Instruct-ERIC Events

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

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