SciLake Third Plenary Meeting
The SciLake project recently concluded its third plenary meeting, hosted by the Eindhoven University of Technology. The two-day event, held on November 27–28, 2024, brought together project partners both in person and online to discuss key developments and future directions. This blog post summarizes the meeting's key points.
The meeting began with an open session where the project coordinator, Thanasis Vergoulis (ARC) presented a status overview of the SciLake project, followed by two invited speakers from the scholarly communication community:
- Andrea Mannocci (CNR) who presented progress on the SKG interoperability framework,
- Paolo Manghi (CNR & OpenAIRE) who discussed integration opportunities within the new EOSC ecosystem.
The open session concluded with Serafeim Chatzopoulos (ARC) and Daan de Graaf (TU/e) who demonstrated the SciLake ecosystem in action, showcasing some project's practical applications.
The afternoon of the first day was dedicated to the Scientific Lake Service, where partners reviewed pilot status and participated in workshops focusing on data models and graph querying methodologies.
The second day centered on Value-added Services, specifically the Knowledge Discovery Service and Reproducibility Service, with detailed discussions on demonstration approaches and evaluation plans.
The meeting concluded with strategic discussions on project exploitation, sustainability, and dissemination strategies as SciLake enters its final year.
These sessions set the stage for implementing key developments that will enhance data accessibility, knowledge discovery, and research reproducibility within the scientific community.
The successful meeting marks another milestone in SciLake's mission to build an ecosystem that facilitates easy data access and improves research practices across the scientific community.