At the INORMS Congress 2025 in Madrid, SciLake partners from OpenAIRE showcased and promoted open and federated infrastructures as essential tools for transparent, inclusive, and sustainable research assessment. The event provided an excellent opportunity to engage with the global research management community and expand Open Science practices among research managers and administrators.

Jun 6, 2025

SciLake partners from OpenAIRE recently presented their work on open and federated infrastructures at the INORMS Congress 2025 in Madrid. The presentation, titled "A Scientific Lake to Democratise Knowledge: The OpenAIRE Graph and SciLake's Ecosystem" was delivered by Giulia Malaguarnera from OpenAIRE, in collaboration with Stefania Amodeo (OpenAIRE) and Thanasis Vergoulis (Athena RC).

At the heart of SciLake's innovation is its "Scientific Lake" concept: a comprehensive ecosystem of customizable components that enables researchers to create, interlink, and maintain domain-specific Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs). This ecosystem significantly enhances research capabilities by providing seamless access to scientific data and offering discipline-specific services.

The project builds upon the OpenAIRE Graph, a global SKG containing over 250M research outputs from more than 130,000 sources. This extensive database links publications, data, and software with their funding sources and creators, while tracking their impact.

The presentation showcased the SciLake ecosystem of components, demonstrating how our innovative approach combines the power of the OpenAIRE Graph with domain-specific knowledge to create a versatile and user-friendly system that is used by researchers across diverse fields.

How Does SciLake Empower Research Management?

For research administrators, SciLake offers practical benefits by streamlining workflows through centralized data access and automated analysis tools. The SciLake toolkit ensures transparent evaluation processes and provides constant data updates, significantly reducing manual effort in report generation.

The OpenAIRE Graph APIs provide a comprehensive way to explore the OpenAIRE Graph, a vast interconnected dataset that aggregates metadata from a wide range of scholarly resources, which is the foundation of the SciLake ecosystem. This release brings greater power, flexibility, and ease of use to support bibliometric analyses, research discovery, and Open Science monitoring

April 17, 2025 

We are excited to announce a significant achievement in the SciLake project as we complete Milestone M3, marking the successful preparation of our pilot programs. This milestone represents a crucial step forward in our mission to revolutionize scientific knowledge management through domain-specific knowledge graphs.

Feb 24, 2025  

What We've Achieved

Our team has been working diligently across four pilot domains: Neuroscience, Transportation, Cancer, and Energy. Each pilot is designed to demonstrate how SciLake's customizable ecosystem can adapt to different research communities' unique needs.

Our achievements include:

• Comprehensive definition of pilot domains and their specific requirements
• Establishment of strong partnerships with service providers
• Development of robust evaluation methodologies
• Implementation of training programs and collaborative activities

Why This Matters

The completion of this milestone brings us closer to our goal of creating a scientific lake that truly serves the research community. By tailoring our services to specific research domains, we're ensuring that SciLake will provide meaningful solutions for real-world scientific challenges.

Looking Ahead

With pilot preparation now complete, we're moving into an exciting phase of implementation and testing. Our teams are eager to see how these carefully designed pilots will demonstrate the full potential of SciLake's knowledge management ecosystem.

Learn more about our pilots and stay tuned for more updates: 

For more detailed information about our pilot preparation and evaluation methodology, you can access our comprehensive report:

The EOSC Symposium 2024 in Berlin marked a significant advancement in scholarly data management initiatives. SciLake, in collaboration with partners from GraspOS, OSTrails, and FAIRCORE4EOSC, convened in an unconference session to address critical developments in data interoperability frameworks. This blog post summarises the key takeways from the session.

Dec, 6, 2024 

During our workshop "EOSC Collaborative Frontiers to Achieve Interoperability and Enhance Scholarly Data," we explored the Scientific Knowledge Graph - Interoperability Framework (SKG-IF). This innovative framework, developed by the Research Data Alliance (RDA), represents a significant advancement in enhancing scholarly data management and interoperability within the EOSC ecosystem.

The session featured presentations from leading experts in the field:

• Thanasis Vergoulis (Athena Research Center), who presented practical insights on implementing SKG-IF
• Elli Papadopoulou (Athena Research Center), who discussed achieving FAIRness, interconnectivity, and machine actionability throughout the research lifecycle
• Matt Buys (DataCite), who offered valuable perspectives from repository management
• Andrea Mannocci (CNR), who examined the implications for research assessment

OpenAIRE's Giulia Malaguarnera moderated the discussion, which generated productive dialogue about the future of scholarly data management.

What We Achieved

Our session achieved three key outcomes:

• We deepened the EOSC community's understanding of SKG-IF and its real-world applications
• We created a space for productive dialogue about optimizing SKG-IF adoption
• We gathered valuable community feedback to help align future EOSC project efforts

Want to Learn More?

We've made all resources freely available:

• Check out the presentations and Q&A report on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14290081
• Read our interview to project representatives: https://graspos.eu/connecting-the-dots-eosc-projects-enhancing-scholarly-data-interoperability
• Watch the session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QbTTOId3M&t=2358s