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Short presentation given in the mini-workshop on "Research Object Hub (RoHub) for FAIR research data management and Open Science in practice",during the Collaboration Workshop 2023. 16 participants attended this mini-workshop where the basics of Research Objects were presented. Scheduled:CW23 Day 2: Wednesday, 3 May 2023 from 15:10 - 16:10 BST (14:10 - 15:10 UTC; 60 minutes) Facilitator(s):Anne Fouilloux (Simula Research Laboratory), Alejandro Coca-Castro (The Alan Turing Institute) and Jean Iaquinta (The University of Oslo) Abstract:RoHubis a Research Object (RO) management platform that enables researchers to collaboratively manage, share and preserve their research work. RoHub implements the full RO model and paradigm: resources associated to a particular research work are aggregated into a single FAIR digital object, and metadata relevant for understanding and interpreting the content is represented as semantic metadata that are user and machine readable. In this mini-workshop, you will learn how to use RoHub to search, create and reuse different types of ROs: Bibliography-centric, data-centric, executable, software-centric, workflow-centric ROs. A new RO can either be created from scratch (empty Live RO) or from another existing RO (fork RO) and aggregate new objects (or modify existing objects) through its whole life cycle. This means, RO is filled incrementally by aggregating relevant resources such as software, workflows, datasets, documents according to its typology that are being created, reused or repurposed. These resources can be modified at any point in time. We can copy and keep ROs in time through snapshots which reflect their status at a given point in time. Snapshots can have their own identifiers (DOIs) which facilitates tracking the evolution of a research. At some point in time, a RO can be published and archived (so called Archived RO) with a permanent identifier (DOI). New Live ROs can be derived based on an existing Archived RO, for instance by forking it. In this mini-workshop, we will fork an existing executable RO containing a Jupyter Notebook as a main resource. Then we will check its reproducibility (through a Binder service such as MyBinder and/or EGI Binder) and modify the Jupyter Notebook. Finally, the updated Jupyter Notebook will be saved in the forked RO to update it. We will also discuss the reusability of Jupyter Notebook by introducing the need for defining and adopting Best practices. As an example, we will use theEnvironmental Data Science Book(EDS)where the EDS community has defined clear guidelines for submission and reviewing, templates for creating and scheduling notebooks using GitHub Actions CI/CD tools, FAIR practices through RoHub and Binder to facilitate fully documented, shareable and reproducible notebooks. Audience:Researchers with basic knowledge of Jupyter Notebooks and programming (Python, R, Julia).

Ein Datenmanagementplan (DMP) ist für jedes Forschungsprojekt von entscheidender Bedeutung. Er hilft unter anderem Forschungsdaten effektiv zu organisieren, das Risiko des Datenverlusts zu minimieren und den Anforderungen von Förderorganisationen gerecht zu werden. In diesem Beitrag erfahren Sie, wie Sie einen umfassenden Plan erstellen können, der Ihre spezifischen Anforderungen erfüllt. Dazu stellen wir die wichtigsten Bestandteile eines DMPs, Best Practices und Hilfsmittel wie den Research Data Management Organiser (RDMO) vor. Die dreitägige HeFDI Data Week ermöglicht es Forschenden, Lehrenden und allen weiteren Interessierten, Themen und Angebote des Forschungsdatenmanagements kennenzulernen und zu erproben. Darüber hinaus werden den Teilnehmenden Daten- und Coding-Kompetenzen vermittelt sowie Dienste und Angebote verschiedener hessischer Infrastruktur-Einrichtungen und Zentren vorgestellt., Die HeFDI Data Week ist ein Angebot der Landesinitiative HeFDI - Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen, welche vom Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst (HMWK) finanziert wird.

RO-Crate (https://doi.org/10.3233/DS-210053) is a lightweight method to package research outputs along with their metadata, based on existing Linked Data standards. Bioschemas (https://bioschemas.org/) provides metadata schemas to add structured metadata to webpages on Life Science, based on schema.org. Signposting (https://signposting.org/) specifies a lightweight yet powerful approach to increase the FAIRness of scholarly objects, based on Web standards. The combination of these standard-based approaches make resources easy to navigate by machines, provide an unambiguous way for machines to access FAIR metadata and content in a single request, and reduce content-negotiation hassle that can give unpredictable results. This tripartite combination is of benefit for repositories and publishers, as they can non-disruptively add FAIR Signposting headers for machine navigation, support RO-Crate imports and align with Bioschemas specifications, making FAIR Digital Objects achievable with existing technologies over HTTP. Our broad communities have a strong foundation in ELIXIR, through individual engagement, as well as in ELIXIR-aligned projects (EOSC-Life, BY-COVID, EOSC4Cancer, EuroScienceGateway, Biodiversity Genomics Europe). Bioschemas is deployed by 67 ELIXIR resources, and its community have built rich profiles and matured biochemistry types like Protein into schema.org. While ELIXIR’s role in RO-Crate initially was fairly workflow-focused (e.g. WorkflowHub, WfExS), the rest of the RO-Crate community is quite data-centric, with recent adaptation by biodiversity and plant science initiatives. We are therefore now arranging several training events (including at ELIXIR AHM) and virtual training modules to improve uptake of FAIR using our pragmatic approach to rich metadata using established Web technologies.

