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Such information may be program funding (projects), associated datasets, related publications, citations, institutional affiliation, and also a different range of metrics indicating the scientific impact. To best exploit this range of research objects, they can manifest themselves in "enhanced publications." OpenAIRE 1 -the European Union initiative for an Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe-supports this enhanced form of open scholarly communication and provides access to the research output of European funded projects and open access content from a network of institutional and disciplinary repositories. Based on a series of European projects (DRIVER and DRIVER-II), Europe has built an extensive network of institutional repositories that follow a common path for interoperability via the publication and consistent use of guidelines. In its current status, OpenAIRE has aggregated more than eight million bibliographic records from over 400 providers of publications which are complemented by research data and research information, where and when the information is available.OpenAIRE moves beyond the traditional publications aggregator by interconnecting entities related to scholarly communication (currently limited to publications, research data, people, organizations, and their data sources) allowing users to navigate alongside a rich information space graph (Figure 1). It provides individual and aggregated statistics based on different facets, attributes, and linkages of the above entities. As of December 2010, OpenAIRE has been a key service of the EC's Seventh Framework Programme, at present extending to cover other funders and eventually all the European Research Area. As such, OpenAIRE users, i.e., researchers, funding organizations, and third-party services consuming information, expect to find consistent and qualitative metadata. This places data curation as a high priority, employing a series of activities both on the technical Scholarly communication is currently at a new phase where researchers' published results are more optimally shared, discovered, validated, and reused when they are exposed in their full context. This means that they are best accompanied by all the relative information that provides an insight and capacity to translate the research process and activities that have taken place. and networking levels. Data curation in OpenAIRE differs from similar activities in a data archive as it is mainly applied on the metadata level, needing to comprise heterogeneous data sources and is backed by complex organizational and technical support structures. It can also comprise of a range of actions and workflows, as will be demonstrated below. Data Curation in the OpenAIREOpenAIRE, as the pan-European infrastructure of all scientific results, faces two major challenges: diversity of scientific data and diversity of cultural approaches for good practices that span many national borders. To understand how expert research communities facilitate data curation mechanisms and carry out linking...

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Despite the hype, the effective implementation of Open Science is hindered by several cultural and technical barriers. Researchers embraced digital science, use "digital laboratories" (e.g. research infrastructures, thematic services) to conduct their research and publish research data, but practices and tools are still far from achieving the expectations of transparency and reproducibility of Open Science. The places where science is performed and the places where science is published are still regarded as different realms. Publishing is still a post-experimental, tedious, manual process, too often limited to articles, in some contexts semantically linked to datasets, rarely to software, generally disregarding digital representations of experiments. In this work we present the OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard (RCD), designed to overcome some of these barriers for a given research community, minimizing the technical efforts and without renouncing any of the community services or practices. The RCD flanks digital laboratories of research communities with scholarly communication tools for discovering, publishing, and monitoring interlinked scientific products such as literature, datasets, and software. The benefits of the RCD are show-cased by means of two real-case scenarios: the European Marine Science community and the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) research infrastructure.

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