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Paolo Manghi

SHORT CV

Paolo Manghi is a Researcher in computer science at Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI) of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), in Pisa, Italy. He is acting as coordinator for the EU-H2020 OpenAIRE-Connect project, technical manager and researcher for the EU-H2020 projects OpenAIRE2020, Data4Impact, OpenUP, SoBigData.eu, PARTHENOS, eInfraCentral, and RDA Europe. With respect to data publishing and management he is active member of a number of Data Citation and Data Publishing Working groups of the Research Data Alliance; besides, he is invited member of the advisory boards of the Research Object initiative (Carole Goble, University of Manchester) and of the Europeana Cloud project. His research areas of interest are today  data e-infrastructures for science, scholarly communication infrastructures, and publishing/interlinking of data and experiments, with a focus on technologies supporting open science and digital scholarly communication, i.e. reusing, sharing, assessing all research products, be them articles, datasets or experiments. Further activities include supervision of Ph.D. students, organization of international conferences and workshops, and seeking international research collaboration in any of the aforementioned fields. Before moving to CNR he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Departments of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow and Strathclyde (UK) and at the Department of Informatics at the University of Pisa, where in 2002 he earned a four-year Ph.D. in Informatics. His past research interests include typed programming languages for databases, persistent languages, static typing for semi-structured data, and peer-to-peer XML database systems.

1st workshop PRESENTATION 
title  

Open Science Publishing

2nd WORKSHOP PRESENTATION 
TITLE  

 The OpenAIRE catalogue

WHEN
DAY 2 - PARALLEL SESSION 4 & 5

Open Science as a Service: tools for research communities

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

How FAIR friendly is your data catalogue?

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Thorsten Huelsmann

SHORT CV

Thorsten holds a Master in Economic Geography, Organisation Studies and Communication Sciences from University of Bonn and Bologna. From 2000 -2003 Thorsten worked as Research Fellow at the Universities of Bonn and Bristol within a research project on regional innovation development. From 2003 -2010 he worked as Project Manager and Deputy Head of Unit at the Economic Development Agency Dortmund and was responsible for acquisition campaigns in ICT, MEMS and logistics industries in South-Korea, Singapore and Turkey. In 2010 he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of EffizienzCluster Management GmbH, the coordination office of the leading-edge cluster programme EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr. In 2016 he was appointed as Head of Unit Strategic Initiatives at Fraunhofer IML and as Director Finance and Internationalisation of the Head Office of Industrial Data Space Association.

ABOUT PRESENTATION 
title

Industrial Data Space: A new idea for sharing data

WHEN
DAY 2 - 09:00 PLENARY: EOSC MEETS ENTERPRISES' NEEDS!

EOSC meets enterprises’ needs!

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Nancy Pontika

SHORT CV

Nancy Pontika has a PhD in Open Access, with a focus on Open Access Funders’ Policies. She advocates for pure Open Access, machine access to open access research papers and the promotion of Open Science for the advancement of research. For the time being she is the Open Access Aggregation Officer in CORE (https://core.ac.uk), a service that aggregates millions of open access research papers, while in the past she worked for the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and as a repository manager at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is currently involved in three European projects, FOSTER (https://www.fosteropenscience.eu), OpenMinTeD (http://openminted.eu) and FIT4RRI (http://fit4rri.eu/). She serves as an Editor at the Open Access Directory (http://oad.simmons.edu) and as an External Liaison Officer at the UK Council of Research Repositories (http://ukcorr.org).

About presentation
Title

What is Open Science and why should I care?

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

Fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond

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Pedro Principe

SHORT CV

Pedro Príncipe is an information specialist working at University of Minho Documentation Services on the Open Science Projects Office, on OpenAIRE2020, FOSTER and RCAAP projects. In OpenAIRE2020 project he is working as support and helpdesk manager and participating in the guidelines team and other technical tasks, as the usage statistics and the funder information services. He also had participation in several FP7 projects related with Open Access and repositories: NECOBELAC, OpenAIRE, MedOANET, OpenAIREplus, and PASTEUR4OA, and also in related new H2020 projects, as FIT4RRI and FOSTERplus. Graduated in New Communication Technologies and with training in information science and documentation, he previously worked during ten years as librarian and web content manager at University of Aveiro. He has been involved in COAR Working Group on Repository Interoperability, and acting as member of the COAR Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Board. He was member of the National Executive Council of the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and documentalists (BAD) from 2011 to 2016 and in BAD is also Coordinator of the Academic Libraries working Group since 2014. He was recently appointed by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education to integrate the national working group on Portuguese Open Science Policy.