In most places on the planet vegetation thrives: it is known as “greening Earth”. However in certain regions, especially in the Arctic, there are areas exhibiting a browning trend. This phenomenon is well known but not fully understood yet, and grasping its impact on local ecosystems requires involvement of scientists from different disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, as well as local populations. Here we focus on the Troms and Finnmark counties in northern Norway to assess the extent of the problem and any link with local environmental conditions as well as potential impacts. We have chosen to adopt an open and collaborative process and take advantage of the services offered by RELIANCE on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). RELIANCE delivers a suite of innovative and interconnected services that extend the capabilities of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to support the management of the research lifecycle within Earth Science Communities and Copernicus Users. The RELIANCE project has delivered 3 complementary technologies: Research Objects (ROs), Data Cubes and AI-based Text Mining. RoHub is a Research Object management platform that implements these 3 technologies and enables researchers to collaboratively manage, share and preserve their research work. We will show how we are using these technologies along with EGI notebooks to work open and share an executable Jupyter Notebook that is fully reproducible and reusable. We use a number of Python libraries from the Pangeo software stack such as Xarray, Dask and Zarr. Our Jupyter Notebook is bundled with its computational environment, datacubes and related bibliographic resources in an executable Research Object. We believe that this approach can significantly speed up the research process and can drive it to more exploitable results. Up to now, we have used indices derived from satellite data (in particular Sentinel-2) to assess how the vegetation cover in Troms and Finnmark counties has changed. To go a bit further we are investigating how to relate such information to relevant local parameters obtained from meteorological reanalysis data (ERA5 and ERA5-land from ECMWF). That should give a good basis for training an Artificial Intelligence algorithm and testing it, with the objective of getting an idea about the possibility of “predicting” what is likely to happen in the near future with certain types of vegetation like mosses and lichens which are essential for local populations and animals.

Web-version: https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1 This document specifies a method, known as RO-Crate (Research Object Crate), of aggregating and describing research data with associated metadata. RO-Crates can aggregate and describe any resource including files, URI-addressable resources, or use other addressing schemes to locate digital or physical data. RO-Crates can describe data in aggregate and at the individual resource level, with metadata to aid in discovery, re-use and long term management of data. Metadata includes the ability to describe the context of data and the entities involved in its production, use and reuse. For example: who created it, using which equipment, software and workflows, under what licenses can it be re-used, where was it collected, and/or where is it about. RO-Crate uses JSON-LD to to express this metadata using linked data, describing data resources as well as contextual entities such as people, organizations, software and equipment as a series of linked JSON-LD objects - using common published vocabularies, chiefly schema.org. The core of RO-Crate is a JSON-LD file, the RO-Crate Metadata File, named ro-crate-metadata.json. This file contains structured metadata about the dataset as a whole (the Root Data Entity) and, optionally, about some or all of its files. This provides a simple way to, for example, assert the authors (e.g. people, organizations) of the RO-Crate or one its files, or to capture more complex provenance for files, such as how they were created using software and equipment. While providing the formal specification for RO-Crate, this document also aims to be a practical guide for software authors to create tools for generating and consuming research data packages, with explanation by examples.

This paper takes an industrial extraction heating unit as the research object, introduces a heat storage device into the steam bypass and proposes two schemes for discharging, one for electricity users and the other for heat users. The unit’s original peak shaving plan, bypass peak shaving plan, and bypass heat storage combined peak shaving plan were analyzed in this paper by building a unit analysis model in Ebsilon software. The results show that the bypass heat storage combined peak shaving scheme for power users has the largest peak shaving range, it has increased by 163.87MW compared with the original unit when the heat supply get to the largest. In one storage and discharge cycle, the scheme of bypass heat storage combined peak shaving discharging to electricity users has the highest cycle thermal efficiency and the highest operating profit, compared with the bypass peak shaving scheme, the operating revenue of the scheme has increased by 16.85%.

