Landscaping European Competence Centres: Skills4EOSC case study

Skills4EOSC is setting up a pan-European network of competence centres to speed up the training of European researchers and harmonise the training of data professional profiles for scientific data management. To enhance the process of identifying the European competence centres, a comprehensive landscaping analysis is conducted. The analysis aims to identify and evaluate existing competence centres based on specific criteria. Once evaluated, the selected competence centres are documented and included in the Skills4EOSC Competence Centre Registry

Obblighi sull'Open Access e Politiche Europee - Cosa sono, come rispettarli e come trarne vantaggio

Presentation by Emma Lazzeri (ISTI-CNR, OpenAIRE NOAD) at the event "I costi della conoscenza", Pisa, Italy, 9 May 2019. In this presentation, an introduction to main concept of Open Science, Open Access to Publications and Research Data and European Mandated for H2020 projects is given. The presentation language is Italian In questa presentazione si introducono i temi della Scienza Aperta, Accesso Aperto a Letteratura scientifica e dati della ricerca, e le politiche europee e i regolamenti per i progetti H2020 finanziati dalla Commissione Europea. La presentazione è in lingua italiana

Interconnection network architectures based on integrated orbital angular momentum emitters

Novel architectures for two-layer interconnection networks based on concentric OAM emitters are presented. A scalability analysis is done in terms of devices characteristics, power budget and optical signal to noise ratio by exploiting experimentally measured parameters. The analysis shows that by exploiting optical amplifications, the proposed interconnection networks can support a number of ports higher than 100. The OAM crosstalk induced-penalty, evaluated through an experimental characterization, do not significantly affect the interconnection network performance

All-optical Digital Processing Through Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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All-Optical NRZ-DPSK to RZ-OOK Format Conversion Using Optical Delay Line Interferometer and Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

We describe an all-optical NRZ-DPSK to RZ-OOK converter employing an optical delay line interferometer and a semiconductor optical amplifier. System penalty at 10Gbit/s is experimentally demonstrated to be less than 1dB at BER of 10{ extminus}9

Multiplane Orbital Angular Momentum and Wavelength Switch based on Integrated Tunable Vortex Emitters

A multiplane switch architecture exploiting OAM and wavelength domains is characterized in terms of BER, scheduling/reconfiguration latency, and power consumption. Doubling the exploited OAM modes reduces the latency by 42% and the power by 17%

A fully photonics-based coherent radar system

The next generation of radar (radio detection and ranging) systems needs to be based on software-defined radio to adapt to variable environments, with higher carrier frequencies for smaller antennas and broadened bandwidth for increased resolution. Today's digital microwave components (synthesizers and analogue-to-digital converters) suffer from limited bandwidth with high noise at increasing frequencies, so that fully digital radar systems can work up to only a few gigahertz, and noisy analogue up- and downconversions are necessary for higher frequencies. In contrast, photonics provide high precision and ultrawide bandwidth, allowing both the flexible generation of extremely stable radio-frequency signals with arbitrary waveforms up to millimetre waves, and the detection of such signals and their precise direct digitization without downconversion. Until now, the photonics-based generation and detection of radio-frequency signals have been studied separately and have not been tested in a radar system. Here we present the development and the field trial results of a fully photonics-based coherent radar demonstrator carried out within the project PHODIR. The proposed architecture exploits a single pulsed laser for generating tunable radar signals and receiving their echoes, avoiding radio-frequency up- and downconversion and guaranteeing both the software-defined approach and high resolution. Its performance exceeds state-of-the-art electronics at carrier frequencies above two gigahertz, and the detection of non-cooperating aeroplanes confirms the effectiveness and expected precision of the system

Draft Methodology for FAIR-by-Design Learning Materials

This document describes a methodology for FAIR-by-design production of learning materials based on the backward instructional process that is extended with additional activities focusing on the implementation of the FAIR guiding principles. A general discussion on important aspect of implementation such as granularity, scope, metadata schema, interoperability and publication in relevant repositories is provided together with a step by step six stage workflow and checklists that help implement the FAIR-by-design process. The outlined methodology will be used as a blueprint for a train-the-trainer course aiming to present the practical FAIR-by-design instructional design

The OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard: On blending scientific workflows and scientific publishing

First Online 30 August 2019Despite the hype, the effective implementation of Open Science is hindered by several cultural and technical barriers. Researchers embraced digital science, use “digital laboratories” (e.g. research infrastructures, thematic services) to conduct their research and publish research data, but practices and tools are still far from achieving the expectations of transparency and reproducibility of Open Science. The places where science is performed and the places where science is published are still regarded as different realms. Publishing is still a post-experimental, tedious, manual process, too often limited to articles, in some contexts semantically linked to datasets, rarely to software, generally disregarding digital representations of experiments. In this work we present the OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard (RCD), designed to overcome some of these barriers for a given research community, minimizing the technical efforts and without renouncing any of the community services or practices. The RCD flanks digital laboratories of research communities with scholarly communication tools for discovering and publishing interlinked scientific products such as literature, datasets, and software. The benefits of the RCD are show-cased by means of two real-case scenarios: the European Marine Science community and the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) research infrastructure.This work is partly funded by the OpenAIRE-Advance H2020 project (grant number: 777541; call: H2020-EINFRA-2017) and the OpenAIREConnect H2020 project (grant number: 731011; call: H2020-EINFRA-2016-1). Moreover, we would like to thank our colleagues Michele Manunta, Francesco Casu, and Claudio De Luca (Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, CNR, Italy) for their work on the EPOS infrastructure RCD; and Stephane Pesant (University of Bremen, Germany) his work on the European Marine Science RCD