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The H2020 project “EOSC Pillar” and its three “sister projects” (5b Projects) are an excellent example of how different European projects can effectively participate in the EOSC building process united in a serious, determined effort formalized by a consensual agreement between the projects. The regional approach, responding to individual, regional needs, has demonstrated the importance of jointly addressing challenges related to the European Open Science Cloud in order to reach the diverse and fragmented European research infrastructure landscape. The resulting FAIR data and conclusions are essential building blocks for continuing similar efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paolo Budroni has been working in the university sector since 1991. At the beginning he answers questions about his professional career in the field of research documentation and research data management. The interview addresses national and international projects and initiatives for research data management with a focus on the European Open Science Cloud. Finally, Budroni encourages libraries to actively implement the concept of Open Science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The RDA Europe Workshop „From Planning to Action. Towards the Establishment of an Austrian Research Infrastructure“ was organized in Vienna in November 2017 with the support of RDA Europe, the Vienna University of Technology, and the University of Vienna. The workshop was the first RDA national event in Austria in a series of RDA Europe events dedicated to practical issues surrounding the adoption of RDA recommendations, the implementation of European Open Science Cloud and other key European data initiatives in order to support EU researchers and data centres. The different sections focused on transversal and domain-specific projects and infrastructures in Austria, such as data centres and data repositories that have emerged as a result of initiatives developed at the national level. The presentations also reflected the European perspective on research data management, focusing on the political and scientific work of international organisations. Furthermore there was an analysis of various RDA Europe working group recommendations and their potential for adoption in local contexts. The event also included the announcement of a new dedicated RDA group for Austria. This node will formally represent the Austrian data management community within the new RDA administrative structure as soon as formal procedures are completed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the final project year of e-Infrastructures Austria, a program for the coordinated expansion and continued development of repositories across Austria, funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Commerce (BMWFW), the objectives of the three defined subprojects were successfully met. While at the beginning of the project only 3 institutions in Austria had repositories in place, after three years, 5 institutions had data repositories and 17 institutions had publication servers in use, five more were in development and 3 being planned. In 2016, a „task force dedicated to finding strategies for the management of research data in Austria“ created a Model Policy for Research Data Management at Austrian research institutions. At some partner institutions the topic of data management plans was introduced. The exchange of experiences on technical, organisational, legal, and content related issues could be achieved through Workshops on metadata and long term archiving and particularly through a four-day training seminar for research data stewardship and e-infrastructures. Topics related to research data management will fortunately be continued. Apart from the follow-up project e-Infrastructures Austria Plus, there are currently several national publicly funded cooperative projects in place supporting the Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science and complying with the requirements of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

e-infrastructures Austria hosted a four-day training seminar for research data stewardship and e-infrastructures in order to aid representatives from libraries, research services and IT services in the establishment of institutional repositories and research support services. The lectures offered covered technical, organizational and legal themes. They acted as a supplement to existing educational opportunities and encouraged the exchange of knowledge in the areas of research data management, data stewardship and workflows of research processes and digital archiving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the second year, the FIRSM project entitled e-lnfrastructures Austria has not only established a widely accepted platform for networking forums, meetings and training units, but the first deliverables are also available, which have been instrumental in the overall objective of the development of sustainable archive infrastructure and the consolidation of knowledge in the field of security and provision of digital data. In early 2015, a survey was carried out on the project, which encompassed the scientific and artistic academic staff from the 20 public universities and three non-university research institutions in Austria. The aim was to boost the practical application of research data and coordinate the services offered in this area for existing needs. The survey results show a significant need to catch up in the field of data management. The construction of the technical infrastructure in the area of an electronic document repository (project column A ) for all partners is well advanced, therefore, the concentration in the last year of the project will mainly be on column B (research data). The research data final report forms the basis for a group of experts, which deals with the question of strategy for handling research data and research data management in Austria. Project column C (Knowledge Network) is currently supported in the last year of the project by a centrally organized, four-day training event „Training Seminar for Research Data and e-lnfrastructures“ for all project partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In January 2014, the national three-year HRSM project e-lnfrastructures Austria was initiated. The overall objective is the coordinated design and development of repository infrastructures for research and teaching in Austria, as well as efficient and sustainable research data management at all participating 20 universities and five extramural research institutions. The project is divided into three sub-projects that thematically overlap each other and/or build on each other. Coordination is carried out by the University of Vienna. By the end of 2016, three objectives are to be realized: — Sub-project A (objective 1): Implementation of repositories at the local level at the partner universities. Purpose: establishment of institutional repositories at all participating institutions (all Austrian universities with the exception o f the Medical University of Innsbruck) — Sub-project B (objective 2): Developing a strategic approach for future research data management in Austria — Sub-project C (objective 3'): Establishing a knowledge infrastructure for all 25 project partners In the current phase of the e-lnfrastructures Austria project, the focus is on building repositories, including the category of so-called document servers (which can include the different institutional repositories of Austrian institutions). More