The document discusses the OpenAIRE infrastructure, which aims to foster open scholarly communication and make science more open and reproducible. It does this through a collaborative, participatory approach at the European and global level. The infrastructure links people, ideas, and technologies through activities like networking with other organizations, establishing policies and guidelines, promoting best practices, and acting as a technological liaison between existing e-infrastructures. It also works to establish commons through services like publication repositories, data repositories, and more. Sustainability of the infrastructure is an important issue being addressed.

1. The OpenAIRE Infrastructure
A Vision towards e-infrastructure
Commons
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Paolo Manghi
National Research Council (IT)
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2. Infrastructure for Open
Knowledge
• Foster and facilitate the
shift of scholarly
communication towards
making science Open and
Reproducible
• Collaborative and
participatory approach at
European and Global level
Research
communities
Research
admins
Researchers
Funders
SMEsContent providers in
scholarly communication
Neworking &
e-Infrastructure
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3. infrastructure!
Linking people, ideas, and
technologies
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Networking
International alignment
NOADs (EU), COAR, RDA, CASRAI, SHARE (US),
La Referencia (South America)
Policies and guidelines
Open Access and DMPs
Interoperability guidelines for content providers
Best practices
Data citation, data-literature inrerlinking
Alternative bibliometrics, Repository usage stats
Open Access peer-review
Technological liaisons
Existing e-infrastructures to re-use their content
and services
Research
communitie
s
Researc
h admins
Researcher
s
Funders
SMEsContent providers in
scholarly
communication
Neworking &
e-Infrastructure
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4. Commons
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Publications
repositories
Research
Data
repositories
CRIS
systems
Registries
(e.g. projects)
OA
Journals
Software
Repositories
Validation
Cleaning De-
duplication
Enrichment
By inference
Funders, research admins,
research communities
• Research impact
• Research trends
• Open Access trends
Content providers
• Repository validation
• Repository notification broker
• Repository analytics and usage stats
Researchers
• Claim publications, datasets, software
• Deposit publications, datasets, software
• Search & browse: interlinked publications,
datasets, projects
• Open Access & DMP Helpdesk
• End-User feedback
Content Providers
Info Space Services
End-User Services
Project initiative
FunderFunding
Result
Publicatio
n
Data Software
Organizatio
n
GUIDE
LINES
TERMS
OF USE
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5. Facing Digital Market and
Financial issues
Registry of OpenAIRE Services
• Service-oriented and already supports a dynamic registry of “services” for
autonomic and optimized use into e-infrastructure workflows
• Will extend the registry to publish “coarser-grain” view of services as a
catalogue to different end-user types: general-public, SMEs, developer, etc.
Infrastructure sustainability
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Cost evaluation of
infrastructure
(2015)
OpenAIRE as a
legal entity (2016)
Sustainability
strategies under
development: e.g.
supporting SMEs,
member states
Procurement:
possible, not yet
under scrutiny
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6. Thank you
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