CeDEM13 Day 2 morning Workshop – Open Research: Data Management and Policies in the Austrian national context (Michela Vignoli, Ross King)

1. 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

2. 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
7. Discussion
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3. Open Research
Open Access to research data & publications
Michela Vignoli
Safety & Security Department
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

4. 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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5. 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
§ Not restricted to research community
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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

13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
your ingenious partner
Mag. Michela Vignoli
michela.vignoli.fl@ait.ac.at