As you might have seen at OSCARS 1st Open Call for Open Science Projects and Services | OSCARS or at EU Funding & Tenders Portal there is an interesting opportunity to submit proposals via the OSCARS project. There is a significant budget (13 mio EUR) and with a funding rate between 100k and 250k EUR this means that around 50 to 100 proposals can be funded.
The details about submissions are in the 2 links above, with this post I would like to give some ideas about how to relate proposals to the CLARIN and SSHOC research infrastructures.
Connecting to the CLARIN infrastructure
The main line of thinking can be: CLARIN is part of the SSHOC cluster and therefore integration with the CLARIN infrastructure means fulfilling the requirements in terms of leveraging the SSHOC infrastructure.
Depending on what you are working on, consider collaboration with a CLARIN centre.
- If you are producing data, deposit it at a CLARIN B-centre.
- If you are creating a tool, consider registering its metadata (description, link to the web application, source code location) at a CLARIN B-centre.
Both cases will help to make the point that the (meta)data is FAIR and besides that depositing at a B-centre guarantees:
- compatibility with the CLARIN technology pillars
- long-term preservation at a repository that has gone through an independent certification process via the CoreTrustSeal
When using a collection (e.g. a set of different data sets, each with its own persistent identifier), consider creating a Virtual Collection. It’s not a lot of work but it has a lot of impact with regards to creating machine-actionable metadata. In many aspects this also creates a link to EOSC (e.g. by its link to the Switchboard and in the future to the Digital Object Gateway).
Are you planning to create a web application that can analyse language data (text, speech, etc)? Consider connecting it to the Language Resource Switchboard.
Connecting to the SSHOC infrastructure
Low-hanging fruit: register your service, workflow and related publication in the SSH Open Marketplace. Connecting objects to each other (e.g. a publication where a certain workflow was used) make the case stronger.
By registering a tool in the Switchboard it will also automatically appear in the SSH Open Marketplace.
The SSHOC deliverable 3.8 gives an idea about how the Virtual Collection Registry and Language Resource Switchboard were integrated into the SSHOC infrastructure.
The full deliverable list might be helpful too.
Connecting to EOSC
What not to do: planning integration/onboarding into the EOSC portal and EOSC marketplace. Both will be discontinued in April 2024.
What to do: consider the integrations with CLARIN and SSHOC as mentioned above as integrating with EOSC. This is more sustainable in the long-term and fits the recent line of thinking about EOSC nodes, see:
- European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) | Shaping Europe’s digital future
- GÉANT publishes EOSC Nodes position paper on behalf of NREN community - EOSC Association
- Science Clusters: Position statement on operational commitment to EOSC and Open Research
While European Open Science Cloud | CLARIN ERIC does not have information on the nodes and still mentions the EOSC Portal and Marketplace it might give some inspiration.
Bonus ideas
For software development, consider a connection to or mentioning of
- the EVERSE project, which is related to OSCARS
- the EURISE network, a collaboration between SSOC partners
At a more global level, it might be worthwile to look for synergies with the RDA groups.
Questions
Further questions? Please post them here for a public discussion or mail contact-oscars@clarin.eu for a private follow-up.