DRIVER Technology Watch Report

This report is part of the Discovery Workpackage (WP4) and is the third report out of four deliverables. The objective of this report is to give an overview of the latest technical developments in the world of digital repositories, digital libraries and beyond, in order to serve as theoretical and practical input for the technical DRIVER developments, especially those focused on enhanced publications. This report consists of two main parts, one part focuses on interoperability standards for enhanced publications, the other part consists of three subchapters, which give a landscape picture of current and surfacing technologies and communities crucial to DRIVER. These three subchapters contain the GRID, CRIS and LTP communities and technologies. Every chapter contains a theoretical explanation, followed by case studies and the outcomes and opportunities for DRIVER in this field

Establishing Digital Repositories at Western Balkan Universities

The paper presents part of the Tempus project “New Library Services at Western Balkan\ud Universities” (coordinated by the University library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade from 2010\ud up to now), whose one of two main objectives is to establish digital repositories on the 6\ud universities of the Western Balkan (three countries: Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and\ud Herzegovina). The repositories are based on the same system – PHAIDRA, created, developed\ud and launched in 2006. by University library in Vienna, which is one of the partner in the Project.\ud PHAIDRA is system designed for long term archiving and managing of different types of digital\ud objects; legislation about copyright protection is included in the system and can be easily\ud applied. The repository of the University of Belgrade, with all necessary adjustments (language,\ud university structure, classification system, etc.), became the leading model for all other\ud repositories. Dissemination of information about repositories is started at the University library\ud for several groups of faculty librarians, who participated one day training about the functioning\ud of the system. Training of librarians is also the first step in connecting with teaching staff of those\ud faculties. The Rectorate of the University of Belgrade gave institutional support to this Project:\ud by signing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Science and Humanities,\ud rector emphasized that PHAIDRA repository is established accordingly to this decision and\ud invited professors, researchers and others to publish their scientific work within this repository\ud and to make it visible worldwide

Systematizing FAIR research data management in biomedical research projects: a data life cycle approach

Biomedical researchers are facing data management challenges brought by a new generation of data driven by the advent of translational medicine research. These challenges are further complicated by the recent calls for data re-use and long-term stewardship spearheaded by the FAIR principles initiative. As a result, there is an increasingly wide-spread recognition that advancing biomedical science is becoming dependent on the application of data science to manage and utilize highly diverse and complex data in ways that give it context, meaning, and longevity beyond its initial purpose. However, current methods and practices in biomedical informatics remain to adopt a traditional linear view of the informatics process (collect, store and analyse); focusing primarily on the challenges in data integration and analysis, which are challenges only pertaining to a part of the overall life cycle of research data. The aim of this research is to facilitate the adoption and integration of data management practices into the research life cycle of biomedical projects, thus improving their capabilities into solving data management-related challenges that they face throughout the course of their research work. To achieve this aim, this thesis takes a data life cycle approach to define and develop a systematic methodology and framework towards the systematization of FAIR data management in biomedical research projects. The overarching contribution of this research is the provision of a data-state life cycle model for research data management in Biomedical Translational Research Projects. This model provides insight into the dynamics between 1) the purpose of a research-driven data use case, 2) the data requirements that renders data in a state fit for purpose, 3) the data management functions that prepare and act upon data and 4) the resulting state of data that is _t to serve the use case. This insight led to the development of a FAIR data management framework, which is another contribution of this thesis. This framework provides data managers the groundwork, including the data models, resources and capabilities, needed to build a FAIR data management environment to manage data during the operational stages of a biomedical research project. An exemplary implementation of this architecture (PlatformTM) was developed and validated by real-world research datasets produced by collaborative research programs funded by the Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI) BioVacSafe 1 , eTRIKS 2 and FAIRplus 3.Open Acces

Helmholtz Portfolio Theme Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis (LSDMA)

