EOSC Interoperability Framework Registry Featured in ERCIM News Special Issue on Open Science

We are pleased to share that an article on the EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox has been published in the April 2026 edition of ERCIM News (Issue 144), as part of the special theme "Open Science Experiences and Prospects."

The article, titled "Unlocking Machine-Composability with the EOSC Interoperability Framework Registry," was authored by Alessia Bardi (CNR-ISTI, OpenAIRE AMKE), Konstantina Galouni (Athena Research Center) and Paolo Manghi (CNR-ISTI, OpenAIRE AMKE) on behalf of the EOSC Beyond project. It presents how the project is transforming the EOSC Interoperability Framework (IF) Registry from a collection of human-readable documents into a system of machine-actionable templates.

Guest edited by Leonardo Candela (CNR-ISTI) and Roberto Di Cosmo (Inria and University Paris Cité), the special theme explores the current state of Open Science across Europe. The editors note that while Open Science has become an operational requirement embedded in national strategies and funding conditions, fragmentation remains a key challenge. The issue brings together contributions on federated infrastructures, semantic frameworks, governance, skills, and operational experiences from major European initiatives.

The EOSC Beyond article sits within a cluster of contributions focusing on semantic foundations and knowledge graph infrastructures as critical enablers of interoperability.

Our contribution describes how the next generation of the IF Registry supports the programmatic composition of resources through two new technical pillars:

The article demonstrates this evolution through a concrete case study: the Scholarly Communication Metadata Aggregator for EOSC Nodes. This application automatically discovers OAI-PMH compliant data sources, reads their Configuration Instances, and launches metadata harvesting without manual intervention.

The full ERCIM News Issue 144 is available online: