 Hello everyone, we are waiting a few minutes before starting to let the other participants join and we will start soon. Thank you. Hello everyone, we remind that this call is recorded and we are going to start soon the presentation and the information of the community call. We wait just one more minute and we start. Hello everyone, we are starting this community call today. This is the fifth edition and we will be much more frequent the next year. As you can see in our website, you already can register yourself for the next community calls. You can save the date. And today Alessia is going to present what the new future and what happened after the previous community call. And then we will explain what are the rational and the next steps that OpenAir Connect is going to offer to you. And okay, I'm leaving the floor to Alessia to start. So Alessia, the floor is yours. Thank you, thank you Julia. Let me share my screen. Okay, do you see it in presentation mode and in full screen? That's all good. That's perfect. Okay, so again welcome to the fifth community call. And the agenda for today is to say hello to the new communities that are working with us since April. And there are some technical news, so some new features, some new functionalities that I would like you to know and to be aware of. And as Julia said, we will give some insights on what's going on now that the OpenAir Nexus project, which basically funded your gateway, what we can do for the sustainability of your gaiters. And clearly we will have a session of questions and answers, but if you have any questions while I'm speaking, you can raise your hand and speak up. So welcome to the new communities. So here I hope I didn't forget anyone, but we have 12 new communities since April 2023. And this is a very, a very good number and I will show you afterwards also the diversity that characterize these communities. Because they work on different aspects of science and research. So this is what we had in December 2021. So this is a, let's say a cluster in a categorization of gateways. And we have some whose content is selected because of affiliations and repositories like university alliances or research infrastructures. Yes, we also have thematic gateways. So say that the content is selected based on the topic on the subjects. So from energy research to transport or social science and humanities, digital humanities, and so there are many as you can see. But now, now we are much more. So we, we wrote a number, both from the point of view of institutional, let's say, gateways, thanks to many, many university alliances that decided to use our connect service. So the thematic gateways, we wrote a lot. So I'm really happy that the open air connect service can really help different communities with different needs, and I'm very happy to share with you this, this overview. If you think about the topics, the subjects that the gateways cover. We started in December 2021 with three gateways in social science and humanities and digital humanities. We have some gateways on marine science, biomedical, food and agriculture, research and innovation and energy and transport. But now, really think that we are a good growth in many, I mean, in all of the categories, except from the culture was our collaboration with a gene for ended. So we are not covered from that point of view. But on the other hand, the growth in research and innovation and also also social science humanities and digital humanities is really is really impressive. So, some highlights on technical news. So some new functionalities that we introduced since April this year. First of all, how to stay up to date. We did some work in order to organize a little bit the technical activities and the release plans of the update of the open air connect gateways. So on Trello, you can find a new Trello board with the where we highlight the functionalities that are launched but also what we are working on and which are the activities that we plan in the next period. And also in the open air catalogue, if you enter the section, let's say of open air connect, you can see the full change lock. So if we resolve bugs, if we have new functionalities, if we do something at the release and we find the details in the change lock. So what's new since April. So first of all, we created new pages that you can enable or disable. And with these pages you can highlight the research products that are in your gateway that are related to fields of science and to sustainable development goals. And you can find these pages in the about menu, if they are enabled. And if you do not see them, but you want to see them, yeah, then you can go to the administration dashboard, look for the pages and enable them. We have also pages for FAQ and roadmap related to your gateway. So this was requested by one of the communities but we thought that was really relevant for all of you if you want to add these pages in your gateway. So again, you can go in the administration dashboard and include it and edit the text and write whatever you want, whatever you think it's useful for the users of your gateway. And finally, we made a new page for developers where you can find documentation about how to use the metadata of research products in your gateway. So you can find links to the documentation of the open air APIs, and also to the community dump that I would really say the snapshot of metadata records of your vehicle. We also had a redesign of the search and landing pages. So you probably already noticed that now there is a better grouping of different versions and now it's shown at the top of a research product and nothing more on the on the right. Also, the access to the different actions that you can do on a research product. Now, it's easier to find so you have at hand the possibility to link the product to other research products to projects and to the communities. And then, of course, the link to share it on the social side to get the citations and to clean the product on our kid. Another improvement was the introduction of of the some tabs here so that now you can scroll decide to scroll down or just click on the tabs to automatically scroll to the section that that you want. And to give more