The OpenAIRE Graph: Supporting Funders through Open Research Intelligence

We are pleased to invite you to a webinar to discuss the ongoing shift in the academic sector from proprietary research analytics services to open infrastructures, with Paolo Manghi (OpenAIRE CTO).

Why this webinar, why now

Research intelligence is becoming increasingly strategic, driven by AI-enabled analytics, expanding monitoring needs, and ongoing assessment reforms. At the same time, the sector is moving toward open infrastructures to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and long-term sustainability of analytics. This webinar is intended as a focused exchange on what this shift means in practice, and how OpenAIRE can support funders’ workflows and requirements.

Presentation Outline

• Open data for research intelligence (AI-enabled analytics, monitoring, assessment reforms)
• What the OpenAIRE Graph is: a public, curated, community-governed research intelligence resource.
• How the Graph is built: architecture, coverage of data sources and persistent identifiers.
• How the Graph can be accessed: APIs, data dumps, connectors
• Guiding principles: 
• Open Vs Closed: provenance transparency, community-driven prioritization, open software, open data
• Beyond publications
• Metadata curation and quality: deduplication, affiliation resolution, trusted sources
• Embedding in scholarly communication infrastructure (not a service)
• Digital sovereignty: public research intelligence layer, supporting European priorities, no dependencies on third-party opaque systems
• Shaped by the research community
• Real-world application scenarios: examples of how countries and research infrastructures use the OpenAIRE Graph for monitoring and reporting, and for policy-supporting analytics

We invite you to join the webinar at the session that best suits your time zone:

• 4 June 2026, 10:00 – 11:00 CEST
• 5 June 2026, 16:00 – 17:00 CEST (10:00 – 11:00 EDT / 07:00 – 08:00 PDT)

We also invite you to contribute to the discussion by sharing your current research analytics workflows and main challenges. Ample time will be reserved for Q&A and open discussion.

Register here for 4 June      Register here for 5 June