Report of the Paris Conference on Open Research Information

In September of 2024 signatories, supporters and parties interested in the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information met at Sorbonne University, in Paris to discuss next steps in taking the agenda of the Declaration forward. In a two day hybrid in-person and online meeting, participants shared progress and challenges of advancing the production, management and use of open research information, and worked together to prioritize concrete actions that will make up a shared road map.

Around 140 participants engaged in presentations and discussion, with the first day focussing on the sharing of experiences and the second day focussing on actions. A total of 21 talks were presented with panels covering: University policies and concrete implementations; Funders, national organizations and governments; International collaborations; and Infrastructures for open research information.

Concrete actions were formulated and prioritized on the topics of:

• Journal article metadata;
• Metadata for research outputs in institutional repositories, preprint repositories and data repositories;
• Funding metadata;
• Replacing closed systems for research information;
• Sustainability of infrastructures;
• Evaluating open data;
• Evidence of benefits of open research information.

Following the meeting, a theory of change framework was applied dividing actions into four categories (information gathering, frameworks & analysis, principles & guidelines and implementation & monitoring), guiding the placement of the actions onto a concrete roadmap for coordinated activities. We invite organizations to get involved in the working groups that will take forward the actions on the roadmap.

If your organization is interested in participating in one or more working groups, or, as a signatory organization, in coordinating one of the working groups, please fill out this form by November 30. We aim to set up a meeting with potential working group coordinators in December 2024, and have working groups populated and starting active work in early 2025.