OpenAIRE and VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM
The e-Infrastructure Assembly is the structured collaboration of five pan-European digital service providers: OpenAIRE, EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, and PRACE. Together, they provide and connect local, regional, European and thematic research data centres, data repositories, archives and computing infrastructures as well as universities and other organisations and employ teams of experts with the aim of enabling the advancement of science and innovation. The e-Infrastructures and their members provide an ecosystem of services in which research, innovation, collaboration and coordinated service delivery efforts are aligned with EOSC at the local, national and European level.
For over a decade, they have contributed to the development of EOSC through INFRAEOSC projects and participation in EOSC task forces which guided and aligned the process both contextually and theoretically. Concurrently, Assembly members have strengthened their collaboration with research communities and organisations, focusing on the development, construction and operation of services and underlying infrastructure for the research data life cycle, as well as for the management of the web of FAIR data. These form the basis of the EOSC EU Node, and, since they are readily integrated in the EOSC framework, they are now also available to prospective EOSC Federation nodes.
Learn more about the e-Infrastructures Assembly in the collaboration announcement.The partnership between OpenAIRE and VU Amsterdam focuses on integrating VU's research outputs into the OpenAIRE infrastructure, with particular emphasis on the OpenAIRE Monitor Dashboard. VU Amsterdam benefits from enhanced visibility and access to comprehensive data analytics, while OpenAIRE expands its presence in the Dutch academic landscape, promoting Open Science practices.
The collaborative efforts include several key areas of activity:
- OpenAIRE Monitor: Both parties actively support repository managers in utilizing the services provided by the OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard, such as UsageCounts and Broker services, and enhance the use of the OpenAIRE Institutional Monitoring Dashboard.
- Amnesia: Data protection and anonymization efforts are streamlined using the Amnesia tool.
- ARGOS: VU Amsterdam leverages the ARGOS online instance to create machine-actionable DMP templates, localize editors if needed, and publish data linked to Zenodo communities. Information from trusted OpenAIRE sources is incorporated into DMPs and added to MONITOR Dashboards.
- OpenAPC: The partnership explores business cases for Diamond OA, with VU assessing what data it needs to provide for optimal engagement with OpenAPC, as well as evaluating the integration of OpenAPC data into the Monitor Dashboard for better insights.
