EOSC and the role of Research Libraries, Jeannette Frey

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EOSC and the role of Research
Libraries
Swedish National Library,
December 15, 2020
Jeannette Frey, LIBER President
Director, BCU Lausanne

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libraries
DEVOTED TO
OPEN SCIENCE
Policies, tools and
infrastructures - reshaping
research processes and
mindsets in favour of Open.
ONE
mission
WORLD-CLASS
RESEARCH
Knowledge and training so that
libraries can support outstanding
research and—by extension—the
growth and sharing of knowledge.

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A network in 40
countries

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Strategy Implementation

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A revolution is required:
one which opens up research
processes and changes mindsets in
favor of a world where policies, tools
and infrastructures universally support
the growth and sharing of knowledge.
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In this revolution, EOSC
plays a significant role.
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In ways that can be disruptive
for research libraries
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EOSC in 2020
• Intensive work done this year on basic
documents of EOSC
• EOSC Association established on July
29, 2020
• 1st Annual Assembly of the
Association December 17, 2020
• Work still going on on Strategic Research
and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)

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EOSC – SRIA (version 0.9)
• Background of the EOSC
• How EOSC was and is currently created
• The Strategic objectives
• The guiding principles
• Implementation challenges
• Boundary conditions
• Expected impacts
• A roadmap
• And some conclusions

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EOSC
- SRIA

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Open Science facets

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EOSC System
• EOSC Core
• Discover, share, access
and reuse
• Naming and locating,
mechanisms
• User identification

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EOSC System
Federated Data
• FAIR Data
• On National, European
and International
infrastructures

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EOSC System
EOSC Exchange
• Set of common and thematic
services
• Service to store, preserve or
transport date
• Service to compute against data
• Service providers must conform
to predefined Rules of
Participation

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Implementation challenges
Metadata and Ontologies
• Essential… but evolved organically
• Communities have defined specific
metadata schemas and ontologies for data
• Adoption varies
• EOSC to address this through
development of governance structures
• Research libraries should participate in
the formulation of guidelines

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Implementation challenges
FAIR metrics and certification
• Lots of work done by RDA FAIR Data
Maturity Model Working Group
• Model with 41 criteria to assess
compliance
• But: Different communities attach different
weights to the criteria
• Still lots of work to be done, using input
from Research Data Alliance

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Skills
• Researchers not
adequately skilled
• Lack of clear
definition of profiles
• Lack of Open
Science expertise
• Lack of legal
expertise

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Research libraries and EOSC
• Link your institutional strategies and
policies to the EOSC
• Be a member of EOSC
• Promote EOSC to students,
researchers and other staff members
as a source and a place to publish
research outputs
• Advocate for your institution to embed
infrastructure training into the curricula
of students and doctoral students
• Contribute to the development of EOSC

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Open Science Skills
• With other partners, provide a
multidisciplinary one-stop-shop for
researchers to support OS workflow
• Incorporate OS skills in academic training
for students
• Provide innovative digital training
materials and courses to support skills
development
• Build expertise in metadata, persistent
identifiers, ontologies to be able to
support OS infrastructure

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Available and upcoming
LIBER Webinars
• Webinars on SSHOC project, Open
Science Skilling and Citizen Science
available on LIBER Website
• New series of Webinars about EOSC
starting in 2021

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LOOKING FORWARD...
Ideas, suggestions, questions:
• Jeannette.frey@bcu.unil.ch
• @LIBEReurope
www.libereurope.eu/

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THANKS!
Questions?
Jeannette.frey@bcu.unil.ch