Costs, funding and resource accounting: in this webinar the three projects openCost, Accounting4NFDI and TSOSI share how they make the economics of open science infrastructures visible:
openCost and opencostid: Transparency for Infrastructure Costs
Speaker: Gernot Deinzer (University of Regensburg), Alexander Wagner (DESY)
Open and sustainable research infrastructures require transparent and scalable approaches to cost allocation. This contribution explores how infrastructure costs can be modelled within openCost.
What to expect:
We will discuss how cost models can be linked to persistent identifiers through opencostid, enabling consistent referencing and interoperability. Participants can expect an overview of the conceptual framework, practical modelling examples, and insights into how the opencostid can support greater transparency, sustainability, and informed decision-making in the management of open scholarly infrastructures.
Accounting4NFDI
Marcel Nellesen (RWTH Aachen University)
Accounting4NFDI aims to develop a federated accounting framework for collecting, attributing and reporting resource usage across the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The project builds on existing expertise and tools from national and European initiatives while analysing standards and protocols for resource accounting.
What to expect:
Join the Accounting4NFDI team to learn more about the project’s motivation and vision, gain first insights from the ongoing requirements analysis, explore existing accounting solutions, and get a first look at the initial prototype.
The session is intended as an open exchange with the community to discuss requirements, existing approaches, and future directions for federated resource accounting within the NFDI.
Making Financial Support for Open Science Infrastructures Visible. TSOSI After One Year
Maxence Larrieu and Baptiste Lefeuvre (GRICAD, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes)
TSOSI (Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure) is a platform launched in June 2025 that makes financial support for open science infrastructures visible. It aggregates data from research institutions, library consortia, infrastructures, and currently covers over 40 infrastructures, 20+ research funders, 35 library consortia, and 1,000+ research institutions worldwide. TSOSI’s goal is to increase transparency on financial supports for both infrastructures and institutions. Interoperability is key for us: we rely a lot on ROR identifiers to identify our entities, and we’re working with openCost to adopt their opencostid in our schema and integrate the support data already published under the openCost schema.
What to expect:
For this webinar, we’ll share what we’ve learned building the funding network of open science infrastructures.