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Beschreibung: Digital infrastructures have become indispensable in the field of modern research and science. These technological frameworks play a crucial role for the entire research cycle, supporting literature searches, aiding in data collection and analysis, facilitating the creation and publication of scholarly works, and ensuring the thorough documentation and long-term storage of research findings. Additionally, these infrastructures serve as a vital means for networking and communication among peers, creating the essential foundation of an open and transparent science and research ecosystem. Helmholtz employees were invited to join the Helmholtz Open Science Forum "Towards Open Digital Research Ecosystems - Interconnection Infrastructures" on February 14, 2024, where options for the seamless integration of these digital infrastructures have been discussed. Speakers presented insights into diverse efforts to the provision of open infrastructure structures and how their interconnection offers new possibilities for seamless and integrated workflows within the increasingly digitized research. Further, it was examined how such an integrated ecosystem can support open science practices and vice versa

Beschreibung: On January 22, 2024 the Helmholtz Open Science Office hosted the Second Helmholtz Open Science Forum on the topic of Open Science and Transfer. The online event addressed various aspects and issues around the interplay of Open Science, Technology Transfer, Knowledge Transfer and Citizen Science at the Helmholtz Association. Together with the participants important overlaps were identified against the backdrop of the digital transformation. Open science as a standard for scientific work creates foundations for successful transfer - and both topics can complement each other very well. The Helmholtz-internal event gave insights into current projects and initiatives relating to transfer to society, business and industry. Moreover, Helmholtz initiatives for Citizen Science and the successful practical implementation of Open Hardware were presented. The event also offered opportunities for networking and the exchange of ideas. This report documents the Second Helmholtz Open Science Forum on Open Science and Transfer.

Beschreibung: The fifth meeting of this series took place 5-6 February 2024 at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. A key topic of this meeting was the formation of Open Source Program Offices. The term is used to describe a concerted effort for an overarching structure in research organizations where research software engineers, computer departments, research data management units, technology/knowledge transfer units, libraries and legal departments cooperatively aim to build an environment conductive to excellent research, excellent research software, open science and technology/knowledge transfer.

Beschreibung: All datasets provided in the operational dataset (Heubeck et al., 2024) of the ICDP project BASE (ICDP 5069) consist of metadata, data and/or images. Here, a summary of explanations of the tables, data and images exported from the database of the project (mDIS BASE) are given and are complimented by additional information on data from measurements done in the laboratory prior to the sampling party. Finally, the sampling data from the first two sam-pling parties are added. Some basic definitions of identifiers used in ICDP, depths corrections and measurements are also introduced.

Beschreibung: The BASE (Barberton Archean Surface Environments) scientific drilling project focused on recovering unweathered continuous core through strata of the Paleoarchean Moodies Group (ca. 3.2 Ga), central Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB), South Africa. They comprise some of the oldest well-preserved sedimentary strata on Earth, deposited within only a few million years in alluvial, fluvial, coastal-deltaic, tidal, and prodeltaic settings and represent a very-high-resolution record of Paleoarchean surface conditions and processes. Moodies Group strata consist of polymict conglomerates, widespread quartzose, lithic and arkosic sand-stones, siltstones, shales, and rare BIFs and jaspilites, interbedded with tuffs and several thin lavas. This report describes operations from preparations to the sampling workshop and complements the related scientific report. Eight inclined boreholes between 280 and 495 m length, drilled during November 2021 through July 2022, obtained a total of 2903 m of curated core of variable quality through steeply to subvertically dipping, in part overturned stratigraphic sections. All drilling objec-tives were reached. Boreholes encountered a variety of conglomerates, diverse and abun-dant, mostly tuffaceous sandstones, rhythmically laminated shale-siltstone and banded-iron formations, and several horizons of early-diagenetic sulfate concretions. Oxidative weather-ing reached far deeper than expected; fracturing was more intense, and BIFs and jaspilites were thicker than anticipated. Two km-long mine adits and a water tunnel, traversing four thick stratigraphic sections within the upper Moodies Group in the central BGB, were also sampled. All boreholes were logged by geophysical instruments. Core was processed (ori-ented, slabbed, photographed, described, and archived) in a large, publicly accessible hall in downtown Barberton. An exhibition provided background explanations for visitors and relat-ed the drilling objectives to the recently established Barberton-Makhonjwa Mountains World Heritage Site. A substantial education, outreach and publicity program addressed the information needs of the local population and of local and regional stakeholders.

