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EOSC Track has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101148217

EOSC Track will develop the 2nd phase of the EOSC Observatory, the European Open Science Observatory, an all-inclusive, one-stop-shop policy intelligence tool for policy makers to support decision making.

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Objectives

  • Platform

    Objective 1

    Operate and enhance European Open Science Observatory platform with new data (coverage), interactive visualisations (understanding) and features (usability).

  • Indicators

    Objective 2

    Align monitoring initiatives related to Open Science in Europe under the umbrella of the European Open Science Observatory.

  • Network

    Objective 3

    Foster a mutual learning environment where all interested parties can learn how to better promote the adoption and implementation of Open Science and EOSC policies

  • Sustainability

    Objective 4

    Co-develop with current EOSC tripartite Governance a long-term strategy and roadmap for the EOS Observatory taking into account emerging EOSC governance from 2027 onwards.

Activities & Results

EOSC Track will build on the current developments of the EOSC Observatory platform. By improving the platform, it seeks to streamline and simplify monitoring processes and achieve convergence on Open Science indicators.

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Meet the Core Team

  • Tereza Šímová

    Project Lead

  • Stefania Martziou

    Platform Technical Development Lead

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OpenAIRE and 37 Partners Launch the Open Science Trails Project

 

Data Management Plans (DMPs) play a crucial role in research, outlining researchers' intentions and supporting them in following best practices while staying organised. The RDA DMP Common Standard is adopted by various platforms and Science Europe proposes Domain Data Protocols (DDPs) to address domain-specific practices. While DMPs prove valuable, assessing them at scale is challenging. The FAIRification of DMPs is seen as a solution, with efforts made to treat them as outputs and include them in Scholarly Knowledge Graphs (SKGs). As research assessment expands beyond publications, SKGs representing scholarly knowledge could offer rich data but encounter obstacles like interoperability, semantic and syntactical heterogeneity. At the same time, the globally endorsed FAIR Principles face challenges in implementation and interpretation, especially in extending to other digital artifacts. Achieving a standardised approach for interpreting FAIR principles remains a significant hurdle.

The EU-funded project Open Science Trails (OSTrails) kicked off its activities on the 5th and 6th of February 2024 in Athens. This 3-year project aims to set the necessary foundations to streamline FAIR assessment and machine actionability in the European Open Science Cloud by enhancing and connecting the Planning, Tracking, Assessing phases of research. 

 

 

The OSTrails consortium is coordinated by OpenAIRE and builds on the technical expertise, managed services and research communities of its 38 partners representing 22 Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and the 5 Science Clusters. Recognising that there is no one-size-fits-all, at the cornerstone of OSTrails are 24 pilots that will co-create, implement, validate, and adopt results in diverse national and thematic ecosystems.

“Our project assembles a vibrant consortium uniting both thematic and national infrastructures in a resounding collaboration. Together, we share aspirations and work towards pragmatic solutions to shape the plan-track-assess pathways in EOSC following a commons approach” - Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE CEO

The project extends on three pillars:

  • PLAN: eliminating .pdfs and enhancing the effectiveness of Data Management Plans by transforming them into dynamic, interconnected "machine actionable" resources.
  • TRACK: enriching the quality and content of Scientific Knowledge Graphs to serve as evidence of FAIR implementations and research assessment.
  • ASSESS: moving the dial from FAIR assessment to FAIR assistance while providing modular and extensible FAIR tests, embedded into other RDM tools.

OpenAIRE participates in all pillars of the project with ARGOS for creating, managing and publishing machine actionable Data Management Plans (DMPs), the Graph for providing rich contextual information about research activities and scholarly communication, OpenOrgs for disambiguation of the Graph, and the Validator for assessing FAIRness of (meta)data and repositories. To co-design the plan-track-assess pathways and adopt them in local settings, OpenAIRE involves its members to realise national pilots in Austria, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, and Spain.

The project kick off welcomed more than 65 in-person and 100 online participants unveiling the need for convergence on these topics. It was a two-day meeting that helped to facilitate a mutual understanding of the projects’ ambition, objectives and context, clarify the partners’ roles and responsibilities and establish a plan for the first 12 months as well as prepare the ground for early deliverables. 