visibility to the impact metrics and usage statistics, we also added at the top of the page for each project product. And if you click on one item, you can see the details and the provenance of this information. From the management point of view, you can now find some more options in order to thank you. The authorization on the gateways so you can decide who can create links in your community so who can use the link functionality. And you can also select if your gateway is open in the sense that anyone can join so anyone can subscribe to the gateway. Or if you will have to invite the people that for this for the subscription to the gateway. And in this way you can really have more power to decide, for example, that only members so only subscribed people can link products to your gateway. Another news from the administration dashboard is the introduction of new selection criteria for your research product. So we included selection criteria for fields of science and sustainable development goals. So here you see an example of from the Knomad Institute gateway. Knomad Institute works on several aspects all related to sustainable development goals. So the manager would like to have everything that has an impact on a sustainable sustainable development goal in the gateway so you select that basically all of them, but you can also pick only one. And you can also make sense in your use case. And the other criteria are the advanced criteria. So basically it's a way to combine filters together. So in this example from the gateway of North American studies, for example, we, we have an advanced criteria that includes everything that has Mexico in the subject or United States or Canada. Sorry, and they are in and so it has Mexico, United States, Canada in the subjects, and it has a fields of science that starts with zero zero five, which is the code for social science and humanities. And another big change that we implemented is that we reimplemented the weekend technology that stores the community configuration. So I'm not going into the details of that, but several requirements coming from different communities really needed this change in the back end. And the effect that you can already see now is that now basically we can include much more projects and data sources in the configuration of a gateway. And also this enabled us to implement a very nice feature for national gateways like the one we have for the Netherlands. So that every time we update the list of projects from NWO, which is the national funder from the Netherlands, then the configuration of the Netherlands portal is updated. So that the managers do not need to go to the to the administration dashboard and select manually all the projects from NWO. And another change in the back end was that we improved how the link functionality works. So now you should have less difficulties in performing bulk linking of products to your communities. So we have a plan for the next month. So the first changes that you will see is that you will have new filters that you can use to select research products for your community publisher and publication year. And also because we had so many communities that are university alliances with projects funded by the Erasmus Plus funding program, then we plan to include also this funding stream into open air. While for now we have only FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe, so Erasmus Plus will be a new funding stream joining the open air graph. And then starting from March next year you will have more power to configure your homepage. And because now you can only basically work on the description in the homepage, but in March you will be able to select much more element and configure much more element and also include links to, for example, if you have guides on open science, if you have any material that you would like to share with your community, you will find a place and a way to add this information directly in the homepage. You will be able to select project grants that are relevant for your community in bulk, so not one by one, which is a tedious work when you have a lot of them, but you will be able to select all the project grants that you want. And another important feature will be the possibility to promote community repositories in deposit. Because now what we have in the deposit page of the gateways is a search among the content providers, data sources that are available in the open air graph. But we understand that as a community, you offer repositories as a service to your researchers. So we believe that those should have a prominent place in the gateway because using the community repositories is really an asset to improve the practices of open science within your community. Another change that regards the content of your gateway is that we will automatically include the patterns that are related to the publications of your community. Because open air has a full text mining algorithms that looks into the full text of open access publications and identify links to patterns. And also when available, the text of the patterns is analyzed in order to find links in the publications. So we have these links, but for some technical reason not going to explain the patterns cannot really enter in your gateway now. So we will make sure that they enter because they are really relevant also for an impact monitoring point of view. Because patterns have an impact on the innovation. And this relates to the next point that is in the slide. So you will find those statistics on open science aspects. Let's say that for now you have some sort of statistics by exploiting the filters of a search result page. But in the future we will be able to embed in the gateway charts about open science aspects. So open access versus closed access or gold or green votes that are used in order to publish the research products and so on. And also, we will extend the metadata snapshots so the metadata records that are available on Zenodo for you to analyze or to build additional services on top of the data that we gather. And then they will be extended so that they include also other entities of the opener graph that are related to your product because now you cannot find the metadata about