Beschreibung: To share best practices and to foster the research data management (RDM) community within Helmholtz, the Helmholtz Open Science Office hosted its first "Helmholtz Open Science Practice Forum Research Data Management" virtually in February 2022. A follow-up event on October 20, 2022 has taken up and continued this theme. The following aspects were highlighted through presentations with ample time for discussion in the forum: - Thinking and linking data, text, and research software together - Data Stewards, Data Librarians, Research Data Managers, Data Curators... – Their profiles and roles in Helmholtz - Data Management Plans – DMPs as Living Documents - Monitoring data publications

Beschreibung: To promote dialogue on the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in the Helmholtz Association, the Helmholtz Open Science Office hosted two digital Forums in May and December 2021. The office has organized a third Forum on the topic on June 22, 2023. The objective of this event was to offer insights into the NFDI activities within the Helmholtz Association, presented from the internal perspectives of the Centers. Multiple Helmholtz Centers shared their experiences, fostering an interactive environment for questions and discussions. Furthermore, there were contributions highlighting the Base4NFDI basic service consortium.

Beschreibung: The Helmholtz Brussels Office and the Helmholtz Open Science Office host regular online meetings to inform about the activities related to EOSC and in particular the work in the Task Forces of the EOSC Association. On April 19, 2023 at 02:00 to 04:00 p.m., a further exchange among the members of the EOSC Task Forces and further EOSC-interested colleagues at the Helmholtz Centers was organized. The first part of the online meeting focused on presenting the interface of EOSC with GAIA-X, NFDI and RDA: • Christoph Lange, Fraunhofer representative in the EU project DSSC.eu (Data Spaces’ Support Centre) and coordinator of the BMBF project FAIR Data Spaces, presented the interface of EOSC and NFDI to the European Data Spaces and GAIA-X. • Ari Asmi, the director of the RDA Association joined us to explain the association’s approach to the EOSC and report about the TIGER project. Afterwards, there was a Helmholtz-internal exchange with colleagues participating in the EOSC Task Forces about their latest developments.

Beschreibung: The workshop was organized against the background that the Helmholtz Centers are aiming to adopt a research software policy by 2025. It is to provide an update on the status at the individual centers and provide an opportunity to learn from their experiences and to network to support each other in reaching the goal of deciding and implementing a research software policy. In this sense Reports form three centers were supplemented by the introduction of the Helmholtz Incubator Software Award and of services offered by Helmholtz Projects HIFIS and HiRSE-PS. All but one Center sent at least two representatives to participate in the workshop. The one center not represented could not send representatives because of a parallel meeting. In the invitation for the workshops all centers were asked to send participants who could represent different communities of the center. This request reflected the desirability to design the process of formulating the research software policy as inclusive as possible.

Beschreibung: Science and research thrive on the open exchange of knowledge: Sharing, networking and collaborating are central elements of scientific culture. Digitalization dynamically advances the possibilities of this culture. The paradigm of openness therefore opens up new prospects in the entire scientific research cycle and enables research results to be made openly accessible and broadly reusable in sustainable infrastructures. This open culture of scientific endeavor is captured by the term “open science,” and is a guiding principle for Helmholtz in keeping with good scientific practice. An open science culture considers research products such as datasets and code equally important as articles and other text publications. In line with the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and the enshrining of open science in national, European, and international science policy, Helmholtz adopted its Open Science Policy in September 2022. In their drive to make the results of their own work publicly available to science, industry, and society for reuse with as few barriers as possible, the Helmholtz Centers call on their employees to make research results achieved alone or in collaboration with other researchers in the course of their work for Helmholtz open and reusable whenever possible according the principle of intelligent openness – that is, “as open as possible and as closed as necessary.” With the following recommendations, the Helmholtz Open Science Office provides practical assistance to Helmholtz researchers in the open publication of their text, data, and software output.

Beschreibung: On April 13, 2023, the Helmholtz Open Science Office, together with the joint Task Group “Open Access Transformation” of the Working Groups Open Science and Library and Information Management organized a Helmholtz Open Science Forum on Scholar-Led Publishing at Helmholtz. Around 100 people registered for participation. The high level of interest in this event indicates its relevance in the ongoing Open Access-Transformation. Diamond Open Access and scholar-led publishing are current buzzwords in this context; focusing on the stronger localization of scientific publishing opportunities in the scientific environment beyond profit- oriented platforms. The first draft of a position statement on scholar-led publishing at Helmholtz, which was developed together with the Task Group Open Access Transformation, was presented at the forum and participants were invited to discuss and comment on it. Presentations and discussions provided insights into various operating models and workflows of external Diamond Open Access journals, service providers and publication services already active in the natural sciences, as well as those operated by Helmholtz Centers. In addition, the EU Commission's perspectives on the further development of the Open Research Europe publication platform were presented.