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A discussion paper inviting input into the Academy's Decadal Plan for Social Science Research Infrastructure 2023-32

CLARIN is a pan-European Research Infrastructure, which provides accessibility to all European digital language resources and tools through a single sign-on online environment. The CLARIN community offers long-term solutions and technology services for deploying, connecting, analyzing and sustaining digital language data (e.g. various types of corpora, dictionaries, glossaries) and tools (e.g. corpus management and exploration systems, speech processing systems, NLP pipelines). CLARIN supports scholars who want to engage in pioneering data-driven research, contributing to a multilingual European Research Area. In addition, CLARIN is also an infrastructural initiative that is fully committed to the European agenda towards Open Science. By offering resources in open access and promoting the curation and depositing of data in alignment with the requirements for the interoperability of data and services, CLARIN has paved the way for large-scale data sharing and increased reuse of resources. In Switzerland, the CLARIN-CH Consortium represents an inter-university national network of scholars working on language related issues in various sub-disciplines, including Dialectology, Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Speech Technology, etc. CLARIN-CH aims to bring together the research community using language resources, foster the sharing of resources and expertise, encourage collaborations by implementing focused inter-university Working Groups, and give Swiss researchers access to CLARIN’s resources, tools, services and research network. By getting actively involved in CLARIN-CH and CLARIN Europe, Swiss scholars will benefit of: (i) an increased visibility of their assets (research projects, data, tools, methodologies, expertise, etc.), (ii) a better access to European digital language resources and cutting-edge language technologies, (iii) involvement in European collaborative research projects, (iv) access to numerous funding opportunities (workshops, summer schools, mobility grants, etc.).

DARIAH-CH goes on atourof Swiss higher education institutionsto inform about its mission and activitiesand makes a stop at the EPFL & UNIL on June 7th!The event provides an ideal opportunity to discover the European“Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities”DARIAH,and its Swissbranch,DARIAH-CH.Switzerland is currently an observer of DARIAH and it will become a full member in June 2023. DARIAH’s mission is toempower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society. To reach this goal, DARIAH develops the following areas: (ii) training and education, (ii) working groups, (iii) tools and services, (iv) network, (v) sharing of knowledge, (vi) publishing, and (vii) a discovery platform for Social Sciences and Humanities. DARIAH-CH isa consortium of research institutions that aims at bringing together the SwissDigital Humanities and Arts communities and supporting them in their research and infrastructural endeavours. By getting actively involved inDARIAH-CH andDARIAHEurope, Swiss scholars benefit not only from an increased visibility of their assets (research projects, data, tools, methodologies, expertise, etc.) but also from a better access to Europeaninfrastructures and networks. Members of the consortium also profit from a greater involvement in European collaborative research projects, and from the access to numerous funding opportunities (workshops, summer schools,publishinggrants, etc.).

Within the ALL-Ready project, ENoLL hosted on 12th April 2023, the second online training of the “Understanding Living Lab Concepts and Co-creation” course. The Module 2 focused on the Management of Living Labs and provided the members of the ALL-Ready Pilot Network with an overview of Living Labs’ innovation management process, panel management, pilot management process & mapping canvas, and impact assessment methodology. &nbsp

This report explaines a set of inclusion criteria for becoming a member of a European network of living labs and research infrastructures for agroecology transition. These criteria were defined to make sure that all relevant organisations are included in the network, even if they do not identify themselves as living labs or research infrastructures.

The training - module 1 “Understanding Living Lab Concepts and Co-creation” - was organized on 16th March 2023 online by the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as part of the ALL-Ready project. The training targeted the members of the ALL-Ready Pilot Network and provided them with an overview of Living Lab Basics,Governance Models, and the Business Models of Living Labs.The trainers shared with participants insights into the principles, methodologies, and tools that can be used to effectivelyenact Living Labs'open innovation in agroecology.

This report desribes the co-creation experience of the ALL-Ready pilot network, which aims to set up and run a small-scale pilot network in to test the approaches, tools and recommendations developed during the project for the implementation of the future European network. As experience grows throughout the project, this document will also be updated and can be seen as a living document that will be complemented by future versions.

This document aims at enhancing the harmonisation of ALL-Ready data FAIRness and reinforcing the functional collaboration among the network stakeholders, capitalising on agroecology specificities and strength points by implementing the FAIR principles into the data life cycle of the network.

This report highlights the key end users and what will be the foundations of the capacity building programme (for instance knowledge, participatory methodologies, agroecological practices). It furthers gives suggestions on how these are delivered (key expert training, study visits, workshops).

This document gives an overview of the use of the ALL-Ready project logo as well as the architecture of the project website, including its structure and major features.

