The document discusses the launch of the Manchester Office for Open Research, highlighting initiatives for open science, data sharing, and collaboration led by Professor Carole Goble and various organizations in the European research landscape. It emphasizes the importance of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles in scientific data management, along with tools like WorkflowHub and RDMKit that facilitate the sharing of software and workflows. Additionally, it addresses the role of research software engineers and the need for a collaborative community to support open research practices.

1. Open Research
Manchester leading
and learning
Professor Carole Goble
eScience Lab, Dept of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK
Joint Head of Node ELIXIR-UK, Software Sustainability Institute UK
carole.goble@manchester.ac.uk
https://esciencelab.org.u
k/
Launch: Manchester Office for Open Research, 4th April 2022

2. Open Research, Data sharing, Reuse
Nature 602, 558-559 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00402-1
https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
Wilkinson, M., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for
scientific data management and stewardship. Sci Data 3, 160018 (2016).
https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18

3. Open Research, Data sharing, Reuse
UNESCO Recommendation
on Open Science, Nov 2021
Nature 602, 558-559 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00402-1
OECD Recommendation
on Access to Research
Data Jan 2021

4. European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Horizon Europe,
open science : early knowledge and data sharing, and open collaboration, Publications
Office, 2021, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/79699
Publications open access
Datasets FAIR, ‘open as possible,
closed as necessary‘
Not just Data management
• Digital: Software, algorithms,
protocols, workflows, models
• Physical: reagents, antibodies,
hardware
Software a first-class research output
alongside data & publications.
Kostas Repanas, Unit for Open Science, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

5. ELIXIR Europe
Federated inter-governmental
organisation to building a distributed
European Research Infrastructure for
Life Science Data
FAIR and Open data & software
Sensitive Data Closed as necessary
Leads EU’s COVID-19 Data Portal
23 Nodes
300+
organisations
cooperating
https://elixir-europe.org

6. ELIXIR Europe
ELIXIR UK – 22 UK organisations
23 Nodes
300+
organisations
https://elixir-europe.org
Manchester

7. Open Research, Team Science
plethora of many teams, collaboration & cooperation

8. Two Open Research examples
multi-site teams led by Manchester with VIB, Ghent
open, community collaborations

9. WorkflowHub
an online computational workflow (software) registry
Sharing and reuse of computational
(software) methods / pipelines
Author visibility, credit & DOI citation
Process transparency & reproducibility
Special support for teams of people,
living content and pre-existing
systems
Booted up in 6 months in 2020 to
meet COVID-19 sharing needs
https://workflowhub.eu

10. WorkflowHub: Open Research x 4
FAIR Open Content enabling Open Research
share and reuse software workflows of any kind, reproducibility,
credit and attribution, support for collaborating teams
(actually content is not all open)
Built on an Open Software Platform
shared development & sustainability, rapid boot-up, re-contributed
features
Built using Open Development Techniques
shared, perpetual development, hackathons, contributed features,
shared sustainability burden
Built to work in an Open Ecosystem
open metadata and open APIs, co-developed standards,
linked with and reusing other open services & platforms

11. RDMkit
A web-based toolkit for bioscientists and their data
on Research Data Management
https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org
Sharing and reuse of knowledge and know-how
Contributor visibility and credit
Launched March 2021 after 1 year

12. RDMkit: Open Research x 4
Built on an Open Software Platform
Built using Open Development Techniques
FAIR Open Content enabling Open Research
Built to work in an Open Ecosystem

13. Open Research Collaboration Cultivation
Healthy Community Checklist,
Anna Maglia, UMass Lowell (extended)
❑ Shared Vision
❑ Leadership
❑ Communication / Trust
❑ Democratic Processes
❑ Clear Roles
❑ Goal driven / Regular Returns
❑ Growth / Vibrancy
❑ Standards and Processes
❑ Discovery Enabling
❑ Necessary Resources
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/625205010

14. Open Science Benefits
Impact of sharing and reusing
results
with credit and visibility
Opportunities for collaborations
Rapid development and
sustainability
Scalable snowball effects

15. Grounded on
Research Software
Engineers and
Data Stewards
Innovate, develop and operate the Digital
Infrastructure and Processes necessary for
Open Research.
Respected in Research Teams
Manchester’s Research IT
Research Software Engineers
Shoaib Sufi, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Stuart Owen,
Nick Juty, Alan Williams, Aleks Nenadic, Anita
Banerji, Chris Child, Finn Bacall, Munazah Andrabi,
Paul Brack, Rachael Ainsworth, Doug Lowe, Gerard
Capes, Oliver Woolland, Aitor Apaolza

16. Bringing Open Research practices
into Manchester?
Office for
Open
Research
https://www.openresearch.manchester.ac.uk/

17. Acknowledgements
WorkflowHub Club
RDMkit Community
FAIRDOM Community
eScience Lab
Shoaib Sufi, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Stuart
Owen, Nick Juty, Alan Williams, Aleks
Nenadic, Anita Banerji, Chris Child, Finn
Bacall, Munazah Andrabi, Paul Brack,
Rachael Ainsworth
Doug Lowe, Gerard Capes, Oliver
Woolland, Aitor Apaolza
Ebtisam Alharbi, Meznah Aloqalaa, Yo
Yehudi
Andrew Stewart
ELIXIR-Converge has received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant
agreement No 871075.
EOSC-Life has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement
No 824087.