RINN & ORI Summer Event 2026 – Are we ready to open yet?

About the event

The event will focus on the growing role of open research information, and the practical steps institutions are taking toward more open, transparent, and sustainable research intelligence workflows.

Attendance: in person or online

This event will be live-streamed, but online interaction will be limited to submitting questions via the Q&A chat. For the best experience and full engagement, we strongly encourage attending in person where possible. If you’re unable to join us on-site, we would still be pleased to welcome you online so you don’t miss out.

Organisers

This event is jointly organised by Research Intelligence at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, and the SURF Open Research Information Community.

Programme

• 09:30 – 10:00 Arrival and coffee
• 10:00 – 10:05 Welcome
  Michiel Besters, Director of Engagement & Research Services, Erasmus University Rotterdam 
• 10:05 – 10:15 RINN position statement on Open Research Information 
• 10:15 – 10:45 Panel discussion on Infrastructure as a Shared Responsibility: Sovereignty, Collaboration and the Future of Dutch Research Infrastructure
  
  Panelists:  Dr. Ava Irani - Senior Policy Coordination, Open Science, UvA; Lucia Collara - Product Lead Digital Infrastructure, University Library, UvA 
  
  Description: Every infrastructure choice is also a values choice. The metadata standards we adopt, the repositories we federate, the data pipelines we build - these are not neutral technical decisions. They encode assumptions about who produces knowledge, how that knowledge is preserved, and who governs the systems that make it findable and usable over time.
  
  This talk explores what it means for a university - to treat digital research infrastructure as a strategic and ethical responsibility. It does so through the lens of UvA's active engagement with two landmark Dutch national initiatives: DURF (Dutch Repository Federation) and BROCCOLI (a federated hub for open Dutch research information), both of which received unanimous endorsement from university rectors across the Netherlands.  
• 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break 
• 11:00 – 11:45 Keynote lecture 1: Research and Innovation Indicator Framework – An example from the Danish CoARA chapter by Poul Meier Melchiorsen, Aalborg University
  Description: What does it actually mean to be responsible when you are in charge of research evaluation—and how do you balance that ideal with everyday pragmatics? This talk explores how traditional bibliometrics can coexist with emerging open science and CoARA-inspired approaches at both university and national levels. Drawing on hands-on experience from developing and implementing a research and innovation indicator framework, it offers insights into what happens when principles meet practice. Along the way, I share reflections from the “travel log” of the Danish CoARA chapter: the challenges, trade-offs, and small breakthroughs that shape the journey toward more responsible evaluation. The shift is not just technical, but cultural, from one-dimensional metrics to multi-dimensional understanding, and from managing by numbers to asking: What are our priorities, and how should progress be measured? 
• 11:45 – 12:15 Presentation on Bibliometrics Without Barriers: An Open Platform for Literature Analysis by Juan Pablo Bascur, PhD, Leiden University
  Description: Bibliometric analysis and science mapping are useful for policymakers, researchers, and anyone trying to understand a field. But existing tools require expensive licenses or programming skills, which keeps most people from using them. This is a great waste, as it makes academic literature less useful and mostly out of reach for the general public. This presentation describes a set of free, open tools built to lower that barrier. They run in a web browser, require no installation or coding, and all methods are documented. The main tool, ORION, lets users run queries on OpenAlex data in Google BigQuery without writing code, and includes a dedicated interface for exploring research institutions and funders. The other two tools support bibliometric mapping. Text Similarity Maker takes plain text as input and generates a science map, handling all the steps in between. SciMacro visualizes citation networks as clusters and allows iterative filtering and reclustering, so users can steer the map and bring specific topics into focus. The presentation will also focus on the lessons learned building these tools, including user experience design, open science infrastructure, and AI-assisted programming. This talk should be useful both for people who want to use the tools and for those thinking about building something similar. 
• 12:15 – 13:30 Lunch 
• 13:30 – 14:15 Keynote lecture 2: Insights in investing in Open Infrastructure 
  Kaitlin Thaney, Invest in Open Infrastructure 
• 14:15 – 15:15 Open community session 
• 15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break 
• 15:45 – 16:45 Open community session 
• 16:45 – 17:00 Closing & drinks

Call for Proposals 

We are accepting proposals for the open community sessions. We warmly invite you to contribute to the program by submitting a proposal for one of the following formats: 

• Presentation (approx. 10–15 minutes + Q&A) 
• Panel discussion (interactive format with multiple speakers) 
• Poster (to showcase projects, tools, workflows, or pilots) 

This is a great opportunity to share your work, spark discussion, and connect with others facing similar challenges.

How to submit 

Please send your proposal to: rinn@rug.nl 
Maximum length: 250 words 

Please include: 

• Title 
• Format (presentation / panel / poster) 
• Author(s) 
• Affiliation 
• Short description 

Submission deadline: 22 May 2026 
You will be informed of acceptance by 29 May 2026.

Suggested themes 

We welcome proposals on all topics related to open research information and research intelligence, and we are especially interested in contributions addressing: 

• Governance and decision-making in institutionalizing open workflows 
• Hybrid research intelligence (combining open and proprietary sources) 
• Projects and pilots using open research information (initiated, ongoing, or completed) 
• Challenges encountered 
• Implementation strategies 
• Lessons learned and recommendations 

We strongly encourage proposals that share practical experiences, including what did not work as expected as these are often the most valuable insights for the community.

Contact 

For questions, program updates, or practical information, please contact: rinn@rug.nl

Keynote Speakers

Poul Meier Melchiorsen

Senior Consultant, Aalborg University Library 

Poul Meier Melchiorsen works with research intelligence and research information analysis at Aalborg University, specialising in translating research data into meaningful decision support, institutional insight, and increased research visibility. His expertise spans bibliometrics, indicator development, metadata quality, and strategic reporting, as well as supporting researcher profiles, ORCID implementation, and research registration in Pure. He is also deeply involved in advancing methods for documenting innovation and societal impact, including approaches that go beyond traditional citation-based metrics. Since 2018, Poul has served as Lead of the Danish ORCID Consortium, and since 2025 as Co-chair of the Danish CoARA Chapter, contributing to more responsible and nuanced research assessment practices.

Kaitlin Thaney

Executive Director, Invest in Open Infrastructure 

Kaitlin Thaney helps mission-driven organisations think strategically about programme design, participatory engagement, and long-term sustainability. A long-time advocate for openness, she has spent much of her career advising and building initiatives that expand open access to research, data, content, and code through roles at Mozilla, Wikimedia, Digital Science, and Creative Commons. She currently serves as Executive Director of Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), a global coalition working to enable durable and scalable open scholarly and scientific infrastructure.

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