Euro-BioImaging ERIC is the European landmark research infrastructure for biological and biomedical imaging as recognized by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). Euro-BioImaging is the gateway to world-class imaging facilities across Europe. This document is the Euro-BioImaging Annual Report for the year 2022.

This report explains the approach and methodologies employed by the ALL-Ready project in the mapping and analysis of agroecology initiatives, agroecology Living Labs and agroecology Research Infrastructures in twenty-three countries in Europe.

This deliverable sets out the vision and the mission for the Network of LL and RI for an agroecology transition throughout Europe, that is being framed in ALL -Ready.

We present Meteor, a new inventory for European news sources (i.e. EU + UK, CH, NO, IL): https://wp3.opted.eu/ . This inventory will facilitate researchers’ efforts to select sources across platforms and gather related textual data. It contains the names of print and online news sources, social media accounts, news blogs, and alternative news media sources, as well as rich meta-information for each entry (e.g. language, audience size, topical focus, ownership structures, access to full-text archives, secondary data, related research). Meteor accounts for the fuzziness of hybrid media systems through an interlinked knowledge graph. Entries are submitted by researchers, validated, continuously updated, and openly accessible to the public. Our inventory allows users to find various European news sources based on a wide range of criteria, putting scholars in a better position to navigate the European media landscape.

Establishing and operating research infrastructures designed for long-term use is a challenge. This holds especially true in small to medium scale institutes carrying out short-term projects. In our presentation, we would like to describe our approach to building an infrastructure for collecting and linking local cultural heritage data in Saxony.

This paper explores the potential that Virtual Reading Rooms (VRRs) and Virtual Teaching Spaces (VTSs) offer for interdisciplinary collaboration between digital humanities researchers and librarians. It is based on the results of two international studies around the development and delivery of VRRs and VTSs and their academic perception and use.

This session was run as a workshop at Open Science Conference on 28 June 2023. Abstract: It is rare that successful collaborations, and open science practices in particular, occur without an active coordination and knowledge-exchange process. This coordination can take the form of translating information between individuals, or groups of people, structuring participants' interactions, facilitating work co-owned by different teams, and supporting the impact of the project. The expert coordination and facilitation work in open science projects is often taken on by people in either volunteer or paid positions, depending on a project’s funding, size, length, resource availability, goals and number of organisations involved. In The Turing Way, we define them as Research Infrastructure Roles. Research Infrastructure Roles are diverse, and are taken on by researchers with varied expertise and backgrounds. They often have domain-specific technical skills and research experience, although not necessarily in the field they are now working in. At the Alan Turing Institute, the Tools, Practices, and Systems (TPS) programme supports several of these roles including: Community Managers and Research Application Managers, alongside the more established Research Software Engineers, Data Wranglers and Ethics Advisors. Furthermore, through one of its flagship projects, The Turing Way, the team also works closely with experts in other Research Infrastructure Roles such as Data Stewards, Librarians, Policy Experts and more. These roles have emerged as critical catalysts for the adoption of open, reproducible and ethical research practices, as research methodologies continue to evolve.. Several of these roles are only recently created/established and may exist in other forms and under other job titles. Therefore, it can be often challenging to establish standard practices, build frameworks for supporting collaborative relationships, and capture the impact of these roles across different institutions, sectors and research fields. The Open Science conference 2023 provides an incredible opportunity to facilitate a structured conversation about Research Infrastructure Roles, improving awareness and building connections with communities supporting such roles. This session will facilitate discussion, inviting attendees to share their experiences and perspectives (1) from working in research infrastructure, (2) importance of creating dedicated roles for implementing open research practices, and (3) how we can work towards a culture that provides better opportunities for individuals who take the non-traditional academic route. Notes from the session will feed back into the evolving chapter on Research Infrastructures Roles in the Turing Way Guide to Collaboration and referenced in related projects led by the TPS/Turing Way teams.

Presentation made at the ANNUAL CH ERIC SYMPOSIUM 2023 FOR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS organised by the Swiss Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation SERI Pitches by the Swiss national nodes of existing ERICs: CLARIN and DARIAH June 22, 2023 &nbsp

Artificial Intelligence has profoundly changed the way research is conducted, and research. Whether they be at the local, regional, national, or even international level, research infrastructures cannot ignore its impact on research practices and methodologies. The primary role of research infrastructures is to support and enable researchers, which usually regulates us to a second plan. However, it is necessary for research infrastructures to be leaders, especially on important fundamental issues that affect the field as a whole, such as artificial intelligence. Indeed, the ethical challenges posed by SSH research, and artificial intelligence in particular, should help guide the various actions of research infrastructure in our support to researchers. This talk will show how the IR* HumaNum, the French national infrastructure for digital humanities, and DARIAH-EU, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) approach the question of artificial intelligence and how one must engage with this new field - as any research method of that matter - with ethics in mind.&nbsp

