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Advancing Research Assessment Through Open Science and Infrastructure

The aim of GraspOS is to build a federated, open, and EOSC-compliant infrastructure for research assessment with the following key objectives:

  • Improve the recognition of Open Science-related activities, helping also the incentivisation of Open Science practices
  • Support the discovery and use of open research information and infrastructures in research assessment processes. 

The GraspOS Infrastructure aims to collect valuable data, tools, services, and other types of resources supporting research organisations and communities to design their own research assessment processes, paving the way for a reform towards an Open Science-aware Responsible Research Assessment framework.

The Roadmap

GraspOS follows a continuous and phased approach in delivering the services and infrastructure in four main implementation phases:

  • Initial design phase: This phase, covering the first months of the project (M1-M7), involves the initial requirement analysis to produce the initial specifications, kick-starting the developments of all GraspOS components.
  • Early co-development & evaluation phase: A co-design and co-creation approach for the assessment framework, the infrastructure, and its components that actively involves stakeholders from the pilot communities. The stakeholders’ feedback is gathered and considered in an agile development process. At the same time, stakeholders perform continuous validation and evaluation of all the resources. 
  • Late co-development & evaluation phase: During this phase the co-development approach continues similarly to the previous phase. However, additional focus is given on the integration of all components in the EOSC ecosystem. 
  • Production-ready phase: The final phase of the development is dedicated to iterating over the design and implementation of the tools, services, and infrastructure based on the results of the evaluation process. In addition, the focus of the efforts is given on the bug fixes and maintenance. 

Pilots