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Dr. Simone Sacchi has more than 15 years of experience in academic libraries and research centers, driving enterprise–level information management, outreach, and R&D programs focused on the technologies, policies, and best practices that support the long–term stewardship, access, and impact of digital research. His research interests lies at the intersection of Open Science, impact metrics, and conceptual foundations of Library and Information Science.

In his current role as EU Projects Manager at LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, he heads a team of Project Officers, coordinates the work around the portfolio of projects LIBER participates in -including: AARC2, EOSCpilot, EUDAT, FOSTER Plus, HuMetricsHSS, OpenAIRE, and OpenMinTeD- and works with partners on identifying new initiatives.

Before joining LIBER, Simone was Head, Scholarly Communication Services at Columbia University in the City of New York. In his role he provided leadership and strategic direction on a variety of initiatives, including Academic Commons, Columbia’s research repository; the Scholarly Communication Program, an information sharing and outreach initiative; and the Columbia Promoting Access to Research and Collaboration (ColumbiaPARC) project, a research information and expert system. Simone was also actively involved in community efforts, having been a steering committee member for the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, a contributor for the Hydra Project, and a member of the FORCE11 Data Citation Implementation Pilot . Before moving to the US, Simone was Systems Librarian and Digital Repository Manager at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he provided technical leadership in the development of the university institutional repository program for research outputs, learning objects, and theses & dissertations.

Simone holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Graduate Certificate in Open Source Software Science and Technology from the University of Bologna, Italy, and a Masters Degree in Library Science from the University of Parma, Italy. https://erotovate.com

When

DAY 1 - 11:30 Parallel session 1

Open Science Cafe

DAY 1 - 14:00 PARALLEL SESSION 2

Organising high quality research data management services for open science

DAY 2 - 11:30 PARALLEL SESSION 3

Towards a policy framework for the European open science cloud: The EOSCpilot perspective

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Tiziana is Technical Director at the EGI Foundation since October 2013 and Technical Coordinator of the H2020 EGI flagship project funded by the EC: EGI-Engage. She was responsible for the direction of the EGI-InSPIRE project and was former Chief Operations Officer taking care of the operations coordination of EGI. She is a promoter of the Open Science Commons and participated in the definition of the EGI governance and service portfolio in the framework of the EGI_DS project. She has been involved in grid operations since 2007 contributing to the coordination of operations for the Italian Grid infrastructure. Tiziana holds a PhD in Electronics and Data Communications Engineering from the Universita’ degli Studi in Bologna.

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EGI

DAY 3 - 09:00 PARALLEL SESSION 6 (09:00) & 7 (11:30)

National and European e-infrastructure cooperation for open science

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Mr. Kostas Koumantaros, Msc, is a Project Manager and Software Engineer on GRID and Cloud Technologies at GRNET SA. He obtained the Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering in July 1999 from the University of Essex. He subsequently pursued an MSc in Advanced Computer Science Software Engineering degree from the University of Manchester, which he obtained with excellent marks in October 2000. Since October 2002 he is part of GRNET Technical Department as the manager of GRNET's Open Source Promotion and Development Initiative and member of the Hellasgrid Task Force. From April 2004 till April 2010 he was acting as the Regional Operations Centre technical manager for South-East-Europe (Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Romania, Bulgaria) for the series EC project EGEE-1,2,3 (Enabling Grids for e-Science in Europe) being responsible for coordinating operational technical aspects of the scientific Grid infrastructure in the region, and its seamless integration into the pan-European e-Science infrastructure. Since April 2010 he is acting as the NGI Manager for NGI_GRNET.  Kostas is also an Associate Editor for the  Elsevier SoftwareX Journal that aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today's research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains.

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Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), Support and Training Services

DAY 3 - 09:00 PARALLEL SESSION 6

National and European e-infrastructure cooperation for open science

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Chris Atherton is a Technical Business Development Officer at the GÉANT Association, an e-infrastructure organisation providing cutting-edge pan-European networking, and trust and identity services for the research and education community.  His role focuses on supporting International user communities and organisations, as well as identifying new solutions to specific research requirements. Chris has over 10 years’ experience working in the IT and Space industry prior to joining GÉANT and holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Networks and Security.

