Items tagged with OPEN SCIENCE
OpenAIRE coffee break on the role of MOOCs in open science training
Reflections on the trends, strengths and weaknesses of MOOCs and the case study of NAU platform in Portugal
The OpenAIRE AMKE Training & Support Standing committee is organizing a new session of the OpenAIRE coffee break series. Please join us on November 21 at 10h30 CET to discuss on the following topic: "The role of MOOCs in Open Science training: reflections on the trends, strengths and weaknesses of MOOCs and the case study of NAU platform in Portugal.
Pedro Barbosa Cabral, the NAU platform at FCT-FCCN and e-Learning Consultant & Educational Designer and MOOC Specialist, will share his reflections on the trends, strengths and weaknesses of MOOCs in open science training and will talk about the case study of NAU platform in Portugal.
OpenAIRE Explore & Open Science Lens: discovery tools for research results and data (In Greek)
OpenAIRE representatives in Greece and Cyprus invite you to participate in the webinar that focuses on OpenAIRE tools for searching interconnected scientific information organised on Thursday 5th October 2023 at 11:00 am EEST. The presentations will be made by Konstantina Galouni, manager of the EXPLORE discovery portal, and George Papanikos, CTO of CITE SA.
The webinar will describe the OpenAIRE Explore service and the Open Science Lens (OSL) plugin application. It will explain their functions and highlight the ways in which they can be used by the research community. The main subject of the presentations is the exploitation of the OpenAIRE Graph, the pan-European knowledge graph for scholarly communication, which is enriched with 169 million publications, 59 million research data, 366 thousand research software components, 129 thousand data sources, which are linked to 3 million grants and 194 thousand organizations. In addition, presenters will perform demos of the services focusing on the easy search and access to scientific results which are interconnected: activity-article-data-software.
At the end of the webinar, the participants will be able to:
- search for scientific articles, data, software and other results which are available in the OpenAIRE Graph
- have a more comprehensive picture about the research production of the scientific results
- link their own scientific articles to ORCID
- install the Open Science Lens app in their browser
RAISE Science Webinar: a transparent way of sharing and processing data
RAISE's mission is to provide an infrastructure that facilitates a decentralized system for processing data through crowdsourcing. This involves transitioning from utilizing open data to enabling open access data for processing. Instead of sending the data to the algorithm, RAISE enables the algorithm to be sent to the dataset. In this workshop, stakeholders will be introduced to an initial mock-up of RAISE’s unique approach that brings the processing algorithm (small in size) directly to the dataset (large in size), instead of requiring the dataset to be downloaded to the computer where the algorithm is located. An initial demonstration using wireframes will be done. The current mock-up is an interactive version that demonstrates the basic functionalities of the Research Analysis Identifier System. The navigation through basic features will help the participants understand better the system and, also, provide valuable insights for the improvement of user experience. The goal is to appreciate the value of not only accessing data, but also processing it conveniently: RAISE minimizes the time required to obtain results and enhances overall productivity, while simultaneously promoting transparency in sharing and processing data, as well as empowering researchers to publish their work with authenticated data analysis. Additionally, it ensures that their work receives proper accreditation. The mock-up presentation will be followed by a discussion to navigate stakeholders needs and requirements in processing data.
Agenda
- 11.00 – 11.05 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop Objectives and Participants (Panagiotis Bamidis)
- 11.05 - 11.15 Open Science and RAISE presentation (Evdokimos Konstantinidis)
- 11.15 – 11.25 RAISE Demo (Despoina Petsani)
- 11.25 – 11.55 Interactive presentation(Despoina Petsani/Eleni Bolieraki)
- 11.55 – 12.00 Q&A
Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice
Join us to learn more about how to successfully implement Open Science requirements in Horizon projects
OpenAIRE coffee break on e-accessibility
It’s all about the tools!
Tim Berners-Lee once said, “The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” Yes, well, but why is much of the data on the web still not accessible to people with disabilities? Some might blame a lack of knowledge by authors of content, which may be compensated by training. But actually, authoring tools turn out to be a major culprit, as long as research data like tables or forms for data collection cannot usually be created accessible with common office tools.
Andreas Jeitler, responsible for Accessibility Services at Klagenfurt University Library, and Susanne Blumesberger, an academic librarian at the University of Vienna, discuss e-accessibility tools.
OpenAIRE EXPLORE: Improvements and new information available
Short description & Agenda
This webinar will focus on the latest improvements of the Explore portal to better facilitate user needs in terms of easy search and best exposure of the metadata of the desired research results.
It will also be presented where the users can find the impact factors, usage counts, and citation scores of the research results in the search pages as well as in the detailed pages.
Progressing Open Science in Greece and Cyprus: local initiatives and next steps (In Greek)
OpenAIRE representatives in Greece and Cyprus continue to organise webinars on Open Science and the European Open Science Cloud - EOSC.
Athena Research Center and the Library of the University of Cyprus invite you to participate in the webinar that takes place on Thursday 4th May 2023 at 11:00 am EEST. The purpose of the webinar is to inform about the ways in which Open Science has been applied in the Greek and Cypriot research ecosystems, emphasizing on the latest developments and upcoming actions. In these efforts, the contribution of National Initiatives has been significant, namely the Hellenic Open Science Initiative (HOSI) and Informal Consultative Group for Open Science in Cyprus.
OpenAPC - Open minds towards transparent publication fees
In 2014 the OpenAPC project was launched at Bielefeld University Library and has received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) (2015 - 2018), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (2018 - 2020) and the European Commission through the OpenAIRE Nexus project (2021 - 2023).
In this online event, the presentation focused on the benefits of transparent publication fees and on how institutions can become part of the global acting OpenAPC project.
