In November 2018, the European Commission launched the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in Vienna. The EOSC envisions establishing a European data infrastructure, integrating high-capacity cloud solutions, eventually widening the scope of these services to include the public sector and the industry. Understanding the EOSC structure is a first step in recognizing the opportunities offered by the newly launched EOSC. This article offers some reflections for a better understanding of the realization of the EOSC at the present stage, including currently ongoing developments. Burgelman and Schouppe published under their own names and their text does not necessarily represent the view of the EC.
Data management plans are free-form text documents describing the data used and produced in scientific experiments. The complexity of data-driven experiments requires precise descriptions of tools and datasets used in computations to enable their reproducibility and reuse. Data management plans fall short of these requirements. In this paper, we propose machine-actionable data management plans that cover the same themes as standard data management plans, but particular sections are filled with information obtained from existing tools. We present mapping of tools from the domains of digital preservation, reproducible research, open science, and data repositories to data management plan sections. Thus, we identify the requirements for a good solution and identify its limitations. We also propose a machine-actionable data model that enables information integration. The model uses ontologies and is based on existing standards.
Regardless of current or future technologies, accessing digitally preserved information resources will always pose challenges. There is a plethora of models, standards and best practices addressing the different facets for the preservation of digital objects. The management of digital objects requires well-defined policies and data management plans that include all processes within their specific lifecycle. To achieve high levels of data sharing and long-term re-use of data, APARSEN recommends developing an Interoperable Framework for Persistent Identifiers, paving the way for a 'Ring of Trusted Persistent Identifiers for Linked Open Data'. To enable semantic interoperability of such a Ring, this article proposes to map LODE-BD metadata with the Framework's ontology. The Ring can be further enriched with LOD2 Technology Stack to tackle the problem of trustworthiness of linked data lifecycle while addressing the issue of Big Data. To be trusted, digital libraries need to be audited and certified in compliance with the European Framework for Audit and Certification.In a special issue of the journal ISQ Information Standards Quarterly (2010: 3) dedicated to digital preservation (DP), it was stressed that our rapidly changing digital world suffers from an over-abundance of unstructured digital information, rapid obsolescence of hardware and software, and increasingly restrictive intellectual property regimes. To ensure continued, sustainable and authentic long-term access to digital information, a vibrant international community of digital information specialists is continuously developing and implementing standards and best practices in the areas of digital curation and DP, taking into account that technological means for storage of digital information will change over time. This means that choices made early in the life of a digital project will certainly have an impact on digital posterity (Holdsworth, 2007: 7).Albeit issues regarding DP will continue to be pressing in the digital universe and despite DP policies that differ greatly across countries, the fundamental challenges regarding information resources' availability over time are universal (Henneken,
Im Januar 2014 wurde in Österreich das dreijährige vom Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW) geförderte Partnerprojekt e-Infrastructures Austria initiiert, das den koordinierten Ausbau von digitalen Archiven, die Weiterentwicklung von Services und den Aufbau eines Wissensnetzwerks für die Bereitstellung, Verbreitung und sichere Archivierung von elektronischen Publikationen, Multimedia-Objekten und anderen Daten aus Forschung und Lehre verfolgt. An den 20 teilnehmenden Universitäten und fünf weiteren Forschungseinrichtungen geht es nicht nur darum, die technische Infrastruktur bereitzustellen, sondern vor allem auch um ein strategisches Konzept für das zukünftige Forschungsdatenmanagement in Österreich. Dabei wird auf die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen Bezug genommen, die sich durch den Umgang mit digitalen Objekten und sich ständig erweiternde Anwendungsbereiche ergeben. Heute sind innovative Formen der Nachnutzung gefragt, postuliert durch den Open Access-Gedanken und das Konzept einer kooperativen, offenen Wissenschaft. Bei der langfristigen strategischen Planung von Repositorien gilt es, Interoperabilität, eine laufende Erweiterung der Systeme, Organisation und Management zu beachten. Eine Grundvoraussetzung dafür, dass Daten langfristig auffindbar, verständlich und nachnutzbar bleiben, ist die Wahrung der Rechtssicherheit. Alle wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen sollten für die Schaffung eines gemeinsamen Rechtsraums sorgen. Dieser kann durch die Einführung von geeigneten Policies und Datenmanagementplänen begleitet werden. e-Infrastructures Austria involviert mit der verfolgten Projektstruktur unterschiedliche Stakeholder (Bibliotheken, lokale IT-Dienstleister, Wissenschafter, Beschäftigte aus juristischen Abteilungen, institutionelle und nationale Forschungsförderungsbüros). Dadurch sollten spezifische Rollen und Verantwortlichkeiten in den Prozessen des digitalen Workflows wahrgenommen werden.
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