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Rafael C. Jimenez

Short CV

Rafael C. Jimenez is Chief Technical Officer of ELIXIR (the European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information). He is a biologist and a computer scientist specialised in the coordination and management of Bioinformatics services. Interested in topics related to infrastructure, visualisation and data federation.

About PRESENTATION 
Title

EOSCpilot data interoperability

OmicsDI: Omics discovery index

FAIRSharing, on behalf of on behalf of Susanna A Sansone & Peter McQuilton, University of Oxford & the FAIRsharing team

When
DAY 3 - Parallel Session 6 (09:00) & 7 (11:30)

How fair friendly is your data catalogue?

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Marjan Grootveld

Short CV

A computational linguist by training, Dr Marjan Grootveld is senior policy officer at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). DANS is the Netherlands institute for permanent access to digital research resources. Enabling the re-use of knowledge, information, and data is the common element in Marjans career, ranging from corporate knowledge management via red tape reduction in eGovernment to sustainable data management in academia. She advises knowledge institutes and research funders on data management policy and practice, provides data management support and training in EU projects including EUDAT and OpenAIRE, and coaches attendants of the Research Data Netherlands Essentials 4 Data Support training.

WORKSHOP PRESENTATION 
TITLE

FAIR metrics - Starring your data sets

WHEN
DAY 2 - 16:00 PARALLEL SESSION 5

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Harris Linardakis

Short CV

Haris Linardakis is the IBM cloud leader, Greece and Cyprus since 2015. Within his role, he is helping enterprises of all sizes in Greece and Cyprus to assess cloud readiness, develop cloud adoption strategies and power their digital transformation.

Throughout his career in IBM, he held business development positions in global technology services and enterprise business unit. As a professional, he is committed to deliver business value through technological advancement and innovative thinking. His main interests include cloud platforms and services, business analytics, internet of things, cognitive applications and agile application development.

Haris’ academic background includes electrical and computer engineering degree and a PhD degree in telecommunications, both from the National Technical University of Athens. He has published and participated in research programmes in the area of medium access control protocols in Optical Networks.

about presentation
title

“EOSC meets enterprises’ needs”: A view from IBM

When
DAY 3 - 11:30 Parallel session 7

EOSC meets enterprises' needs!

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Frederick Fenter

Short CV

Fred is Executive Editor for open-access journal publishing program Frontiers. His 20-year career in publishing has been varied, involved libraries, document repositories, data bases and open-access publishing initiatives. His first appointment was as manager of the Inorganic Chemistry Program of Elsevier Science (Lausanne) in 1997. Since then he has been founder of a start-up in publishing technology (FontisMedia SA, Lausanne); and publisher for a Swiss-based English-language University Press (EPFL Press). Fred has been Executive Editor at Frontiers since August 2013. 

About PRESENTATION
TITLE

Frontiers’ Ambition for Open Science

When
DAY 1 - PARALLEL SESSION 2 (15:00)

 New Open Access models and platforms

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Lisa Matthias

Short CV

Lisa recently completed her Master’s degree in North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Investigating political communication, her research focused on frame theory and politicization- and polarization processes, especially within the media sphere. She is currently working in Scholarly Communications and Publishing by supporting the ScholComm Lab at Simon Fraser University, working as an Assistant Editor for the Open Library of Humanities, and managing the social media accounts of the Academic Mental Health Collective and Aletheia, an open source publishing platform.

About PRESENTATION 
Title

Collaborative reading and continuous peer review with PaperHive: keeping academic literature alive

When
DAY 1 - 15:00 Parallel Session 2 (15:00) 

New Open Access models and platforms

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Benedikt Fecher

Short CV

Benedikt Fecher heads the research program "Knowledge Dimension" at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. He studied communication science and economics at the University of Erfurt, the University of Ottawa, and the University of Aalborg. In 2017, he earned is doctorate at the University of Arts in Berlin on the topics of academic data sharing while working at the German Institute for Economic research. Before, Benedikt was a DARIAH-DE research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science and a scientific advisor for open access and research data at the Leibniz Association. In his research, Benedikt focuses on open science, knowledge transfer, and innovation in higher education.

About PRESENTATION 
Title

 The path-dependence of academic value creation: Impact, infrastructure, and innovation in academic publishing

When
DAY 1 - 12:30 Parallel Session 1 (12:30) 

New Open Access models and platforms

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Martin Eve

Short CV

Martin Paul Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and founder of the Open Library of Humanities. Martin specialises in contemporary American fiction (primarily the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace), histories and philosophies of technology, and technological mutations in scholarly publishing. Martin is well-known for his work on open access and Higher Education policy, appearing before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open Access, writing for the British Academy Policy Series on the topic, being a steering-group member of the OAPEN-UK project, the Jisc National Monograph Strategy Group, the SCONUL Strategy Group on Academic Content and Communications, the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Access Steering Group, the Jisc Scholarly Communications Advisory Group, the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation advisory board, the California Digital Library/University of California Press’s Humanities Book Infrastructure advisory board, and the HEFCE Open Access Monographs Expert Reference Panel (2014), and the Universities UK OA Monographs Working Group (2016-).

About PRESENTATION 
Title

 OA in Dry Funding Climates: Consortial Business Models - did not attend due to unexpected circumstances

Abstract

To be added 

When
DAY 1 - 12:30 Parallel Session 1 (12:30) & 2 (15:00) 

New Open Access models and platforms

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Gregory Milopoulos

Short CV

Mr. Milopoulos is an Educational Technology Researcher of the R&D Department of Ellinogermaniki Agogi. He is an Expert in Project Management of large and complex projects, mainly in the field of Information Technology. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from the University of Aegean and a Postgraduate Degree (Master of Business Administration) in Project Management of Techno-economic Systems from the National Technical University of Athens (School of Mechanical Engineering) in cooperation with University of Piraeus (Dpt of Industrial Management & Technology) and the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Dpt of Economics). Gregory has begun the cooperation with Ellinogermaniki Agogi since May 2017. Before that, from 2009 to 2016 he has founded Megaprojects, a Business Solutions and Consulting company. Gregory is the creator of Qtales (www.qtales.com) which started as a proposal, became a funded H2020 ICT project and is now a Limited UK Company, focusing on its commercial launch. Gregory has been dealing with European SMEs since 2001, when he joined the R&D Department of Pouliadis Group of Companies. 

About PRESENTATION 

Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) is a way of researching that takes a long-term perspective on the type of world in which we want to live. It can strengthen research projects by emphasising openness, transparency, diversity, inclusiveness and adaptation to changes. Essentially, RRI aims to create collaborative frameworks in which citizens engage with scientists, entrepreneurs, decisions makers and other groups to work towards sustainable, ethically acceptable and socially desirable outcomes.

When
DAY 1 - 15:00 Parallel session 2

Introduction to Responsible Research and Innovation - the Citizen Science aspect

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