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This document provides an assessment of the progress from 2020-2023 in developing FAIR data policies within ENVRI-FAIR environmental research infrastructures. In particular, it is a comparison with D4.2 which provided the initial landscape survey is given. The text describes the progress made in advancing ENVRI research infrastructures towards FAIRness, and the diagrams provide ‘heat maps’ where the colour indicates the state. The conclusion is that much progress has been achieved, but – as always – there is more that could be done, with varying amounts to be done in the different RIs. It is of particular importance that progress on the ‘legal policies’ has been rapid and is almost completed for the RIs of ENVRI.

This deliverable provides an overview of relevant developments in the practices and technologies that support making research assets findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, especially where these are relevant for the ENVRI cluster of environmental research infrastructures. A review of selected initiatives and associated technologies is provided with some context for their relevance to the ENVRI community, especially those that are represented within the ENVRI-FAIR consortium.

This is the final deliverable of WP6, the training and capacity building work package of ENVRI-FAIR. The objectives of WP6 were to provide training to ENVRIs and key ENVRI stakeholder groups about the FAIR principles, how to implement these in practice in RI services and data management activities at data centre level, how to evaluate the degree of implementation using FAIR metrics, as well as relevant legal and policy requirements. This deliverable report summarises the activities we have undertaken, with special focus on the preparation and running of training events aimed at the ENVRIs’ data centre staff. We also describe the infrastructure that was developed to provide a comprehensive Learning Environment for the ENVRI Community, including a catalogue, learning platform and repository and the Training Gateway component of the ENVRI-Hub. Finally, the report also contains an extensive discussion of “lessons learned” that we hope will be of use for future ENVRI Community training activities.

The overarching goal of ENVRI-FAIR is for all participating RIs to improve their FAIRness and prepare the connection of their data repositories and services to the European Open Science Cloud. This deliverable reports the efforts Task 7.3 contributed to the development of common FAIRness goals in the second half of the project. The objective of this task is to provide co-development support driven by an implementation plan that identified by each subdomain, joint use cases among RIs or subdomains, and other needs identified during the project. In the second half of the project, Task 7.3 focused on the support for the integration with ENVRI-Hub, testing and validation of the developed services by subdomains, and exploitation and knowledge transfer.

This document presents the policies planned for the ENVRI-Hub service catalogue within the context of interoperation with EOSC and the FAIR principles. The ENVRI-Hub catalogue is supplied by the Research Infrastructures within ENVRI-FAIR (or more specifically their digital asset suppliers) and so it is necessary for the policies of the RIs to be sufficiently compatible to avoid problems of conflicting policies when accessing digital assets at the RIs from the ENVRI-Hub. The key policy drivers (EOSC Rules of participation, FAIR principles, and ENVRI-Hub initial documents) were documented in D4.6 where policy recommendations for the RIs were made, in order for their policies to be compatible with ENVRI-Hub and hence EOSC and FAIR. The next steps to create policies for the ENVRI-Hub were also documented in D4.6 following ENVRI-FAIR Policy workshop 4 where the approach was discussed. While ENVRI RIs are finalising their policies and their implementation through guidelines (best practice) and IT implementation (technology) this deliverable lays out the policies needed at ENVRI-Hub and the steps to realisation.

The ENVRI-FAIR project activities have clearly improved the FAIRness of the data collected by the Ecosystem and Biodiversity RIs and the level of cross-RI collaboration. With a long-term plan, the RIs must have also a trajectory in terms of long-term collaboration, consolidation and management that should be also based on the experience in ENVRI-FAIR. In this deliverable an analysis of the possible common development paths, complementarities and specific long-term use cases are presented and prepared for a discussion among the RIs’ legal entities.

The report summarises the collaboration between the environmental research infrastructures cluster and other ESFRI clusters during the conduction of the project.