The study aimed to investigate and compare the contents of carboxymethyllysine (CML) in two kinds of broilers during postmortem ageing and storage. The contents of CML in raw and boiled (100 °C, 30 min) broiler briskets and legs which were from white feather broilers (n = 8) and yellow feather broilers (n = 8) with ageing and storage at 4 °C for 0–168 h were determined. Postmortem ageing and storage had a significant (P 0.05) change, while that in boiled brisket meat significantly (P 0.05) effect on the CML contents in raw/boiled yellow feather broilers. Meanwhile, CML contents in white feather broilers were much higher than that in yellow feather broilers. Thus, white feather broilers can be selected as the research object to study the mechanism of ageing and storage on CML content in the postmortem broiler in the future.

Research Objects (ROs) have been proposed as a packaging mechanism to aggregate research outputs of scientific investigations and capture their context and metadata in a machine-readable manner. However, creating ROs (and collecting the respective metadata of their constituent resources) is still a time-consuming task. In this demo we present ya2ro, a tool designed to ease the creation of Research Objects following the RO-Crate specification. Given an input file with external resources available on the Web (datasets, software, publications and people), ya2ro will retrieve their metadata descriptions (if available), creating an aggregated RO-Crate available both in human-readable manner (HTML) and machine-readable manner (JSON-LD).

The numerous benefits of Open Science (OS) and of the four FAIR foundational principles -Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable- are increasingly valued in academia, although what OS and FAIR entail is still largely misunderstood. In such conditions putting in practice OS and applying the FAIR principles is challenging and underrated. However, realising OS is perfectly within grasp provided that an infrastructure supporting the management of the research lifecycle is available. RoHub is precisely a Research Object (RO) management platform implementing three complementary technologies: Research Objects, Data Cubes and Artificial Intelligence-based Text Mining services. RoHub enables researchers to collaboratively manage, share and preserve their research while they are still working on it (rather than after the work is finished). In this paper, three communities from Earth Sciences, namely Geohazards, Sea Monitoring and Climate Change, demonstrate how RoHub helped them to understand each other and to work openly, and more importantly how communities of practice play an important role in facilitating reuse and interdisciplinary collaboration. These findings are illustrated with several use cases from these various communities.