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GÉANT general overview

DAY 3 - 09:00 PARALLEL SESSION 6

National and European e-infrastructure cooperation for open science

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Natalia Manola is a research associate in the University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and the “Athena” Technology and Innovation Research Center. She holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has several years of employment as a Software Engineer and Architect employed in the Bioinformatics sector. From 2009 she has served as the managing director of OpenAIRE , a pan European e-Infrastructure supporting open access in all scientific results, and is currently coordinating OpenMinTeD a H2020 infrastructural project on text and data mining. She has since expanded her expertise in Open Science policies and implementation, currently serving in the Open Science Policy Platform, an EC high level Expert Group to provide advice about the development and implementation of open science policy in Europe. Her research interests include the topics of e-Infrastructures development and management, scientific data management, data curation and validation, text and data mining complex data Visualization, and research analytics.

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How we explore, model, analyze and visualize systematic research in OpenAIRE utilizing Topic Modeling Services

PRESENTATION ABSTRACT

In this talk, we describe the methodology as well as related tools, services, metrics and visualizations that we use in OpenAIRE to explore, model, analyze and visualize systematic research in E.U. and worldwide. Focusing on Topic Modelling services we mine both the textual content and the related side information (e.g., meta-data, semantic annotations, links) of all scholarly, patent or other project / Programme specific information in order to identify underlying thematic information (i.e., low-dimensional multi-view latent representations named “topics”) and corresponding overlapping clusters/communities combining all disparate information sources. Generated topics are later used in subsequent tasks such as trend and similarity analysis, or information mapping and retrieval.

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DAY 1 - 10:00 Welcome Plenary  

Welcome on behalf of four organising projects: OpenAIRE, OpenMinTeD, OpenUP, FOSTER

DAY 2 - 14:00 PARALLEL SESSION 4 (14:00) & 5 (16:00) 

Open Science Monitor

DAY 2 - 14:00 PARALLEL SESSION 5 (16:00) 

TDM: Unlocking a goldmine of information

DAY 2 - 16:00 PARALLEL SESSION  5 

Open Science Monitor

DAY 3 - 09:00 PARALLEL SESSION 6 (09:00) & 7 (11:30)

National and European e-infrastructure cooperation for open science

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Stefano Nativi is the head of the Florence Division of the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA) of the National Research Council of Italy. He coordinates the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) laboratory of CNR-IIA that has been developing and operating the Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) managed by the Group on Earth Observation (GEO). He founded the Earth and Space Sciences Informatics (ESSI) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), serving as president of the division for first five years. He is a member of the GEO Infrastructure Implementation Board (IIB) and served as co-chair of the GEO Science & Technology Committee. He is also a member of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee. In the Research Data Alliance (RDA), he co-chairs the “Brokering” Interest Group (IG). For OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium), he co-chairs the Earth Systems Science Domain WG (ESS DWG) and the netCDF Standardization WG (NetCDF SWG). He has taught at the Universities of Padua (Italy), Jena (Germany), and Florence (Italy) for more than ten years. Currently, he is Visiting Scientist at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, in Ispra (Italy).

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Brokering Services facilitating interoperability and data management provision

ABSTRACT

The presentation will introduce the RDA Data Fabric Conceptual model (see Data Fabric IG) focusing on the use of the Brokering pattern and its realization technology (see RDA Brokering IG) to move from the abstract to the implementation level.

Intermediation functionalities have been done for many years by the diverse Communities to support their applications: with the advent of the Web-as-a-Platform (WaaP), there is the need to make the functionalities in a more effective, automatic and re-usable way. In keeping with a PID Centic architecture, brokering services will contribute to move from a "Human-Controlled Process" to a "Type-Triggered Automatic Processing". While the applications potential can be widespread, even within communities, the greatest leverage comes in intermediation across communities.

Brokering scope can cover several aspects characterizing data management, processing, and sharing processes, including: mediation and harmonization taks for data discovery and access, data transformation tasks for workflow execution and information generation, and intermediation tasks for automating trading (i.e. contracts, usage, licenses, etc.) enabling Science to "trade" data with industry.

Intermediation Services Externalization presents several benefits (eg. costs, re-usability, flexibility, implementation of software and architectural patterns, such as: seperation-of-concerns pattern, information expert, low coupling, etc.) introducing some new challenges in areas such as services trust and governance.

Brokering/intermediation services can play an important role to enable the collaboration among RDA, EUDAT and LIBER.

