Research infrastructure

Research Infrastructure Activities

Scope

This page collects all acitvities within OSGeo, which are related to research infrastructure (RI). OSGeo activities related to RI currently include internal discussions within Committees and Projects, official agreements with external parties (e.g. MOUs) and reach out activities.

Definition Research Infrastructure (RI)

Research infrastructure topics are currently adressed using by different terms, including E-Research and others (to be extended).

RI Stakeholders

Stakeholders in RI-related topics include (but are not limited) to:

• funding agencies (e.g. NSF, European Union, Foundations),
• publishers/editors (e.g. Science, Nature, Copernicus),
• data repository manager (e.g. PANGAEA, NASA, etc.)
• data community (e.g. RDA, FORCE11, etc.)
• data/publishing infrastructure
• journal workflow vendors
• librarians
• researcher/scientists (ranging from early career to end-of career).

RI-related activities by OSGeo Projects

GRASS

• Discussion on PSC level about software citation

RI-related activities by OSGeo Committees

GeoForAll

• RDA GI group (Input from Suchith needed)

Open Geoscience

• Reach out at European Geoscience Union General Assemblies
  • Workshops (Input from Maxi needed)
  • Splinter Meetings (details needed)
  • Townhall Events (details needed
• Input to Enabling FAIR project by AGU (content needed)

other RI-related activities

Chapters

European Chapter

• DI4 conference (details needed)

Conferences

• FOSS4G Europe 2015 (Como): Dedicated track on library sciences