graph

OpenScienceLens is new tool, that allows users to easily locate, visualize and explore information of relevance to Open Science. When browsing on the web, or science-oriented web pages, OpenScienceLens locates elements of relevance (e.g. DOIs) and subsequently retrieves and presents information residing on OpenAIRE in a non-disrupting, comprehensive manner. Additionally, Open Science Lens allows science-related site owners, such as repositories, publishers, libraries etc., to embed curated information in their offerings, enriching user experience with easy-to-consume features, coming directly from a flagship infrastructure of Open Science.

To deliver those, OpenScienceLens exploits on one hand the modern rich APIs of OpenAIRE infrastructure, while on the other, builds on common web browser and web technologies assuring the widest reach of its offering. It is built both as a browser plugin and as a page enhancing technology. The demo will showcase both approaches, highlighting the benefits to the stakeholders, for each one.

OpenScienceLens is a strong instrument for promoting, strengthening and utilizing Open Science outputs, bringing them closer to researchers and citizens, making access to them friendlier and direct. Furthermore, it showcases a value-added service proposition, with a strong sustainability potential that

The demo will:
- Show use of OpenScienceLens and information on Open Science artifacts, such as datasets and publications and all the relationships behind those and their production chain (projects, organizations, researchers etc), is delivered directly to user’s browser, without the need to dig for it.
- Present OpenScienceLens integrated into a repository’s, publisher’ or library’s web offering, building a rich user experience for visitors, by on-the-fly aggregating information residing in OpenAIRE space.

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Collaborative platforms for all research artifacts, FAIR data policy and practice: from theory to implementation, Innovations in publishing and research dissemination, Interoperability across domains and services, Rules of Participation in EOSC

EOSC Portal, Resource onboarding, Interoperability, Research resources

The EOSC Portal is part of the EOSC implementation roadmap as one of the expected “federating core” services contributing to the implementation of the “Access and interface” action line. It has been conceived to provide a European delivery channel connecting the demand-side and the supply-side of EOSC and its different stakeholders.
The EOSC Portal is a gateway to information and resources in EOSC, providing updates on its governance and players, the projects contributing to its realisation, funding opportunities for EOSC stakeholders, relevant European and national policies, documents, and recent developments.
The Portal welcomes the participation of providers that contribute to develop EOSC into a rich environment offering a wide range of services and resources for researchers.
EOSC will become Europe’s virtual environment for all researchers to store, manage, analyse and re-use data for research, innovation and educational purposes. EOSC is intended to set off the ground by federating existing scientific data infrastructures and digital infrastructures for data exploitation that are now spread across disciplines and EU member states. This will make access to scientific data and other scientific outputs easier and more efficient.
Onboarding and maintaining quality resources for research on the EOSC Portal is a great chance for providers to reach out to researchers across Europe and beyond. Providers receive support in the onboarding process, visibility on an evolving platform, updated statistics about usage and user feedback.
The demo given by the EOSC Enhance team will showcase how a provider can successfully complete their registration and first onboarding, as well as manage the dashboard and its main functionalities.

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Collaborative platforms for all research artifacts, Infrastructures and services for citizen science, Interoperability across domains and services, Rules of Participation in EOSC

EOSC Portal, User experience, Research resources

The EOSC Portal is a building block of the EOSC implementation roadmap, representing one of the expected “federating core” services contributing to the implementation of the “Access and interface” action line. It has been conceived to provide a European delivery channel connecting the demand-side and the supply-side of EOSC and its different stakeholders.
The EOSC Portal is a gateway to information and resources in EOSC, providing updates on its governance and players, the projects contributing to its realisation, funding opportunities for EOSC stakeholders, relevant European and national policies, documents, and recent developments. The EOSC Portal Catalogue & Marketplace acts as an entry point to the multitude of services and resources for researchers.
The Marketplace is an integrated platform that allows easy access to resources from top European providers for various research domains along with integrated data analytics tools.
This demo will offer an overview of the user experience, improved within the EOSC Enhance project, and a tutorial on how to use the main features and functionalities to exploit a growing number of resources available to researchers.

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Policy makers and funders
Policy makers and funders

data management plans, research data, research workflows, machine actionable

Planning Research Data Management (RDM) activities is crucial as it effectively lays the foundations for successful research conduct according to RTD best practices and requirements as well as it leads to validated and quality research outcomes at the end of the scientific project / endeavour. Data Management Plans (DMPs) implement RDM policies and describe the activities, means and effort needed to manage data generated, collected and / or re-used by researchers. Moreover, they are seen as outputs that address data reproducibility issues, continuously updated with new data as “living documents” of ongoing research. Hence, DMPs have rapidly entered Research Data Management Lifecycles (RDML), included at the beginning of the research process, and have been standardized in structure and content to be easily adoptable by funders, institutions and research communities. Following the scientific demand, unravels the necessity for flexible and action-capable tools to deal with data management plans that enable research links and information contextualization while also steering compliance with the FAIR data concept.

The demo is about Argos, OpenAIRE’s machine actionable DMP service, also available as an EOSC resource. Argos is a ready-to-use RDA compliant service for creating and publishing DMP outputs. It is hooked into the OpenAIRE ecosystem and interconnects with its underlying services and the Research Graph to offer maximum capabilities for metadata contextualisation, integration with diverse research workflows, and validation of input data comprising DMPs. The demo brings attention to the full DMP lifecycle supported by Argos and highlights the roles of both end-users and service administrators. It also communicates dataset profiles and configuration possibilities through use cases with different scientific stakeholders:

• Research funders - e.g. Argos instance of the Horizon Europe template.
• Research communities - Argos instance of Horizon 2020 template tailored to archaeological data (ARIADNEPlus).
• Researchers - Argos for research projects.