Bridging the Disciplinary Divide: Applying FAIR and Open Science Approaches from the Life Sciences to Astronomy

Bridging the Disciplinary Divide: Applying FAIR and Open Science Approaches from the Life Sciences to Astronomy Christopher Erdmann, Head of Open Science, SciLifeLab christopher[email protected] November 2025 Would you like another layout for your title slide? There’s a number of options that you access via the “Layout” button or the “New slide” arrow. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ From Astronomy to Life Sciences Adding color to something? The SciLifeLab brand colors are included in this templates’ “Theme colours”, found at the top row when opening the colour palette. Librarian, ESO 2006 - 2010 telbib, Messenger, Koha Head Librarian, CfA 2010 - 2016 Zenodo, Dataverse (RDM at Harvard), UAT, liberact, Jupyter Days, DST4L, ORCID… Head of Open Science, SciLifeLab 2023 - CoARA, OpenAire, Communities of Practice, ADORE/ReSA/EVERSE, GA4GH, Software Heritage OSPO Radar, GO FAIR, RAiD… Lasting Collaborations From ESO to CfA and SciLifeLab (Uta Grothkopf/ESO on the left, Lars Holm Nielsen/CERN on the right) Building the Bridge The National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket) summarises their guidelines for open science as follows: •Open Access to Scholarly Publications •Open Access to Research Data •Open Research Methods •Open Educational Resources •Public Engagement in Science •Infrastructures Supporting Open Science Swedish National Guidelines KB, Natio nal guide li nes for promoting open science in Sweden. Accessed April 2025. https://www.kb.se/samverkan-och-utveckling/nytt-fran-kb/nyheter-samverkan-och-utveckling/2024-01-15-national-guidelines-for-promoting-open-science-in-sweden.html Open Science Policy Comparisons Preprint Required OA Required Data Sharing Code Sharing Materials/Resource Sharing Protocol Sharing ✔ ✔ ✔✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ EC ? X X X X X X X X X X X X X X ✔ * This figure provides a comparison between the different research outputs required to be made openly available at each research funding organisation. Open Science Team. (2023). Open science training. Presentation at ASAP CRN, San Diego, CA. * edited based on updated information from Lenharo, M. (2024). Will the Gates Foundation’s preprint-centric policy help open access? Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00996-8 SciLifeLab commits to CoARA Adding color to something? The SciLifeLab brand colors are included in this templates’ “Theme colours”, found at the top row when opening the colour palette. https://www.scilifelab.se/news/scilifelab-joins-the-coalition-for-advancing-research-assessment/ • Practice of research assessment needs to be reformed •Recognise diverse contributions, team science • Assessment primarily on qualitative judgement (peer review) • Responsible use of quantitative indicators • Address in recruitment, promotion, rewards, proposals, support Key Points of CoARA Image from - https://www.swoopanalytics.com/blog/building-communities ●Recognise diversity in contributions ●Qualitative assessment (peer review) balanced w/ quantitative ●Move away from traditional journal based metrics ●Avoid the use of rankings ●Commit resources to reform ●Review criteria, tools, processes (institution, project, researcher) ●Raise awareness (communication, guidance, training) ●Exchange experiences (to learn from each other) ●Communicate progress ●Evaluate practices, criteria, tools (research on research, make data openly available) Commitments Adding color to something? The SciLifeLab brand colors are included in this templates’ “Theme colours”, found at the top row when opening the colour palette. EuropePMC, SciX, and ESO telbib as examples Bibliographies, Metrics, and Shared Databases https://blog.openalex.org/ Enriching the Scientific Corpus Present and Futuristic Bridges Preprints + Open Peer Reviews Adding color to something? The SciLifeLab brand colors are included in this templates’ “Theme colours”, found at the top row when opening the colour palette. ASAPbio: Where to go to do open peer review Mapping the preprint review metadata transfer workflows RAiD and rethinking how research is represented Adding color to something? The SciLifeLab brand colors are included in this templates’ “Theme colours”, found at the top row when opening the colour palette. ●https://asclepias.aas.org/ ●https://raid.org/ (US RAiD Lyrasis - Use Cases) https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/data-blueprint and Mayer, L., Shabman, R., Pokutnaya, D., & Kirkpatrick, C. (2025). A Blueprint for Including Digital Objects in the NIAID Data Ecosystem (Version 2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17161562 FAIR Data Blueprint & AI Automation https://www.frontiersin.org/ab out/fair-data-management https://fair2.ai/ LLMs, Computational Research, Data Mining Adding color to something? The SciLifeLab brand colors are included in this templates’ “Theme colours”, found at the top row when opening the colour palette. ●End of user interfaces - Eric Schmidt ●Notebooks Now (Jupyter/R) ●OpenAI & ChatGPT (AstroMLab) ●Anthropic & Claude for the Life Sciences ●Hugging Face (Community, Collaboration - Models, Data) ●Mining Publications (Grobid, Dataseer, Kaggle, LLMs) Data Scientist Training for Librarians (DST4L), Library Carpentry (The Carpentries) Open Science & FAIR Onboarding, Resources, Training Training Hub (ELIXIR TeSS) & FAIR Training (10 Simple Rules) AI Action Group (Training), AI Lead (and Engineers), AI Network (Seminar Series), AI Web Resources Data Science, Open Science, AI Training Importance of supporting standards organisations like GA4GH (Global Alliance for Genomics Health), IVOA, etc. SciLifeLab recently hosted the 13th GA4GH Plenary. Standards, Recommendations, Guidance, Best Practices https://www.scilifelab.se/news/scilifelab-director-interviewed-by-leading-business-newspaper/ Integrated Data Services