The overarching goal of ENVRI-FAIR is for all participating RIs to improve their FAIRness and prepare the connection of their data repositories and services to the European Open Science Cloud. With the development of FAIR implementations from the participating RIs and integrated services among the environmental subdomains, these data and services will be brought together at a higher level (for the entire cluster), providing more efficient services for researchers and policy makers. This deliverable presents new developments to the knowledge base, initially presented in the ENVRI-FAIR Deliverable 7.3. The new developments focus on the knowledge base search engine. We introduce a new automated pipeline to index online resources: web pages, datasets, and computational notebooks. We also present a complete redesign of the search engine and interface. These new features were deployed in a cloud environment, making the service more performant and reliable. We also discuss the integration with the ENVRI community through the ENVRI-Hub and show a demonstration of the new search engine. By allowing users to find resources from ENVRI and its RIs, the knowledge base search engine improves interoperability.

D4.3 Report on legal and IPR aspects of service policies in the ENVRI domain describes the policy issues facing ENVRI RIs and in particular the state of plan and plans for progress. The deliverable relies on earlier deliverables, particularly D4.2 which provided the landscape analysis and the ongoing D4.5 updating the policy landscape together with the policy aspects of external development of FAIR services in the deliverable D4.4. It also benefits from the work done on methods for generating policy and maintaining policy consistency both with external factors (e.g., legislation) and the requirements and constraints of individual RIs to be reported in D4.6 and D4.7. The co-evolution of policy among the ENVRI RIs is as essential to interoperability as the technical co-evolution managed in WP5 and WP7, together with the individual ENVRI subdomains in WP8, 9,10 and 11.

The BEERi activity report summarizes the activities of the Board of European Environmental Research Infrastructure within the lifetime of the ENVRI-FAIR project. It provides an overview of the main common topics tackled within the BEERi and taken actions regarding them, illustrating the cooperation of the Community of the environmental RIs.

This Deliverable provides an assessment of the level of FAIRness of the seven RIs in the Biodiversity and Ecosystem subdomain. The assessment has been done by taking advantage of the FAIR Implementation Profiles, resulting from the collaborative effort between the GO-FAIR Foundation and ENVRI-FAIR WP5. In this report the outcome for the FIPs compiled by the RIs belonging to WP11 is discussed in more detail. A final chapter is dedicated to the evolution of the FIPs along the four years of the project.

The ENVRI landscape report for National Stakeholders summarizes the outcomes of the interviews that were conducted with five different national stakeholders within the environmental domain in Europe. The report addresses awareness of the ENVRI work and activities in different countries and particularly the ways the national ENVRIs are organized and coordinated currently. Most importantly, the report sums up how countries see the significance of aligning national strategies with the strategies at European level, and what are the related challenges and means of improving the alignment.

The ENVRI-Hub design study contains the analysis of the technical preconditions for the successful implementation of the design ENVRI-Hub as a centralised access interface to environmental data and services building upon the increase of FAIRness achieved in the ENVRI-FAIR project; it will be based on the validation results from WP7 and Task T5.4, and the achievements in the subdomain implementation work packages WP8-11 of this project. The design of the ENVRI-Hub started as a multifaceted initiative that brought together engineers, scientists, and managers to create a collaborative platform for environmental research and innovation, aiming at advancing environmental research in Europe. As a web platform, the ENVRI-Hub can provide access to environmental data and services offered by the European environmental Research Infrastructures. The data and services provided by the ENVRIs cover four domains of the Earth system, Atmosphere, Ocean, Solid Earth, and Biodiversity-Ecosystems. The ENVRI-Hub intends to facilitate multi-and-inter-disciplinary environmental research by making the data and services interoperable across the domains and easy to use by anyone in the ENVRI community. From different perspectives, depending on the role and interest of the user, the ENVRI-Hub encompasses various aspects, including technical considerations, scientific content, usability, and strategic management. This document describes the process of designing the ENVRI-Hub during the ENVRI-FAIR project, highlighting the key challenges and achievements as well as the potential of an operational ENVRI-Hub in the future.

