Franciska de Jong1
1Professor of e-Research for the Humanities, Utrecht University
Biography:
Franciska de Jong has been professor of e-Research for the Humanities at Utrecht University since September 2015 and is the former director of CLARIN ERIC, the European research infrastructure for language data. For thirty years she was professor of language technology at the University of Twente. At the Erasmus University Rotterdam she led the institute for e-research. Her research domain includes, access tools for spoken interview collections, text mining and e-research at large. In Horizon Europe project EOSC Focus, she is leading the work package on the sustainability of the European Open Science Cloud. For a comprehensive profile, see http://www.uu.nl/staff/FMGdeJong.
Abstract:
In many scholarly domains and global regions the adoption of Open Science agendas have accelerated the enhancement of research methods and practices beyond expectation. Digital data and research paradigms have introduced multiple transitions in the realm of knowledge creation. A major evolution is the increased importance of interoperability of data and tools at all layers, as interoperability is crucial for multidisciplinary collaboration at large and for comparative research across linguistic boundaries and data modalities. In Europe this has led to the ambition to build a common infrastructure based on a federative model of interoperable service provision, which has become known under the label of European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This process started already more than a decade ago, long before the introduction of the notion of FAIR data, and has been strongly supported, both politically and through Horizon Europe grants by the European Commission and by support from the EU member countries. Thematic research infrastructures and generic service providers from all countries are working towards a federation of commons. In this talk the genesis of the EOSC model and its future potential and will be presented from the perspective of CLARIN, a distributed disciplinary node in the federation, that is enabling research in the social sciences and humanities and beyond by providing access to language resources provided from all over Europe.