ABOUT PRESENTATIONs
TITLEs AT SESSIONS 4 & 5

OpenAIRE monitoring services, EC FP7 & H2020 & other national funders

&

Designing & implementing open access, open data & open science policies

Title AT SESSIONS 6 & 7

Training, technical support and helpdesk in OpenAIRE - national perspective

WHEN
DAY 2 - PARALLEL SESSION 4  & 5 

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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Eleftherios Thireos

SHORT CV

General Practitioner/Family Physician, Greek NHS Consultant, Vari Health Centre.
Postgraduate Education in Public Health (National School of Public Health) and in Mental Health Promotion (European Educational Programs).
Member of the Greek eHealth National Board, as Coordinator of working groups, to complete the e-prescription system and the interoperability of health IT systems (EMR).
Member of the National Committee for the monitoring of pharmaceutical expenditure and implementation of Therapeutic Prescription Protocols, as Coordinator of working groups of medical scientific societies, to develop prescription protocols and patient registries, integrated in the Greek national electronic prescription system.
Research Fellow, Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete. Scientific Collaborator, Department of Health Economics, National Scholl of Public Health.
Secretary General of Athens Medical Society.
Member (educational activities) of HL7 Hellas.
Member of International (international Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research – ISPOR) and European Societies (European Review Group on Prevention and Health Promotion in Family Medicine and General Practice (EUROPREV) - National Representative from 2000 to 2010 and The European Academy of Teachers in General Practice (EURACT)

ABOUT PRESENTATION 
Title

Big data and evidence-based medicine in Greece

WHEN
DAY 2 - 11:30  PARALLEL SESSION 3

Datathons in evidence based medicine applying open science principles to support cross disciplinary education and research

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Thomas Bartzanas

SHORT CV

Thomas Bartzanas, is Director of Research and Head of the Agrotechnology sector in Center for Research and Technology (CERTH) / Institute of Bio-Economy and Agri-Technologies (iBO) Research Institute. He is an agricultural engineering with a PhD on environmental control of agricultural structure. His research area is focused on the application of precision agricultural technologies (sensors, automation and ICT tools) for sustainable agriculture, systems analysis and modelling in agriculture, controlled environment agriculture (greenhouses, livestock storage systems) and environmental assessment of agricultural operations. He has participated as a Researcher or/and project manager, or/and coordinator in 40 research projects. He has 300 publications in peer reviewed Journals, book chapters, conference proceedings. He has co-edited a Book for Springer, his h-index is 18 and he has 1100 citations. Thomas has been invited to give 6 key-note speeches around on Structured Agricultural Production Systems. He is the Chair of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) working group under the auspices of International Society of Horticulture Sciences (ISHS, he is the Greek representative member in Animal Task Force (EU), and member of the management committee of 2 COST actions related to livestock sector and vice chair in one of them. In Greece he is the national representative and coordinator of the Greek Innovation Platform for Agrofood (GSRT) and vice –chair of the Greek Food for Life platform (SEVT).

WORKSHOP PRESENTATION 
TITLE

The importance of open data in the agri-food sector

ABSTRACT

Half of the European Union's land is farmed. This fact alone highlights the importance of farming for the EU's economy, employment, energy use and environment. The globalization of markets has increased the competitiveness whereas the consumers’ needs for healthy, safe and locally produced products highlighting the need for high quality production. According to Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the next 20 years world food production must increase by 50%, while 80% of that increase must come from intensification. However this vital and crucial sector for the European agriculture economy is a sector under pressure due to several challenges (world population, water shortage, climate change, use of pesticides and fertilizers, energy use, food safety). Agricultural production systems, and the policies and institutions that underpin global food security, are increasingly inadequate. Modern IT and data analysis tools are powerful and can really help meet the challenge of feeding a growing population in more resource-efficient and sustainable ways. Smart farming presents a viable solution to such problems. However, as smart machines, automation systems, robots and sensors crop up on farms and farm data grow in quantity and scope, farming processes will become increasingly data driven and data-enabled. Currently there are a lot of stakeholders involved in the data collection and management in agriculture (companies, organizations, public authorities, farmers). However the accessible on all these data is still questionable. In this context open data has become and should more widely used within the agricultural data environment. The context under which open data should be used and analyzed in agro-food sector is presented together with some so far success stories.

WHEN

DAY 1 - 12:30 PARALLEL SESSION 1

The Roadmap to better food: Using ICT and Open Data to overcome barriers in the agriculture value chain

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Ross MacIntyre

SHORT CV

Ross MacIntyre is Jisc’s Head of library analytics services in the UK. He is responsible for a range of well-used services, including: ‘JUSP’ (Journal Usage Statistics Portal), IRUS-UK (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics for the UK), ‘Web of Science Service for UK Education’ (for Clarivate Analytics). He recently completed 10 years working on ‘EuropePMC plus’. Current development projects include visualisation and analytics relating to library data generally, the extension of JUSP to institutions in Australia, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia, and IRUS to institutions in USA and Australia. Ross is a member of numerous industry working groups and was Chair of UKSG 2012-15, is on the Board of Directors of COUNTER and the newly-forward FOLIO board of governance.

