In this workshop we will explore recent advancements in Research Objects and publishing of research data.

Deadlines:

• 2018-07-01 Abstracts due
• 2018-07-15 Research articles and software/data articles due

A travel bursary is available for accepted speakers, sponsored by BioExcel (H2020-675728)

Research Objects

Scholarly Communication has evolved significantly in recent years, with an increasing focus on Open Research, FAIRdata sharing and community-developed open source methods. A question remains on how to publish, archive and explore digital research outputs.

A number of initiatives have begun to explore how to package and describe research outputs, data, methods, workflows, provenance and structured metadata, reusing existing Web standards and formats.

Such efforts aim to address the challenges of structuring multi-part research outcomes with their context, handling distributed and living content and porting and safely exchange what we collectively can call Research Objects between platforms and between researchers.

In the workshop RO2018, part of IEEE eScience 2018 in Amsterdam, we will explore recent advancements in Research Objects and publishing of research data with peer-reviewed presentations, invited talks, short demos, lightning talks and break-out sessions to further build relationships across scientific domains and RO practitioners.

Call for Papers

RO2018 welcomes submissions of academic abstracts (1-2 pages), data/software articles (3-6 pages) and short research articles (4-8 pages) on cross-cutting case studies or specific research on topics including, but not limited to:

FAIR metrics; platforms, infrastructure and tools; lifecycles; access control and secure exchange; examples of exploitation and application; executable containers; metadata, packaging and formats; credit, attribution and peer review; dealing with scale and distribution; driving adoption within current scholarly communications and alignments with community efforts; and domain-specific and cross-domain Research Objects.

Further details on submitting:
http://www.researchobject.org/ro2018/submitting-to-ro2018/

Timeline

2018-07-01 Abstracts due

2018-07-15 Research articles and software/data articles due

2018-08-31 Notification of acceptance

2018-08-31 IEEE eScience 2018 early-bird registration deadline

2018-10-29 RO2018 workshop at IEEE eScience 2018