Komunikācija un mediju studijas Informācijas un komunikācijas zinātnes Communication and Media Studies Information and Communication Sciences Maģistra darba sastāvā ir divas galvenās daļas – teorētiskā un empīriskā. Teorētiskajā daļā apkopots materiāls par naratīva analīzi, rāmēšanas teoriju, reģionālo mediju specifiku, klimatu un klimata pārmaiņām kā tādām, kas iekļauj jaunākos atklājumus un pētījumus par tām. Empīriskā daļa fokusējas uz četru reģionālo mediju (“Druva”, “Bauskas Dzīve”, “Ventas Balss”, “Dzirkstele”) rakstu analīzi, kas atlasīti pēc noteiktas atslēgas vārdu kopas, lai atklātu dominējošos naratīvus. Empīriskajā daļā arī lasāmi interviju pārskati. Pētījuma objekts ir reģionālie mediji, un pētījuma priekšmets – klimata pārmaiņu naratīvi un rāmējums. Maģistra darba pamatā ir pārliecība, ka Latvijas reģionālajos medijos novērotie naratīvi par klimata pārmaiņām saka, ka Latvija iestājas pret klimata pārmaiņu progresēšanos un tiecas uz atbildības līmeni un labklājību, kā arī tas, ka reģionālie mediji klimata pārmaiņas pārsvarā nerāmē. Pētījuma tēma ir aktuāla, jo klimata pārmaiņas radikāli mainījušas un maina mūsu ikdienu, uzskatus, paradumus, biznesa vidi un citas jomas. Pateicoties medijiem un saturam tajos sabiedrībai ir labāks priekšstats par situācijas nopietnību, labāks priekšstats par Zaļā Kursa dzīves stilu Mediji spēlē lielu lomu tajā, kur virzīsies sabiedrības nostāja, uzskati un apņemšanās. Pētījuma mērķis ir atklāt dominējošos naratīvus (to uzbūvi un atšķirības starp tiem) par klimata pārmaiņām Latvijas reģionālajos medijos (“Druva”, “Bauskas Dzīve”, “Ventas Balss”, “Dzirkstele”) laika posmā no 2021. gada novembra līdz 2022. gada aprīlim. Pēc veiktā pētījuma iegūtajiem datiem var tikt secināts, ka reģionālie mediji ziņas un publikācijas rāmē, bet salīdzinoši maz. Vairāk tiek domāts pie naratīva, kas starp visiem medijiem dominē, ka Latvija tiecas uz korporatīvu atbildību un ilgtspēju, pielāgojas un pilda Eiropas Savienības noteiktās prasības un tiecas uz klimata neitralitāti. Reģionālo mediju redaktoru un intervētās ekspertes nostāja attiecībā pret klimata pārmaiņu politiku Latvijā ir negatīva vai intervētie nav ar to iepazinušies gana daudz, lai komentētu. Naratīvi tiek plānoti un veidoti konstanti attiecībā par to, kas reģionam aktuāls klimata kontekstā, pētījuma rezultāti to apstiprina, jo tematikas ziņā, katrs reģions raksta vairāk par viņiem nozīmīgām klimata problēmām. Master’s thesis has two main parts – theoretical and empirical. In the theoretical part there is a compilation of narrative analysis, news framing theory, regional media specifics, climate and climate change as such, including explanation, description about some new discoveries and research about it. Empirical part focuses on four Latvian regional media (“Druva”, “Bauskas Dzīve”, “Ventas Balss”, “Dzirkstele”) publication analysis, which were selected by specific group of key words. In the empirical part there is also an overview on the done interviews. Research object is set to be regional media, and subject – climate change narratives and framing. This thesis is based on belief that the narratives observed in Latvian reginal media say that Latvia stands against climate change progressing and stives towards responsibility and welfare, also on the belief that selected reginal media mostly hasn’t framed climate change in their publications. This research is topical, because climate change has radically changed and still is changing our everyday, beliefs, habits, business environment and other. Thanks to media and their content society has a better understanding about the seriousness of the situation, better understanding about the Green Course and has the information about everything they can do to adapt to the Green Course. Media has a big role in which direction the society’s beliefs, demands and commitment will be going. The aim of this thesis is to find out what are the dominating narratives in Latvian regional media (their differences and structure) in the time period of November 2021 till April 2022. After the analysis it can be concluded that selected media frames climate change but relatively little. More is thought about narrative, which between all media dominates that Latvia aims to corporative responsibility and sustainability, adapts and fulfils requirements set by European Union and strives towards climate neutralization. The position of regional media editors and the interviewed expert in relation to the climate change policy in Latvia is negative or the interviewees are not familiar enough with it to comment. Narratives are planned and created constantly regarding what is relevant for the region in the context of climate, the results of the study confirm this, because in terms of subject matter, each region writes more about climate problems that are important to them.

Research Objects (ROs) are becoming a popular means to capture the context and research artefacts associated with a research investigation in both human-readable and machine-readable formats. However, it is unclear how well ROs themselves adhere to the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) principles. In this work, we describe a comprehensive analysis of the FAIR assessment of more than 2500 ROs across multiple disciplines. Our work integrates FAIROs, our existing RO evaluation service, in the ROHub platform. We discuss the challenges of calculating the FAIR assessment of aggregations of resources, and how we supplement the FAIROs tests with information from the RO-Crate descriptor file generated by ROHub.

Students’ proof construction is one of the important abilities in learning mathematical knowledge. To understand the development of Students’ proof construction of the fourth-grade students in Guilin, 15 fourth-grade students were selected to conduct an exploration activity about the sum of the inner angles of a triangle is equal to 180°. Through the observation and interview with students in the activities, we conclude that the reasonable ability of excellent students has coherence and integrity, the middle level students’ proof construction is ordinary and still need to improve, and the Low Students’ proof construction students are weak, and it is difficult to understand the research object. The teacher must have a creative and interesting method to teach students to improve Students’ proof construction from the research process and results.

