The EOSC Future projects - background, goals and outputs
Introduction
The EOSC Future project provided funding to third parties through the open call mechanism to create stronger links between the EOSC and RDA communities and to increase the uptake of their respective results at different levels. In addition to supporting the work of the RDA Domain Ambassadors, several projects were funded through these calls to concentrate efforts to solve specific challenges identified by the community and to maximise the value of RDA to EOSC. These project proposals were evaluated by an external review board based on the criteria published in the following calls:
- Optimising (RDA) Open Science Frameworks and Guidelines in the context of EOSC
- RDA Open Call for cross disciplinary science adoption grants
- RDA Open Call for cross disciplinary science adoption grants #2
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RDA / EOSC Future Call for Interoperability Framework Contributions
Upcoming outputs and events
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- Jun-2023: Data practices in an interdisciplinary perspective - Talk at RDM Trainer Community Meeting
- Jul-2023: Data practices in an interdisciplinary perspective - 4 infographics that will illustrate procedures and requirements for data management within four disciplines.
- Jul-2023: Data practices in an interdisciplinary perspective - Talk at 7th International PhD Summer School at Palanga
Please see below for a brief introduction to the projects, with links to the relevant profile pages for more information.
Profiles - ongoing projects
EU FAR - EU Funds by Area Results
The key objective of the EU FAR project is to stimulate development of granular open data on EU funding. To this end, the work will be conducted for Romania by providing open data aligned with the FAIR movement (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability).
Project info: active from September 2022 to March 2023, funded through the first cross disciplinary science adoption call
(maSMP) Ensuring the software accessibility and reusability in the short, medium and long term
Ensuring the software accessibility and reusability in the short, medium and long term. The project corresponds to an extension of the RDA machine-actionable Data Management Plan (maDMP) application profile and its corresponding DMP Common Standard ontology (DCSO) in order to cover the case of ELIXIR Software Management Plans (SMP)
Project info: active from October 2022 to June 2023, funded through the first cross disciplinary science adoption call
RDA indicators within the COMBINE community
A cross-community project aiming to reuse the RDA FAIR indicators on simulation experiments in COmputational MOdeling in BIology NEtwork (COMBINE) standards.
Project info: active from October 2022 to June 2023, funded through the first cross disciplinary science adoption call
Training delivery of foundational data science skills
The project will operationalise and enhance the materials and processes of the RDA/CODATA schools for Research Data Science.
Project info: active from November 2022 to June 2023, funded through the first cross disciplinary science adoption call
REPOPSI
REPOPSI is an open digital repository for psychological research instruments, such as questionnaires and tests, established and maintained by the Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in Serbia.
Project info: active from October 2022 to July 2023, funded through the first cross disciplinary science adoption call
Recommendations for FAIR data sharing in wind energy
The goal of this project is to create and adopt a set of recommendations for improving cross-disciplinary FAIR data sharing in wind energy to address one of the largest barriers to cost reduction in the industry.
Project info: funded through the second cross disciplinary science adoption call, active from Jamuary 2023 to June 2023.
Data practices in an interdisciplinary perspective
The project specifies the overview and challenges of data sharing practices in four scientific disciplines - architecture, civil engineering, economics and natural language processing.
Project info: active from January 2023 to August 2023, funded through the second cross disciplinary science adoption call
FAIR principles in Occupational safety and health
The project team aims to implement FAIR principles in practice by transforming Occupational safety and health (OSH) research data collected between 2006 and 2022) in Latvia.
Project info: active from December 2022 to September 2023, funded through the second cross disciplinary science adoption call
Implementation of a "no code" method for schema-to-schema data transformations
The project will provide an intuitive "no code" method for schema-to-schema data transformations for interoperability, and restructuring messy digital data into user-defined metadata schemas.
Project info: active from November 2022 to September 2023, funded through the second cross disciplinary science adoption call
Design concepts for Registry Services used for Controlled Vocabularies
The project will set up a framework of guided recommendations to design concepts for Registry Services used for Controlled Vocabularies curation regarding x-domain and co-creation aspects
Project info: active from December 2022 to September 2023, funded through the second cross disciplinary science adoption call
A FAIR-enabling citation model for Cultural Heritage Objects
The aim of this project is to design an interoperable and FAIR-enabler citation model applicable to digital objects in the Cultural Heritage sector.
Project info: active from December 2022 to September 2023, funded through the second cross disciplinary science adoption call
Enhancing interoperability through use of PIDs in research platforms
The project will provide a concrete demonstration of the benefits of data and metadata interoperability through the incorporation of PIDs in a research infrastructure. This will be achieved by designing the ability to incorporate DataCite DOIs into the RSpace digital research platform, which includes an electronic lab notebook that is integrated with a sample management system.
