PROGRAMME, NATIONAL OPEN RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2023
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin
THURSDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2023
9:00
Registration
10:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Colm O’Reardon, Secretary General, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Daniel Bangert, National Open Research Coordinator, Digital Repository of Ireland
10:15
Keynote Address: ‘Opening Science’
Chelle Gentemann, science lead for NASA’s Transform to Open Science Mission and co-chair of the U.S. White House Office for Science and Technology and Policy (OSTP) Sub-working group on the Year of Open Science
11:00
Panel: ECR Perspectives on Open Science and Research Assessment
Chair: Yensi Flores Bueso, Steering Board member of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)
Panellists: Noémie Aubert Bonn, Postdoctoral Researcher at Hasselt University, Belgium, and the University of Manchester, UK; Irene Castellano, Horizon Europe Health Cluster National Contact Point (NCP) for Ireland and Chair of the Ireland Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA); Stefan Müller, Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, Member of the Young Academy of Ireland, Melissa Sharp, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and Honorary Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Lightning Talk Session 1: Establishing a Culture of Open Research
Chair: Frances Madden, Technological University Dublin
Agape – Building an Open Science Practising Community
Cassandra Murphy, Agape Open Science/Maynooth University
Open Research Practices for Research Integrity
Lai Ma, University College Dublin
Research Assessment and Incentivising Open Research Practices
David O’Connell, University College Cork
Lightning Talk Session 2: Achieving 100% Open Access to Research Publications
Chair: Marion Boland, Science Foundation Ireland
Students as Scholars – Participation in Open Research and Publishing Practices: The Case of the Communications Undergraduate Journal at Dublin City University
Ronan Cox, Dublin City University
5 Years of HRB Open Research in 5 Minutes
Hannah Wilson, F1000
National Open Access Repositories: Strengthen and Align Ireland’s Network of Open Access Repositories
Christopher Loughnane, University of Galway
The National Open Access Monitor Project
Catherine Ferris, IReL
Lightning Talk Session 3: Enabling FAIR Research Data and Other Outputs
Chair: James Smith, University College Cork
The Irish ORCID Consortium
Catherine Ferris, IReL
Exploring Large-Scale Open Data: The Curatr Platform
Derek Greene, University College Dublin
A Workflow for Research Data Management (RDM): Aligning the Management of Research Data
Gail Birkbeck, University College Dublin
Making Cultural Heritage Data FAIR: Developing Recommendations for the WorldFAIR Project at the Digital Repository of Ireland
Joan Murphy, Digital Repository of Ireland
15:00
Break
15:30-17:00
Launch of the NORF Open Research Fund 2023 Projects
Daniel Bangert, National Open Research Coordinator, Digital Repository of Ireland
The NORF Open Research Fund 2023 is funding 13 research projects designed to support and advance Open Research in Ireland. This session will feature presentations from a selection of the Project Leads of these projects. Speakers include Sally Smith (TCD), Jo-Hanna Ivers (TCD), Armin Straube (UL), Eoin O’Dell (TCD), Patrick Healy (UL), Ian Marder (MU) and Gemma Moore (HSE).
17:00-17:10
Closing Remarks
Louise Callinan, Head of Research & Research Policy, Higher Education Authority
FRIDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2023
9:30
Parallel Workshops
European Open Science Cloud National Tripartite Event
Organiser(s): Roberto Sabatino, HEAnet
Open Peer Review Detective Game / Science Sleuths
Organiser(s): Nina Tubranová, UCD Connect, Agape – Open Science Practising Community
11:00
Break
11:30
Parallel Workshops
Beyond Transformative Agreements: Looking at Alternatives of Supporting Sustainable and Inclusive Open Access
Organiser(s): Susan Reilly, IReL
Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network Roadshow – Could you be a Data Steward?
Organiser(s): Aoife Coffey, Sonraí – Irish Data Stewardship Network, University College Cork (UCC); Junwen Luo, UCC; Darren Dahly, UCC; Jenny O’Neill, University College Dublin, Johanna Archbold, Technological University of the Shannon.
13:00-14:15
Lunch
14:15-15:45
Parallel Workshops
Scholarly Authorship and Open Access
Organiser(s): Ruth Hegarty, PublishOA.ie, Royal Irish Academy; Lucy Hogan, Publish OA.ie, Royal Irish Academy
Examining Open Source Software Management Challenges & Solutions for Irish Universities
Organiser(s): Clare Dillon, University of Galway, Lero, Open Ireland Network