THOR: Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research

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An EC Funded project to establish seamless integration between articles, data, and researchers across the research lifecycle.

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About

THOR was a 30 month project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme. It aimed to establish seamless integration between articles, data, and researchers across the research lifecycle. The project created a wealth of open resources and fostered a sustainable international e-infrastructure. The result was reduced duplication, economies of scale, richer research services, and opportunities for innovation.

The project was a collaboration between a number of European and international partners:

●  DataCite

●  PANGAEA

●  ORCID

●  PLoS

●  British Library

●  Elsevier Labs

●  CERN

●  ANDS

●  EBI

●  Dryad

Activities

As well as coordinating the THOR project, that British Library was involved in a number of THOR activities. These included working to integrate the technical developments of THOR into our own systems, and working with UK organisations to ensure they could take advantage of THOR developments.

THOR hosted a number of events that focused on promotion of and training on new tools, as well as opportunities to feedback on their development. Details can be found on the project website.

Reports

All reports and presentations written by the THOR project are available via Zenodo.

Follow on project

Building on the achievements of THOR, Project FREYA aimed to build the infrastructure for persistent identifiers as a core component of open science, in the EU and globally.

FREYA was a 3-year project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme (December 2017 to December 2020). The Library's Head of Research Infrastructure Services, Rachael Kotarski, was a Co-Investigator on the project.