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A Transparent Evidence Retrieval System for Scholarly Citation Verification its a publication presentation and this is the abstract of the paper

Data Management Plans (DMPs) are mandated by funders as instruments for promoting FAIR data practice, yet evaluating their
quality remains labour-intensive and does not scale. Machine-actionable DMP (maDMPs), structured according to the RDA DMP Common
Standard, open the door to automated assessment, but a communitygrounded, openly published catalog of evaluation criteria has so far been missing. This paper presents three contributions made within the OSTrails project. First, we describe a participatory co-design methodology through which practitioners, tool developers, and funder representatives elicited evaluation criteria grounded in real-world DMP workflows. Second, we present the resulting DMP Evaluation Metrics Catalogue that contains 94 metrics formalised as linked-data records using the FAIR Testing Results (FTR) vocabulary, anchored to RDA DCS schema fields. Third, we demonstrate automated evaluation of maDMPs against community specific benchmarks, showing that a substantial portion of the catalogue can be applied as deterministic, externally validated tests returning machine-readable, field-level feedback for researchers, data stewards, and funders.

Speakers: Tomasz Miksa, Andres Tabima, Maria Kontopidi and Elli Papadopoulou

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Supporting the research data management workflow from start to finish through RAiD

The Dutch National pilot within the OSTrails project explores how machine actionable data management plans (maDMPs) can support researchers and research institutions in keeping knowledge connected. In the presentation we discuss the three pillars in this European project: planning (through DMPs), tracking (through Scientific Knowledge Graphs), and assessing (through FAIR assessment). In our national pilot we support the planning and tracking phases through a RAiD supported workflow. RAiD, the research activity identifier, acts as a PID for projects but at the same time as an envelope that links to other PIDs such as funding (GrantID), project members (ORCIDs), and research outputs (DOIs). By integrating maDMPs with RAiD, we aim to make open research information an integral part of the research process, with an emphasis on the start-up phase.

Target audience: Service providers; Policy makers and funders; Data stewards/experts; Librarians/repository managers; Research administration; Research communities/data infrastructures.

Speakers: Eileen Waegemaekers and Andrew S. Hoffman

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