Fotis Mystakopoulos

D5.6 “Recommendations for the Set-up of Open Science and Research Data Management Thematic Trainings" outlines a strategic framework for integrating Open Science (OS) and FAIR Research Data Management (RDM) practices into research workflows. Developed under the Skills4EOSC project, the report provides recommendations for designing effective, tailored training programmes. It is intended for Competence Centres, six thematic communities and external training providers. The recommendations stem from an iterative co-creation process, including workshops, pilot training activities, and train-the-trainers sessions and aim to foster collaboration between researchers, infrastructures, and experts. The report also identifies challenges and proposes solutions for the long-term sustainability of OS/RDM training within the European research ecosystem.

OS and RDM learning paths for Social Sciences and Humanities communities

Purpose. This study focuses on developing research assessment criteria for the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) through the GraspOS project. The aim is to reform traditional evaluation methods that rely heavily on bibliometric indicators and to produce recommendations tailored to the SSH community, addressing the limitations of current practices that predominantly emphasise quantitative metrics. Approach/methodology/design. This study presents outcomes from three workshops with participants from various SSH backgrounds. The workshops facilitated discussions on values-driven assessment, output diversity, and the integration of qualitative indicators. The data collected were analysed using the deductive method, with a priori codes established. Findings. The analysis revealed consensus on the need for a more inclusive evaluation framework that recognises diverse outputs beyond traditional journal articles. Participants emphasised the importance of qualitative measures, such as peer review, and proposed using narrative CVs to better reflect individual contributions. Research limitations. The study was conducted within a specific context of the Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) movement and the GraspOS project, which may not fully represent the broader SSH landscape. Generalisation to all SSH disciplines is not possible. Practical implications. The study provides recommendations for formulating generic research assessment criteria as suggested by SSH scholars. Originality value. This work provides valuable insights into developing more equitable and effective assessment practices in academia for the SSH community.

Initiated by the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) in 2012, the movement for research assessment reform has been steadily advancing for over a decade. This push has been characterised by a series of initiatives, each building on the last, to reshape how research is evaluated. The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) represents the latest effort, culminating in the creation of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA). This agreement marks a si...

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Erratum: The previous version contained an incorrect PDF. This version includes the correct poster. This poster presents the approach, tools, and key outcomes of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Pilot within the GraspOS project, which focuses on reforming research assessment. The central theme is the importance of community involvement and co-creation in defining what should be valued in SSH research evaluation. Guided by the SCOPE Framework’s principle “Evaluate with the evaluated,” the pilot engaged the SSH community through a Community of Practice and a series of consultation and validation workshops. Tools and Activities: The pilot applied the SCOPE Framework and community-driven approaches including workshops, evaluation sessions, and a validation event. Co-creation Process: A key element was the collaborative evaluation of a Narrative CV template adapted for SSH disciplines. Based on the Royal Society’s model, this version was refined to ensure fair recognition of diverse outputs, activities, and Open Science contributions. Key Outcomes: The SSH Pilot produced: Community-validated guidance and recommendations A robust framework outlining priorities for SSH research assessment Greater understanding of how to leverage open infrastructures for responsible and Open Science-aware evaluation Overall, the pilot aimed to give the SSH community a real voice and ownership in shaping the future of research assessment reform.

The FAIR Implementation workshop “Examples of national initiatives for FAIR: Greece and the Netherlands”, part of the second running of the FAIR-IMPACT support programme for National Level Initiatives, was delivered on 29 November 2024. Two keynote speakers, Marta Teperek - Programme Leader for FAIR Data Open Science NL organisation and Fotis Mystakopoulos - Project Policy Officer - OPERAS RI, presented how Greece and the Netherlands are advancing FAIR principles at the national level. The Netherlands approach supports FAIR implementation through policy development, infrastructure funding, and national training programs, all states in the Dutch national Open Science programme. Greece to guide FAIR adoption developed the National Plan for Open Science and is focusing on strengthening research infrastructures, fostering training programs, and engaging in European collaborations like EOSC and Skills4EOSC.