ABOUT PRESENTATION 
TITLE

IRUS-UK: standardised institutional repository usage statisticsstandardisedIRUS-UK: standardised institutional repository usage statistics

ABSTRACT

IRUS-UK (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics UK) is a service provided by Jisc. It collects raw usage data from UK Institutional Repositories (IRs) and processes these data into COUNTER-compliant statistics. This provides repositories with comparable, authoritative, standards-based data. IRUS-UK enables UK IRs to share and expose statistics based on the COUNTER standard. It provides a nation-wide view of UK repository usage to all, it offers opportunities for benchmarking, provides aggregate data to organisations such as Jisc and research funders and enables a single service to act as an intermediary between UK repositories and other agencies/initiatives, such as OpenAIRE.

WHEN

DAY 2 - 14:00 PARALLEL SESSION 4

Open Metrics on the Cloud

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Lyubomir Penev

SHORT CV

Following a successful academic career, in 1992, Lyubomir Penev established the scientific publisher Pensoft, which has since gained a reputation for technological advancement and innovation. Having implemented open access for all Pensoft journals from the very start, in 2015, Penev, together with Daniel Mietchen and Ross Mounce, founded the award-winning Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO), a journal with a mission to open up science by openly publishing the entire research cycle - ideas, proposals, methods, data, and other outcomes - in a comprehensive and transparent way.

ABOUT PRESENTATION 
TITLE

Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) Journal: from Open Access to Open Science from the viewpoint of a scholarly publisher

WHEN

DAY 1 - PARALLEL SESSION 2 (15:00)

New Open Access models and platforms

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Mappet Walker

SHORT CV

A Programme, Project Manager, and Software Engineer, by discipline, Mappet is responsible for Planning and Projects at Frontier Media in Switzerland. In OpenMinTED, she leads the development of use cases in Archaeology, Research Impact, and Health State Modelling. In OpenUP she leads the innovation discussions on Research Impact.
Mappet has solid international experience in consulting, project and program management, software development, testing, migration, and deployment of enterprise solutions in banking, telecommunications, and the oil and gas industry. She is a LEAN practitioner integrating the methodology, capability maturity models and business process management in day to day operations.

ABOUT PRESENTATION 
TITLE

Impact Data Services on the Cloud

ABSTRACT

Impact metrics have a strong influence on the scientific community, affecting the assessment of institutions of higher education and
research. In this situation, it is essential that the methods used to calculate metrics should be transparent, and reproducible and that their integrity should be auditable, and beyond question.

This workshop aims to provide an overview of the potential impact on the market. Open Access repositories, research data repositories, and publisher platforms are not standardized. But they are an important complement to other (traditional and alternative) bibliometric indicators to provide a comprehensive and recent view of the impact of scholarly resources. In particular, use data from non-traditional output types are available on the Internet. A key challenge is to achieve a similar, consistent, standards-based usage across different platforms Web resources or files and the use of resources among different repositories.

This workshop combines three thematic blocks:

  • Motivations and outcomes from the European Commission Expert Group on Altmetrics report on "Next-generation metrics" report
  • Current usage statistics initiatives (OpenAIRE, IRUS-UK): services standardization efforts
  • Opportunity for an Impact Data Services Cloud (OpenUp)

The presentation builds on the results of the OpenUP landscape scan, and an analysis of how research results are measured today, the limitations of current approaches, and a proposed solution: a new platform for Open Metrics that gives users the information they need to understand and reproduce current metrics, to create and share their own metrics of research output and to take account of research outputs (e.g. data, code, laboratory equipment, animals, cell-lines, research protocols).

WHEN
DAY 2 - 14:00 PARALLEL SESSION 4

Open metrics on the cloud

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Jochen Schirrwagen

SHORT CV

Jochen Schirrwagen is working as project coordinator at Bielefeld University Library, Germany. He has been responsible for content aggregation in OpenAIRE - the European Scholarly Communication Infrastructure. In this context and in addition he coordinates tasks on Metadata Guidelines for Content Providers (repositories, journals, CRIS) and Usage Statistics. He is engaged in working groups of the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). Jochen holds a degree in computer engineering and is currently pursuing a degree in library and information sciences.

ABOUT PRESENTATION 
TITLE

OpenAIRE usage statistics for Open Access content provider

WHEN
DAY 2 - 14:00 PARALLEL SESSION 4

Open Metrics on the Cloud

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