The degree of pest damage evaluation on corps in the field environment is very important for precision spraying pesticides. In this paper, we proposed an image processing method to identify the wormholes in the image of broccoli seedlings, and then to evaluate the damage of the broccoli seedlings by pests. The broccoli seedlings were taken as the research object. The ratio of wormhole areas to broccoli seedling leaves areas (Rw) was used to describe the pest damage degree. An algorithm was developed to calculate the ratio of wormhole areas to broccoli seedling leaves areas. Firstly, broccoli seedling leaves were segmented from the background and the area of the leaves was obtained. There were some holes in segmentation results due to pest damage and other reasons. Then, a classifier based on machine learning was developed to classify the wormholes and other holes. Twenty-four features, including color features and shape features of the holes, were used to develop classifiers. After identifying wormholes from images, the area of the wormholes was obtained and the degree of pest damage to broccoli seedling was calculated. The determination coefficient (R2) between the algorithm calculated pest damage degree and manually labeled pest damage degree was 0.85. The root-mean-square error (δ) was 0.02. Results demonstrated that the color and shape were able to effectively segment wormholes from leaves of broccoli seedlings and evaluate the degree of pest damage. This method could provide references for precision spraying pesticides.

Objective: To analyze and study the effect of continuous nursing mode for continuous peritoneal dialysis nursing. Methods: 40 patients with continuous peritoneal dialysis received in our hospital were randomly selected as the research object. The research time was from June 2018 to June 2020. The patients were divided into two groups by random number table method. The patients with routine nursing mode were named as the control group and the patients with continuous nursing mode were named as the observation group (20 cases in each group). The clinical nursing effects of different nursing modes are compared. Results: After nursing, the nursing compliance of the observation group was 95%, which was higher than 70% of the control group. There was significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.05). Comparing the blood routine related indexes of the two groups, the blood potassium, hemoglobin, serum creatinine and carbon dioxide binding force of the observation group were better than those of the control group (P < 0.05). The incidence of peritonitis and rehospitalization rate in half a year in the observation group were lower than those in the control group (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The continuous nursing model for patients undergoing continuous peritoneal dialysis can improve the treatment effect of patients, significantly improve the compliance of patients, significantly improve the serological indexes, promote the health of patients, reduce the incidence of peritonitis, and significantly reduce the rehospitalization rate in half a year. It has a broad prospect of clinical promotion.

This research was conducted to know what are the politeness as strategy of attack in the presidential debate in Indonesia 2019 and what is the dominant of politeness strategy used by the candidates. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative. The research subject is the dialogue of Presidential and Vice-presidential candidates. The research object is the politeness strategy. The instrument is the researcher herself and the indicator table, the data collection is from YouTube, and the data analysis uses Brown and Levinson’s theory. The validity is triangulation method. The result of this research is the presidential candidate number 1 used all kinds of politeness strategies. Therefore, the dominant used theory bald of record. Then the vice-presidential candidate just used positive politeness. Besides, the candidate number 2 used bald of record and off records strategy. Therefore, the dominant used theory bald of record. Then the candidate of the vice president just used bald of records. Bald of record is applied to criticizing, expressing hatred, getting angry, commanding, warning, resisting, and paying attention.

The efficient investment of enterprises is inseparable from the professional ability of managers. It has been found that the overseas experience of corporate executives can improve the investment ability of managers.This paper takes Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2004 to 2020 as the research object, and investigates whether managers' overseas experience can improve the investment efficiency of enterprises. The empirical analysis results show that enterprises with overseas managers can improve the phenomenon of over investment, but the impact on the underinvestment is not significant.Based on the empirical results, it is found that the characteristics of managerial returnees have different impacts on enterprises in different industries. Compared with export-oriented enterprises, the characteristics of managerial returnees have more significant impacts on export-oriented enterprises.The reason for these results may be that managers' overseas experience is more conducive to the development of non-export-oriented enterprises.

The purpose. The work is devoted to the analysis of the main terminological aspects and principles of personnel selection by the headhunting method in the management of a hotel business. The object of the research is the system of recruitment and selection of personnel by the method of headhunting in the context of the effective operation of the hotel business. Methods. The methodological basis of the research was system analysis and specifically scientific methods: analysis and synthesis (to highlight individual parts of the research object, identify its qualities and changes), comparative analysis (for similarities and differences), generalization (highlighting the general characteristics and capabilities of the research object). The provisions and conclusions presented in the work are the result of the analysis of theoretical and practical research materials of domestic and foreign authors. The results. The essence of personnel headhunting has been substantiated and aspects of its effectiveness in the activities of hotel enterprises have been disclosed. The practical significance of the study is determined by the possibility of a qualitative change in the activities of hotel enterprises using the proposed toolkit for the use of headhunting of hotel personnel and ways to improve it.

