Comments to Jean-Claude Burgelman's article Politics and Open Science: How the European Open Science Cloud Became Reality (the Untold Story) —“EOSC is a bigger ME” and the Dunning Kruger effect

Barend Mons

doi:10.1162/dint_a_00074

Abstract

Comments to Jean-Claude Burgelman's article <i>Politics and Open Science: How the European Open Science Cloud Became Reality (the Untold Story)</i> —“EOSC is a bigger ME” and the Dunning Kruger effect

Highlights

PREAMBLE This personal reaction is written from multiple perspectives
It will still be critical that the Association involves the member states (MSs) and actual researchers in an agile and non-bureaucratic manner, for which we need bottom-up mechanisms such as operated by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and GO FAIR
Comments to Jean-Claude Burgelman’s article Politics and Open Science: How the European Open Science Cloud Became Reality strengthen the opinion of existing ones—in the process, but a wise old friend, who wrote one of the reactions once told me: “Barend, unless you made some enemies you probably lived in vain.”

Summary

Data Intelligence

The diagram below (Figure 1) to explain that all three basic elements of the “Internet of FAIR Data and Services” are needed. To the intrinsic value of the active GO FAIR IN community [15] as such, several particular assets that I need to mention here are the development of the FAIR Implementation Profile and Metadata4Machines approach, the development of easy to install FAIR data points for open, FAIR metadata publication and indexing, and last but not least the international effort (involving many players, outside the direct GO FAIR initiative) to develop the minimal specs of the FDO framework [7] in a more specified form than when coined in the FAIR expert group report [5] These assets (all open source and open access) can be carried over, to EOSC, but will have much wider, international, impact most likely leading to a continuation of GO FAIR (2.0) beyond its original time scope, namely three years, the predicted time it would take to complete the international policy and bureaucracy process to reach the status of a formal association as we have today. I fully trust the current leadership of the association to make that vision reality

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SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COMMISSION FOR A PREPARATORY PHASE