Deploying EOSC-Core components for FAIR

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

• European researchers can find, access and re-use an increasing amount of research outputs across borders and disciplines through state-of-the-art technologies underpinning discoverability and interoperability of research outputs;
• contribute to the Horizon Europe EOSC Partnership.

Enable the enforcement and implementation of the EOSC Persistent Identifier (PID) policy^[1] by developing tools, processes and additional infrastructure required to support use of PIDs to a maximal extent, for both the management and analysis of data, and also the publication, curation and tracking of research outputs. This should include a PID ‘meta resolver’ for EOSC or tools to support the alignment of PID infrastructure with the EOSC PID Policy. In addition, and building on community efforts on metadata and ontologies and on the work developed under topic HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-05, this topic aims at ensuring the adoption and use of coherent metadata frameworks and deploying a common dataset search to enhance discovery via EOSC. Proposals under this topic should also cover other research outputs, such as software, developing services based on open standards and common practices adopted by the different disciplines.

Proposals should address all of the following activities:

• Contribute to the consolidation of an interoperable ecosystem of PID Infrastructures based on open specification and standards to support machine actionability and offer sufficient flexibility and capacity e.g. by developing a common PID ‘meta resolver’ and standardised interfaces and open protocols for exchanging information on PIDs to support the creation and use of a PID Graph^[2].
• Develop EOSC PID services to address a wide variety of applications appropriate to community needs.
• Develop schemas and APIs based on open specifications and metadata framework as well as related crosswalks for improved discovery and interoperability.
• Develop and deploy a flexible and scalable federated search service across the EOSC repositories, exploiting the aforementioned building blocks (PIDs resolution, APIs and metadata schemas). Such service should ensure customisability of querying (e.g. interfaces, APIs and scripts) and, when possible, ranking of queries results according to FAIRness of data and other prioritisations responding to the users’ needs.
• Develop services and tools to archive, reference, describe and cite research software, based on standards and common practices of the different disciplines.
• Develop services that build on metadata registries, starting from those that support communities in the uptake of metadata schemas and crosswalks and facilitate their maintenance; services to validate data sources against metadata schemes and to monitor data sharing, notably across communities and disciplines, are also expected.

To ensure complementarity of outcomes, proposals are expected to cooperate and align with activities of the EOSC Partnership and to coordinate with relevant initiatives and projects contributing to the development of EOSC. In particular, projects should take into account and coordinate the technical work with the ongoing grants under topic HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-05, earmarking the necessary resources to do so. They should build on the EOSC PID policy from the PID Task force of the EB Architecture WG^[3] and FAIR WG^[4] and should coordinate with the awarded grants under the topic H2020-INFRAEOSC-03-2020^[5] and the future procurement activity under Other Actions^[6]. In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.

Co-programmed European Partnerships
EOSC and FAIR data

[1]https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/35c5ca10-1417-11eb-b57e-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

[2]The details of this will be further defined as part of the outcomes of the EOSC Architecture Working Group and the recommendations of the RDA Working Groups on PID Information Types and PID Kernel Information.

[3]https://www.eoscsecretariat.eu/working-groups/architecture-working-group

[4]https://www.eoscsecretariat.eu/working-groups/fair-working-group

[5]https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-infrastructures_en.pdf

[6]See Public Procurement 1.Delivering the EOSC core infrastructure and services