Workshop "Interoperability of Research Infrastructures databases in Europe – current approaches and future outlooks"

25.06.2018
Αθήνα - Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών (Αμφιθέατρο Λ. Ζέρβα), Bασ. Κωνσταντίνου 48

Πρόγραμμα

  June 25    

9:30 – 10:00

Registration - Coffee

    
10:00 – 10:20 Welcome/scope of the workshop (Maro Androutsopoulou - EKT)    
10:20 – 10:40 MERIL updates (Jean-Claude Worms - ESF)    
10:40 – 10:55 RI profiles conforming with MERIL criteria (Julija Baginskaite - ESF)    
10:55 – 11:15 Coffee break    

11:15 – 13:00

Collaboration and interoperability (Vasilis Bonis - EKT):

  • Vasilis Bonis – EKT

Interoperability in the context of Research Information Systems

  • Paul Vierkant - GFZ Potsdam

re3data - status quo and future developments

Presentations followed by group discussion moderated by Maro Androutsopoulou and Vasilis Bonis

Discussion Focus Points:

  • Defining interoperability in the context of Research Information Systems
  • Presenting architectural approaches and technical specifications for implementing interoperability schemes in RIS

Identifying practical issues and problems that interoperability introduces

 

 

 

 
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch    
14:30 – 15:00 Case study: ZEUS/WOLF (Yongjoo Kim - NEFC)    

15:00 – 15:45

Challenges in data aggregation (Haris Georgiadis - EKT)

Presentation followed by group discussion moderated by Maro Androutsopoulou and Haris Georgiadis

Discussion Focus Points:

  • Policy development for national aggregation: imposing interoperability and ensuring sustainability
  • Homogenization, semantic enrichment and quality improvement of metadata after harvest

Improving discoverability, visual presentation and multilingualism of aggregated data 

 

 
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break    
16:00 – 16:30 Generating interest in interoperability at national and international level (Theodoros Papadopoulos - GSCO)
Q&A		    
16:30 – 17:15 A semantic approach to STI policy monitoring and analysis (Andres Barreneche – OECD)
Q&A		    
17:15 – 17:45 Strategies and policies in cataloguing RIs at the European level (Dominik Sobczak - EC)
Q&A		    
       
  June 26    
8:45 – 9:00 Coffee    
9:00 – 9:15 Recap of Day 1 (Maro Androutsopoulou - EKT)    

 

9:15 – 10:30

Community input (Jean-Claude Worms - ESF)

  • Tom Demeranville – ORCID

Linking people and infrastructures: research resources in the ORCID record

  • Ivan Andrian - Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste

The wayforlight portal facing interoperability and sustainability challenges

  • Nikolaos Thomaidis – FoodOmics

Q&A

 

 

 

 

 
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break    

10:45 – 11:30

Sustainability of EC-funded databases and MERIL sustainability (Jean-Claude Worms - ESF) 

Presentation followed by group discussion moderated by Jean-Claude Worms

Discussion Focus Points:

  • Ways to achieve full sustainability of MERIL and other RI-related, EC-funded initiatives
  • Success stories of achieving such sustainability: what worked well, and what did not? Why/why not?
  • Possibility of users and facilities to be involved in the financial model to sustain the initiatives in question

Potential financial models to be adopted: institutional contributions, private sponsors, user fees, registration mechanisms, in-kind contributions, ads?

 

 

 

 

 
11:30 – 12:45

Roadmap of actions towards interoperability (Vasilis Bonis - EKT)    

Group discussion moderated by Vasilis Bonis

Discussion Focus Points:

  • Outlining considerations that must be addressed prior to drawing up an interoperability plan
  • Listing phases that should be included in an interoperability plan specifically for MERIL

Generalizing the above so that it is more widely applicable and useful to the community

  

12:45 – 13:00

Closing notes (Maro Androutsopoulou - EKT)

 

 

 

 

 
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch