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First Digital Infrastructures for Research event held in Krakow (OpenAIRE @ DI4R2016)
From 28-30 October 2016, Europe's leading e-infrastructures joined forces for the first time to invite all researchers, developers, data practitioners and service providers to the Digital Infrastructures for Research (DI4R) event to find new ways to support and facilitate science and research across Europe. DI4R2016 was jointly organised by EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE and RDA Europe, and hosted by ACC Cyfronet AGH, Kraków's academic computing centre.
The event was designed with research communities in mind and aimed to foster broader adoption of digital infrastructure services and promote user-driven innovation. As Programme Committee Chair David Foster (CERN) said, the conference brought together “people from all disciplines and all infrastructures to work on the shared vision and solve the problems that stand in our way."
OpenAIRE was very well represented with various contributions presenting OpenAIRE tools and services, and discussing on how to closely collaborate with key e-Infrastructures (GEANT, EUDAT, EGI, RDA, PRACE) on services, training, user engagement and support. Plans for an annual event of this kind would benefit our communities as OpenAIRE have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
All presentations by the OpenAIRE team are available in a slideshare clipboard: www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/clipboards/di4r2016.
Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/pedroprincipe/albums/72157671308431244
The event was designed with research communities in mind and aimed to foster broader adoption of digital infrastructure services and promote user-driven innovation. As Programme Committee Chair David Foster (CERN) said, the conference brought together “people from all disciplines and all infrastructures to work on the shared vision and solve the problems that stand in our way."

All presentations by the OpenAIRE team are available in a slideshare clipboard: www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/clipboards/di4r2016.
The plenary sessions have all recordings available here: https://www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/content/plenary-recordings, which includes Natalia Manola contribution on the plenary discussion with eInfra representatives on “What do researchers and Research Infrastructures need from eInfrastructures?”.Interactive workshop Design your e-Infrastructure organised by EGI in collaboration with OpenAIRE, EUDAT and GÉANT, provided a good opportunity for OpenAIRE to collaborative design and define suitable e-infrastructure setups and roadmaps to implement them for Copenhagen Business School Data management platform for Design Thinking Research Symposiums, European Research Initiative in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and Open Digital Research Environment Toolkit for the Advancement of Mathematics (OpenDreamKit VRE). All the information about the workshop and also the program is available here: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3025/. At this DI4R conference co-located event, OpenAIRE also presented the catalogue of Services - http://www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/the-openaire-catalogue-of-services-towards-open-science-workshop-design-your-einfrastructure.
Two specific OpenAIRE sessions:
OpenAIRE services and tools
Info: www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/content/openaire-services-and-toolsMaking Use of the Linked Open Data Services for OpenAIRE: Querying Data about Research Results, Persons, Projects and Organisations
- Open Access and Open Data in Horizon 2020: OpenAIRE services and tools for Research managers and Project Coordinators (by Pedro Príncipe, University of Minho) - www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/openaire-services-and-tools-presentation-at-di4r2016.
- OpenAIRE: Open Science as-a-Service (by Paolo Manghi, ISTI-CNR) - www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/openaire-open-science-asaservice-presentation-at-di4r2016.
Info: www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/content/sme-dynamics-workshop-sme-engagement-across-e-infrastructures-towards-integrated-approachOlther sessions with OpenAIRE contributions:
- Training session with a theoretical introduction/motivation and practical introduction and demonstration by Sahar Vahdati (University Of Bonn) and Giorgos Alexiou (ATHENA) - www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/making-use-of-the-linked-open-data-services-for-openaire-di4r-2016-tutorial-session.
Introduction to European einfrastructures
Info: www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/content/introduction-european-einfrastructuresResearch engagement across e-Infrastructures - Towards an integrated approach
- OpenAIRE in 8 min. presentend by Tony Ross-Hellauer - www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/openaire-in-8-minutes-introduction-to-european-einfrastructures-session-at-di4r-2016-conference.
Info: www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/content/research-engagement-across-e-infrastructures-towards-integrated-approachDI4R Lightning TalksInfo: https://www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/content/lightning-talks
- Research engagement in OpenAIRE (by Iryna Kuchma, EIFL) - www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/user-engagement-in-openaire-panel-presentation-at-di4r2016.
SME Dynamics Workshop: SME engagement across e-Infrastructures - Towards an integrated approach
- OpenAIRE Services for Funders (by Tony Ross-Hellauer) - www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/openaire-services-for-funders-lightning-talk-at-di4r-conference-krakov-sept-2016.
Info: www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/content/sme-dynamics-workshop-sme-engagement-across-e-infrastructures-towards-integrated-approachJoint Service Catalogue for ResearchInfo: https://www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/content/joint-service-catalogue-research
- OpenAIRE's SME engagement (by Natalia Manola) - www.slideshare.net/OpenAIRE_eu/openaires-sme-engagement-di4r-conf-session.
- OpenAIRE representative: Paolo Manghi.
Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/pedroprincipe/albums/72157671308431244
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