Working Groups

The CCSD staff takes part in work groups lead by other institutions and organisms, on various topics in the Open Science field.

National policy for the adoption of unique and persistent identifiers (PIDs)

PIDs and Data Sharing

Member of the steering committee, which is the governance body responsible for developing the strategy and roadmap for the adoption of PIDs for research outputs.

Design of the French Registry of Structures

The role of the working group is to define the future French Registry of Structures — data it contains, data flows and sharing according to different use cases — in order to ensure coherent management of staff assignments and financial resources, and to enable the efficient flow of information.

COAR

AI Bots and Repositories Task Force

The “AI Bots and Repositories Task Force” was launched in July 2025 to help the repository community navigate the rapidly evolving landscape and develop solutions that enable repositories to remain as open as possible.

Objectives

Articulate the problem space, and provide evidence where possible
Understand and document the available mitigation strategies
Reiterate the importance of allowing legitimate machine-access to repositories
Make recommendations for mitigation of the problems experienced by repositories which do not create problems for legitimate remote system access.

COAR Notify – Repository and Services Interoperability Project

Launched in january 2021, the aim of this project is to develop a standard and interoperable approach that will link reviews and endorsements from different services with the research outputs housed in the distributed network of preprint servers, archives, and repositories.

Publications College

The Publications College deals with communication and discussion of research results, and this in all their forms.

Its objectives are:

To initiate actions identified by the research communities or specialists;
To shape or make shape actions pursuant to the political orientations and decisions relayed by the CoSO;
To give an opinion about the different subjects submitted to CoSO within its field of skills;
To follow the activity of the project groups arising from its field of skills.

Open Scholarly Communication

The primary aim of this Expert Group is to position the topic of Open Scholarly Communication within EOSC, and to develop peer review and quality assessment procedures that are mindful of the diversity of research outputs (I.e., not limited to traditional publications).

PID Policy and Implementation

The task force on PID Policy and Implementation is one of the advisory groups established by the EOSC Association. Its objectives are to make recommendations to the EC for the integration of PID services in the EOSC ecosystem, its implementation and test.

Task Force Charter

Couperin

Open Archives working group

The Open Archives working group, within the Open Science working group, focuses on technical specifications and recommendations for operating an open archive. It also works with the esPARSE/ezMESURE team on open archives statistics, standardising them to enable comparison.

Open Science Strategies

The Open Science Policy Committee has the objective:

To identify emerging and analyse existing policies regarding Open Science;
To analyse and assess open science business models relevant for the OpenAIRE communities;
To carry out/ commission studies about Open Science policy emerging trends;
To identify innovative services, tools and business models to serve open science.

Services and Technologies Standing Committee

The objective of the Services and Technologies Steering Committee is to provide the strategic framework necessary in order to define, assess, expand, maintain and improve the OpenAIRE services and enhance their interoperability with international, national, regional, and sub-regional services.

ORCID API work group

This work group gives a technical support and helps the members of ORCID France community and organisations willing to join with ORCID API.

SCOSS Director’s Network

SCOSS Director’s Network is a forum where leaders can support one another in addressing common challenges, facilitate knowledge exchange and potentially explore opportunities for joint initiatives. It could involve asynchronously sharing challenges, asking questions, and exchanging ideas.

Some participations are no longer active, either because the working group itself is no longer active, or because the participant’s mandate has ended. These are listed below.