The Helmholtz Association funded the "Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis" portfolio theme from 2012-2016. Four Helmholtz centres, six universities and another research institution in Germany joined to enable data-intensive science by optimising data life cycles in selected scientific communities. In our Data Life cycle Labs, data experts performed joint R&D together with scientific communities. The Data Services Integration Team focused on generic solutions applied by several communities

Corporate Librarianship in the ODINECET Group (EURASLIC)

This paper focused on the advantages of joint librarian projects and international collaboration among the aquatic libraries, which are highly specialized. One of the outstanding features of the information environment during the last decades is the constant growth of e-libraries, or even separate digital collections. Nowadays any library is willing to expand the sphere of its informational activities either within the country or abroad; librarians attract users by promoting their services and providing (open) access to their collections via digitization. In so doing, libraries are more productive, useful and user-friendly. Libraries are becoming more integrated into the world of e-science via various international programs. Examples of certain successful international librarian partnerships are given. There have already been two institutional repositories (IBSS, Sevastopol, Crimea, and RuFIR, Russian Fishery Industry Repository, Moscow, Russia) and one corporate repository CEEMaR, launched as part of the ODINECET Program. The 67 paper emphasizes the pluses and minuses of the CEEMaR e-Repository, the IODE product of joint efforts of 18 libraries from five countries of the Central and Eastern Europe Region, against institutional repositories. Besides Open Access resources, worldwide corporate cooperation has brought document cataloguing to a completely different level. Electronic versions of bibliographic information has stimulated the creation of new forms of collaboration in bibliographic data exchange, leading to making the cataloguing process cheaper, raising the issue of quality control while compiling a bibliographic record, and uniting the libraries in their mutual efforts to create regulating documents of the international standards. The Union Catalogue of the ODINECET Group is a common corporate resource, gathering information on the aquatic periodicals’ holdings from the Central and Eastern Europe libraries. The works (either factual or technical) have also revealed some problems that are yet to be solved, with a unique cataloguing standard among them. The challenging task for catalogue compilers will be to unite certain bibliographic metadata modes, classification descriptors and keywords. Current activities and future perspectives of the ODINECET Union Catalogue are reported on

NFDI4Culture - Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage

Digital data on tangible and intangible cultural assets is an essential part of daily life, communication and experience. It has a lasting influence on the perception of cultural identity as well as on the interactions between research, the cultural economy and society. Throughout the last three decades, many cultural heritage institutions have contributed a wealth of digital representations of cultural assets (2D digital reproductions of paintings, sheet music, 3D digital models of sculptures, monuments, rooms, buildings), audio-visual data (music, film, stage performances), and procedural research data such as encoding and annotation formats. The long-term preservation and FAIR availability of research data from the cultural heritage domain is fundamentally important, not only for future academic success in the humanities but also for the cultural identity of individuals and society as a whole. Up to now, no coordinated effort for professional research data management on a national level exists in Germany. NFDI4Culture aims to fill this gap and create a usercentered, research-driven infrastructure that will cover a broad range of research domains from musicology, art history and architecture to performance, theatre, film, and media studies. The research landscape addressed by the consortium is characterized by strong institutional differentiation. Research units in the consortium's community of interest comprise university institutes, art colleges, academies, galleries, libraries, archives and museums. This diverse landscape is also characterized by an abundance of research objects, methodologies and a great potential for data-driven research. In a unique effort carried out by the applicant and co-applicants of this proposal and ten academic societies, this community is interconnected for the first time through a federated approach that is ideally suited to the needs of the participating researchers. To promote collaboration within the NFDI, to share knowledge and technology and to provide extensive support for its users have been the guiding principles of the consortium from the beginning and will be at the heart of all workflows and decision-making processes. Thanks to these principles, NFDI4Culture has gathered strong support ranging from individual researchers to highlevel cultural heritage organizations such as the UNESCO, the International Council of Museums, the Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia. On this basis, NFDI4Culture will take innovative measures that promote a cultural change towards a more reflective and sustainable handling of research data and at the same time boost qualification and professionalization in data-driven research in the domain of cultural heritage. This will create a long-lasting impact on science, cultural economy and society as a whole