Project info: funded through the RDA / EOSC Future Call for Interoperability Framework Contributions call
How to engage regional and European data infrastructure communities with relevant RDA and EOSC communities
This initiative supports and creates synergies around a selection of five activities that will serve 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.
Project info: funded through the RDA / EOSC Future Call for Interoperability Framework Contributions call
Enhancing Usability and Contributability of RDA DMP Common Standard for Machine-Actionable DMPs
The project addresses shortcomings of the current RDA DMP Common Standard specification has several issues affecting its usability and the possibility for others to contribute. Mainly, not having a single source of truth in the specification causes issues with consistency and community contributions. There are also other issues related to making new releases of the standard, or its website. This project will analyze and address those by applying expertise from software engineering, especially processes verified by practice in open-source software.
Project info: funded through the second RDA/EOSC Future Call for Optimising (RDA) Open Science Frameworks and Guidelines in the context of EOSC.
Pursuing the growth of knowledge through global access to hardware for science
This research project aims to identify barriers to the adoption of FAIR data principlesThis proposed research is to improve the uptake of FAIR principles by the Open Science Hardware research community, in response to the call to reuse and optimize RDA data-sharing concepts in the EOSC context. The project builds upon the FAIR4RH Charter and contributes to the further development of the IG FAIR Principles for Research Hardware.
Project info: funded through the second RDA/EOSC Future Call for Optimising (RDA) Open Science Frameworks and Guidelines in the context of EOSC.
Profiles - concluded projects
COVID Data Companion
The project develops RDA recommendations for sharing COVID data in the form of a practical guide.
Project info: active from June 2022 to October 2022, funded through the Optimising call
Framework for increased discoverability of Social Science Data Objects in the EOSC Portal Service Catalogue
The project develops a framework for harvesting and delivering for discovery rich metadata of social science data objects for the EOSC Portal Service Catalogue.
Project info: active from April 2022 to September 2022, funded through the Optimising call
FAIRsharing implementation at the University of Debrecen
The project creates framework for the existing and new research data repositories to manage their research data management policies
Project info: active from February 2022 to June 2022, funded through the Optimising call
Contextual Metadata Futures: Building Indigenous Data Provenance Capacity for the European Reference Genome Atlas
The project is focused on operationalising the FAIR and CARE principles to streamline the collection and storage of ethical and legally compliant metadata.
Project info: active from May 2022 to October 2022, funded through the Optimising call
Key Outputs of the Projects
- 29-Mar-2023: Recommendations for FAIR data sharing in wind energy - IEA Wind Task 43 Metadata Challenge webinar series #4, with Gavin Chait (Whythawk, Implementation of a "no code" method for schema-to-schema data transformations) [
event page] - 21-Mar-2023: Training delivery of foundational data science skills - Operationalising the CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science (SoRDS) session in the RDA Plenary [event page]
- 20-Mar-2023: All projects and ambassadors - RDA Plenary Satellite event: Global Research Commons: Europe and Beyond (free registration, either standalone or as part of RDA plenary registration) [event page]
- 27-Feb-2023: RDA indicators within the COMBINE community - "Hack together" event based on the version 1 of the FAIR indicators for COMBINE archives (see the project page for registration information and additional time slots, from 27th Feb to 3rd Mar) [event page]
- 28-Feb-2023: EU FAR - EU Funds by Area Results - Presentation of project results organised by The Research Institute for Quality of Life (RIQL), part of Romanian Academy (N.B. The language of the event is Romanian). [event page]
- 15-Feb-2023: (maSMP) - Poster with preliminary metadata at SWAT4HCLS conference, looking for feedback from attendees
- 16-Feb-2023: Recommendations for FAIR data sharing in wind energy - IEA Wind Task 43 Metadata Challenge webinar series #3, with Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska (Data practices in an interdisciplinary perspective)
- 23-Jan-2023: REPOPSI - Promoting the REPOPSI Start-Project Evaluation Using the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model Report (LinkedIn post)
- 13-Jan-2023: RDA indicators within the COMBINE community - Draft version of FAIR indicators adapted to COMBINE community (GitHub file)
- 26-Dec-2022: REPOPSI - REPOPSI Start-Project Evaluation Using the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model (Zenodo upload)
- 8-Dec-2022: EU FAR - Database on EU funds absorbed by Romanian municipalities (Zenodo and Rohub versions)
