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Pilots

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Overview

The OSTrails project involves 24 practical adoption cases, of which 15 focus on specific countries. The goal is to collaborate with diverse research groups to improve the organisation and accessibility of research data. Instead of imposing strict rules from the top, the approach is to work together to shape tools and methods that suit each group's needs. These experiments will closely cooperate to identify gaps in data management, understand local requirements, and test new methods before implementation. For instance, they will create templates for data management plans, enhance the connection between data and publications, and establish FAIR evaluation criteria. The overall objective is to keep things simple, involve users in tool design, and ensure that the changes benefit everyone in the research community.

In brief

Croatia

Ruđer Bošković Institute, the largest Croatian scientific research center of a multidisciplinary character, will develop a data management plan template (maDMP) for the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), archive the maDMPs in local repositories, and co-configure metrics and assess the quality of the DMPs according to the Croatian Science Foundation's criteria. For this purpose, the national repository infrastructure (Dabar), the national scientific information system (CroRIS) and the Argos open-source software will be employed.

Greece

HEAL-Link, Hellenic Academic Libraries Link, will develop maDMP and dataset templates for the Universities of the HEAL-Link consortium, interoperate with the OpenAIRE Graph, and assess FAIRness of HEAL-Link repositories’ digital objects. For this purpose, the Hellenic Academic Research Data Management Initiative (HARDMIN), HEAL-Link scholarly infrastructure services and HEAL-Link ARGOS-GR DMP tool will be employed.

the Netherlands

SURF, the cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions, will develop maDMP templates suitable for Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Universities, evaluate criteria for DMPs taking discipline specific requirements into account, and test them against the NWO rubric, embed FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) into NWO and Leiden University (LU) maDMP templates, PID-ify NWO and LU maDMP templates, interoperate maDMP templates with PID Graph, extend PID Graph with maDMPs, and interoperate with the OpenAIRE Graph. For this purpose, PID Graph, CWTS, research information and RDM community, EPIC Handle resolver and RAiD repository  will be employed.

Norway

Sikt, the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research, will develop maDMP templates for the Norwegian research community, configure and link templates with the new joint CRIS system and publications repository, extend the new joint CRIS system and publications repository with entities and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and interoperate with the OpenAIRE Graph, Assess FAIRness of data archive digital objects, codefine DMP evaluation criteria with the Research Council of Norway, enhance the OA-Barometer with links to publications, DMPs, data and software. For this purpose, Sikt national joint CRIS and publication repository, national data archives, Sikt DMP tool and the Norwegian OA-Barometer will be employed.

Serbia

University of Belgrade will develop maDMP templates for national funder and University of Belgrade, including FAIR metrics within the template to assess DMPs content, codefine FAIR metrics for Life Sciences, Social Sciences and Applied Sciences, assess FAIRness of repositories’ digital objects and create qualified references with DMPs. For this purpose, national repositories (DAIS, CER, VinaR, etc) and Argos DMP tool will be employed.

Austria

TU Wien, University of Vienna and TU Graz will develop maDMP templates for Universities and funders and embed FAIR metrics within the template to assess DMPs against FAIRness of their described outputs, configure custom templates and link DAMAP with local repositories, assess FAIRness of digital objects in local repositories. For this purpose, local repositories (e.g. Phaidra, AUSSDA, etc), DAMAP DMP tool and TU Graz Electronic Lab Notebook will be employed.

Poland

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) and Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) of Poland will develop ma-templates for National Science Center (NCN) DMPs, including metrics within the template to assess DMPs against FAIRness of their described outputs, extend ROHub tool with PIDs for different digital objects and other research entities, (ma-)DMPs and FAIR metrics and interoperate with the OpenAIRE Graph, enable interoperability of repositories with the OpenAIRE Graph, codefine DMP evaluation criteria with NCN, assess FAIRness of repositories and ROHub digital objects. For this purpose, ARGOS-PL, ROHub, PIONIER.ID, National Data Storage, RepOD, RDS, MX-RDR will be employed.

Ireland

TU Dublin will develop ma-templates for the TU-NET DMPs, configure and link templates with the TU-NET portal, apply FAIR Principles at the level of the consortium, Codefine DMP evaluation criteria with the National Open Research Forum (NORF), explore links with the national and local CRIS systems and repositories in the universities. For this purpose, ARGOS DMP tool, TU-NET portal, OpenAIRE Community, local repositories, and PURE research information system will be employed.