OpenAIRE project, OStrails

Publications that acknowledge OpenAIRE Nexus Project:

A. Publications to journals presenting OpenAIRE-Nexus portfolio services, findings:

(J) Cioffi, A., Peroni, S. (2022). Structured References from PDF Articles: Assessing the Tools for Bibliographic Reference Extraction and Parsing. In: Silvello, G., et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_42

(J) Cioffi, A., Coppini, S., Massari, A. et al. Identifying and correcting invalid citations due to DOI errors in Crossref data. Scientometrics 127, 3593–3612 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04367-w

(J) De Bonis M, Manghi P, Atzori C. 2022. FDup: a framework for general-purpose and efficient entity deduplication of record collections. PeerJ Computer Science 8:e1058 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1058

(J) dos Santos, E.A., Peroni, S. & Mucheroni, M.L. Referencing behaviours across disciplines: publication types and common metadata for defining bibliographic references. Int J Digit Libr (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00351-8

(J) Foufoulas, Y., Zacharia, E., Dimitropoulos, H. et al. DETEXA: declarative extensible text exploration and analysis through SQL. Int J Digit Libr (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00358-1


B. Publications to journals/conferences related to Computer Science and Information Science topics:

(C)Manocci A., Irrera O., Manghi P., Will open science change authorship for good? Towards a quantitative analysis, Computer Science, Digital Libraries, https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03121

(C)Baglioni M., Manocci A., Pavone G., De Bonis M., Manghi P., (Semi)automated disambiguation of scholarly repositories, Computer Science, Digital Libraries https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02647

(C)Vergoulis, Th., Chatzopoulos S., Vichos K., Kanellos I., Mannocci A., Manola N., Manghi P., BIP! SCHOLAR: A Service to Facilitate Fair Researcher Assessment, JCDL '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 2022Article No.: 42Pages 1–5 https://doi.org/10.1145/3529372.3533296

(C)Grieco, G., Heibi, I., Massari, A., Moretti, A., Peroni, S. (2022). Enabling Portability and Reusability of Open Science Infrastructures. In: Silvello, G., et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_36

(C)Mannocci, A., Baglioni, M., Manghi, P. (2022). “Knock Knock! Who’s There?” A Study on Scholarly Repositories’ Availability. In: Silvello, G., et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_26

(C)dos Santos, E.A., Peroni, S., Mucheroni, M.L. (2022). The Way We Cite: Common Metadata Used Across Disciplines for Defining Bibliographic References. In: Silvello, G., et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_10

(C)Vergoulis, Th., Kanellos I., Atzori C., Mannocci A., Chatzopoulos S., La Bruzzo S., Manola N., Manghi P., BIP! DB: A Dataset of Impact Measures for Scientific Publications, WWW '21: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, April 2021Pages 456–460https://doi.org/10.1145/3442442.3451369

 

[From EXPLORE] For ALL OpenAIRE Nexus, click here

University of Minho (UM) is a public higher education institution, founded in 1973 and is one of the so-called "New Universities" that, at that time, deeply changed the higher education landscape in Portugal. Located in the region of Minho, known for its significant economic activity and by the youth of its population, University of Minho has played the role of development agent in the region. Whilst UM is a young university, it enjoys a very high reputation for its research and educational performance.

 

The university administration is situated in Braga and most of the teaching and scientific activities are carried out in two sites: the campus of Gualtar, in Braga, and the campus of Azurém, in Guimarães. Science, economics, education, management, arts and medical sciences courses are predominantly taught in Braga, while architecture and most of the technological courses are offered in Guimarães. A student population of over 15000 together with more than 1100 teaching staff and almost 645 technical and administration staff make the University of Minho one of the biggest Portuguese universities.

 

University of Minho has been developing its institutional repository – RepositóriUM − since 2003, and is internationally known as one of the “success stories” on the development of institutional repositories and the promotion of Open Access to scientific literature. In the end of 2004 University of Minho has established a self-archiving policy of its intellectual output, requiring that all publications from university members be deposited in RepositóriUM. Since then the University institutional repository has been growing significantly, storing almost 8,000 documents in March 2009.

In 2008, University of Minho lead the Portuguese national project RCAAP (Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal = Portugal Open Access Science Repository) that created the national portal of Portuguese OA scientific literature (www.rcaap.pt) and SARI (Serviço de Alojamento de Repositórios Institucionais), an ASP service for institutional repositories. University of Minho was again selected to develop RCAAP project phase 2, which will run until December 2009.

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