EOSC Future grant: engaging regional and European data infrastructure communities
This initiative supported and created synergies around a selection of five activities that served as case studies and demonstrator initiatives on how to engage regional and European data infrastructure communities with relevant RDA and EOSC communities to converge on interoperability solutions. The activities originated from engagements across the Research Data Alliance (RDA), the EOSC Association, the European life science data infrastructure ELIXIR, the Swedish life science infrastructure Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) and the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS). Mapping exercises between the outcomes of the activities and the EOSC IF were made at least three times for each activity—first as a preparation and support for observations, second after the bulk of the results have been produced as support for reflections, and third as part of consolidating the results from all the activities as support for coherent reporting. The project was broken into five distinct activities:
- Activity 1: A landscape survey of infrastructure support for adopting the FAIR data principles in life science research practice.
- Activity 2: A focus group study on models for leveraging RDA and EOSC activities / outputs in regional initiatives and cross-border life science data infrastructures.
- Activity 3: A collection of captured and systematically organised semantic interoperability use cases to support implementation and adoption across EOSC.
- Activity 4: A series of training interventions to build capacity for metadata management and machine-actionable vocabularies across European data infrastructures.
- Activity 5: An analysis of alignment activities across regional and European data infrastructures to support interoperability of data and tools.
People and Organisations
Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström is an IT professional at Uppsala University and the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) / ELIXIR Sweden.
Key outputs
- Case studies on pragmatic interoperability: Engaging regional and European data infrastructure communities with the RDA and EOSC: https://figshare.scilifelab.se/projects/Case_studies_on_pragmatic_interoperability/177903
- Corresponding collection record: https://figshare.scilifelab.se/collections/Case_studies_on_pragmatic_interoperability/6815232
More information
Contact: wolmar.n.akerstrom@uu.se