Open Research: Data Management and Policies in the Austrian national context CEDEM 2013 Workshop 23rd May 2013

Mag. Michela Vignoli, Dr. Ross King Safety & Security Department AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

Agenda

1.  Introduction to the Topic and to the Wiki by Mag. Michela Vignoli

2.  Invited speakers

1.  Mag. Wolfgang Nedobity (UNIKO): Open Access Policy Recommendations

2.  MSc. Eng. Tomasz Miksa (SBA-Research): Research Process Management

3.  Introduction to Policy Recommendations by Dr. Ross King

4.  General Discussion

5.  Breakout groups

1.  Technical implementation of policies

2.  Political implementation of policies

6.  Reports of Breakout groups

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Open Research Open Access to research data & publications

Michela Vignoli Safety & Security Department AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

Context: developing research culture for the 21st century

§  Traditional research (19th/20st century) §  Mainly local teams/individuals §  Content restricted to physical records, stored in archives §  Manual search & processing of data §  Off-line communication

§  Turn of century: transition phase

§  Developing 21st century research §  Distributed teams §  Digitised content, e-Infrastructures §  Computer-aided search & processing of data §  On-line communication and cooperation (e-Research)

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Open Research is a response to the developing research culture of the 21st century

§  Share resources and tools globally §  Fast and facilitated access to research

data and publications

§  Computer-aided analysis of the available sources

§  Transparency of research processes by access to sources and documentation

§  Strengthens scientific excellence and uptake of results

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Open Data Excuse Bingo It's not very interesting

It's too big Terrorists will use it People may misinterpret the data

Lawyers want a custom License

We'll get spam I don't mind, but someone else might

It's too complicated

Thieves will use it What if we want to sell it later

We might want to use it in a paper

Data Protection

Poor Quality There's no API We will get too many enquiries

There's already a project to...

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Assumptions

§  Austria and Europe should keep pace with Open Access developments in other countries (UK, USA)

§  Publicly-funded research should be made publicly available

§  It is necessary to develop appropriate Policies, Infrastructures, and Data Management Planning solutions

§  The (Austrian) Government should establish some national policies, which should be coordinated by a high-level working group

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Approaches to Open Research in Austria

§  FWF §  Open Access Policy for FWF-funded projects:

http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/public_relations/oai/index.html

§  Since 2006 all FWF funded projects must publish Open Access whenever legally possible

§  FWF E-Book-Library: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/

§  More information: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/public_relations/oai/pdf/ FWF_OA-2013.pdf

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Approaches to Open Research in Austria

§  Universität Wien §  Open Access Board

§  Institutional Repository "u:scholar": https://uscholar.univie.ac.at/ §  regular OA-events (e.g. OA-Tage 2012)

§  OA projects (e.g. OpenAIRE, OpenAIRE+, SCOAP3)

§  More information: http://openaccess.univie.ac.at/

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Approaches to Open Research in Austria

§  OKFN local group: Open Science Work Group §  Founded in February 2013

§  Regular meetings in Vienna and other cities in Austria §  Drafting Open Science Manifesto

§  More information: http://okfn.at/arbeitsgruppen/open-science-austria/

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National OA groups/networks

§  OANA: www.oana.at §  List of contacts:

http://www.oana.at/en/contact-persons/

§  OKFN local group Austria: http://okfn.at/ §  Blog: http://okfn.at/blog/

§  Open Science Work Group mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/science-at

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Open Access Netzwerk Austria

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http://list.scape-project.eu/confluence/display/AORW

Our vision: Open Research

§  Should aim at Open Access to research data as well

§  Enables re-use and combination of research data (sets) in similar or different settings

§  Potentially opens the whole research process and all of its outcomes to the general public

§  Brings research out of the Ivory Tower: a benefit for the society

§  Will lead to economic opportunities for future business models

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Goals of the workshop

§  Identify relevant national stakeholders

§  Codify policy recommendations

§  Explore technical solutions for policy implementation

§  Explore political solutions for policy implementation

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Invited Speakers

§  Mag. Wolfgang Nedobity from Universities Austria (UNIKO)

Open Access Policy Recommendations

§  MSc. Eng. Tomasz Miksa from SBA Research

Research Process Management – Why Data Management Plans are not Sufficient with Ao.Univ.Prof. Andreas Rauber from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

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AIT Austrian Institute of Technology your ingenious partner Mag. Michela Vignoli michela.vignoli.fl@ait.ac.at