National
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
The Ruđer Bošković Institute, the largest Croatian scientific research center of a multidisciplinary character. Within a Croatian national pilot activities, a data management plan template (maDMP) for the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) will be developed, and the archiving of these maDMPs in local repositories will be facilitated. Additionally, metadata pertaining to maDMPs and research datasets will be integrated into the national CRIS system and interconnected with other relevant entities. This will be accomplished through the utilization of the national repository infrastructure (Dabar), the national scientific information system (CroRIS), and the Argos open-source software.
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
In the Austrian pilot, three Austrian universities will collaborate to align and improve the support provided at Austrian research performing organisations about DMPs:
• the Graz University of Technology Graz (TU Graz), (https://www.tugraz.at/en/home/),
• the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), (https://www.tuwien.at/en/),
• and the University of Vienna (UNIVIE), (https://www.univie.ac.at/en/), specifically the University Library (https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/en/) and the departments AUSSDA (The Austrian Social Science Data Archive, https://aussda.at/en/) and PHAIDRA (the University of Vienna's institutional repository, https://datamanagement.univie.ac.at/en/page/33/?l=566).
In OSTrails, the Austrian pilot will extend, align and integrate DMP tools developed at TU Wien and TU Graz, explore and develop means to implement customizable DMP templates with dynamic building blocks, create an overview of the most popular DMP templates, and support data stewards to create discipline-specific DMP templates and processes. "
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
Ireland's first technological university, incorporated in 2018 and encompassing three previous institutes of technology. A multidisciplinary institution with five faculties. In the context of OSTrails, TU Dublin will act as the national lead for the now five technological universities in Ireland, who will take part in the project as a consortium.
Portugal
The University of Minho was funded in 1973 and its mission is to generate, disseminate and apply knowledge, based on freedom of thought and the plurality of critical exercises, promoting higher education and contributing to the construction of a model of society based on humanist principles, with knowledge, creativity and innovation as factors of growth, sustainable development, well-being and solidarity. know more - https://www.uminho.pt/EN/Pages/default.aspx
The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) is the national public agency that supports research, technology and innovation in all areas of knowledge. Under the supervision of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, the FCT began its activities 1997. FCT's mission is to continuously promote the advancement of scientific and technological knowledge in Portugal, to achieve the highest international standards of quality and competitiveness in all scientific and technological fields, and to stimulate its dissemination and contribution to society and the productive fabric. know more - https://www.fct.pt/
France
Inria, the French national research institute for digital science and technology, will act as the national lead for the computer science community and develop 2 maDMP templates. Having pioneered OS software infrastructure (co-founding Software Heritage), we pay particular attention to software and its place in DMPs in relation to data. Inria works closely with the French Recherche Data Gouv ecosystem to improve DMP software integration by linking relevant articles citing software and data and aims at archiving these maDMPS in the French national repository HAL.
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
RECOLECTA, or Collector of Open Science, is the national aggregator of open access repositories. All Spanish digital infrastructures in which research results are published and / or deposited in open access are grouped together on this platform.
The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, F.S.P. (FECYT) is a public foundation attached to the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Thanks to this collaboration, the FECYT works to strengthen the link between science and society through actions that promote open and inclusive science, culture and scientific education, responding to the needs and challenges of the Spanish system of science, technology and innovation.
More Info: https://recolecta.fecyt.es/
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.