International audience; Biomanufacturing is emerging at global scale as a key enabling technology for the circular bioeconomy and for green growth. The drivers for this trend are numerous, but are tightly linked on one hand to a steady flow of scientific discoveries over the last 70 years and, on the other hand, to increasing socio-political pressure to address grand challenges such as climate change and environmental depreciation. Nevertheless, bringing biomanufacturing to maturity and delivering it at scale is a tremendous task, in part because it is frequently placed in an economic faceoff with the highly optimized, efficient petrochemical industry, which for over a century has satisfied global demand with fossil-based goods that address a wide range of markets.The future success of biotechnology hinges on many factors, but cost is a major one. However, cost reduction will only be possible if new progress is made in all phases, including the early translation of fundamental knowledge into prototypes and innovations. Currently, during these vital phases biotechnology R&D occurs in silo mode, separating biocatalyst design (e.g. cell factory construction) from the process in which the biocatalyst will operate, and from the upstream and downstream processes that will critically affect cost.To progress in biotechnology and accelerate the development of fit-for-purpose bioprocesses, it is urgent to integrate multidisciplinary knowledge, creating a ‘biotechnology knowledge commons’ that covers all process steps. Likewise, it is necessary to devise a new work culture that favours the integration of biology, chemical engineering and computational sciences, providing the basis for novel approaches that begin at the end (i.e., analysing target product functions) and work backwards to biocatalyst design. To achieve these goals, the development of adequate standards, the implementation of appropriate governance schemes and the use of advanced computational methods (e.g. artificial intelligence) are some of the ingredients for success. Combining these in an innovation ecosystem can be a powerful way to accelerate the translation of biotechnology from the laboratory to the market.In this presentation, I will describe IBISBA, a pan-European research infrastructure dedicated to engineering biology and the industrialization of biotechnology. Through IBISBA, we aim to provide access to researchers from academia and industry across the globe to integrated services that support end-to-end, fit-for-purpose bioprocesses. By federating research organisations across Europe, we promote standardisation and good data practice, two factors that create the basis for service reproducibility and interoperability, and thus the accelerated production of scientific knowledge and its translation into innovation.

Cos’è la diplomazia scientifica? Qual è la sua importanza in un mondo segnato da sfide globali come il cambiamento climatico e il confronto fra grandi potenze? Quali saperi si possono mobilitare per studiare questo campo emergente di pratica e ricerca? I capitoli di questo volume offrono alcuni spunti per iniziare a rispondere a queste domande, ciascuno esaminandone un aspetto diverso, sia da un punto di vista teorico che presentando dei casi di studio sulla diplomazia scientifica «in azione». L’intento è di offrire una prima introduzione a un tema sempre più importante nelle relazioni fra scienza, società e politica, rivolgendosi a tutti coloro (studenti, ricercatori, decisori) che ad esso intendono avvicinarsi.

What is science diplomacy? Why is it important in a world marked by global challenges such as climate change and confrontation between great powers? What knowledge can be mobilised to study this emerging field of practice and research? The chapters in this volume provide initial answers to these questions, examining different aspects of science diplomacy, both from a theoretical point of view and by presenting real world case studies. The intent of the book is to offer an introduction to an increasingly important theme in the relations between science, society and politics. Consequently, it is addressed to all those (students, researchers, decision-makers) who are approaching science diplomacy for the first time.

Presentation for the EOSC-Life/Health-RI workshop Bridging the gap between researchers and the Health & Life Sciences research infrastructures - Showcasing EATRIS, BBMRI, ECRIN and ELIXIR tools & resources Date 13-14 June 2023, Utrecht the Netherlands (hybrid meeting)

Presentation for the EOSC-Life/Health-RI workshopBridging the gap between researchers and the Health & Life Sciences research infrastructures -Showcasing EATRIS, BBMRI, ECRIN and ELIXIR tools & resources Date 13-14 June 2023, Utrecht the Netherlands (hybrid meeting)

This webinar aims at providing training and support with fundamental requisites on semantic interoperability challenges, a cornerstone for global interoperability and for European Research Infrastructures, in the context of the implementation of the DANUBIUS RI (HE DANUBIUS-IP project, grant number: 101079778). Points covered during this webinar included: Interoperability, what for? – So what is it really? – What it is really – The different types of Interoperability – What is needed? – What is Semantic Interoperability (SI)? – Semantic challenges as a core – SI, What is needed? – METADATA – Where (what) are metadata? – Where (what) are Metadata for RIs? Granularity Challenge – PIDs and metadata – Metadata for data interoperability (& reproducibility!) – The TERM wars – All are semantic artefacts! Various Types of SKOS – Generic Data dictionary cookbook – Exchanging metadata on the Web – Knowledge graphs: (meta)data with meaning – Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) – 3 Keystones – Paper on Converging on a Semantic Interoperability Framework for the European Data Space for Science, Research and Innovation (EOSC) – Landscaping method