recently, certain data requires even different solutions. These solutions can also have forms that are not common to the repository world. This is where the term „information infrastructure“ (e-lnfrastructures) becomes significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In January 2014, the three-year collaborative project e-Infrastructures Austria was initiated in Austria, a project which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy for the coordinated establishment and further development of repository infrastructures for research and teaching as well as to provide an efficient and sustainable research data management system at all 20 participating universities and the other five extra-university institutions involved. The project is based on a broad concept of research data and focuses on the opportunities and challenges arising from new applications and innovative forms of the re-use of data. In this context, the purpose of such a project is not only to provide the technical infrastructure needed, but also to create the appropriate organizational and legal framework. To ensure that data remains secure and accessible over the long term, as well as understandable and re-usable, it is a basic requirement of the system development team to promote the interaction of different groups of people, strategies and techniques. Therefore in the project, there are different important stakeholders: Scientific libraries, IT service facilities, research funders, researchers and publishers. It is necessary to clearly define areas of responsibility with associated roles and responsibilities and to set these roles in the related institutions. By introducing data management plans, policies and technical systems with clear terms of use and regulated accessibility, institutions can significantly benefit the creation of digital content in the long term, making such data accessible and re-usable while maintaining legal security for all parties involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In January 2014, e-lnfrastructures Austria, a three-year project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy was launched. The project pursues the coordinated development and advancement of repository infrastructures, a strategic approach for future research data management in Austria, as well as the development of a knowledge network for secure archiving and dissemination of electronic publications, multimedia objects, and other digital data from research and education. Its main purposes are both for the construction of technical infrastructures as well as the creation of a knowledge base for future service offerings in this area. The basis for the successful completion of the project was the rapid development of an Austria-wide network of 25 institutions, including 20 universities. The cooperation is achieved through instruments that can be extended as required: five committees and governance that regulates roles and responsibilities. The identified themes are treated in interdisciplinary „work package clusters “that are applied over time. The project provides a platform for numerous networking forums, meeting and training units that involves all provinces and invites librarians as well as other relevant stakeholders such as representatives from the local IT facilities, research services and legal departments and scientists to participate. Thus, the project reaches way beyond simply addressing thematically and organizationally specific library perspectives. The report provides information about the project objectives of e-lnfrastructures Austria, the successful establishment of the network that took place in 2014 and the different governing bodies. The report also includes the results achieved in the first year of the project in the clusters and the work to be performed in 2015. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, institutional repositories are advancing to the core of digital collections. There are principles that apply to creating the records for a matrix, from which rules for securing the cultural heritage can be derived, which will help them to withstand wear and tear. These principles should be written in such a way so they can be successfully developed, despite the usually very technology-heavy advice and methods. Techniques come and go, but the backup should be able to be operated independently from the various current ways of thinking. Technology and know-how are only one aspect of archiving and preserving projects: Archiving is a cultural commission, and people's actions need to be aligned accordingly. The matrix [code], which can be derived from this kind of process, enables our culturally conditioned behavior to be easily reproduced. [TRANSLATION]

This report offers some reflections for a better understanding of the realization of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) at a local level, describing the implementation of the newly established Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation and the EOSC Support Office Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This entry presents a research study on semantic interoperability that could be achieved in PHAIDRA International persistent ecosystem with support of aligned metadata and Knowledge Organization Systems. Several approaches from LODE-BD Recommendations and from some modeling and alignment techniques for controlled vocabularies are presented. The implementation of a state-of-the-art open source tool, VocBench, is proposed, to support collaborative development and multi-language concept alignment of controlled vocabularies (COAR and other) using SKOS. To aggregate, centrally manage, monitor and share all necessary information on metadata, vocabularies and mappings implemented in PHAIDRA Ecosystem, the development of PHAIDRA Knowledge Base underpinned by a terminology server is suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2nd Workshop of the H2020 project LEARN was held at the University of Vienna on April 6th 2016. The Workshop was focused on Research Data Management towards Open Science and the development of policies and was organised together with the partners from University College London (UCL), University of Barcelona, LIBER and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The Workshop was designed to encourage all stakeholders — researchers, research funders, research organisations and senior decision makers — to explore what their roles and responsibilities are in the fast-changing environment of infrastructure development and research data management. The topics were driven by four keynotes in the morning session which addressed polity development and alignment. In the afternoon session, representatives from eight European countries shared their experiences in three parallel Round Tables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research Data Alliance Austria (RDA-AT) is a national RDA node dedicated to representing emerging research and data management communities throughout Austria. RDA-AT will operate as a formal participant of RDA Europe and RDA Global, linking Austrian data management initiatives and RDA Working and Interest Groups, providing assistance in adoption of RDA recommendations, and allowing Austrian stakeholders to benefit directly from RDA support mechanisms. These new connections will bring key Austrian issues to the global data management table, and global discussions back to Austria. This paper details the goals of the RDA-AT and describes its community and sustainability plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]