In September representatives from Cambridge University Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication and Open Research Systems teams attended the first annual meeting of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. The declaration, launched in spring this year, intends to prioritise open forms of information sharing within academic research, particularly around metadata and bibliometric data.
Over two days, the meeting presented case studies on the different universities and funders that have signed the declaration, alongside a look at the infrastructures underpinning such an open research environment.
Day two offered a hands-on approach to the task of building support for the declaration where participants were asked to prioritise the Barcelona Declaration’s work for the future.
The meeting explored a series of focused working groups on issues such as sustaining infrastructures, technical metadata curation, and sharing evidence of the benefits of using non-proprietary data sources. Members of the OSC will be exploring how the Barcelona Declaration relates to our work over the next few months.