Event Report

Funders are well positioned to shift the incentives for open science inherent in grant application processes and improve the way research is evaluated. Institutions can change the status quo by promoting and rewarding researchers'careers, and collaborating with research libraries in contributing to development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) infrastructure, tools and relevant skills.

The yearly All-hands meeting of ELIXIR, the European intergovernmental organization that coordinates and develops life science resources across Europe, is a platform to exchange knowledge, experiences and ideas. At this year’s meeting in Berlin, that took place between 4 and 7 June, a small workshop was dedicate to training activities around the use of life sciences data and the associated infrastructure(s), and more explicitly, how to make training material FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable and reusable).

Goal and objectives

The 2^nd ASTERICS – OBELICS workshop took place at Casa Convalescència, Barcelona from the 16th to the 18th of October 2017, organised by the French CNRS LAPP laboratory, and hosted locally by the Institute for High Energy Physics of Barcelona, one of the ASTERICS’ partners.

SESSION DRIVERS

Creating the EOSC will depend strongly on the ability to connect infrastructures and data and to make them accessible to the community at large in a seamless fashion. Although this goal seems to be commonly accepted, there are lots of questions remaining how infrastructure and data interoperability can be achieved on a large scale.
The aim of the session was to: