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The service platform tries to adopt an elastic approach in the workflow allowing users to follow varying paths to compliance with EOSC's RoP, while emphasizing and embracing the principles of openness, transparency and inclusiveness. As RoP is set to guarantee an open, secure and cost-effective federated EOSC with services of documented quality, the tool guides users through these obligatory and common requirements, while providing additional focus on the legal and ethics aspects of RoP rights and obligations that will govern EOSC transactions between EOSC users, providers and operators. Service provides a logic sequential flow starting at collecting relevant resource information to identify and validate and categorise the resource. Then follows in checking essential IP, statistical, cultural, personal and ethics related information. The procedure then checks for the most common obligations for a service/data provider being openness and findability and proceeds to Terms of Service (ToS), licensing information, limitations and access restrictions. Depending on the given answers in the previous steps the guide advances to specific sets of questions for each of the relevant key-rules identified in the previous steps. The final step aggregates the collected information in a downloadable documented response providing service/data providers a clear picture of their current state in relation to the most recent RoP. The guided assessment procedure is presented in the '''[[:File:d4.5_main_flow_i.png|Main Workflow]]''' figure. | The service platform tries to adopt an elastic approach in the workflow allowing users to follow varying paths to compliance with EOSC's RoP, while emphasizing and embracing the principles of openness, transparency and inclusiveness. As RoP is set to guarantee an open, secure and cost-effective federated EOSC with services of documented quality, the tool guides users through these obligatory and common requirements, while providing additional focus on the legal and ethics aspects of RoP rights and obligations that will govern EOSC transactions between EOSC users, providers and operators. Service provides a logic sequential flow starting at collecting relevant resource information to identify and validate and categorise the resource. Then follows in checking essential IP, statistical, cultural, personal and ethics related information. The procedure then checks for the most common obligations for a service/data provider being openness and findability and proceeds to Terms of Service (ToS), licensing information, limitations and access restrictions. Depending on the given answers in the previous steps the guide advances to specific sets of questions for each of the relevant key-rules identified in the previous steps. The final step aggregates the collected information in a downloadable documented response providing service/data providers a clear picture of their current state in relation to the most recent RoP. The guided assessment procedure is presented in the '''[[:File:d4.5_main_flow_i.png|Main Workflow]]''' figure. | ||
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Revision as of 14:48, 24 November 2020
Purpose
This tool is the output for Task T4.3 that focuses on the aggregation, improvement and development of tools covering the increased demand for providing technical solutions to address the needs for researchers to publish in FAIR/open modes. The tool, being actively developed, targets the ecosystems of tools for open and FAIR assessors Legal needs, which are tools that allow for IPR, ethics and data protection compliance both at the policy and legal level, following the recommendations set by EOSCpilot and aligned with the EOSC governance. Specifically, NI4OS-Europe with this tool aims at providing an aggregated procedure for legal and ethics compliance by integrating a set of model procedures including:
- Model procedures for Copyright acquisition, management and dissemination policies
- Model Copyright clearance processes, documentation and tools
- Public domain calculators in relation to specific scientific domains
- Licence choice and interoperability tools
- Model Data Protection (GDPR compliant) processes, consent forms and data sharing agreements
- Certification and compliance with EU Directive on security of network and information systems
- Decision support trees for data protection policies
- Model IPR and data protection documentation
The tool will be made available for integration into EOSC channels.
Intended use
The intended use of the tool is to provide an aggregated guided assessment for EOSC RoP focusing on legal and ethics aspects compliance. Targeted users may be service providers, researchers and research organisations. The tool integrates a number of existing modeled procedures, under a structured flow providing logic steps for testing a potential EOSC service/dataset against current RoP. The platform will eventually evolve to automatically check the validity of provided resources for at least the obligatory steps of the assessment.
Background: Legal aspects
Workflow
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The service platform tries to adopt an elastic approach in the workflow allowing users to follow varying paths to compliance with EOSC's RoP, while emphasizing and embracing the principles of openness, transparency and inclusiveness. As RoP is set to guarantee an open, secure and cost-effective federated EOSC with services of documented quality, the tool guides users through these obligatory and common requirements, while providing additional focus on the legal and ethics aspects of RoP rights and obligations that will govern EOSC transactions between EOSC users, providers and operators. Service provides a logic sequential flow starting at collecting relevant resource information to identify and validate and categorise the resource. Then follows in checking essential IP, statistical, cultural, personal and ethics related information. The procedure then checks for the most common obligations for a service/data provider being openness and findability and proceeds to Terms of Service (ToS), licensing information, limitations and access restrictions. Depending on the given answers in the previous steps the guide advances to specific sets of questions for each of the relevant key-rules identified in the previous steps. The final step aggregates the collected information in a downloadable documented response providing service/data providers a clear picture of their current state in relation to the most recent RoP. The guided assessment procedure is presented in the Main Workflow figure.
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The tool is intended to handle RoP compliance procedure for pure datasets apart from services which are the main target. To achieve this, based on the resource type chosen, the workflow is designed to start evaluating compliance on the most basic obligatory requirements and add to that further obligatory and common requirements when services are considered and when drilling down to more specific sections for key-rules. The concept is presented in Compliance drill down figure. |
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Version features
Version 1, November 2020:
- Initial version provides a proof-of-concept mockup.
- Will initially provide documented self-assessment.
- General RoP compliance formulated.
Team
Vassilis Kifonidis, Panagiota Koltsida, Christos Liatas, George Panagiotopoulos, Panoraia Spiliopoulou, Eleni Toli, Electra Sifakaki