In this deliverable we produce a list of services developed by Biodiversity and Ecosystems subdomain RIs. The services we considered were developed or utilised during the ENVRI-FAIR project in order to increase the interoperability and the co-development of service among different RIs of the subdomain.

This deliverable showcases the progress and demonstrators of services integration between the ESFRI Cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud. It highlights the successful onboarding of the ENVRI Catalogue of Services onto the EOSC Marketplace, improving visibility and accessibility. Ongoing discussions with OpenAIRE aim to enhance the discoverability of ENVRI digital assets within EOSC. The document emphasises the importance of harmonisation, interoperability, and collaboration in achieving seamless integration and maximising the impact of environmental research infrastructures.

The Deliverable "D5.4 ENVRI Service Catalogue" presents the development, implementation, and operation of a comprehensive service catalogue within the context of the ENVRI-FAIR project. The deliverable outlines the creation of a FAIR compliant and EOSC-ready catalogue, primarily focusing on services providing access to data. The innovative design and implementation of the catalogue embrace the adoption of rich metadata standards for ingestion and storage, namely EPOS-DCAT-AP metadata profile and the CERIF model, facilitating the description of diverse services across different research infrastructures (RIs). The validation processes, including service validation at the subdomain level, FAIRness evaluation, and an implementation phase, ensure the robustness, accuracy, and FAIR compliance of the catalogue, promoting its interoperability with the EOSC catalogue. The deliverable further details the operation of the catalogue, which involves a harmonised effort among service providers, backend developers, and front-end developers. It underscores the ongoing endeavour to ingest more metadata records, provide support for metadata curation, and work towards semantic interoperability. Future work, as outlined in the deliverable, involves enhancing the catalogue's operation by improving metadata quality, enhancing semantic interoperability, and adapting to the diversity of service types from different RIs. The ENVRI Service Catalogue represents a pivotal step towards advancing FAIR practices in environmental research. Its development, implementation, and operation symbolise an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement, adaptation, and learning, with the ultimate goal of propelling environmental research towards new horizons of discovery and innovation. By aligning with the EOSC catalogue requirements, it envisions a broader, more integrated network of scientific resources, thus empowering global researchers. The ENVRI Service Catalogue, as the embodiment of the ENVRI-FAIR project's vision, promises to facilitate open, FAIR, and efficient access to services and data in the environmental research domain.

The report provides the scope of the sustainability for the data management of the Marine subdomain, for the research infrastructures themselves and with respect to their contributions to ENVRI-FAIR and EOSC. Recommendations to consolidate the sustainability of the Marine subdomain contribution to EOSC beyond the ENVRI-FAIR project and the RI services are proposed.

This deliverable provides the “The FAIRness of SIOS” and refers to the status of the implementation in relation to the updated, 2nd version of the implementation plan from September 2021. This includes the implementation of services for meta data and data access including machine-to-machine interfaces within the ENVRI hub, and outside, utilising e.g., vocabulary and ontology specifications. It summarizes the FAIR implementation plan, the progress on FAIRness and the remaining tasks for SIOS. The main achievements are listed and an outlook on the next 5 years is given.

This deliverable summarises the work of WP1 to deliver Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR) services in the context of EOSC-Life’s funding calls, using these to improve FAIR services, service uptake and to inform sustainable development and future use. We describe service delivery and development around the FAIR principles and present the funded projects which have driven our implementation of FAIR Services. We address sustainability and describe the processes used to engage the EOSC-Life funded projects, as well as future work.

Archaeological researchers in many European countries lack state-of-the-art digital repositories where they can deposit their data for long-term preservation and make it available to the research community. The paper suggests building and mandating deposition of the data in a national-level repository as an effective solution. It enables clear orientation of all national stakeholders, formation of a trusted centre of expertise, guidance and support, cost-effectiveness of data curation and access, and aggregation at the European level by the ARIADNE data infrastructure.