Poster at SwissText 2023, Neuchâtel, June 2023 In this poster, we showcase how CLARIN – a well-established research infrastructure (RI) and a landmark of the European Strategy Forum on RIs ESFRI – and its newly established Swiss node CLARIN-CH, support the scientific community using language data in the context of Open Science. CLARIN is a pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI), which provides accessibility to all European digital language resources and tools through a single sign-on online environment. CLARIN centres share with the community their expertise, their language resources, tools, and provide a large array of services. Specifically, the CLARIN community offers long-term solutions and technology services for deploying, connecting, analysing and sustaining digital language data and tools. To connect a variety of resources and data that are available, certain metadata norms were developed – component metadata (CMDI). CMDI revolves around XML schemas to make resources easily searchable and adaptable for automated metadata parsing. The XML schemas are stringent enough to make them usable for general purposes but also flexible enough to adapt to each case. Furthermore, CLARIN supports scholars who want to engage in pioneering data-driven research, contributing to a multilingual European Research Area. An example is the ParlaMint corpus, which contributes to the creation of comparable and uniformly annotated multilingual corpora (more than 17 languages) of parliamentary sessions. Finally, by offering resources in OA and promoting the curation and depositing of data in alignment with the requirements for the interoperability of data and services, CLARIN paved the way for large-scale data sharing and increased reuse of resources. In Switzerland, CLARIN-CH is a cross-institutional national network of scholars working on language related issues in various sub-disciplines, which started in December 2020. Its governance is ensured by the CLARIN-CH consortium of Swiss higher education and research institutions, which is fully funded by the member institutions. The consortium works in partnership with the Linguistic Research Infrastructure LiRI (UZH), which provides data and language technology services, and the Language Repository of Switzerland (LaRS/SWISSUbase), which is a national FAIR-complaint repository for linguistic data. Among the objectives of the CLARIN-CH Consortium are: (i) to bring together the research community using language resources and encourage collaborations by implementing cross-institutional working groups (WGs), such as Open Research Data projects for linguistics data and Management of sensitive data and legal aspects for linguistic data in Switzerland, and to foster the federation of resources and expertise at the national and the European levels. Regarding the former, CLARIN-CH WGs target specific needs of individual sub-areas with respect to the development of digital language resources and analysis tools, and their incorporation into the CLARIN-CH infrastructure. For example, the UpLORD project (leading house: UZH) focuses on: (I) upgrading workflows and interoperability of Swiss RIs for linguistic data, i.e., LiRI and SWISSUbase/LaRS, (ii) documenting and promoting best practices, (iii) raising awareness and training about ORD practices in the context of teaching, research and publishing, and (iv) building a robust practice of data curation. Regarding the latter objective, in collaboration with LiRI, CLARIN-CH works towards the interoperability of Swiss corpora with the European CLARIN infrastructure by developing a metadata schema compatible with the CMDI, the construction of an OA national corpus platform to allow complex queries in a variety of corpora and of an annotation tool for multimodal data, and targets the establishment of knowledge centers to value Swiss scholars’ expertise in language technology and language sciences. CLARIN and its Swiss node CLARIN-CH collaborate with other national and European RIs, such as DARIAH and its Swiss node DARIAH-CH, to further develop the Social Sciences and Humanities cluster and represent it in the European Open Science Cloud EOSC. By getting actively involved in CLARIN, Swiss scholars benefit of: (i) an increased visibility of their assets (research projects, data, tools, methodologies, expertise, etc.), (ii) a better access to European digital language resources and cutting-edge language technologies, (iii) involvement in European and national collaborative research projects, (iv) access to numerous funding opportunities (call for EU-funded projects, workshops, summer schools, mobility grants).