the research products. So publications, data sets, software and other types of research products. But several communities asked whether it's possible to have also for example the organizations that are. Referred by these products and we believe that this is very reasonable and useful so we will do it by March 2024. So in the homepage of connect so connect dot connect dot you, you can find the link to the roadmap where you will see all other also minor changes that you can expect in the next year. Are there any questions on the technical news or features. Okay, so I think that we can go to the next part. We can go to the next part of the presentation. And I invite Julia to to start this topic, which is about your committee after open our nexus. Thank you, let's see. I'm stopping. Okay, I'm stopping you. Okay, I can share now. Okay. Okay, I will give you an overview. I will be faster but these lights are a lot so if something is not clear, feel free to stop me. Okay, so most of you have the confusion of what is open air in the sense that we start open air as a project, but then in 2018 we became a legal entity. It means that to ready the organization that at the beginning was a project became something that is much more sustainable. So open air born with the development of open science in Europe, and in particular in relationship with the European funding program, and the needs to push forward open science from the policy to the practice of the research. Open science is not any more something a visionary, but it's here to stay. It's a multi-faceted but open science as a cost, and we need the long term investments. So, the institutional approach is crucial, and it requires tools, incentives, assessment to become a win-win solution for everybody. We put putting research in the middle of the oligree, but we need also to have much more actors in the research ecosystem. So we are passing from a close and traditional scholarly communication into an open ecosystem. This transition is to support diversity, equity and inclusion, but the ownership is passing to other organizations and cannot be without any cost. So just to give you an idea of what is open air now. Open air is an a profit organization, and this is stay as it is. We will not change our business model. It's a scholarly communication infrastructures that brings together human capital and advanced computer and technology services. It's a network composed by a national open access desk. We have our headquarter in Greece, but we have a virtual office staff members, 50 members from 34 countries. Open air has the issue of strategy from 2023 and 25, so it's an organization as other European organization, representing infrastructures in Europe for scholarly communication. We have our action lines that are based on services, training and policy. We have these three pillars of action. And here are the services focus area that are covering most of the life cycle. We are operating at the European and global scale. And in particular, since our organization start for the European Commission, most of our services are serving the European institutions and in particular we support the European open science cloud. We have physical infrastructure and this is just to let you understand the size of open air. The funding are coming from a different stream. We have the European Commission framework programs that is supporting some services. We have other funders that are promoting and supporting our initiatives and services. We are going to start membership fees from 2024. The services have some procurement, some direct assignment, and we are going to start also the subscription starting from the next year. There are also funding directly to support the training activities that we have. As you can see, our staff is, we have a virtual office, but we have also staff from institutions that you can see listed here. So what is happening with the services? Also in EOSC, there has been a working group on sustainability because all these services that are serving EOSC cannot be all for free. They cannot be covered all by the European Commission. And in any case, the project has an end. So it's not always clear how to guarantee the sustainability of the project. This is why we are changing our financial and sustainability plan. This is also part of the strategic plan for Horizon Europe to make more partnership and to have a clear life cycle approach that it's not including just this kind of project. Moreover, our main focus is to promote, as we say, as you could see in the previous slide, the vision and mission to support open science in Europe. These services will be always for free for researchers, but we have some pricing strategy with a fee for the services that are on demand and that are owned by you. And this is the case of Connect, because we provide the infrastructure, but you are the owner of your gateway. So how did we do this financial plan? So we are aligning to what is the open-air as a legal entity, so we have no profit on the services, but we need to cover the expenses that are related to the infrastructure itself. And also to make all this service scalable. As you can see in the slides from Alessia, the number of the gateways increased a lot. And we have also to offer to you competitive services, so something that it's in continuous development and it's co-adapted by what are your requests for making the service better. This is why also we have these community calls. We need also to guarantee that the standards are aligned to the policy and to the community needs. That this service like Open-Air Connect is interoperable with the other open science ecosystem and the research infrastructures and other systems, for instance in IOSC. We need to assure that we can also support and give training for you and for your users. And we assure the transparency and the alliance and the research excellence. I mean here is to adopt and to promote open science in Europe at any kind of level to align with the policy that are promoted at your national level for the research assessment. In fact, most of you have also statistical dashboard like the Open-Air Monitor. We need also to make some efforts of the legal level in the terms and