Introducing OSTrails: Your Companion to Streamline Planning, Tracking, and Assessing Research Practices

This session is an introduction to the OSTrails project, aimed at informing the broader research community of its main objectives and preliminary results, and involving them in the co-creation of its foundational Plan-Track-Assess (PTA) Framework.

Limited interoperability across the research stages, inconsistent practices between Research Data Management (RDM) services and varying Open Science maturing levels across countries and scientific domains, hinder collaboration and scientific progress. OSTrails addresses this challenge by creating a collection of open, reusable, and adaptable resources that collectively enable seamless information exchange among Data Management Planning (DMP) Platforms, Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) and FAIR Assessment Tools. This approach empowers research communities to mor effectively manage, share, and evaluate their outputs research.

In this webinar, Elli Papadopoulou from ARC (Deputy Project Coordinator) will introduce how the PTA Framework is defined and used within the project, to enable interoperability, connectivity and machine actionability.

Two of the 24 OSTrails pilot initiatives will be featured to demonstrate how project solutions are being co-created and implemented in national and domain-specific settings.

• Andrew Hoffman (Leiden University) and Eileen Waegemaekers (SURF) will showcase the Dutch National Pilot, highlighting how dynamic, workflow-integrated DMPs support collaboration and knowledge sharing across institutions.

• Renaud Duyme (ESRF), representing PaNoSC, will present a use case, illustrating the use of DMPs, SKGs, and FAIR evaluation for datasets from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

The webinar marks also the launch of our OSTrails Mentorship Programme, presented by Pedro Principe (UMinho). He will inform about how the programme is structured and run to support IT infrastructure managers, Research support staff and Funders' support officers advance their skills and deepen their expertise in DMPs, SKGs and FAIR assessment using the OSTrails Toolkit. Participants selected through the Open Call for Mentees will benefit from personalised guidance by experts across the OSTrails consortium.

The webinar will conclude with a live Q&A session.

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