Rec. 34: Leverage existing data services for EOSC

[sjDCC]

The Rules of Engagement for EOSC must be broadly-defined and open to enable all existing service providers to address the criteria and be part of the European network.

• The Rules of Engagement for EOSC must be consulted on widely, drawing in views from a broad range of stakeholder groups beyond the core European Research Infrastructures and E-Infrastructures to include research communities, institutions, publishers, commercial service providers and international perspectives. Stakeholders: Data services; Research communities; Institutions; Publishers.

• The resulting Rules must be fit-for-purpose to enable all existing data services and capacities developed by different communities to be exploited for best return on investment. The Rules should be reviewed regularly to ensure they remain viable. Stakeholders: Data services; Research communities; Policymakers.

[holubp]

BBMRI-ERIC Position: EOSC needs to include services allowing sharing and processing data falling under data protection regimes, including particularly sensitive categories of personal data under GDPR (relevant for life sciences, medical research, social sciences, human-computer interaction, etc.).

[katerbow]

DFG position: This recommendation also is not FAIR specific and rather generic. It is a recommendation on the rules of inclusion of existing data services in the EOSC, which is mentioned by many other stakeholders already. Therefore, this recommendation should be deleted here.

[Eefkesmit]

Contribution on behalf of the International Association of STM Publishers (STM): As mentioned under several related recommendations, we in STM see 4 cornerstone components in a machine-actionable eco system for FAIR Data. We believe that it is of paramount importance that, to achieve such an effective eco system of FAIR Data, we must ensure that research data and related publications are linked in a persistent way. Under several recommendations in this report, STM has indicated what we define as necessary components for that. It speaks for itself that we are available and offer to collaborate together with a wide group of stakeholders to help achieve that.

We wish to express the hope and trust that the implementation of this report will make a real difference and also wish to express that the STM publishing community would like to contribute to that.

[ferag]

Since EOSC will support Science in Europe, to harmonize all the services in a FAIR way and oriented to be part of EOSC is very important to ensure the sustainability.

[pkdoorn]

Thumbs up, but consider calling these rules “Rules of Participation” and make more explicit here that these rules are to comply with the FAIR principles and the CTS.

[bertocco]

INAF (astronomy) position: EOSC should try to put some more effort in recognizing existing FAIR and Open efforts in the various domains, rather than issuing rules for inclusion based on a less comprehensive set of partial implementing tools and services.

[npch]

This is less a comment on this recommendation, but instead on the general Rules of Participation of EOSC:

I believe that the rules of participation should enforce open APIs and interchange standards that allows a thriving ecosystem of infrastructure (to support FAIR, and to support general researcher use of EOSC). Whilst building on existing e-Infrastructures is welcomed, this should not be allowed to create a de facto lock-in to particular services.

[gtoneill]

Fully support clarifying the rules of engagement for EOSC and opening up access to EOSC as well as including researchers and research communities in the advisory bodies of EOSC. See further our comments on the Rules of Engagement for EOSC and Implementing EOSC in the Open Consultation on EOSC. Recommendations from the finalised FAIR Data Action Plan should be implemented into EOSC.