The FAIR National Roadshow series visited Greece on the 18th of November 2024. This virtual event, hosted by FAIR-IMPACT, was a collaborative effort co-organised with GRNET, OPERAS, OpenAIRE, the Athena Research Center, HEAL-Link, and the University Library of Patras. The program highlighted national-level initiatives in Greece, aiming to bridge the gap between research institutes and universities on Open Science and FAIR practices. Find more details on the event page here.

In this webinar, Julien Homo and Florian Lemoine of the LUMEN Project and Massimiliano Carloni from the ATRIUM project explore how the work within their respective project helps to pave the way for interoperability, handling semantic artefacts and developing scalable solutions. The webinar took place on the 12th of May 2026.

Note: Version 2 includes a correction in the DOIs. Designing Responsible Assessment in SSH: A checklist Supplementary Information Authors & Contact details: Carol Delmazo (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8284-9117) – carol.delmazo@operas-eu.org Fotis Mystakopoulos (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9354-3754) – fotis.mystakopoulos@operas-eu.org Affiliation: OPERAS Research Infrastructure Project Funding: The GraspOS project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe framework programme under grant agreement No. 101095129. About This Document This supplementary checklist accompanies the document, Guidance and recommendations for research assessment in SSH: Lessons learned in the GraspOS project (Delmazo, C., & Mystakopoulos, F. (2025). Guidance and recommendations for research assessment in SSH: Lessons learned in the GraspOS project. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17951789). It provides a quick summary of the purpose of the checklist, and how to use it for implementing responsible research assessment in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) contexts. Purpose of the Checklist The checklist is designed to help institutions, funders, and evaluation bodies design and implement research assessment processes that respect SSH specificities. It draws on the established SCOPE framework, and as it was implemented in the GraspOS Project, and aligns with the principles of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). The checklist addresses common pitfalls in research assessment, such as over-reliance on bibliometric indicators (e.g., h-index, Journal Impact Factor), the exclusion of diverse research outputs, and structural biases that disadvantage certain career stages or disciplinary traditions, but with an extra focus on what those elements mean for SSH. Intended Audience This checklist is intended for: • Research institutions developing or reforming internal assessment policies • Funding agencies designing evaluation criteria for SSH research • Evaluation committees seeking to implement fair and context-sensitive processes • Policy makers working on research assessment reform at national or international levels • Individual researchers advocating for responsible assessment practices How to Use This Checklist The checklist builds on the SCOPE Framework, adding an initial design phase to create six key stages of assessment design. It is intended to be used iteratively rather than as a one-time exercise.

Abstract This document presents guidance and recommendations for responsible research assessment in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), drawing on lessons learned from the SSH pilot conducted within the GraspOS Horizon Europe project (2023-2025). Led by OPERAS Research Infrastructure, the pilot engaged diverse stakeholders through a Community of Practice and validation workshops to develop Open Science-aware assessment approaches responsive to SSH particularities. The document is structured in two parts. Part 1 offers four key guidelines for shaping effective assessment in SSH: involving the community in assessment design; considering values and context before selecting metrics; valuing Open Science practices and diverse outputs; and prioritising qualitative assessment, particularly peer review and narrative CVs. Part 2 provides specific recommendations aligned with the SCOPE Framework for research evaluation, tailoring each step, Start with values, Context considerations, Options for evaluating, Probe deeply, and Evaluate your evaluation, to the SSH domain. The guidance addresses the distinct challenges SSH faces in research assessment, including methodological diversity, the prevalence of books and multilingual publications, and the limitations of traditional bibliometric indicators. It emphasises value-led rather than data-driven assessment, the recognition of diverse scholarly outputs and activities, and the importance of embedding Open Science principles into evaluation systems. The document also identifies key risks such as gaming behaviours and structural biases, proposing mitigation strategies to ensure fair and inclusive assessment practices.