This poster introduces two projects exploring the concept of a secure virtual research environment allowing researchers to analyse data that are sensitive, private or protected under copyright law. The data always remain safe and, depending on the specific legal restrictions, cannot be copied or even viewed. This type of research infrastructure can help substantially improve the results of humanities and social sciences research by making far more data available for analysis. Researchers who want to analyse datasets by applying computational analysis tools usually obtain a copy of the data from a data provider. This has some disadvantages. Firstly, copying, storing, and managing the data on their computers is cumbersome and error prone. Secondly, and more importantly, data providers cannot hand over specific, sensitive datasets. Government, commercial parties, and heritage institutions have an increasing number of interesting but sensitive datasets available, e.g. housing market information from real estate platforms, business data from the chamber of commerce or e-books which are still in commerce. Unfortunately, there is no generic infrastructure available allowing researchers to analyse these sensitive data in a way that data providers are assured personal data or copyright protected data remain safe. As a result, potential data providers are still hesitant to share their data. The projects Tools-to-Data & SANE are developing a solution. Both projects turn things around by bringing the tool to the data. The data remains in a virtual, fully shielded environment. The researcher provides a tool, algorithm or container that will run in the same environment. The researcher cannot copy the data and only receives the results. In 2022 a proof-of-concept was built and evaluated in order to demonstrate the viability of the tools-to-data-environment. This was the Tools-to-data project. In the SANE project (Secure ANalysis Environment) the aim is to develop the proof-of-concept into a working service. It allows researchers to mine sensitive data, while leaving the data providers in complete control from beginning to end. They control the access, can screen the software, and can decide whether the data should remain hidden or not. The data itself never leaves the virtual environment. Derived data can be released, again after screening. SANE comes in two variants: In SANE Blind, the researcher submits a tool or script without being able to see the data and the data provider approves the tool and the output. SANE Tinker allows the researcher to see and manipulate the data. Tools-to-data has been developed by SURF, the collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research, and KB, National Library of the Netherlands. SANE is being developed by the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations), Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, CLARIAH (Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), SURF and KB, National Library of the Netherlands. SANE is funded by PDI-SSH (Platform Digital Infrastructure Social Sciences & Humanities). Marian Hellema, ‘Tools-to-Data: Report of a Proof-of-Concept’. KB, national library of the Netherlands 2022. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7254517

The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. The DiSSCo RI aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European natural science assets under common access, curation, policies and practices that ensure that all the data is easily Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR principles). DiSSCo represents the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanic gardens and collection-holding institutions in the world.DiSSCo entered the European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures in 2018 and launched its main preparatory phase project (DiSSCo Prepare) in 2020. DiSSCo Prepare is the primary vehicle through which DiSSCo reaches the overall maturity necessary for its construction and eventual operation. DiSSCo Prepare raises DiSSCo's implementation readiness level (IRL) across the five dimensions: technical, scientific, data, organisational and financial. Each dimension of implementation readiness is separately addressed by specific Work Packages (WP) with distinct targets, actions and tasks that will deliver DiSSCo's Construction Masterplan. This comprehensive and integrated Masterplan will be the product of the outputs of all of its content related tasks and will be the project's final output. It will serve as the blueprint for construction of the DiSSCo RI, including establishing it as a legal entity.DiSSCo Prepare builds on the successful completion of DiSSCo's design study, ICEDIG and the outcomes of other DiSSCo-linked projects such as SYNTHESYS+ and MOBILISE.This paper is an abridged version of the original DiSSCo Prepare grant proposal. It contains the overarching scientific case for DiSSCo Prepare, alongside a description of our major activities.

eRImote WP2 D2.1 Report on the features of the eRImote data store and information platform