We present the ENVRI-FAIR approach to consultancy by ICT experts with research infrastructure managers and developers, aimed at technology convergence across the community of environmental research infrastructures (ENVRIs) in order to ensure the production of FAIR (meta)data across the community. We identify three critical areas—(meta)data Catalogue, Syntax and Semantics—in which technology convergence is recommended, and prioritize the FAIR principles for their relevance to the three critical areas. We then present the range of instruments for consultancy at our disposal and how we have used them so far to support ENVRIs in implementing the FAIR principles. First results can be seen in implementation of provenance.

The development and growing adoption of the FAIR data principles and associated standards as a part of research policies and practices place novel demands on research data services. This article highlights common challenges and priorities and proposes a set of recommendations on how data infrastructures can evolve and collaborate to provide services that support the implementation of the FAIR data principles, in particular in the context of building the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The recommendations cover a broad area of topics, including certification, infrastructure components, stewardship, costs, rewards, collaboration, training, support, and data management. These recommendations were prioritized according to their perceived urgency by different stakeholder groups and associated with actions as well as suggested action owners. This article is the output of three workshops organized by the projects FAIRsFAIR, RDA Europe, OpenAIRE, EOSC-hub, and FREYA designed to explore, discuss, and formulate recommendations among stakeholders in the scientific community. While the results are a work-in-progress, the challenges and priorities outlined provide a detailed and unique overview of current issues seen as crucial by the community that can sharpen and improve the roadmap toward a FAIR data ecosystem., The Bigger Picture This article puts forward recommendations for data and infrastructure service providers to support findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) research data within the scholarly ecosystem. Formulating such recommendations is important to coordinate progress in realizing a FAIR data ecosystem in which research data can be easily shared and optimally reused, with the aim of driving down inefficiencies in the current academic system and enabling new forms of data-driven discovery. Key recommendations—ranked by their perceived urgency—resulting from an extensive community consultation process include that (1) funders and institutions should consider FAIR alignment and data sharing as part of research assessment, among other criteria; (2) services should support domain-specific ontologies by identifying disciplines that lack ontologies and enriching existing registries of ontologies; (3) repositories should support FAIR data by developing tools, such as APIs, sharing best practices, and undergoing FAIR-aligned certification; and (4) institutions should support FAIR awareness and implementation by establishing data stewardship programs providing simple and intuitive training for researchers. The recommendations outlined in this article are meant to help guide the way forward to putting into practice the FAIR guiding principles for data management., This article puts forward recommendations for data and infrastructure service providers to support FAIR research data within the scholarly ecosystem, gathered through an extensive process of community consultation. Such recommendations are important to coordinate progress in realizing a FAIR data ecosystem in which research data can be easily shared and optimally reused, with the aim of driving down inefficiencies in the current academic system and enabling new forms of data-driven discovery.

Embracing Open Science is critical if we are to make science more collaborative, reproducible, transparent and impactful. Open Science undoubtedly has the power to positively influence society, but its implementation is not yet universal. A revolution is required: one which opens up research processes and changes mindsets in favour of a world where policies, tools and infrastructures universally support the growth and sharing of knowledge. Research libraries are well placed to make that revolution happen, and LIBER's Open Science Roadmap outlines the specific actions libraries can take to champion Open Science, both within and beyond their own institutions. As we explain in detail throughout this document, libraries need to advocate for Open Science locally and internationally, to support Open Science through tools and services and to expand the impact of their work through collaboration and partnerships. LIBER has shaped its 2018-2022 Strategyto support and enable Open Science and it is our hope that this Roadmap will help Europe’s research libraries to do the same. This document was written during spring 2018, when the Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) produced integrated advice for the EC and key stakeholders. People from across the LIBER community translated the OSPP recommendations for libraries and combined them with suggestions drawn from their own expertise and experiences.

This report highlights common challenges and priorities, and proposes a set of initial recommendations on how existing data infrastructures can evolve and collaborate to provide services that support the implementation of the FAIR data principles, in particular in the context of building the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The report is an output of three workshops designed to explore, discuss and formulate such recommendations and is aimed at stakeholders in the scholarly world and particularly the EOSC Governance.