Open Science Trails (OSTrails) is a Horizon Europe-funded project that aims to improve the way we plan, track, and assess scientific knowledge. It wants to go beyond current methods, working with different countries and themes to make existing systems better and connect key parts for research and innovation (R&I). The goal is to create a practical, open, and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) system for European scientific research. OSTrails involves major players in Data Management Plans, FAIR Assessment Tools, and Scientific Knowledge Graphs to set standards and make data plans more efficient across Europe.
The Dutch national pilot in OSTrails is co-coordinated by SURF (Eileen Waegemaekers) and CWTS (Andrew S. Hoffman), with the support of the NWO and the direct involvement of several other stakeholders and RPOs, including TU Delft, Utrecht University, VU Amsterdam, and the Digital Competence Center for Practice-oriented Research (DCC-PO).
With the aim of informing pathways for the wider uptake and interoperability of machine actionable data management plans in the Netherlands, CWTS will oversee the project’s four researcher- and RDM-facing deliverables (encoding NWO and university-specific DMP templates in maDMP tooling, developing discipline-specific DMP templates & guidance, embedding FAIR Implementation Profiles, enriching relevant DMP fields with persistent identifiers), with SURF taking the lead on the two main technical deliverables (interoperating maDMPs with extant science knowledge graphs, extending national SKGs with DMP as as first-class digital objects.)

https://ostrails.eu/national-pilot-interview-netherlands

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