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Speakers

Francoise Genova

Short CV

Ms. Genova is one of the founders of the astronomical Virtual Observatory initiative, chaired the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) Executive Board in 2006-2007, and has led operations in France since 2004. She has also coordinated several related European projects on behalf of CNRS.

Director of the Strasbourg astronomical data centre from 1995 to 2015, Ms Genova led the Data Access, Discovery and Interoperability Work Package of the European ASTERICS Cluster, the aim of which was to optimise the use of data coming from the astronomical and astroparticle physics ESFRIs and other large projects. Currently, for the European ESCAPE Cluster, she is leading the implementation task to apply FAIR principles to ESFRI data in preparation for connecting ESFRI projects to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Previously held advisory positions include membership of the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) Board (2016-2017), of the World Data System (WDS) Scientific Committee (2009-2015), of the CODATA Executive Committee (2010-2012), and of the RDA Working Group which aligned the DSA and WDS basic certification frameworks criteria, resulting in the creation of the Core Trust Seal.

She was a member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data set up by the European Commission in 2010, and helped author both the "Riding the wave" report published in 2010 and its sequel, the "Data Harvest" report. More recently, she was a member of the European Commission Expert Group on Turning FAIR data to reality (2017-2018), and one of the authors of the Expert Group Report "Turning FAIR into Reality" (2018).

Ms. Genova is an active member of the RDA and has been Co-chair since October 2015. She participated in the RDA Europe first, second and third projects on behalf of CNRS, and currently leads the RDA France National Node under the aegis of the RDA Europe 4.0 project.

About Workshops

Title: RDA-pt The Portuguese node of the Research Data Alliance
When: 16th September, 14:00

Title: Services to support FAIR Data: Formulating recommendations for EOSC
When: 18th September, 09:00

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Tobias Weigel

Short CV

Dr. Weigel has a background in geoinformatics and computer science and works at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in the area of e-infrastructures at European and international level.
An advocate of persistent identifiers, machine-interpretable metadata and reusable software components for data management, Dr. Weigel has a strong interest in building innovative solutions across domains, and harnessing computer science concepts to make work with research data more productive and open.

Dr. Weigel has been extensively involved in data infrastructure projects, both cross-domain (EUDAT, EOSC-hub) and Earth System science specific (ESGF, IS-ENES). In EUDAT, he was responsible for the B2HANDLE service, which provides identifiers for cross-service data management and reaps the benefits of an identifier graph across multiple EOSC services.

About Workshop

Title: Services to support FAIR Data: Formulating recommendations for EOSC

WHEN

18th September, 09:00

See full programme here.

Rachael Kotarski

Short CV

Rachael is the Head of Research Infrastructure Services at the British Library. After a brief stint developing data and image services with an Open Access publisher, Rachael joined the British Library and has been working on developing data-focussed services for 10 years. The bulk of this time has been delivering DataCite to UK organisations and building the UK community around data citation. Now with a broadened remit covering data, persistent identifiers, repository, scholarly comms and discovery services, Rachael is also part of the H2020-funded FREYA project.

In terms of the FAIR working group, Rachael brings expertise in persistent identifiers (PIDs) and PID services, and how they can be applied to support and enable FAIR outputs. Coming from the UK’s National Library, Rachael also has insight into the view of FAIR from the arts, cultural heritage and humanities domain.

About Workshop

Title: Services to support FAIR Data: Formulating recommendations for EOSC

WHEN

18th September, 09:00

See full programme here.

Hylke Koers

Short CV

Dr Hylke Koers heads up the Data Management Services group at SURFsara, an innovative team that develops services to help universities and other research-intensive institutes manage their research data in a robust, safe, easy and cost-effective way.

Hylke joined SURF in 2018; prior to that he was a Product Manager and Product Director at Elsevier, working on innovations to the article format such as interactive plots, 3D viewers, and the Virtual Microscope. He also served as co-chair of the ICSU-WDS/RDA Working Group that created the Scholix framework, an emerging industry standard for linking research data and the literature.