Portugal

University of Minho and Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT) will develop ma-templates for the University of Minho and the research centres DMPs in Use ARGOS / OpenDMP software, configure and link templates with the national CRIS initiative, the institutional research portal (CRIS) and the Data and publication Repositories, extend CRIS-PT framework with PIDs for different digital objects and other research entities, (ma)DMPs and FAIR metrics and interoperate with the OpenAIRE Graph, codefine DMP metrics and evaluation criteria with FCT, Assess FAIRness of the digital objects of the University of Minho and the funder national data repository. For this purpose, CRIS PT framework, OpenDMP-PT for Universities consortium, University of Minho and the funder national data repository (DataRepositóriUM, Polen FCT-FCCN, respectively) will be employed.

France

INRIA, the France National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, will develop ma-templates for national DMPs and embed software in actionable DMPs, based on existing standards for software documentation (CodeMeta), enhance the French Open Science Monitor with links of publications with datasets, software and DMPs, assess FAIRness of HAL digital objects, codefine DMP metrics and evaluation criteria with the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, deploy the DMP Evaluator tool in the domain of computer science. For this purpose, French Open Science Monitor, Software Heritage and HAL national repository will be employed.

Finland

CSC provides solutions to Finnish research community, coordinating the DMP Consortium, FAIR data services, national CRIS system, and Academy of Finland’s funding proposal management tool. In the Finnish pilot focus will be on data interoperability rather than building specific solutions, and the national DMP Consortium and the Finnish National Open Science Coordination will be heavily involved, ensuring a greater effect on the Finnish research community. Finnish CRIS system (Research.fi), the Academy of Finland’s online services (SARA) and several DMP tools (e.g. DMPTuuli, and other relevant) will be employed and technical API interphases tested.

Germany

RWTH Aachen University will Develop ma-templates for the NFDI4Chem and NFDI4Ing DMPs, including metrics within the templates to assess DMPs against FAIRness of their described outputs, configure and link NFDI4Chem template with Chemotion Electronic Lab Notebook, create qualified references of DMPs and Lab Notebooks, interoperate with the OpenAIRE Graph. For this purpose, RDMO; Chemotion Electronic Lab Notebook and repository will be employed.

Spain

The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) will develop ma-templates and guidelines for FECYT DMPs, including metrics within the template to assess DMPs against FAIRness of their described artefacts, enrich Recolecta’s existing DMPs and new maDMPs with their associated key artefacts, deploy the DMP Evaluation Tool for DMPs validation, assess FAIRness of RECOLECTA’s digital objects, which includes 175 repositories in many disciplines, ranging from social sciences to engineering. For this purpose, RECOLECTA national aggregator will be employed.

Czech Republic

Czech technical university in Prague (CTU) will develop maDMP templates for NTK, including metrics within the template to assess DMPs against FAIRness of their described artefacts, assess FAIRness of CTU digital objects, deploy the DMP evaluator Tool, codefine DMP evaluation criteria with national funders (Czech Science Foundation and Technology Agency of the Czech Republic). For this purpose, DSW Czech instance, PID infrastructure and CTU Dspace will be employed.  

Sweden

University of Gothenburg (UGOT) and the Research Institute of Sweden (RISE) will  develop ma-template for DMPs based on the SND Checklist for DMPs, embedding FAIR metrics within the template to assess DMPs against FAIRness of their described artefacts, align with DORIS and explore links with local and national CRIS systems (SweCRIS), interoperate with the OpenAIRE Graph, assess FAIRness of SND DORIS digital objects, deploy DMP Evaluator Tool at SND. For this purpose, SND and DORIS (data organisation and publication system), SweCRIS systems and local CRIS from Universities will be employed.

Partners


Rudjer Boskovic Institute

Hellenic Academic Libraries Link

"Athena" Research Center

SURF

Centre for Science and Technology Studies

Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education & Research

University of Belgrade

TU Wien

University of Vienna

TU Graz

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

University of Warsaw

Technical University of Dublin

University of Minho

Foundation for Science and Technology

Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique

Finnish IT centre for science

RWTH Aachen University

FECYT

Czech technical university in Prague

University of Göteborg