The CLARIN Resource Families (CRF) initiative provides manually curated overviews of prominent language resources and technologies deposited across the distributed CLARIN infrastructure (Lenardič and Fišer 2022). The main aim of CRF is to support other core services of CLARIN from the perspective of the FAIR principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016). CRF enhances the findability and accessibility of CLARIN resources by collating them under their most common typological characteristic. The initiative facilitates re-use by providing comprehensive descriptions tailored to the unique technical features of each of the families, as well as their qualitative characteristics. Furthermore, CRF provides a funding instrument for external projects to contribute new overviews. Though originally focused on written corpora (e.g., corpora of parliamentary proceedings, corpora of academic texts), in 2022, CRF was expanded to include corpora of oral history. At present one collection is currently featured – the Ravensbrück corpora (Calamai et al. 2022a) – whose creation was supported by the aforementioned CRF funding instrument. This corpus family contains 8 collections of recorded interviews with survivors of the female concentration camp Ravensbrück, conducted in different languages, such as English, German, Hebrew, and French. See https://www.clarin.eu/resource-families/oral-history-corpora. One collection is available for download (Collection Bruzzone; see Bruzzone and Beccaria Rolfi 1976) while the others can be streamed online. The inclusion of the Ravensbrück corpora in CRF represents an illustrative example of how the CLARIN infrastructure incorporates and provides documentation for complex objects like oral history sources whose provenance and metadata documentation widely differ from standard written corpora and even from contemporary interviews born digitally. The team working on the Ravensbrück resource family (see Calamai et al. 2022b) availed themselves of CLARIN’s Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI), which is a framework for metadata description that “supports flexible definitions of metadata structure and semantics” by allowing researchers to “create and use their own [metadata] schema tailored specifically towards the requirements of [their] project” (Windhouwer and Goosen 2022: 194 and 199). All the 8 collections within the Ravensbrück family are accompanied by extensive CMDI metadata, prepared by Calamai et al. (2022a,b). The peculiarity of the interviews in the Ravensbrück family is that they were mostly recorded on an analogue carrier (i.e., audio cassettes), so a new CMDI metadata profile was created that is tailored to such legacy interviews not born digitally. This metadata profile has additional components describing “information about the context in which the interviews were conducted” as well as “information about the process of digitisation” (Calamai et al. 2022a: 3). Being thus digitised, comprehensively described, and carefully curated, the Ravensbrück corpora present a unique opportunity to study and compare these historical interviews. To facilitate their use in research, CLARIN offers through its Speech data and Technology network (Draxler et al. 2020) an open-source web application called TranscriptionPortal (https://speechandtech.eu/transcription-portal), where certain audio recordings (e.g., Collection Bruzzone, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) can be uploaded and then orthographically transcribed on the fly, with manual phonetic and word alignment for a variety of languages., Funded in the context of the CLARIN Resource Families Project.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is hosting an international collaboration that develops scenarios for a new circular particle-collider based research infrastructure. The so called "Future Circular Collider" (FCC) would be located in the vicinity of CERN's main sites (Meyrin Switzerland, Prevessin France), extending significantly into the Haute-Savoie department to the "Grand Annecy" region (see Figure 1). Hosting subsequently an intensity frontier electron-positron and an energy-frontier hadron particle collider, this research infrastructure has the potentials to contribute substantially to the discipline of particle physics and the understanding of nature's workings at the sub-atomic level. Such a research infrastructure can also contribute to scientific and technological progress in many areas that will be needed to construct and operate such a facility. Apart from science-changing insights and technological developments, there are direct economic benefits likely to arise from this project: the opportunities for firms to contribute to the installation and operation of this machine and the jobs that go along with these opportunities. The estimation of such effects is the purpose of this report. According to our estimations using an economic input-output model, the cumulated expenditure of about 25 bn CHF over a 30-year construction and research operation period could be connected to around 30,000 jobs per year via global value added chains. The original investment volume of 12.1 bn CHF directly generates globally 5.4 bn CHF of value added, securing almost 80,000 person-years of employment. Including the indirect effects in the production process, value added linked to the FCC investment rises to 11.6 bn CHF, leading to 180,000 person-years of employment. Widening the system boundaries to include depreciation (i.e. the capital stock firms need to build up or replenish in order to cope with the FCC-related production), the FCC-related value added grows to more than 14 bn CHF and leads to more than 230,000 person-years of employment opportunities. The direct value added by the operation phase is estimated at around 450 Mio CHF. it is safe to assume that the spending effects of personnel engaged in the operation alone will generate around 300 Mio CHF of value added worldwide, supporting around 4,000 jobs. The total direct, indirect and induced value added during the operation phase of more than 620 Mio CHF per year supports 8,400 jobs, the majority in France and Switzerland. The buildup and supply of renewable energy sources for the operation of the research infrastructure would raise Europe's value added by another 500 Mio CHF, securing additional 7,400 person years of employment in Europe. The lower limit for annual tourism spending due to the FCC programme in the (wider) Geneva region is around 130 Mio CHF. Switzerland and France share the bigger part of the total effects, with around 1,700 jobs linked to visitors only. Another 500 jobs are European, the rest – around 600 – are filled outside Europe. Globally, tourism effects would generate 2,700 jobs over several decades. According to our estimations using an economic input-output model, the cumulated expenditure of about 25 bn CHF over a 30-year construction and research operation period could be connected to around 30,000 jobs per year via global value added chains., French version included

In the age of changes and threat to the ecosphere at macroecological scales, big data has crystalized as a go-to tool for ecological research. To facilitate the creation of, access to, and referencing of contributors to such big data repositories, theGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility(GBIF) has established data streams that make readily available a wealth of biodiversity data. Navigating and accessing such large data sets and ensuring fair use and accreditation of observations can seem daunting. In this workshop, we will introduce GBIF, show how to navigate its data portal, demonstrate data streams to obtain and handle data programmatically, and communicate accreditation procedures.

