ROHub is a reference platform that provides a holistic solution for managing research objects (ROs) through their entire lifecycle. It allows users to create, store, publish, discover, and reuse ROs. ROs include any research outcomes or related resources packaged with metadata to make them FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). ROHub is integrated into the European Open Science Cloud to enable open sharing of ROs across scientific communities.

1. This project has received funding from the European research infrastructures
(including e-Infrastructures) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017501
Research Lifecycle Management technologies for
Earth Science Communities and Copernicus users in EOSC
EOSC research enabling service
in support of Open Science
Raul Palma
RELIANCE Project Coordinator
Head of Data Analytics and Semantics Department
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
C-SCALE – RELIANCE cooperation
16th March 2023

2. • Holistic solution for the management of ROs
• storage, lifecycle mgmt. & preservation of scientific outcomes
• share and makes these resources available to others
• publish and release resources through a DOI
• discover and reuse pre-existing scientific knowledge.
• Reference platform
• implements natively the RO-crate model and paradigm
• support different stakeholders, with the primary focus on
scientists, researchers, students and enthusiasts
• provides the backbone to a wealth of RO-centric applications
and interfaces across different scientific communities
ROHub overview
2020+
2010-2013 2014-2019
https://reliance.rohub.org/
Onboarded and
integrated in EOSC

3. Goal: Account, describe and share everything about your
research, including how those things are related
Research objects
http://www.researchobject.org

4. Research outcomes and related resources
Each object has its own metadata and repositories
All are first class citizens and are required to make research FAIR
[source RO-Crate: A framework for packaging research products into
FAIR Research Objects]

5. Encapsulated content and references to
external resources
Contextualized graph

6. Research objects: Self-describing, chiefly
metadata, objects
[source RO-Crate: A framework for packaging research products into
FAIR Research Objects]

7. Research objects: Self-describing, chiefly
metadata, objects
[source RO-Crate: A framework for packaging research products into
FAIR Research Objects]

8. Summary: RO-Crate in a nutshell
[source RO-Crate: A framework for packaging research products into
FAIR Research Objects]
RO-Crate (Research Object Crate): Practical lightweight approach
to packaging research data entities (any object) with metadata
Aggregate files and/or any URI-addressable content, with
contextual information to aid decisions about re-use: Who What
When Where Why How.
Web Native Machine readable. Human readable. Search engine
friendly. Familiar.
Extensible and Incremental: add additional metadata; nested
and typed by their profile.
Open Community effort

10. ROHUB enables:
• to create and manage high-quality ROs that can be interpreted and reproduced in the future
• to reference, share and preserve scientific studies, campaigns, and observations related
resources, including internal ones, links to external ones as well as other ROs (nested ROs)
• to collaborate with colleagues and to discover new knowledge via advanced exploratory
search interfaces that exploit RO metadata (both explicitly provided and automatically
extracted from its content), as well as via an standard search API OpenSearch with Geo
extensions
• to manage the RO evolution including the ability to generate snapshots and releases and to
allow others to fork the RO to reuse it and extend it.
• to publish the associated work and assign it a DOI to allow its citation in scholarly
communications
• to monitor and follow a particular RO, getting notifications about its progress or quality
changes
• researchers to build reputation by enabling users to rate and favorite ROs created by others
• to find related works or researchers in a a domain, e.g., for possible collaborations or
reviews
High-level features

11. ROHub and added value services
Semantic enrichment
readability, discoverability, reuse
Recommendation
content-based, concentric spheres
Research lifecycle & scholarly communication
collaboration, publication, citation, validation
FAIR/Quality assessment
HQ monitoring & preservation
Social Impact
Sharing, quality
Publish
in EOSC
Publish
as PDF
EOSC integration
AAI

12. ROHub connections with EOSC Core and other
Exchange services
• All RELIANCE services are
onboarded in EOSC
marketplace
• RELIANCE services
integrates and rely on
different EOSC core and
other EOSC Exchange
services
Notebook
Binder
AAI
check-in
EOSC Resource Catalogue

13. ROHub architecture

14. • ROHub in EOSC marketplace: https://marketplace.eosc-
portal.eu/services/psnc.rohub
• ROHub portal https://reliance.rohub.org/
• ROHub tutorial: https://reliance-eosc.github.io/ROHUB-
API_documentation/html/tutorials.html
• ROHub portal documentation: https://reliance-eosc.github.io/rohub-portal-
documentation/
• ROHub API library documentation : https://reliance-eosc.github.io/ROHUB-
API_documentation/html/index.html
• ROHub API library example Jupyter Notebooks: https://github.com/RELIANCE-
EOSC/sample-notebooks
• ROHub helpdesk: https://support.pcss.pl/servicedesk/customer/portal/27 or
support email:support@rohub.org
Onboarding and support resources

15. This project has received funding from the European research infrastructures
(including e-Infrastructures) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017501
Research Lifecycle Management technologies for
Earth Science Communities and Copernicus users in EOSC
Thanks!
Raul Palma
rpalma@man.poznan.pl