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This ORD project explores the optimal use of 3D models of ETH’s entomological and earth science specimens, establishing tools, metadata requirements, and best practices. The models have already been featured in three public exhibitions, reaching tens of thousands of visitors.

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ORD Explore Project
Consuelo De Moraes, Michael Greeff, Iwan Stössel-Sittig, ETH Zurich
Sarah Kenderdine, EPFL

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Intraspecific genetic diversity is a fundamental component of biodiversity, underpinning the persistence and adaptive capacity of wildlife populations in a changing environment. GenDiB is a centralized database of genetic diversity within wild populations in Switzerland, providing a single access point to dispersed and previously unpublished datasets. Through an interactive map, these data are made openly accessible for research, education, and conservation.

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ORD Explore Project
F. Gugerli, P. Feulner A. Weber, Eawag
F. Martin, ETH Zurich
C. Buser, I. Iosifescu, L. Wotruka, WSL

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GPM-API makes global satellite precipitation data easier to access, analyze, and visualize. This image shows the average rainfall on 1 January, derived from 30 years of IMERG observations. The software helps make satellite data more accessible, efficient to use, and easier to explore.

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ORD Contribute Project
Gionata Ghiggi, EPFL

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In catalysis, a chemical reaction is accelerated by adding a substance that is not involved in the reaction itself. The Catalysis Hub project – Swiss Cat+ is a national infrastructure that promotes these processes and makes them accessible to all researchers. The Matryoshka file, developed at EPFL Swiss Cat+, is a digital package that bundles entire chemical experiments – including raw data, metadata and failed experiments – into a portable format. Because Matryoshka files adhere to the FAIR principles and follow a standardised ontology, the results can be easily found, shared, compared and reused for analysis, AI and automation.

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ORD Explore Project
Mieville, Pascal, Oksana Riba Grognuz, EPFL

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Health Data Wearable devices are becoming central to healthcare, industry, and research—but the lack of common standards makes it hard to share and reuse data. MEDWEAR addresses a FAIR standard and library for raw vitals data in both biomedical research and clinical environments.

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ORD Explore Project
Diego Paez, Oliver Stoller, C. Awai, ETH Zurich

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The Modern Ocean Sedimentary Archive and Inventory of Carbon (MOSAIC) database compiles data from over 25’000 marine sediment cores globally. The new API displays the database in a user-friendly website and allows users and researchers to seamlessly query the database.

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ORD Contribute Project
Sarah Paradis, ETH Zurich

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This ORD project developed a visualization platform for the pNEUMA dataset, a significant urban traffic data collection from drones. The pNEUMA dataset is now easier to explore and understand. Our open visualization platform helps users find relevant large multimodal traffic data and examine traffic conditions through maps and simple indicators such as vehicle counts, speeds and traffic flows. The image shows how urban traffic can be captured from above by drones.

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ORD Contribute Project
Emmanouil Barmpounakis, EPFL

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OpenSPM stands for open scanning probe microscopy, instead of using an optical or electron-optical method, the image is generated by a probe interacting with the sample. Commercial manufacturers of SPM instruments often keep their technology proprietary and therefore closed. This limits access. It also hinders innovation. OpenSPM builds an open ecosystem around developments in open-hardware atomic force microscopy, workshops, and early adopters, helping researchers share knowledge and technology, spread new ideas faster, and reduce reliance on closed commercial systems.

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ORD Explore Project
Georg Fantner, EPFL

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TreeNet is an international monitoring and research network that links research findings from carbon flux sites with dendrometer data across entire landscapes to better understand forest ecosystem responses to climate change. A continuous stream of microclimate and tree physiology data provides real-time insights into tree water relations and growth dynamics. The ORD project is developing a machine learning model that integrates with the real-time TreeNet data collection infrastructure, as illustrated in the figure. The model automatically fills gaps in measured time-series data, enabling TreeNet users to work with complete and consistent datasets.

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ORD Explore Project
Mirko Lukovic, WSL

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Tree rings contain detailed information about how trees grew and responded to their environment. The ORD Project Xcell created TRIA, an open online platform that provides a home for this valuable data. It enables researchers to preserve, explore and share their data, making it accessible for new discoveries while ensuring that the original data producers are credited.

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ORD Explore Project
Patrick Fonti, Ionut Iosifescu, Georg von Arx, WSL

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Open Research Data Projects

Projects funded in the framework of the ORD Program

The joint ORD program of ETH Zurich, EPFL and the four research institutes of the ETH Domain has financially supported more than 60 research projects in the period 2020–2023. Funding supports researchers engaging in, or developing, ORD practices with and for their community and assists these researchers in becoming Open Research Data leaders in their field.

This page provides an overview of these projects. It highlights how researchers in the ETH Domain are currently applying ORD in exemplary ways. Some of the projects have already been completed, others are still in progress. The projects have been divided into three categories.

“Establish” projects help link existing ORD practices to a research agenda to establish them on a broader basis. They contribute to a shared and comprehensive understanding of ORD practices that can then become de facto standards.

