Welcome to the 5th SciLake Newsletter - September 2025
As SciLake enters its final project year, our technical and pilot teams are collaborating to develop domain-specific scientific knowledge graphs that enhance research activities. This newsletter highlights our recent achievements and previews exciting upcoming events.
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What's new in SciLake |
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- Explore our Services and Case Studies - |
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Discover how SciLake leverages knowledge graph technology to revolutionize research data management. Our ecosystem offers multiple interconnected tools that are easy to implement and highly adaptable across various scientific disciplines. Four pilot programs in neuroscience, cancer research, transportation, and energy demonstrate SciLake's versatility and integration with major EU and national initiatives. |
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Learn more about our services: |
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- New OpenAIRE Graph APIs -
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The OpenAIRE Graph is a comprehensive, interconnected dataset that aggregates metadata from diverse scholarly resources and serves as the foundation of the SciLake ecosystem. The new API release enhances power, flexibility, and usability to better support bibliometric analyses, research discovery, and Open Science monitoring. |
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- OpenAIRE Releases SKG-IF Compliant Datasets for SciLake Pilots - |
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In a significant stride towards enhancing scholarly knowledge interoperability, OpenAIRE has released datasets compliant with the Scientific Knowledge Graph Interoperability Framework (SKG-IF) for all five SciLake pilot domains. These datasets represent a crucial development in making research information more accessible and interoperable across different communities. |
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- BIP! DB: A Dataset of Impact Measures for Research Products -
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The BIP! database is a key SciLake tool enabling impact-driven discovery across scientific works. Partners from Athena RC and OpenAIRE have published an updated dataset containing citation-based impact indicators for ~238M research products (scientific publications, datasets, etc) accompanied by influence, popularity, and impulse indicators. |
Learn more and find the dataset on Zenodo: |
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- Advancing Cancer Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology -
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At ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool, Leily Rabbani presented SciLake's Cancer Knowledge Graph, a comprehensive system that integrates data on genes, proteins, drugs, and scientific literature to advance precision oncology. Our Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) case study successfully identified potential therapeutic targets through sophisticated network analysis, demonstrating the real-world value of our data integration approach. |
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- Energy Planning Gateway on OpenAIRE Connect -
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The Energy Planning Gateway on OpenAIRE Connect is now live! At a recent OpenAIRE Community Call, Thanasis Vergoulis and Andrea Salmi showcased practical tools for domain experts to build their own community gateways, offering streamlined access to relevant research outputs and data connections.
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- FENS Regional Meeting 2025 -
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At the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Regional Meeting 2025 in Oslo, SciLake showcased its novel Scientific Knowledge Graph for Neuroscience. Archana Golla from the University of Oslo presented our innovative approach that integrates diverse research outputs, offering new ways for researchers to discover, analyze, and track the impact of neuroscience research. |
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- INORMS Congress 2025 -
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At the INORMS Congress 2025 in Madrid, Giulia Malaguarnera from OpenAIRE showcased open and federated infrastructures as essential tools for transparent, inclusive, and sustainable research assessment. The event provided an excellent opportunity to highlight the key features and benefits of SciLake for research administrators and engage with the global research management community. |
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- Open Science Fair 2025 - |
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Join us at OSFAIR 2025, hosted by CERN in Geneva, Switzerland (September 15-17). This year's theme, Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration, aligns perfectly with SciLake's mission. Don't miss Prof. Dr. Jakob Rager (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)'s lightning talk on "Enriching Scientific Knowledge Graphs with Geospatial Metadata: Toward Mapping the Energy Research Landscape in Europe" – an exciting showcase of our Energy pilot. |
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- 12th International Congress on Transport Research - |
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A workshop on "Fairness & Transparency in Transport Research", co-organized by CERTH and ICCS to showcase SciLake's transportation pilots, will be held at ICTR 2025 in Thessaloniki, Greece, October 15th. The workshop will explore FAIR principles in transport research, focusing on maritime and automated mobility applications. Participants will discuss data sharing challenges, ethics, and governance while experiencing SciLake tools that enhance research transparency. |
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Scilake presentations and deliverables are available in our Zenodo community |
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