Structural Frameworks for Open, Digital Research

11 June 2012, Copenhagen Royal Library

Open Sciencein the

Digital Agenda

(All expressed views are those of the speaker.)http://slidesha.re/openscienceEU

Carl-Christian Buhrhttp://bit.ly/cc_buhr, @ccbuhr

http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

DAE

101 Actions

http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

101 Actions

Advising on...

ICT Research PolicyScientific Informatione-Infrastructuresetc.

http://bit.ly/cc_buhr,@ccbuhr

The European Commission as...

...Policy MakerLaunches policy debatesInvites Member States to take actionProposes EU legislation

...Funding Agencye.g. Research & InnovationAccess policies for funded research

...Infrastructure BuilderFunds research infrastructuresFunds related researchSupports networking activities

Neelie Kroes

Digital Agenda

27 Commissioners...

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

R&I, ERA

...proposed Horizon 2020

Key elements

- For 2014-2020- For R&D and for Innovation projects- Funding: EUR 80bn...- Strong increase for e-Infrastructures- Open Access to research results: for all publications, to data where appropriate

Press Release IP/11/1475 of 30 November 2011Informationsportal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm

...now debated in Parliament and Council

http://europarl.europa.eu/

http://consilium.europa.eu/

European Parliament

Council of the European Union

Status Quo

http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open_access

OA to PublicationsCovers 20% FP7 budget Best effort mandateEmbargo (6/12m)Costs reimbursable

OA to DataSome projectsNot systematic

Digital Agenda & Open Access

“[…] publicly funded research should be widely disseminated through Open Access publication of scientific data and papers”

A Digital Agenda for Europe (COM(2010)245, 19.05.2010),http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0245(01):EN:NOT

“[…] the Commission will appropriately extend current Open Access publication requirements […]”

“ [...] the Commission will propose a European Research Area framework and […]seek to ensure […] dissemination [...] of research results, including through open access to publications and data from publicly funded research”.

Innovation Union (COM(2010)546, 06.10.2010),http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0546:EN:NOT

“ The Commission will promote open access to the results of publicly funded research. It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for projects funded by the EU research Framework Programmes […]”

Innovation Union & Open Access

Strong political support

“ Scientific information has the power to transform our lives for the better – it is too valuable to be locked away.”

“ The question is no longer ‘if’ we should have open access. The question is about ‘how’ we should develop it further and promote it.”

“ Access to scientific results for free, for all, for ever is a compelling vision indeed.”

Communication & Recommendation on Scientific Information

Indications for Open Access in Horizon 2020

Recommendation for Member State actions

Likely Adoption: Q3/2012

„ [The Commission] will work with Member States to step up their activities to provide open access to scientific information [...]. In parallel, the Commission will detail how it will deal with the results of research funded by the European Union.”

Commission Open Data Strategy 2011 (COM(2011)882, p. 9

Preparingfor

Data

http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave

”the data themselves become the infrastructure”.

Geant High Level Expert Group, Report of October 2011 http://bit.ly/geantEG

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/518

"My goal is to raise awareness of the opportunities represented by scientific data"

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/716

"[T]ruly free access to scientific data is not possible without a coordinated effort of European and global stakeholders to build and sustain an underlying seamless and trusted infrastructure."

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/392

"[Interoperability] is the key to global, multi-disciplinary science, supported by reliable and high-performance data infrastructure. We need datasets and software to work with each other"

Building Infrastructures

http://www.openaire.eu

http://www.oapen.org

http://europeana.eu

maintain, link, extend

plus

http://www.prace-project.euhttp://www.geant.net

What next for Open Science?

PolicyWho will run science data infrastructures?Towards a common approach in Europe

FundingBuild on PRACE, GÉANT, OpenAIREplus etc.Infrastructures to cope with “Big Data”Drive research into tools & methods

Community BuildingFor example: Digital HumanitiesEuropeana as a research infrastructure (funded through the Connecting Europe Facility)

Pointers

The EC and open accesshttp://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open_access

The Digital Agenda for Europehttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

Neelie Kroes Speecheshttp://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/518http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/716http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/218http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/258http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/392

Riding the wave – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010

http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave

GÉANT Expert Group, Report “Knowledge without Borders”http://bit.ly/geantEG

Post-2013 Research Green Paper & Public Consultationhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/csfri/index_en.cfm

Horizon 2020 proposalhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm

Contacts

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