Operas Common Standards White Paper
Creators: name: Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou
name: Angelaki, Marina
name: Ferwerda, Eelco
name: Galimberti, Paola
name: Gingold, Arnaud
name: Mounier, Pierre
name: Snijder, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Open Access
Open Science
standards
social sciences and humanities

description: The OPERAS Working Group for Common Standards aims at exploring the workflows, mediums and<br>
technical standards that have recently emerged as a result of the changes brought about by the<br>
transition to Open Science. It places focus on the importance of common standards, and traces the<br>
improvements required to ensure content quality and interconnectivity for scholarly output in the SSH<br>
and beyond.

The White Paper on Common Standards comprises desk research and identifies key operational<br>
and technical aspects to be addressed by digital research infrastructures and service providers. It<br>
particularly sketches the landscape of Open Science in Europe, focusing on the policy framework and<br>
the institutional initiatives at EU level; it also describes current and emerging research practices and<br>
highlights the needs of the stakeholders and communities engaged in scholarly communication.

Reference is specifically made to technical and operational standards for publishing infrastructures,<br>
and their importance in providing a digital scholarly communication framework that fosters content<br>
reuse and collaboration among researchers, while enabling the implementation of innovative research<br>
methods. To this end, the white paper identifies needs yet to be met, introduces 4 complementary<br>
areas (content quality and impact assessment, interoperability, availability and processability)<br>
for the introduction of common standards, and provides basic recommendations for their future<br>
implementation.

The white paper also examines where OPERAS members stand and suggests a roadmap for the<br>
community-wide adoption of standards.. As effective implementation of common standards is highly<br>
depended upon stakeholders’ increased awareness and commitment towards more effective ways of<br>
conducting, presenting and communicating research, the white paper underlines the instrumental role<br>
of the OPERAS network in specifying new standards and updating existing ones.
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