conditions of the use of the services. We must guarantee the design, the flexibility of the Open-Air services and we will reward and support the Open-Air AMCA members. So if your institution is not yet in Open-Air and you would like to join as members to access to some discount, please let us know. What become Open-Air means is also that you have a say in the development and the solution that we have also at the strategic level. We are encouraging innovation, we comply with the policy and financial standards and we would like to guarantee the services sustainability. So before we receive the grants of the European Commission that were enough to cover the new gateways in a limited scope and time. With the subscription fee, we are establishing long term relationship with you. You are fully owner of the services and we are just here to support the technical level and at the computer level and at the human level what the gateways is offering also behind the scenes. So Open-Air Connect, as you say, as you know it's a personalized research gateway. You will have a subscription package each year and you have your own personalized gateway and your intellectual property right will be established via some contracts. So now I would like to thank you and to pass to Alessia for what exactly will be the stream for the Open-Air services. Thank you Julia, thank you Julia because this context was really important for everyone to know that Open-Air is here to stay and clearly the more support we get from the members and from the collaborators the better it is. So with everything that you said in mind, we try to define the plans, the packages for Open-Air Connect and basically because you as communities you are so diverse, one plan did not fit all of you. And because we believe in equity, then one plan does not fit all of you. And because we don't want to exclude anything because inclusiveness is something that we care about, then one plan was not enough. So the proposal we are working at, so this is not at the final stage, but I have to say that well, happy enough with them. There are four plans that will be available and the idea was to try to cover the different use cases that we see while working with you. So we have a starter plan that, okay, here I have some specificities for each plan. So the starter plan, which is suggested for thematic research projects or let's say like digital humanities, cultural heritage gateway or the gateways that we created for the Neania's project. But also Algo France, which is a research infrastructure. So what you will get is a gateway as you have now with statistics on open science aspects and we will also cover for sure also the training. So specific training for gateway managers and also the access to the open platform, which includes training some different aspects of open science and it will be the materials available there will increase over time. Then we have the extended plan, the extended plan, we suggest this plan for the university alliances or research networks that are in need of a little bit more statistics, because maybe you want to keep track of also other aspects, not only open science but also impact. And the other difference is that we'll give the possibility to these communities to define custom pages. So the possibility to add new pages to the gateway. And since we think this is a good plan for university alliances, then we will also provide clearly the training on open air guidelines because in most of the cases, not all the repositories of the universities of the Alliance were already open air compliant. So their content was not already in the open air graph. So we think it's good to support them at becoming compliant with the open air guidelines. Then we have the advanced plan, which is suggested for research infrastructures that need a custom text and data mining algorithm. And this is the case, for example, for Iperion, for Daria or for edit. And so for digital tools in earth. Clearly, if you are searching for structures, but you know that the metadata available in the open air graph is is good enough and can be used to pick all your research products, then you can go also to the starter or extended plan, but if instead we have to go through the full text of the publications in order to find weird acknowledgement or with references to the services of our research infrastructure, then the advanced plan is the one that will work for you. And finally, the national and regional plan. We only have one example for now, which is the Netherlands research portal. And the idea is to create a gateways that contains all the research products of a country or a region. And in addition to extend the statistics custom pages and and trainings, you will also have direct access to open arcs, which is the opener service that allows to create information about organizations and basically create bridges between different persistent identifiers that exist. For organization. So, is the raw identifier, founder FID and so on. We will also support the integration of project grants. Let's say managed by national or regional funding initiatives. And this is true. This is to give better overview and better coverage of everything that is happening at the national or regional level. And more or less the overview in the slides that we will show you can also find some more details in the next slide about all the different functionalities that we believe are, we believe are useful. And I grouped by typology so you will find in this slide for example, the functionalities that you will have about the content and search. So let's say the coverage somehow. And then data mining. So I would like to stress that regardless the plan, you will all benefit from all the opener mining algorithms, and also from the mining algorithms of say noble, which works for the mining of the sustainable development goals and science. Regarding the gateway customization clearly the advanced and original plans have something more so they will have more power on the on the branding and then on the customization of of the field and also for the construction of of new pages. We are always available to integrate community services or to include additional custom functionalities. And we