The RECODE project aims to develop policy recommendations for open access to research data in Europe. It has eight partners across five countries and a budget of €1,147,484.70. The project will analyze different research ecosystems through five case studies and identify gaps, tensions, and best practices regarding accessible, usable, assessable and evaluable research data. The work is organized into seven work packages focused on stakeholder values; infrastructure and technology; legal and ethical issues; institutional support; policy guidelines; stakeholder engagement; and dissemination. The goals are to reduce fragmentation among stakeholders and help ensure open research data practices.

1. Jeroen Sondervan
IGLO ERA in action, 17 April 2013

2.  Introduction: Policy RECommendations
for Open access to research Data in Europe
(RECODE)
 RECODE project and partners
 Project objectives
 Work packages

3.  Aim of talk: introduce the RECODE project
 Project developed from discussions with
established research networks
 Open Access (OA) to research data
 Research different ecosystems
 Based on 5 case studies

4. Some figures
• 1 February 2013 – 31 January 2015
• Budget €1,147,484.70
• Eight partners across five countries
• Seven work packages

6.  Access
 Content
 Source
 Hardware
 Data
Linking Open Data cloud diagram by R Cyganiak &
A Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net

7.  Accessible
 Usable
 Assessable
 Able to be evaluated
Royal Society (2012) Science as an open enterprise: 12

8.  „Accessible‟, „usable‟, „assessable‟ & „able to
be evaluated‟ not so easy in practice:
◦ Many stakeholders sometimes with conflicting
interests
◦ (lack of) availability of infrastructure
◦ (international) legal complexities
◦ „Curation‟ – whose responsibility?
◦ Implications for academic careers
◦ „Data gap‟ (between context of discovery, context
of justification, context of application)

9.  Reduce stakeholder fragmentation
 Identify stakeholder values and inter-
relationships
 Identify gaps, tensions and good practices
 Produce a set of guidelines for the sharing of
scientific data
 Dissemination
 Use 5 cases from different disciplines

10.  Large quantities of numerical data from the Particle Physics and
Particle Astrophysics Group (USFD)
 Clinical data from the Markers for emphysema versus airway
disease in COPD FP7 project (Helmholtz Zentrum München)
 Complex computational models from a Virtual Physical Human
project (Bio-engineering Institute, Auckland)
 Heterogeneous geological data from the FP7 EuroGEOSS project
(Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, France)
 Archaeological and humanities data, Open Context Alexandria
Archive Institute, Berkley, California

11.  RECODE work packages are organised around
three “grand challenges”
◦ Infrastructure and technology
◦ Ethical and legal issues
◦ Institutional issues
 Each of the grand challenge work packages (WPs
2-4) involves interviews with case study
representatives

12.  WP 1: Stakeholder values & ecosystems
 WP 2: Infrastructure & technology
 WP 3: Legal & Ethical issues in OA dissemination
 WP 4: Institutional evaluation and support for OA
data
 WP 5: Policy guidelines for OA and Open Data
 WP 6: Stakeholder engagement & mobilisation
 WP 7: Dissemination

13.  RECODE project: http://recodeproject.eu
Thank you
j.sondervan@aup.nl
@jeroenson