We briefly discussed the data format and processing, how transparency is applied to all steps of the data lifecycle in OpenAPC, and the benefits of participating.
The presentation closed with a brief outlook.
Finally, time for discussions and further explanations after the presentations.
European Reform on Research Assessment (In Greek)
OpenAIRE in Greece and Cyprus is organizing a series of webinars for the first half of 2023. We invite you to learn about the latest developments, tools and best practices that support the implementation of Open Science in the European and National Research Web and EOSC.
The first webinar takes place on Thursday 30th March 2023 at 11:00 am EEST, and focuses on research assessment processes. The goal is to clarify the concept of assessment in the field of research and to capture the current situation, highlighting the need for reform through the European Commission’s European Research Area policy and initiatives, such as COARA.
At the end of the webinar, the participants will:
- have a better picture of Research Assessment and how it develops in the European Research Area.
- know the actions that Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) accomplishes and how they can contribute.
Amnesia: High-accuracy Data Anonymization
The webinar introduced the concept of anonymization of research data, including direct identifiers and quasi-identifiers using Amnesia, which is a flexible data anonymization tool that transforms sensitive data to datasets where formal privacy guarantees hold.
Amnesia transforms original data to provide k-anonymity and km-anonymity.
AGENDA
- Introduction to different anonymization techniques:
- k-anonymity and km-anonymity,
- Short demonstration of the tool.
Zenodo: open digital repository
This webinar aimed to present what Zenodo is, why and how to use it, and what future improvements are in the horizon.
Agenda:
- Why Zenodo?
- How to use Zenodo
- Zenodo's features: communities, integrations with other services, etc.
- What's in the future?
- demo
UsageCounts: Complementing traditional scholarly impact indicators with usage activity
This is an informative and educative webinar, where we will present OpenAIRE's UsageCounts, the OpenAIRE service that contributes towards impact evaluation of usage activity in Open Access Content Providers.
UsageCounts gathers raw usage activity and consolidated usage statistics reports respectively, for OpenAIRE Research Graph products and from the network of OpenAIRE content providers (repositories, e-journals, CRIS, national aggregators, etc.). It builds and deploys usage statistics across the above distributed network and provides significant added value for different stakeholders.
Webinar Learning Outcomes (agenda):
- UsageCounts service in OpenAIRE infrastructure.
- UsageCounts service architecture and workflows.
- UsageCounts service registration, configuration and deployment.
- Usage Statistics as a tool for scholarly output assessment.
- COUNTER CoP Standard.
- UsageCounts service as an EOSC core service.
- Discussion on engagement with UsageCounts, potential issues and user concerns.
MONITOR – Institutional Dashboard: tailor-made monitoring, made easy
The aim of this public webinar was to present the Monitoring Dashboard (https://monitor.openaire.eu/) that allows institutions to track research activities, their performance, and ultimately their impact across key dimensions such as Open Science policy uptake, European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), collaborations, reach and visibility, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and so on.
As part of the OpenAIRE Monitor – an on-demand service, built upon the OpenAIRE Research Graph, with the mission to offer reliable and timely monitoring and evaluation of research activities for different types of organizations - The institutional Dashboard aims to assist institutions to turn data into insights, thus revealing weak spots and hidden potential and leading the way to evidence-based decision making.
WHEN: 21 June 2022
TIME: 11h00 CEST
AGENDA:
- OpenAIRE Monitor presentation 10'
Ioanna Grypari, Athena Research Center - Institutional Dashboard demo 20'
Leonidas Pispiringas, OpenAIRE - Q&A
Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice
This webinar was about the Open Science policies for Open Access to scientific publications and Research Data Management and Sharing in Horizon Europe (HE), followed by a preview of the main tools and services from OpenAIRE to help project coordinators and research support staff on the requirements' compliance.
Learn about:
- Mandatory and recommended Open Science requirements in HE.
- Compliance with the HE Open Access to publications mandate.
- Managing and sharing Research Data in HE projects.
- Delivering Data Management Plans and reporting publications and datasets in HE.
- OpenAIRE tools and services to support HE projects.
Target audience: project coordinators, researchers, research managers, librarians and data stewards.
WHEN: 14 June 2022
TIME: 11h00-12h30 CEST
OpenAIRE x NI4OS-Europe series: Designing privacy and repository policies with RePol
OpenAIRE in Greece and Cyprus continue to inform the research and academic community on important aspects related to Open Science, this time through a series of webinars run in collaboration with the NI4OS-Europe project.
March is dedicated to the presentation of the tools developed in the framework of NI4OS-Europe for various groups and individuals interested in Open Science policy implementation and optimal Research Data Management. The purpose is for Universities, Research Infrastructures and Research Services to prepare for the application of Open Science and for its implementation through the European Cloud of Open Science - EOSC. Similarly, researchers will be supported in Optimal Research Data Management, with an emphasis on legal issues pertaining to various types of copyright in data, multimedia, software and derivative content.
The presence of service policies, and privacy and repository policies in particular, is increasingly expected by end-users, mandated by regulators and assessors and required for service certification. They also define a set of rules and practices that the organisational management, repository administrators and the technical staff need to establish and enforce. Here, practical guidance on the use of RePol, an open-source web tool developed within NI4OS-Europe, will be provided. RePol helps the user to create and maintain a comprehensive and clear repository policy or privacy policy for a web-based service. Through a step-by-step wizard and self-explanatory forms, the user shapes a customised policy document formulated in line with the current best practice. With such a policy, the resource owner can more easily align the service with GDPR requirements as well as those for onboarding and participation in open-science infrastructures. The resulting document may be downloaded as an XML file, additionally customized or manually edited before it is integrated into the service or repository. Individual policy elements are provided in a machine-readable format, allowing for an automated interpretation of created policies and metadata extraction.