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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genetic diversity within wild populations in Switzerland, providing a single access point to dispersed and previously unpublished datasets.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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Enabling Open Datasets of Soft Tactile Sensor Characterization through Openly Available Hardware and Software

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EPFL

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Josie Hughes

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The rapid advancement of soft materials with integrated sensing capabilities finds applications in wearables, healthcare, and soft robotics. Soft sensors replicate human skin's ability to sense strain, force, temperature, and humidity, uniting robotics, materials science, and data science. Developing soft sensors… Read more
Cloud and web-based platform for dissemination of computational solid mechanics

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EPFL

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Guillaume Anciaux, Jean-François Molinari, Nicolas Richart

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Academic journals have been traditional channels for sharing knowledge. However, the volume of scientific data often surpasses what journals can accommodate. To foster scientific collaboration and discovery, open science advocates the public distribution of scientists' work. To achieve this, we need user-friendly… Read more
Community Needs of Open Research Data PractIces iN FibEr-Optic Sensing - Leading by Example

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ETH Zurich

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Daniel Bowden

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Recent years have seen a seismic monitoring revolution with fiber optic sensing technologies. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) utilizes light pulses and backscattered signals to measure strains along fiber optic cables with exceptional spatial precision. The Seismology and Wave Physics group at ETH has pioneered DAS… Read more
A Toolbox for Providing Open Data on Chemical and Material Uses

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Empa

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Zhanyun Wang, Bernd Nowack

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Open data about chemical and material uses are crucial for safety assessments and designing safer alternatives. However, accessing such data in the public domain is challenging due to fragmentation and inconsistent formats. This project seeks to empower the scientific and regulatory communities to create open, FAIR… Read more
Instant and versatile data visualization during the current dark period of the life cycle of FAIR research

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PSI

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Thorsten Bartels-Rausch, Imad El Haddad, Julia Schmale (EPFL)

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This proposal addresses essential changes in current data treatment and prototyping processes to enhance teamwork, communication, and data visualization for the atmospheric chemistry research community. The motivation stems from the shift toward interdisciplinary collaborations, emphasizing team dynamics, and the… Read more
Interfacing Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tools with Open Access Publications

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ETH Zurich

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Richard Hahnloser

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Scientific publications are valuable, and open research data (ORD) like open access publications have made scientific knowledge more accessible. However, merely accessing this data is insufficient; we must extract and utilize the knowledge within. Traditional keyword-based search engines have limitations. As Natural… Read more
Next-generation structural biology: An open atlas of in-situ protein structural dynamics

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ETH Zurich

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Paola Picotti, Pedro Beltrao

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Understanding protein structure is vital for studying protein function mechanisms. The Protein Data Bank (PDB), a prominent repository of protein structures, has been invaluable for 50 years. However, most PDB structures are static, and proteins' functions often involve motion and conformational changes. To achieve a… Read more
An ecosystem for community driven scanning probe microscopy research and development

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EPFL

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Georg Fantner

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Modern scientific instruments are intricate systems with hardware, electronics, and software components. To advance the technique, access to all levels – instrument, hardware, software – is necessary. Unfortunately, commercial instrument manufacturers often keep their technology proprietary, limiting access. This… Read more
Open WASH data by building Open Science Competencies and Community

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ETH Zurich

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Elizabeth Tilley, Lars Schöbitz, Matthias Bannert

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Inadequate data management impedes progress in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector. WASH professionals lack training in essential data management competencies, hindering effective data storage, organization, description, and sharing, in line with FAIR data principles. To address this gap, the openwashdata… Read more

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A FAIR metadata standard for observation data from urban drainage systems

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Eawag

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Jörg Rieckermann, Joao Paulo Leitao

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Open Research Data (ORD) is fundamental to open science. Unfortunately, publicly available environmental science observations for broader use are scarce, notably in urban drainage research. This is critical because it can lead to significant future cost savings due to high infrastructure expenses and diverse sensor… Read more
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