FSD's data expertise is in international demand
Our strong expertise in research data and metadata will be put to good use in several international projects in the coming years.
FSD is participating in three new international projects starting this year. The projects all have similar goals of promoting the FAIR principles of data, particularly those of findability and accessibility. The data in the projects deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and related phenomena as well as child and youth well-being.
The EOSC Future project, which kicked off in April, is implementing the European Open Science Cloud and seeks to provide seamless access to FAIR data, resources and services for all scientific disciplines. FSD is working on the metadata of COVID-19 data as a linked third party of CESSDA.
The COORDINATE project (COhort cOmmunity Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe) also launched in April. It promotes research on child and youth well-being by improving access to international longitudinal survey data on the subject. FSD provides its metadata expertise in a work package that facilitates the findability of data through metadata harmonization.
Starting in October, BY-COVID (BeYond COVID) links data resources suitable for the study of COVID-19 from various disciplines into a common European service. FSD participates in improving the discovery, integration and citation of COVID-19 data through metadata and data harmonization across domains.
The durations of the new projects vary from two and a half years to four years, and they are funded by the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. FSD also continues to participate in three other international projects that started in 2019: SSHOC (Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud), EOSC Nordic ja TRIPLE (Transforming Research through Innovative Practices for Linked interdisciplinary Exploration).