Towards a FAIR and open data ecosystem in the low carbon energy research community

Informazioni relative al progetto

EERAdata

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 883823

DOI

10.3030/883823

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 24 Gennaio 2020

Data di avvio 1 Marzo 2020

Data di completamento 28 Febbraio 2023

Finanziato da

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Costo totale

€ 999 912,50

Contributo UE

€ 999 912,50

Coordinato da

HOGSKULEN PA VESTLANDET
Norway

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - EERAdata (Towards a FAIR and open data ecosystem in the low carbon energy research community)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-09-01 al 2023-02-28

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

EERAdata - Towards a FAIR and open data ecosystem in the low carbon energy research community. Transparent, re-usable, and integrated energy data enable society to choose, monitor and implement sustainable transition pathways. It is a prerequisite for people to have ownership over the changes, but it also offers massive potential for industrial and social innovation. The majority of energy databases are not fit for this purpose, which stands at the focus of the Coordination and Support Action. The consortium develops, tests, and implements a FAIR and open data ecosystem in the energy field. FAIR stands for F-findable, A-accessible, I-interoperable, and R-re-usable. The EU-funded EERAdata project builds a pool of data stewards to guide the community towards fit-for-purpose data practices. The European Union funds the project under the Horizon 2020 Programme. The project website is here: https://www.eeradata.eu/. The project wiki with detailed documents of events and workshops is here: https://eeradata-platform.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page and the EERAdata community platform is available here: https://eeradata-platform.eu/wordpress/.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

In the first reporting period, EERAdata successfully held 2 out of 6 planned community workshops. The number of participants from the energy community exceeded expectations. The first two workshops were dedicated to the development and discussion of concepts for FAIR data implementation. We have worked towards a mutual understanding of the FAIR and open data principles in the energy community. We have identified gaps and action items to improve the FAIRification and opening of energy data.

During the second reporting period, the insights achieved during the previous period were published in a peer-reviewed community paper entitled “Towards FAIR data for low carbon energy - current state and call for action”, a gap-analysis report (D2.3) and peer reviewed consortium paper entitled “Current state and call for action to accomplish findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of low carbon energy data.” EERAdata successfully held the remaining 4 out of 6 planned community workshops. With the third workshop, the project moved towards establishing a community-based ecosystem to put FAIRification in the energy domain into practice. The main topic is the exploratihon of FAIR workflows and the discussion of what the community needs about FAIR data services to be embedded in the upcoming EERAdata platform.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

Few standards for FAIR and open data in the low carbon energy research community exist as of today. EERAdata proposes standards, which are tested in use cases and discussed with the wider research community. EERAdata established connections to European-level energy and data communities, such as the European Energy Research Alliance, the Research Data Alliance, various EU projects and initiatives around FAIR data (e.g. OpenAIRE, CESSDA, …) or the Open Modelling Forum. Through their networks, we a) promoted the project (i.e. FAIR and open data principles in the energy domain), b) recruited speakers, presenters, and participants to our workshops, and c) participated ourselves in their events to present the work EERAdata does. The EERAdata consortium played an active role in establishing a new transversal Joint Program in EERA, namely the tJP Digitalization for Energy (from 01/2021). EERAdata use case leader Massimo Celino is the co-leader of the Joint Program. EERAdata leader Valeria Jana Schwanitz is the leader of one of its subprograms, namely “Data science and artificial intelligence”. FAIR and open data topics are being discussed in the community using EERAdata and the new EERA structure. The EERAdata platform serves the community by providing access to a large knowledge resource on FAIR energy data, comprising a hands-on workflow for the FAIRification process, practical step-by-step support as well as rich information on FAIRification in general and specific to low-carbon energy research (the EERAdata wiki). Training material and links to a large set of further information sources beyond the project have been collected for all aspects covered by the FAIR data principles. Metadata and possible standards have and are being a recurring theme at EERAdata workshops, and made available documentation from the workshops on our wiki and through scientific manuscripts on the role of metadata for the energy domain, gaps identified, and action items suggested to tackle shortcomings. The platform features a tool for creating rich metadata for a given data object in accordance with existing standards, adds this metadata to the searchable repository on the platform and provides metadata file download in machine-readable form. This increases findability and interoperability of data object. Finally, two policy briefs have been delivered, available here: https://eeradata-platform.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Policy_briefs

Wordcloud of the EERAdata project