While the human population is rapidly increasing and expected to reach 11 billion by the end of this century, global agricultural production is challenged due to climate change. To meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal targets and to bring about zero hunger, we need to boost our food production. For this, we need crops with higher yields, nutritional values, and the ability to resist diseases and adapt to changing environments. Untapped genetic resources to meet these goals are often harbored in crop wild relatives. Digital twinning represents a promising technology for the model-based identification and use of these resources by facilitating: 1) data flow and fusion from distributed data sources), 2) dynamic model updating, 3) automated model uncertainty analysis (validation against real-life data), and 4) provision of automated alerts for new genetic resources with predicted target genetic properties for plant breeders, conservation scientists and policymakers. Here, we showcase the importance of data flow to develop a digital twin that facilitates improving the nutritional quality of grasspea but can be transferable across traits and crops. Grasspea is a climate-smart crop that requires only residual moisture to complete its life cycle and is considered a lifesaver during severe droughts in tropical and subtropical regions. While it is protein-rich and could potentially help in beating protein malnutrition in the future, it also contains a neurotoxin that can cause paralysis of the lower limbs in adults and brain damage in children, if consumed over longer periods. Specific goals of our work include modelling geographic areas that present populations of grasspea wild relatives and land races with potential alleles to lower the toxicity content of grasspea to a non-harmful level., Presentation of the BioDIversity Digital Twin (BioDT) Crop Wild Relative (CWR) digital twin at the Living Norway Colloquium in Trondheim May 2023

Presentation as introduction to a sustainability workshop for ELIXIR, based on a draft paper.

The BioDT Task 4.3.1 kick-off meeting was organised as a side-event to the GBIF regional nodes meeting for Europe and Central Asia. This presentation marks the first communication of initial plans for the fulfillment of task 4.3 within the BioDT project. To this end, I have presented a set of ideas for how to (1) assess fragmentation and structure of the research infrastructure landscape which BioDT is built on, and (2) improve coordination within and across research infrastructures to foster reliability for future DTs.

The BioDT Task 4.3.1 kick-off meeting was organised as a side-event to the GBIF regional nodes meeting for Europe and Central Asia. BioDT partners were invited as observers to the regional GBIF nodes meeting and presented BioDT results and products for dissemination to end-users by the GBIF nodes. Selected GBIF nodes presented national biodiversity research infrastructure governance and collaboration models. The kick-off meeting resolved the BioDT milestone MS7 - First BioDT R&I nodes coordination workshop has been organized (M12 = May 2023) and MS22 - First RI nodes coordination workshop carried out (M12 = May 2023). It will also contribute to milestone MS23 - Guidelines on collaboration principles for RI nodes published online (M16 = September 2023).

WhatisHuma-NumandwhyweuseSemanticWeb ? WhydidwechoosetheSemanticWeb in 2013 (andbefore) :experiencefeedback ? Future prospects of Semantic Web philosophy at Huma-Num.

The presentation was given during the 38th ERIC Committee meeting, held virtually on 24 April 2023. It brieflydescribesthe community of E-RIHS, its background and its scientific activities.

Our science policy brief and associated presentation provides commentary on the Brno Declaration on Fostering a Global Ecosystem of Research Infrastructures (2022). This Declaration proposes an international network of research infrastructure (RI) to facilitate the coordination of work addressing “grand societal challenges” including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While our paper acknowledges the benefits RIs could provide for communities around the world, it also recommends that readers critically engage with the policy perspectives and call to action put forth in this Declaration. Presented by Dr Tim Brown, Lead for Digital Innovation, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, the video summarises our science policy brief prepared for the 8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (May 2023). On the UN website, our brief is posted under the topic of “Innovative ecosystems.” The video presentation can be found here: https://youtu.be/5MnFdv0kcv8

This session was run as a workshop at Software Sustainability Institute'sCollaborations Workshop 2023 on 3rd May 2023. This session explores the career paths, opportunities, and lived experiences of people who are working in and around research infrastructure. People performing these types of roles come from varied backgrounds, but will often have some research experience, although not necessarily in the field they are now working in. At the Alan Turing Institute, the Tools, Practices, and Systems (TPS) programme is developing several of these roles including: Community Managers and Research Application Managers, alongside the more established Research Software Engineers, Data Stewards, and Research Project Managers. These roles are called research infrastructure roles because the work they perform is primarily to support the work of researchers, although research can also be a significant proportion of these roles as well. Because these roles may exist in other forms and under other names, it can be challenging to identify best practices, build collaborative relationships, and capture the impact of these roles across different institutions and fields. The specifics of these roles will vary but can include handling administrative work, managing data storage, stakeholder engagement, community management, communications, software engineering, events coordination, and a lot more. As these roles have emerged, their career paths have increasingly been recognised as “alternative academic” or “Altac” roles. Drawing from their experiences, participants in this session will discuss what the career landscape currently looks like from their perspectives in research infrastructure, why recognition for unconventional roles matters to them, and how we can work towards a culture that provides better opportunities for individuals who take the non-traditional academic route. We will also facilitate open discussions with attendees to learn about their perspectives on the topic. &nbsp

The OPERAS-PLUS Communication Strategy and Toolkit describes thecommunication goals and objectives of the project and wider OPERAS ResearchInfrastructure, as well as outlines the activities and tools that will be used to achieve them. It provides a framework for consistent and effective communication across all channels and stakeholders. The strategy includes messaging, audience analysis, channel selection, and measurement and evaluation criteria. The toolkit, on the other hand, provides specific templates, guidelines, and resources for implementing the strategy. Overall, this Communication Strategy and Toolkit is essential for ensuring that all communication efforts align with the goals and effectively reach their target audience.