Before joining Elsevier in 2010, Hylke received a PhD in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Amsterdam and served as a postdoctoral research associate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

About Workshop

Title: Services to support FAIR Data: Formulating recommendations for EOSC

WHEN

18th September, 09:00

See full programme here.

Odile Hologne

Short CV

Odile Hologne is delegate for scientific and technical information at the French Institute for Agricultural Research – www.inra.fr/en where she has responsibility for implementing open access and open data policy and services. She is thus involved in many international working groups dealing with open science in the agri-food sector and these include GODAN (Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition), RDA (Research Data Alliance) and GO FAIR.

An expert consultant to RDA Europe 3 and coordinator of the H2020 project eROSA “Towards an e-infrastructure roadmap for open science in agriculture” www.erosa.aginfra.eu, Ms. Hologne co-chairs the “Collège données” https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/research-data-college/ of the French National Plan for Open Science, and is a member of the GO FAIR executive board. She is also in the EOSC Secretariat working group which is designing the rules of participation for EOSC users, providers and operators. e dab rig

About Workshop

Title: Services to support FAIR Data: Formulating recommendations for EOSC

WHEN

18th September, 09:00

See full programme here.

Ian Duncan

Short CV

I direct the Research Data Services project in the federal government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) programme of works which aims to lead, build and reinforce service and support maturity on the infrastructure capability delivered through the federally funded NCRIS Research Data Storage Infrastructure project. This project evaluates, coordinates, and monitors progress on several sub-projects delivered via a network of eResearch support groups around Australia.

About Workshop

Title: Services to support FAIR Data: Formulating recommendations for EOSC

WHEN

18th September, 09:00

See full programme here.

Frank Manista

Short CV

As the European open science manager, I engage with teams at Jisc who participate in EU-wide projects, such as OpenAIRE, EOSC, and Knowledge Exchange. I help to ensure that the different engagements are aware of one another to promote Jisc’s work outside of the UK, but also to ensure that global initiatives are aware of Jisc’s services, particularly around open access.

ABOUT DEMO

Title: A Demonstration of Jisc's Sherpa Services

WHEN

  • 18th September, 11:30 - Demo presentations (2 min.)
  • 18th September, 12:00 - Parallel Presentations (3 sessions x 20 min.)

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Mario Scrocca

Short CV

Mario is a Researcher at Cefriel in the Knowledge Technologies group.
His research is focused on Semantic Interoperability and Human Computation. He holds a MSc in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano where he specialised on interactive applications and artificial intelligence.

About Demo

Title: Coney: A Conversational Approach to Enhance Engagement in Surveys

WHEN

  • 18th September, 11:30 - Demo presentations (2 min.)
  • 18th September, 12:00 - Parallel Presentations (3 sessions x 20 min.)

See full programme here.

Arjan de Rooy

Short CV

ARJAN DE ROOY is scholarly publishing consultant at the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He has a master degree in IT and Law. He has extensive experience as a medical and law librarian. His current role focuses on supporting all aspects of scholarly publishing for the research community of the Vrije University, with an emphasis on Open Access and legal and copyright issues. He is legal advisor for the Association of Dutch Universities Open Access pilot and project leader for the local pilot at the Vrije Universiteit.
Arjan is one of the editors of OA.NL, the National website providing information for academics about the advantages of open access.

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Just de Leeuwe

Short CV

JUST DE LEEUWE graduated in Economic and Social History at the University of Amsterdam followed by a degree in Information Management at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He worked for a number of years as an information professional. Today he is publishing advisor at the University Library of Delft University of Technology. For researchers he's the principal contact for their concerns on open access publishing. Just is appointed as the Dutch National Open Access Desk in the current OpenAIRE program. He is also a consultant for students, teachers and scientists on copyright issues, scientific integrity and plagiarism. As an historian he continues to publish articles and monographs publishes on urban history.

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