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Kostas Repanas

Kostas Repanas is a policy officer at the Open Science Unit, in the Directorate General Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission. Kostas is mainly involved in the data and interoperability aspects of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), as well as in advancing the Open Science agenda of the Commission. He is a long-standing advocate for Open Access, Open Data and Open Science, having previously worked for EMBL Heidelberg, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR) in Singapore, and the EU ESFRI landmark project ELIXIR. Kostas is also the co-founder of the Asian Open Access community (Asia OA) in collaboration with the National Institute of Informatics (NII-Japan) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). He holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Crystallography from the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam and the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Interest Group

Active Data Management Plans IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): David Giaretta, Kevin Ashley, Tomasz Miksa, Elli Papadopoulou, Maria Praetzellis
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
The proposed activity of this group is to act as a nucleus for discussing requirements for and identifying developments needed to support active (i.e. able to evolve and be monitored) data management ...
Working Group

Data Usage Metrics WG

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Ian Bruno, Iratxe Puebla
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
Webinar – Tools & Resources for Data Usage Metrics – 21 April 2022   Research data is increasingly recognized as an important output of scholarly research, however, there are not yet...
Working Group

FAIR Data Maturity Model WG

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Edit Herczog, Keith Russell, Shelley Stall, Anusuriya Devaraju, Solange Maria Santos
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
FAIR Data Maturity Model: core criteria to assess the implementation level of the FAIR data principles Webinar – The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promo...
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Global Open Research Commons IG

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Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Andrew Treloar, Javier Lopez Albacete, Lautaro Matas, Mikiko Tanifuji, CJ Woodford
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The coordination of data infrastructure on various levels (country, continent, discipline, sector) is on the increase. So called “Open Science Commons” or “Data commons” provide a shared virtu...
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Libraries for Research Data IG

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Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Su Nee Goh, Naresh Kumar, Tim Dennis, Jennifer Gu, Susanna Nykyri, Madiareni Sulaiman, John Brown
Endorsed Outputs 23 Things: Libraries For Research Data – overview of practical, free, online resources and tools that you can begin using today to incorporate research data management into y...
Interest Group

Open Science Graphs for FAIR Data IG

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Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Helena Cousijn, Amir Aryani, Paolo Manghi, Andrea Mannocci, Anita de Waard
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
Mission The goal of the Open Science Graphs Interest Group (OSG IG) is to build on the outcomes and broaden the challenges of the Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) and Scholarly Link E...
Interest Group

PID IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Jonathan Clark, Josh Brown, Adrian Burton, Nobuko Miyairi
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The pervasive use of persistent identifiers is seen as a foundational element in anchoring and referencing research data in an interoperable way. The purpose of the Persistent Identifier Interest Grou...
Working Group

RDA COVID-19

Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Juan Bicarregui, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Ingrid Dillo, Natalie Harrower, Sarah Jones, Mark Leggott, Priyanka Nair-Turkich
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali
I.  RDA COVID-19 Working Group Objectives II.  Group & Website Navigation III.  Weekly Webinar RDA COVID-19 Updates – Completed I.  RDA COVID-19 Working Group Objectives The overarchi...
Regional Group

RDA in Greece

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Coordinators: Fotis Karagiannis, Elli Papadopoulou
This is a working area dedicated to the support and updates of RDA Greek Node. The Node is hosted at Athena Research and Innovation Information Technology, hence actively acting as a mediator and pr...
Interest Group

Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC) IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Christopher Erdmann, Federica Quaglia, Francis P. Crawley
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
Short presentation of Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC) IG SHARC is a recognised and endorsed interest group within RDA (Research Data Alliance).  It is an interdisciplinary group seeking to unpack...