“Explore” projects are the most extensive ventures in the program and are designed to explore and test early-stage ORD practices. The goal is to map processes of what an ORD practice might look like and develop prototypes. Through these projects, new teams form across disciplines and institutions.

“Contribute” projects help scientists integrate their research data into existing, often international, infrastructures. By standardizing the processes and making them generally accessible, the data are validated, and their potential is considerably expanded.

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MMS (Masonry MicroStructures database) - A 3D masonry microstructures database for advancing numerical research on irregular stone masonry structures

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EPFL

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Shah, Mati Ullah

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Stone masonry is an eco-friendly construction material, but its use has declined due to its vulnerability to earthquakes, mainly because of the poor arrangement of its microstructure. The microstructure includes the shape, size, and arrangement of stone units, which vary based on geographic, temporal, and material… Read more
Application Programming Interface for the River to Ocean Geodatabase for Education and Research

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ETH Zurich

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Paradis, Sarah

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In order to advance our understanding of the carbon cycle, it is essential to evaluate the spatiotemporal variations of carbon between river and marine environments and gain insights into the pathways of carbon transfer from land to ocean. To do this, we need to work jointly with riverine and marine data, accounting… Read more
Development of standardized Respiratory Open Access Research

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EPFL

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Dan, Jonathan

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Chronic cough is a common condition globally. While efforts are being made to develop wearables to detect and quantify cough events automatically, such monitoring devices have not yet been incorporated into routine clinical practice due to a lack of consistency in their validation, resulting in slow progress and a… Read more

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Catalysis Characterization Processing and Visualization Tools for Large Open Research Data

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ETH Zurich

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Lam, Erwin

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Catalysts play a major role in the production of many chemicals that are used everyday. Their proper characterization allows to understand their properties and therefore enables a rational design of better performing catalysts. Therefore, having large amounts of open access characterization data of catalysts will… Read more
NGSDataBooster: Simplifying and democratizing the open deposition of Next Generation Sequencing Data

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ETH Zurich

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Rehrauer, Hubert

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Life science generates vast amounts of next generation sequencing (NGS) data, and there are well-established, FAIR repositories for open access of this data. Still, depositing NGS data in these repositories bears some challenges for life science researchers, leading to data not being deposited and shared. We propose… Read more
Open Access and Interoperability in Medical Wearables

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ETH Zurich

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Paez, Diego

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Wearable sensors offer vast potential for advancing healthcare through data-driven insights, but their integration into clinical trials and practice is hindered by a lack of interoperability. This project proposes the development of a standardized low-level communication protocol for wearable sensors to facilitate… Read more
Enhancing Global WASH Data Accessibility through Collaborative Initiatives

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ETH Zurich

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Tilley, Elizabeth

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The "Enhancing Global WASH Data Accessibility through Collaborative Initiatives" proposal, a joint effort by WASHWeb and openwashdata, aims to improve the global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) data ecosystem. The partnership, formed under shared goals for better data accessibility, usability, and… Read more
Enabling OPEN Urban Mobility Analytics with Comprehensive Drone-Derived Datasets

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EPFL

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Fonod, Robert

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The OPEN-3D project revolutionizes urban mobility analytics by developing and enhancing four high-resolution traffic datasets derived from cutting-edge drone technology. This initiative, aligning with the ETH-Domain ORD Program, introduces innovative datasets and revitalizes existing ones with advanced tools… Read more
Contemporary Architecture Open Research Data

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EPFL

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Aprea, Salvatore

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The Groupe ACM (Gr-ACM) is a research group responsible for the collection of architecture heritage archives known as the Archives de la construction moderne (ACM). Digital contents in architecture heritage archives is increasing and will increase in the future both through donations of new born-digital archives and… Read more
Towards community-driven, open and FAIR ecohydrological modeling

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EPFL

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Bonetti, Sara

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Mechanistic ecohydrological models are essential tools to accurately simulate the impacts of climate change on the water, carbon, and nutrient cycles. However, there are very few models available to the community which can holistically simulate such a wide range of processes and most of them are written in low-level… Read more
EPFL Workshop on Open Microscopy and AI: First Edition

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EPFL

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Dong, Jonathan

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Imaging science and computational microscopy are rapidly advancing, driven by novel interdisciplinary approaches involving deep learning algorithms. However, the increasing complexity and cost of these cutting-edge imaging systems and algorithms often make them inaccessible for non-experts, low-resource settings, and… Read more
Prediction of biodegradation potential from (meta)genomes: advancing the enviPathPlus ORD platform

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Eawag

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Robinson, Serina

Abstract

Chemical pollution has exceeded planetary boundaries, requiring urgent solutions for chemical waste removal. Microbial biodegradation processes are crucial for breaking down chemical contaminants, yet the functions of microbial communities are often challenging to predict. To address this challenge, we aim to… Read more
Fostering Research on Mobile Robotics with High-Quality Data and Open Tooling

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ETH Zurich

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Hutter, Marco

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Mobile ground robots have become increasingly popular in academia and various industrial applications. However, unlike other domains like aerial robotics, autonomous driving, and construction, there is currently no high-quality, large-scale dataset or reliable benchmark established in this field, nor the tooling… Read more
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