When

DAY 1 - 14:00 Parallel session 2

Organising High Quality Research Data Management Services for Open Science

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Short CV

Maria Georgopoulou was trained as an art historian and her scholarly work explores the artistic and cultural interactions of Mediterranean peoples in the Middle Ages. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught at Yale University (1992-2004) where she also founded the Program for Hellenic Studies. She is currently the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. During her tenure, the Gennadius Library has expanded its academic offerings and developed new outreach programs to attract and educate an ever wider audience.

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The role of women in exploring, understanding and archiving the past

Abstract

Exploring the position of women in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (founded in 1881) offers insights into the various roles that women have played as archaeologists, conservators, librarians and archivists in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. From the first woman to be accepted as a Member of the American School in 1885 to the installation of the first woman director of the School (Jenifer Neils) two months ago, a lot has changed. Yet, there is ample evidence to suggest that women today are still underpaid and lag behind men in the higher echelons of the academy. What can the history of women in the American School teach us about access to science?

Often obscured in the shadow of their husbands, educated American women in the beginning of the 20^th century had to reinvent themselves in order to find a worthy occupation that would befit their skills and aspirations. The first women archaeologists at the American School strove to gain a position worthy of the excellent training they had received in the American Women’s colleges. Stereotypes pushed them to the exploration of more “domestic” topics, minor objects like the cataloguing of small finds, as well as to administrative and organizational duties. It is instructive that the first woman ever to direct an excavation on mainland Greece, Hetty Goldman, believed that the only reason she had been allowed to excavate at Halae was to get her as far from Athens as possible; so hostile to women excavators was the tone at the American School in 1911. Twenty years later, despite the fact that women were outshining the men who took the exams to win fellowships at the American School, it was proposed to establish a fixed ratio of fellowships between men and women, one that would award many more to men.

Revolutionary ways to record archaeological finds such as iDig (an app that allows field archaeologists to record excavation data easily, accurately, and consistently in real time, then process and share it quickly), open access to an ever greater volume of digitized materials from the libraries and archives of the American School, and sharing this findings with a larger public exemplify the vision of the American School in the twenty-first century to serve a greater community of scholars. Doing archaeology well means much more than recording finds and constructing heroic figures, however; it is also about appreciating the unspoken process by which all this was made possible very often because of silenced heroes who painstakingly have cleaned, archived, photographed, and organized things. The work of the School is the collaborative product of many teams not just of “leaders.” Take a look at the blog From the Archivist's Notebook. Essays Inspired by Archival Research in Athens Greece, an ingenuous tool to explore the history of the School by Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan; the information is there in plain view for all to see.

When

DAY 2 - 09:15 Plenary: Open for All? Diversity and Disparity in Open Science

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Short CV

Ilaria Fava has several years experience in Open Access issues at both a national and international level, as she is currently working at the Göttingen State and University Library on OpenAIRE and the EOSCpilot projects. She is also serving the Directory of Open Access Journals as Managing Editor.

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DOAJ & OA publishing: Learn more and discover our services

When

DAY 3 - 14:00 Parallel session 8

DOAJ and open access publishing: Learn more and discover our services

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Clara Armengou has several years of experience in the scholarly publishing industry, currently working at the Directory of Open Access Journals and at Cambridge University Press in the past. She has also worked as a science communication officer at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, where she lead a project to to promote scientific research of excellence in Catalonia and to make science and research accessible to the general public. Clara is particularly interested in Open Access, Open Data, e-learning and MOOCs.

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DOAJ & OA publishing: Learn more and discover our services

When

DAY 3 - 14:00 Parallel session 8

DOAJ and open access publishing: Learn more and discover our services

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Iryna Kuchma is the Open Access Programme Manager for EIFL. She coordinates training activities in the FOSTER project that focuses on the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond. Together with 50 partners, from all EU countries and beyond, she also works for OpenAIRE project - a large-scale initiative that aims to promote open scholarship and substantially improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data and support research data management.  Iryna is also a member of Directory of Open Access Journals and Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study Advisory Boards, DSpace Community Advisory Team, NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) Board of Directors, and the Open Library of Humanities Internationalisation Committee.

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TITLE AT SESSIONS 4 & 5

Best practice in Open Science

Title AT SESSIONS 6 & 7

OpenAIRE services and activities for training, support/helpdesk, community engagement

When

DAY 1 - Parallel session 1

Open Science Cafe

DAY 2 - PARALLEL SESSION 4

Fostering the practical implementation of open science in Horizon 2020 and beyond

DAY 3 - PARALLEL SESSION 6 & 7

National e-infrastructure coordination for Open Science

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