Panel titleSSH services beyond SSH: how LUMEN’s outcomes can improve cross-disciplinary and cross-domain data findability and (re)use Panel’s description: Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) produce diverse research outputs, yet these often remain fragmented across local, language-specific, and discipline-bound repositories. While the GoTriple platform is an European hub for SSH multilingual scientific outputs, moving beyond domain boundaries remains a challenge ensuring SSH data is truly FAIR for the global scientific community. The EU-funded project LUMEN (https://lumenproject.eu/) aims to advance cross-domain collaboration and discovery processes, enhancing the Findability and Interoperability of SSH data. The goal is to connect diverse scientific fields (SSH, Mathematics, Earth System Sciences, and Molecular Dynamics) through a Federation of platforms (that includes GoTriple) and enable researchers to collaborate and access data from multiple disciplines. LUMEN adopts a Data Mesh approach in which each community retains ownership of its data and publishes governed Data Products under explicit Data Contracts, ensuring transparent governance and interoperability across domains. Key challenges reside in governance across autonomous communities, semantic alignment between vocabularies that were never designed to interoperate, and the structural asymmetries in how different domains document and share their research outputs. To address them, LUMEN develops a set of core components. The Meta-Search provides cross-domain discovery across all federated platforms. LUMIS offers an integrated environment for building, testing and reusing semantic artefacts that enable alignment across domains. GoTriple's unique value lies not in SSH content alone but in its multilingual processing pipeline, semantic enrichment capabilities, and an architecture that already supports domain-agnostic deployment. These are the assets that a White Label solution, also produced in LUMEN, will make available to other domains. It will allow any scientific community to adapt GoTriple’s core technologies, fostering an interdisciplinary ecosystem where SSH insights are seamlessly accessible to other domains. Advanced tools such as AIDA, an AI-Driven Discovery Assistant, will transform research discovery from simple keyword searches into natural language conversations. The panel will dive into questions such as: How can these outcomes improve SSH data findability? Why is SSH data valuable for other domains such as Earth System Sciences? How an SSH-born service, GoTriple, can be the basis of platforms for other domains? Panel participants: The Technical perspective: Julien Homo (Foxcub) will present the LUMEN’s federated discovery architecture, including its core building blocks, interoperability approach, and mechanisms for surfacing results from heterogeneous platforms. He will also introduce LUMIS as the environment supporting the lifecycle of semantic artefacts, and how this contributes to cross-domain enrichment and alignment of metadata. Luca de Santis (Net7) will explain the White Label solution’s development and how reusable components allow SSH-born services to adapt across domains while preserving specific governance and semantics. He will mention the integration of advanced AI tools within the White Label framework. The SSH Perspective: Fotis Mystakopoulos (OPERAS) will bring the SSH domain perspective and reflect on how SSH both shapes and is shaped by LUMEN's broader technical developments. The Cross-Domain Perspective Christelle Pierkot (CNRS/DataTerra) will highlight how LUMEN services will enable the ESS community to use resources from the SSH community to improve the outcomes of their research. Moderation: Carol Delmazo You can also watch the discussion as it happened via the Youtube Livestream (recording)

Abstract This document presents guidance and recommendations for responsible research assessment in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), drawing on lessons learned from the SSH pilot conducted within the GraspOS Horizon Europe project (2023-2025). Led by OPERAS Research Infrastructure, the pilot engaged diverse stakeholders through a Community of Practice and validation workshops to develop Open Science-aware assessment approaches responsive to SSH particularities. The document is structured in two parts. Part 1 offers four key guidelines for shaping effective assessment in SSH: involving the community in assessment design; considering values and context before selecting metrics; valuing Open Science practices and diverse outputs; and prioritising qualitative assessment, particularly peer review and narrative CVs. Part 2 provides specific recommendations aligned with the SCOPE Framework for research evaluation, tailoring each step, Start with values, Context considerations, Options for evaluating, Probe deeply, and Evaluate your evaluation, to the SSH domain. The guidance addresses the distinct challenges SSH faces in research assessment, including methodological diversity, the prevalence of books and multilingual publications, and the limitations of traditional bibliometric indicators. It emphasises value-led rather than data-driven assessment, the recognition of diverse scholarly outputs and activities, and the importance of embedding Open Science principles into evaluation systems. The document also identifies key risks such as gaming behaviours and structural biases, proposing mitigation strategies to ensure fair and inclusive assessment practices.