1) Europe has invested hugely in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) over recent years through various initiatives, reports, and projects. 2) EOSC aims to create a federated environment for open sharing and analysis of research data across borders and disciplines. 3) Sharing sensitive data on EOSC requires properly documenting, licensing, identifying, and anonymizing data while making it findable and accessible on repositories or secure services.

1. Is Europe ready for Open Science?
Sarah Jones
#EuroDIG2021 @_eurodig
EOSC Association & GÉANT
sarah.jones@geant.org
Twitter: @sarahroams
30th June 2021

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3. Huge investment in EOSC over years
Lots of groundwork since 2015
• Council Conclusions
• Expert Group reports
• EC documents
Major investment in EOSC related
projects…

4. What is EOSC?
The European Open Science Cloud or ‘a data commons’
• A web of FAIR data and services
• Federation of eInfra and research infrastructures
• Environment in which data can be brought together with
services to perform analyses and address societal challenges
www.eosc.eu

5. EOSC is multi-x
• Multi-stakeholder
• Multi-country
• Multi-lingual
• Multi-discipline
• All types of data – open and closed
• ….
This adds layers of complexity, but sensitive data can still be shared

6. How to share (sensitive) data?
• Document it so it can be understood by others
• Place it in a repository or secure data service so it can be found and accessed
• Clearly licence it so you know who can use it and for what purpose
• Assign a Persistent Identifier (PID) for discovery / identification / tracking impact
• Deidentify, anonymise, aggregate, as needed
• Make it FAIR!

7. A plea to funders, policy makers, service providers…
• Let research communities do
what is natural to them
• Openness and collaboration is
at the heart of science
• Build infrastructure which
meets real workflows and
needs!