The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
On April 16th, 2024, forty organizations signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, aiming to uphold academic independence from for-profit service providers. This declaration urges research institutions to align with shared principles for open research information and commit to developing transparent research data infrastructures. Invitation to the signing of the declaration.
The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information is the result from a November 2023 workshop initiated by the SIRIS foundation, which gathered research information experts from various organizations.
The declaration highlights the necessity for increased transparency in the process of academic knowledge production. Just as with academic publications, research metadata—information about publications, their authors, and citations—is confined within platforms operated by for-profit service providers.
The declaration’s signatories advocate for a fundamental transformation of the research information landscape through collaborative efforts. To ensure a transparent research data ecosystem, they pledge to follow the FAIR principles – findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability.
Signatories include universities, research funding organizations, and governments, along with academic open data publishers like Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID, aggregates such as OpenAlex, OpenCitations, and OpenAIRE, discipline-specific Open Access platforms like PubMed and Europe PMC, and national and local infrastructures like La Referencia, SciELO, and Redalyc.
They commit to:
1. Publishing data as open data under a Creative Commons CC0 waiver or public domain dedication;
2. Building data infrastructures connected to a wider ecosystem for open research data using standardized protocols;
3. Publishing machine-readable data using internationally recognized standards; and
4. Using existing persistent identifiers like Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCIDs), and Research Organization Registry (ROR) to reference research outputs, researchers, organizations, and other entities.
The Barcelona Declaration remains open for additional signatories.
Recordings and presentations from all speakers at the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia are now available on the subpage “Recordings and PPTs of Presentations by Speakers“.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI invites you to a discussion organized by the European Commission Representation in Slovenia titled “Democracy in the Grip of Disinformation: What Can the EU Do?”. The event will take place on Friday, December 13, 2024, from 11:00 to 12:30 at the House of the EU in Ljubljana, Slovenia and online.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI organized the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia on December 2, 2024, with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia and the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) program. The Conference focused on addressing the most pressing issues in copyright regulation in the fields of science and Open Science within the European Union (EU), with particular emphasis on barriers and incentives for Open Science in the copyright law. The event represented Slovenia’s contribution to implementing European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda Action 2, which focuses on creating a supportive EU legislative framework for copyright and data governance.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, the second day of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit 2024 took place at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič participated as a speaker, presenting during the panel titled “AI Regulation – what we learned so far?”.