can do this in several ways. For example, some of the functionalities that some communities asked already planned in the context of other European Commission project. So if you have a functionality that you would like to see your gateway. Let us know because it could be the case that we already planned in another context, or maybe we plan something similar and we can adapt also for your use case. So we will have to discuss some case by case basis and try to understand what we what we can do for you and probably also for the other communities. Also for the metadata snapshots for the advanced and national regional plans, we can arrange a more frequent release and the snapshots anyway, they will be published publicly on Zenodo with CC bar license. And Zenodo, as you know, is the is a repository managed by managed by CERN, which is one of the members. Training and support, not much to add here. But for the deployment. Yes, I would like to stress that the community is the owner of the gateway, but indeed all the technical activities. The provision of virtual machines, the IT security, the disaster recovery backups, and everything is provided by the open air member from Poland, ICM. So everything runs on ICM premises in Poland, so in Europe. And you will not have to think about where to create your own virtual machine, you don't have to care about this, this is something that open air needs to care about. Okay. Thanks, Alessia. So now we are giving you the space to ask questions or feelings or ideas. So you can raise your hands and feel free to ask. I know that this was a lot of information, only one. So for sure what we can actually ask maybe that's the beginning of the next year we will anyway contact all the community managers in order to agree with them, which is the best option for the sustainability of their gateway. And we will have one to one conversation in order to find the best solution. Eugenio. Yeah, I try to break the ice. Well, first question is about what, since we are using this open air connect tool, maybe we can face some, well, I would not call them issue but, well, things to be sorted out. So I wonder if you plan to have a sort of ticketing system to ask to the developer to sort out the things or discuss about possible solution. We already have the help desk that can be used. The app desk is not, let's say, a direct contact between you and the developers, but I mean, tickets reach me and Julia. And then we forward one needed the request to the developers. So Julia, I see you wrote the email, but is there also a web system they can use or it's just via email. They can use the app desk, they can go to the open air and search for support or contact us and they should be able to find us. And I think that also in the web page of their own, their gateway should be a button to ask for feedback. Okay, if we need to, well, I can make an example just to be, to make the things easier. We set in the look and feel of the landing page and either with an image. And once we go to the, how can I call it the second page when you go to the page where you have the filters on the left hand side. The header disappear and what I have now is a color of the header. So I wonder if I can, if I, I can ask for this modification or for this improvement of the look and feel customization. Because I was expecting to have the same picture even in the other pages, not only in the landing page. I understand what you mean I think we already talked about this. And what the developers said that this was done on purpose, so to have the background image only in the homepage, and not in the other pages. Let's say a decision to for a user experience choice, why, because depending on the type of background image that is selected, the other elements in that part of the graphical user interface may not be as visible as they should. So they prefer to remove it for the other pages. What I can do is to talk again with them to see because I understand that is counterintuitive. Because if I select an image, I would expect to see them in all pages. Okay. Any other questions, anything that you are finding out in this period with the new developments, or anything you like most, or any topic that you would like us to touch for the next community call. Well, if I can say again, maybe, well, actually I did not do any registration for the next call, actually, but in case I will do. Maybe we can deepen a little bit more about the sustainability of the system in terms of future fees and so on. If there are different cases, respect to the different communities. And I think for us, since I'm working for CNR, the National Access Council of Italy, I don't know for the other situation, but even administrative issue can be a problem. So even so to deepen this topic could be useful. Thank you, Daniel. I already advised the Open Aid Executive Board about this possibility. And now we have a treasurer who will also help and find some kind of solution. So by next year we will do one-to-one discussion also to see what are the specific cases, because everybody has different possibilities, issues, and we understand that. On the moment in which the first contracts will be available, we will start contacting you. Adding the call, showing you the possibilities, and finalize the contract. We are not expecting that for the next year everything will be perfect, but we hope that the process will be clear and distinct by doing this first year together. Okay, thank you. I don't know unless if you want to say anything else. No, no. So if there are no other questions, I think we can close this community call. Thank you everybody. Thanks to be with us. And I'm seeing from there also some hello. Thanks, Francois. For us it's very nice to have the community so much involved and so much interested in this Connect Gateway. So anything you want us to co-develop with you, please ask, don't be afraid, we want you to co-develop this service and to make it nicer. Thanks, Scott. Thanks, Stefan. Nice to meet you again, Stefan. Yes, nice to see you. So I'll think about in the Marine Gateway, how to make it happen. Great. Okay, thanks a lot and register for the next calls and we will be in touch very soon. Thank you. Goodbye everyone. Bye.