OpenAIRE Week 2020.

NEANIAS participated in OpenAIRE Week, held from October 12th until October 16th 2020, where a mix of internal meetings in the morning for OpenAIRE partners and public sessions consisted of external webinars in the afternoon.

The basic aspects through the external session were;

  • OpenAIRE at the European and global stage and its role in EOSC,
  • Open Science Gateways,
  • OpenAIRE services for content providers and for researchers

Public sessions were open for all Open meetings of OpenAIRE project all highlighting the Open Access. They also had strong representation from since there EU and non-EU members such as Latin America, Canada, Korea, Japan and others.

Day 1 - October 12

Kick off Day: The main concept of the first day was “Practical implementation as the next step in making Open Science work”. How can this work at an international and European level (Yannis Ioannidis, Athena Research Centre, Director of OpenAIRE MAKE), and what does this mean in terms of implementing EOSC were the further sub-objectives of the webinar.  The audience had the opportunity of getting a first-hand look at the draft UNESCO (Ana Persic, Section for Science Policy and Partnerships - Division of Science Policy and Capacity-Building Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO) recommendation on Open Science and partnership for Open Science. The session also outlined the role of OpenAIRE in EOSC (Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE Director) and focused on national efforts to implement elements of EOSC at national level (Five National Perspectives by OpenAIRE NOADs: Pauli Assinen, University of Helsinki, Biljana Kosanovic, University of Belgrade, Sylvia Koukounidou, University of Cyprus, Pedro Principe, University of Minho, Inge Van Nieuwerburgh, University of Ghent).

Day 2 - October 13

During the second day of the OpenAireWeek, the European, National and  International alignment of the OpenAIRE were presented examining  the shared building blocks for open science, around policy and infrastructure and identified key takeaways by important representatives such as Kathleen Shearer (COAR, Canada),  Dr. Sa-Kwang Song (KISTI, South Korea), Bianca Amaro (IBICT/LA Referencia, Brazil), Pierre Lasou (CARL, Canada), Omo Oaiya (WACREN, Nigeria), Judit Fazekas-Paragh (University of Debrecen and National Library, OpenAIRE NOAD, Hungary).

Day 3 - October 14

The third day’s goal was to engage with the OpenAIRE content provider’s community, showcasing the services and tools available through the PROVIDE dashboard and the recent developments from the research graph and sharing use cases from the user’s community. The OpenAIRE guidelines updates and implementation were discussed and examples of national and institutional level activities were presented through same repositories and CRIS use-cases.

The subsections that have been discussed and the respective speakers were:

  • The power of the OpenAIRE Research Graph: the largest collection of Open Access research products world-wide (OpenAIRE Research Graph and the broker service by Claudio Atzori, CNR-ISTI LA and Referencia aggregator OpenAIRE service integration by Lautaro Matas, LAReferencia).
  • OpenAIRE Provide dashboard overview and community use-cases: one-stop-service for content providers (Provide dashboard services by Pedro Principe, University of Minho, Usage Counts by Dimitris Pierrakos, ATHENA RC (OpenAIRE Usage Counts manager).
  • OpenAIRE interoperability guidelines: updates and use-cases (OpenAIRE guidelines by Andreas Czerniak, Bielefeld University, Canada Research - OpenAIRE Compliant Canadian Aggregator by Gabriela Mircea, McMaster University Library, CA, Making Research Information visible in EOSC via OpenAIRE byJan Dvořák, Charles University, CZ).

Day 4 - October 15

The fourth day main concept of the workshop was “OpenAIRE for researchers, and beyond”. - OpenAIRE provides a range of guidance and services for many different people to support with their Open Science activities. This session explored OpenAIRE’s Open Science tools and services such as ARGOS for creating machine actionable Data Management Plans (Elli Papadopoulou, ARC), the Zenodo repository and how it operates during the COVID-19 outbreak (Alex Ioannidis, CERN), Amnesia data anonymization tool (Manolis Terrovitis, ARC), Explore discovery portal (Argiro Kokogiannaki, UOA), Guides for researchers and citizen science activities (Eugenia Kypriotis, EA).

Day 5 - October 16

The fifth and final day of the of the webinar was dedicated to “Open Science Gateways” to open and linked research outcomes. In this session, OpenAIRE services were presented that support research communities, initiatives, and infrastructures at implementing and monitoring the uptake of Open Science principles.

Regarding the services, the following was discussed:

  • The OpenAIRE Research Graph or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and use CONNECT services
  • The OpenAIRE COVID-19 gateway

The use cases - gateways in action were:

  • ELIXIR-Greece (Thanasis Vergoulis, Post-doc at Athena Research&Innovation Center and ELIXIR-GR).
  • DARIAH EU (Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, DARIAH Open Science Officer).
  • Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (Alessia Bardi, Product manager of the OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard).
  • Instruct-ERIC (Claudia Alén Amaro, Senior Project Manager at Instruct-ERIC).
  • EPOS (Michele Manunta, CNR-IREA).
  • Sustainable Development Solutions Network (Achilleas Vassilopoulos, SDSN-Greece and Haris Papageorgiou, Research Director at Athena Research&Innovation Center).

Lastly, a final presentation on OpenAIRE collaborations in projects included:

  • AriadnePlus: a data infrastructure serving the archaeological community worldwide (H2020-RIA).
  • BeOpen: European forum and oBsErvatory for OPEN science in transport (H2020-CSA).
  • EnerMaps: The Open Data tool empowering your energy transition (H2020-CSA).
  • RISIS 2: European Research Infrastructure for Science, technology and Innovation Policy Studies (H2020-RIA).
  • SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics (H2020-RIA).

 The event was very fruitful for NEANIAS team, and we were proud to have participated in it.

 

EU Flag  NEANIAS is a Research and Innovation Action funded by European Union under Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme via grant agreement No.863448.