Establish data stewardship programmes by aligning efforts and activities on a national and international level. Transform the way how research is carried out by direct support from highly skilled professionals with discipline specific knowledge and knowledge of standards, applications and tools for reproducible research.

The WG KPIs develops measurable indicators to make the success of EOSC visible at the national and inter­national level, with special focus on the overarching goals for Austria (“readiness indicators”). In addition, KPIs serve as a steering instrument for targeted impact-oriented further development and implementation of the EOSC. 

Strengthen Austria’s position in the European landscape through connecting various stakeholders form EOSC and other research-related initiatives such as EuroHPC and GAIA-X, while ensuring that the EOSC meets the requirements and needs of daily research in Austria.

• Coordination, planning, material preparation, liaising national (e.g. RDA VRE, EuroHPC, EOSC Pillar), participation in and contribution to third-party events (representing the Austrian vision), continuous office support, …
• Preparation of the mapping, organizing necessary information, developing and structuring a knowledge management system for sustainable information management. Offering a broad, easy to use interface for open knowledge transfer
• Coordination, planning, material preparation, liaising national and international (e.g. RDA VRE, EuroHPC, EOSC Association, national museums and archives, BMBWF projects for digital transformation), participation in and contribution to third-party events (representing the Austrian vision), continuous office support, …

This Working Group monitors the EOSC building processes in Austria, i.e. open science and FAIR regular policies, projects, activities as well as RDM infrastructures.

If you would like to inform the Working Group of an open science activity that is not reflected in the report, please send a message to the coordinator Barbara Sánchez: barbara.sanchez@tuwien.ac.at

FAIRification and Trustification of Data, Repositories, and Software produced by Scientific Collection holders to comply with EOSC principles and outlines.

• Coordination, planning, organization of workshops
• Key points of investigation: domain, quantification, object types, policies, available technical infrastructure
• 1 per domain (botany, geology, palaeontology, prehistoric, zoology), object type, institution, technology, incl. long term preservation strategies
  • It is envisioned to establish FAIR data production, processing, and align existing digitization workflows and their output to comply with EOSC goals
• Capacity building; workshops on Open Science, Open Data, Linked data, Data curation (as opposed to physical curation) 
• Publishing reports, presenting in symposia and conferences, liaising nationally and internationally (e.g., FAIR Data Austria, RDA IG, EOSC Association, ISO, ICOM, TDWG, Dublin Core Initiative, Europeana)

The working group will support the development and facilitate the implementation of the framework for the EOSC strategic research and innovation agenda on a national level. This will include the formulation of all required steps to a minimal viable EOSC model in Austria, and beyond, enable future annexation to public and private sectors. Activities will be based on technical information exchange and cooperation with EOSC advisory groups and taskforces as well as related projects.

Make training materials widely available, adapted to the different target groups as far as possible and designed to be barrier-free, so that they can be used flexibly and in a customised way.

• Coordination of workflows, coordination with other work packages, preparation of deadlines
• We will build on the results that have already been developed in the FAIR Data Austria project. This should be supplemented with tools and technology, possibly with additional podcasts. The next steps would be to see what materials already exist and adapt them to different target groups, e.g. data stewards, IT, researchers.
• The project output is documented, published and promoted in different networks
• The training materials should be aimed at different target groups (researchers, teachers, students, data managers, data stewards) and also at people with physical disabilities. Making the existing materials more accessible (creating subtitles, alternative text, sign language videos etc.)
• Establishing and maintaining contacts with national and international institutions and projects in order to optimise the results