OSSR monthly meeting

jeudi 25 janv. 2024, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Paris

Zoom meeting: https://fau.zoom.us/j/96313571326?pwd=OWZidkJLS2RvcThMYWpaMG1ZSVBoZz09

Participants:

Tamás Gál (TG), Kay Graf (KG), Gareth Hughes (GH), Mark Kettenis (MK), Jutta Schnabel (JS), Christian Tacke (CT), Thomas Vuillaume (TV)

Agenda:

• Outreach/Presentations:
  • OSSR talk at Open Science Days 2024 - https://osd.mpdl.mpg.de - virtual meeting (40 Euros for digital attendance)
  • OSSR talk at HA DMA ST1 seminar (will be based on former talk)
• Updates:
  • Software Heritage connection to Zenodo/InvenioRDM: https://about.zenodo.org/projects/faircore4eosc/
  • SciCodes Updates
    • codemeta:
      • new identifier of CodeMeta:  https://w3id.org/codemeta
      • two possible release paths: 
        • 3.1 release solely for crosswalks 
        • a direct move to V4.0.
    • todo: update of  best practices from OSSR side
    • In-person WS planed for Spring 2025 in the US
    • Presentation: From Metrics to ML: using ML for metadata curation and spam detection, Allen Lee ( https://www.comses.net )
  • RSD Updates
    • 4th meeting on 09/01/2024 at https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/31440/
    • outcome:
      • RSD starting on bot development
      • OSSR on policy
      • find a common funding opportunity
  • OSSR open letter (finally) published after 2nd review: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-46/v2#referee-response-37040 
    • added citation to ossr pages: https://gitlab.com/escape-ossr/ossr-pages/-/merge_requests/50 
  • EOSC Projects / EOSC TaskForces Update:
    • in 03/2024 new task forces will be opened (charta and application)
    • EOSC Winter School - https://eosc.eu/eosc-focus-project/winter-school-2024/ (29/01 - 01/02/2024)
    • EVERSE/OSCAR projects kickoff W11 in Thessaloniki
      • announce summer 
    • OSCARS - planned projects?
• Tentative planning for E-OSSR collaboration meetings in 2024; Updates on ESCAPE collaboration & kick-off meeting?
  • KG to get the timetable project kickoff -> then decide about the spring meeting; small meeting - End of March (26/03)?
    • one topic: software impact 
  • "users" community meeting -> summer meeting (June)
    • invite all previous users (updates and REX); invite every few years
    • topical focus sessions + open session for Q&A -> build community
• Information:
  • HA publication Towards a Quality Indicator for Research Data publications and Research Software publications -- A vision from the Helmholtz Association  -> discussion at the next meeting
  • the FAIR-IMPACT EU project, that is dedicated to guidelines on making research data FAIR and fostering best practicies for archiving, referencing, describing and citing software, will launch next week a call for application in a subgrant program that is open even to individuals. Full details will be available online here on February 1st: https://fair-impact.eu/support-offer-4-software-recommendations-and-metrics
• Current onboardings
  • Activity on HiPeRTA -> KG!, CTlearn - curation finished? (@Thomas)
  • any knowledge about agataselector -> KG
    • add reviewers to Zenodo 
  • No activity on "old" preliminary records - please follow up the merge requests! (regular reminder?)
  • Open onboarding requests without curation: 
  • Broken links reported in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.00499.pdf - who can fix?
    • TV to upload a new version
  • Open Onboarding issues without curation: G-Tomo (progressing), Indico IAM (active on Zenodo, only not in group), Wavelet
  • More requests pending - did not get to the merge curation, KG open a poll on an onboarding session in ~two weeks.