Recent Activity: EOSC Liaison Platform

Starting on 13 November 2019, TU Wien released three short video interviews with Austrian delegate of the EOSC Governance Board Stefan Hanslik. In the course of this series, Stefan Hanslik addressed frequently asked questions and themes regarding the EOSC initiative, its overall goal and societal benefits as well as the role played by scientific institutions. Please, see the links below to see the video takes:

• EOSC What you need to know: https://youtu.be/qYyliQp5Fkk
• The backbone of EOSC: https://youtu.be/DSVmqH_HrcY
• EOSC A Sustainable Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzAfZ80iPs&feature=youtu.be

Dear members of the EOSC liaison platform,

I am writing to remind that European universities are kindly invited to participate in this ongoing survey on research data management and the FAIR principles conducted by the EUA in the context of the FAIRsFAIR project.
The survey will address the following dimensions of research data management and the FAIR principles at higher education institutions: 

• the state and nature of institutional policies and support services for research data management;
• the awareness of the FAIR principles for research data within universities;
• the teaching of research data competences to students and researchers;
• the level of awareness of and views on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

The survey deadline has been extended until 15 November 2019. The survey should be filled out by university leadership or management staff responsible for the development and implementation of research data management policies and plans. Universities that...

FAIR DIGITAL OBJECTS driving worldwide interoperability 

Experts worldwide are discussing FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) as the smallest FAIR technical components with maximum freedom to operate.  Agreement on this concept would be a breakthrough comparable with the agreement on TCP / IP in the late 80’s for the Internet. Once TCP/IP was agreed as the smallest element to comply with, the Internet took off like a rocket. A similar type of fast adoption could happen again with FDO.  

In September 2019 USA based initiatives like NSF, NIST, NIH, SPARC-USA and CNRI organised a meeting together with RDA and GO FAIR on FAIR Digital Objects and FAIR Digital frameworks. The meeting took place in Washington where European delegates presented the consensus proposal. After intensive discussions, broad consensus was reached. This was followed up by a similar meeting in Beijing, associated with the CODATA conference, where the consensus was broadened to China,...

OPEN SCIENCE in China / Malaysia / Korea / Taiwan / Australia

In China, the Science (data) Cloud is mainly developed under the supervision of the Chinese Academy of Science CAS), with the computer Network Information Center (CNIC) in the lead. Scientific data cloud infrastructure and services in Chinese Academy of Sciences gives an overview of what happened in the recent past. At the CODATA conference in Beijing September 2019, Mr. Jianhui -Li (in charge of the Cloud in China, and Vice President of CODATA) demonstrated how the Chinese Science Data Cloud will work on a distributed architecture and will adhere to the FAIR principles throughout. It was also decided that the Chinese colleagues will participate in the global consensus building around the core elements of machine readability and interoperability between the various clouds, i.e. the FAIR Digital Object Framework.

At a technical session in Beijing, representatives from sister...

Dear members of the EOSC Liaison platform,

I am writing on behalf of the H2020 funded FAIRsFAIR project "Fostering FAIR Data Practices In Europe" running from March 2019 to February 2022.

The project is working to offer practical solutions for implementing FAIR data principles across data repositories all around Europe, with a focus on fostering a FAIR data culture and promoting good practices.

In order to meet these objectives and building upon the findings of recent studies, we now seek input from a wide range of organisations already helping to make data FAIR. We invite contributions to two surveys - one focusing on policies and practices, and the other more focused on semantics and interoperability. We welcome individual contributions to either or both surveys and encourage multiple responses from an organisation, reflecting different views and areas of expertise.

EOSC-hub has produced a Deliverable which proposes an open and participatory approach to the definition of the EOSC Technical Architecture.

The document proposes the definition of a reference Technical Architecture for EOSC that facilitates access to services, lower barriers to integrate and composes services and promotes the usage of services between adjacent communities. This is achieved identifying key technical functions, named building blocks, for each of the EOSC service category (Federation, Access Enabling, Common and Thematic) and defining related technical specifications that include an high-level architecture, endorsed EOSC standards and APIs and interoperability guidelines. In this way, EOSC ‘compliant’ services will offer well-established and documented interfaces for usage and integration, based on well-known standard or APIs, facilitating:

• their exploitation from user communities willing to create new scientific services that could rely on well-established and documented interfaces for the integration. An example of exploitation of EOSC services is when a
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The 1 July webinar was very informative. I would like to start cooperation with EOSC as international stakeholder providing services. We are currently working on a project that will provide infrastructure as a service. I would appreciate it if you can guide me on how to proceed with the stakeholder cooperation.