Time and water-to-cement ratio have significant influences on rheology of cement grouts. In order to study effects of time and water-to-cement ratio on rheology of Bingham cement grouts, taking Bingham cement grouts widely used in practical engineering (cement grouts with water-to-cement ratio of 0.75–1.25) as research object, some rheological experiments of five cement grouts with water-to-cement ratio of 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, and 1.25 were carried out at six moments of 0, 5, 10, 20, 30, and 60 minutes, respectively. Combining theoretical discussion with numerical analysis, influence of coupling effects of time and water-to-cement ratio on rheological properties of Bingham cement grouts was discussed. Results show that at the level of α = 0.05, time has a significant influence on plastic viscosity but has no significant influence on the yield stress of Bingham cement grouts. Water-to-cement ratio has a significant influence on both plastic viscosity and yield stress. Exponential models obtained by comprehensive analysis from statistical theory, practical applicability, and accuracy are the optimal models to describe quantitative change in the relationship of coupling effects of time and water-to-cement ratio on plastic viscosity and yield stress of Bingham cement grouts. The rheological equation considering coupling effects of time and water-to-cement ratio of Bingham cement grouts is constructed. Research achievements not only have certain theoretical significance to the development and improvement of fluid mechanics and theoretical system of penetration grouting but also provide theoretical support and technical reference for practical grouting engineering and also have certain practical significance for solving or improving the practical engineering problems.

The presented article is devoted to the study of the reclamation state of the lands of the selected experimental research site under tomatoes with various methods of irrigation (drip-furrowed) on the territory of a farm in the Shabran region of Azerbaijan. The yield of agricultural crops on slightly saline soils decreases by 20%, in moderately saline soils — by 50%, in highly saline soils — by 70%, and in very highly saline soils — by 90%. Soil fertility and all valuable agronomic features depend on the amount of humus in the arable layer.

Desiccant coated heat exchanger (DCHE) has shown great potential for dehumidification in vapor compression cooling systems and has been widely concerned in the research field of air conditioning, as well as heat and mass transfer in recent years. This paper is aimed at providing fundamental knowledge and research progresses on DCHE for dehumidification and cooling. Initially, DCHE dehumidification is chosen as the research object in this review due to its superiority of the principle by comparing with other two typical dehumidification processes, which are condensation dehumidification and rotary-wheel dehumidification. Then, intermittent dehumidification and continuous dehumidification as two operation modes of DCHE are compared. Finally, the variation characteristics of temperature and humidity during operation are discussed. The current studies of DCHE are reviewed from four aspects, including desiccant coating, cooling source, regeneration heating source and basic heat exchanger. The performance analysis of DCHE is then conducted, according to the different effects of above aspects acting on dehumidification performance, cooling performance and energy efficiency of DCHE. The ongoing researches indicate that the rational construction of DCHE is an effective way to achieve its multi-objective performance optimization. The significant progress of DCHE lays the foundation for applications on other fields. However, further research is required in the field of the selection of desiccant coatings and the structure of heat exchangers to broaden its application market.

Introduction.The nomenclature of academic specialities to be awarded academic degrees is a system-forming element of academic degree holders’ certification system in any country of the world. Therefore, there is a need to revise and update the relevant structure of academic specialities in order to meet the prospective demand from research and development sector of high-tech industries. Apparently, the current nomenclature of 2017, as the instrument of realisation of public policy in the sphere of the state certification of academic and teaching staff in Russia, needed updating.Theaimof the present research was to analyse a new version of the nomenclature of academic specialities in Russia to be awarded the degree of Doctor or Candidate of Science, and to make conceptual proposals on the implementation of new nomenclature provisions taking into account possible transformation of scientific and educational environment, including the emergence of new complex areas of academic research.Methodology and research methods.The research object is a system of certification of academic and teaching staff from the position of a three-level structure of the nomenclature of academic specialities, according to which academic degrees are awarded. The methods of comparison and data statistical analysis were applied to assess structural changes in the nomenclature.Results and scientific novelty.The authors considered the prerequisites for update of the nomenclature of academic specialities approved in 2017. The features of a new edition of the nomenclature of academic specialities were highlighted. The analysis of its new structure and content changes was carried out. It is demonstrated that current network of dissertation councils (1696 councils) can be divided into 4 groups according to the degree of compliance of academic specialities and fields of science with the previous and recent versions of nomenclature. It is necessary to create new dissertation councils for 20 new academic specialities.Practical significance.The authors revealed the features of the new nomenclature, requiring the reorganisation of councils network for the defense of doctoral and candidate dissertations. On this basis, to provide promising areas of academic research, the proposals on the implementation of new nomenclature provisions are outlined. The stages of re-opening of dissertation councils network are described.