GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

This network could also make use of the current effort of technology providers, within EOSC and beyond, that offer technology solutions that support digital preservation, develop innovative services and improve the technical connection among the repositories.

The proposals under this topic should address the following actions, and could use the support to third party granting mechanism where such support would be an added value:

• Create a European network of trustworthy digital repositories following FAIR-enabling principles with disciplinary and geographical spread to:
  • Foster the harmonisation of the definition of trusted repositories generically and per discipline
  • Support repositories to achieve such status and be a recognised authoritative source of quality data
  • Assist new repositories with consolidated requirements and peer to peer support
• Build a lean governance for the network to moderate, coordinate and provide common directionality and a common legal understanding within the repositories and a common voice with stakeholders and policymaker ecosystems e.g. to secure adequate funding, stronger representation in the EOSC environment, etc.
• Enhance the technical federation with standards, APIs and solutions that could enhance the access to resources, including machine to machine interaction e.g. to ensure users can access data in one repository through another, to allow repositories in the network to offer each other back up services, etc.
• Increment the framework of services of repositories in the network notably for storage, curation and also for innovative solutions (such as on-demand or in-house provisioning of digital repositories as a service ) that will support institutions and communities;
• Promote stable general and discipline-oriented initiatives to support consolidation of metadata schemas and vocabularies, standards in formats and services and to foster interoperability.