Registration is already open for the 2-day OpenAIRE workshop on interoperability between research infrastructures to be held in Portugal next Feb 7-8. The workshop will be hosted by the University of Minho as part of an umbrella Open Access Seminar with the MedOAnet conference. This will also serve to promote synergies between the projects.

The workshop goals are two-fold:

– Dissemination and awareness of OpenAIRE repository manager guidelines and upcoming OpenAIREplus data sources guidelines.

– A technical discussion about the challenges and approaches to interoperability faced by OpenAIRE. Selected data sources will be present and the focus on discussions will be on how to create links, the challenges involved and how to prioritize. Other topics of discussion will include metadata formats, usage statistics, unique IDs, input/output formats, interpretation of enhanced publications.

Having extensively contributed last year to the ‘Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability’ report released by COAR, the UK RepNet will take the chance to discuss its approach to repository interoperability with representatives from other projects and initiatives.