WG 3 gathers LEAPS experts on topics around FAIR data management and open science. The aim of the WG is to share best practices and recent developments at the different partner facilities to keep a community approach on the road to FAIRer science we all need to take. The WG is currently chaired by Paul Millar (DESY) and Majid Ounsy (SOLEIL).

Outcomes from projects where LEAPS WG3 members were involved are listed here.

• European Photon and Neutron open data search portal
• Nexus ontology
• OAI-PMH endpoint for data catalogues
• Ontology API service
• PaN FAIR implementation framework
• PaN software catalogue
• PaN training catalogue
• PaNET ontology
• Search API for data catalogues
• Testing and validation framework
• Video introduction to data management plans for PaN users
• Virtual neutron and x-ray laboratory
• VISA

Current work

The current work is organised either in special interest groups, which are spontaneous activities among the group or in projects, which are funded by third-parties and have their own processes.

Special interest groups

Following the RDA model, WG3 work is organised in Special Interest Groups or SIGs. A SIG is a group of people from different PaN facilities, working together on a particular topic of common interest. The SIGs have defined targets and report progress back to the WG3 meetings. More details on what SIGs are can be found in “What is a SIG?”.

The current list of SIGs is the following:

• Core Trust Seal
• Direct DOI Data Access (D3A)
• Data reduction

WG3 holds regular monthly meetings