SPINELLO, Andrea Orazio, GIGLITTO, Danilo and LOCKLEY, Eleanor (2021). Management of open access research infrastructures in large EU projects: The “CultureLabs” case. CNR-IRCrES Working Paper, 9/2021.
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Abstract
Research funding organizations, particularly at international level, are increasingly promoting the
creation and maintenance of open access research infrastructures (RI). These resources have
assumed a pivotal role as support for the new open and networked science in their dimension of
technical and operational frameworks that allow scientists and stakeholders to collaborate and
share scientific data and results. In Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), the creation and
exploitation of open data platforms is still attempting to catch up with longer-standing practices
in the “hard sciences” as the resistance to wider data sharing has not yet been completely
overcome. This paper aims to describe how a large project, financed by the European
Commission, managed the creation of a RI in the field of SSH, showing the steps undertaken to
comply with the GDPR regulations and prepare the data for useful sharing and reuse. In this
regard, the authors present the case study of the Horizon 2020 “CultureLabs” project, placing
emphasis on some specific practical factors that they believe are particularly important for
implementing open access principles in the establishment and maintenance of RIs in the new
course of science based on sharing and openness. In particular, the authors will focus on creation
of “useful” and GDPR-compliant data and the impact on research activities as a result of their
(re)utilisation; the control of the data management process; and the compliance with funders’
requirements (e.g. in terms of data security). The reflection on the interplay of these aspects,
operated through a case study, appears to be crucial in moving away from a merely theoretical
approach to addressing the issue of open access, and it hopes to serve as a guide or a warning for
those who create and administer open RIs.
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