Metadata plays a key role in the scientific publication and dissemination process. It is only through metadata and identifiers that each contribution, from research data to article publication and beyond, becomes findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Persistent identifiers (PIDs) and their metadata are the backbone of scholarly communications, since only through them can the promise of sustainable access to research information be realized. This presentation will highlight the importance of open metadata in scholarly communications to recognize a wide range of contributions to science and as a way to build trust in research. We will also discuss the need for collaborative, community efforts to improve metadata creation and dissemination. Examples of organizations and researchers using open metadata will be presented.

Switzerland has joined CLARIN ERIC as observer in January 2023. This presentation explains the context of the Swiss political framework, the Swiss Roadmap process, the CLARIN-CH consortium and national infrastructure.&nbsp

The Catalysis Hub - Swiss CAT+, is a new infrastructure project funded by the ETH Domain, co -head-ed by EPFL and ETHZ. It offers the scientific community a unique integrated technology platform combining automated and high-throughput experimentation with advanced computational data analysis to accelerate the discoveries in the field of sustainable catalytic technologies. Divided into two hubs of expertise, homogeneous catalysis at EPFL and heterogeneous catalysis at ETHZ, the platform is open to academic and private research groups. Following a multi-year investment plan, both hubs have acquired and developed several high-end robotic platforms devoted to the synthesis, characterization, and testing of large numbers of molecular and solid cata-lysts. The hardware is associated with a fully digitalized experimental workflow and a specific data management strategy to support closed-loop experimentation and advanced computational data analysis., Chimia, 77 (3), ISSN:0009-4293

This report presents the implementation of the FAIR principles by EISCAT_3D.

Presentation of the Biodiversity Digital Twin (BioDT) project for the University of Oslo (UiO) Natural History Museum (NHMO) Department of Research and Collections on 2023-03-24, Approximately 50 people attending

Detta dokument redogör de lösningar som är möjliga för organisationer i SND-nätverket som hanterar och lagrar data på en egen yta, men som ännu saknar integration med SND:s tjänster; DORIS och forskningsdatakatalogen. Interimslösningen ska tillämpas för lärosäten som behöver komma igång med lokal lagring innan en fungerande integration med DORIS är på plats. Dokumentet redogör för hur lösningen fungerar och hur ansvaret är fördelat mellan SND och forskningshuvudmannen. Dokumentet ingår i SND:s DAU-handbok. An interim solution for local storage without integration with DORIS This document describes the possible solutions for organisations with the SND network that handle and store data in their own domain, but as yet lack integration with SND's services -DORIS and the research data catalogue. The interim solution applies to universities that need to proceed with local storage before integration within DORIS is in place. The document describes how the solution works and how responsibility is divided between SND and the research principal. The document is a part of the SND DAU-handbook.

This document provides an introduction to the OPERAS-PLUS project’s key exploitable results (KERs), including aspects such as the definition, value proposition, IP management, exploitation path and dissemination activities and adoption. It describes the methodology that will be used to capture individual project results and iterate and mature how each KER will be sustained beyond the life of the project. Updates of this initial document will be provided at M18 and M30.

Eine offene Wissenschaftskultur in den Geisteswissenschaften steht bei der Open-Access-Transformation unter anderem vor zwei, vielfach diskutierten Hindernissen: Es sind die Fragen nach der Qualität und der Auffindbarkeit von Publikationen, da diese oft in der Kritik stehen, sie seien nicht kritisch evaluiert worden und nur schwer auffindbar. Die Teilprojekte PRISM und TRIPLE der verteilten europäischen Forschungsinfrastruktur zur Entwicklung offener wissenschaftlicher Kommunikation in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, OPERAS, nehmen diese Probleme ins Visier. Durch PRISM sollen die Peer-Reviews von geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Monographien im DOAB für NutzerInnen sichtbar und so auch die Ergebnisse der Evaluation von Open Access Publikationen transparent gemacht werden. TRIPLE wiederum bietet unterschiedliche Features, die gemeinsames Forschen erleichtern sollen, ist zugleich aber auch ein Discovery-Service: Im Portal GoTriple kann eine große Bibliothek von OA-Publikationen per Suchbegriff anhand von 11 Sprachen gleichzeitig abgesucht werden, womit die Auffindbarkeit von offenen Texten gesteigert werden kann. Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture.

This report presents the implementation of the FAIR principles by IAGOS.