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Cost for research -- how cost data of research can be included in open metadata to be reused and evaluated
Julia Bartlewski, Christoph Broschinski, Gernot Deinzer, Cornelia Lang, Dirk Pieper, Bianca Schweighofer, Colin Sippl, Lisa-Marie Stein, Alexander Wagner, Silke Weisheit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18517

Cost for research -- how cost data of research can be included in open metadata to be reused and evaluated
The openCost project aims to enhance transparency in research funding by making publication-related costs publicly accessible, following FAIR principles. It introduces a metadata schema for cost data, allowing aggregation and analysis across institutions. The project promotes open access and cost-efficient models, benefiting academic institutions, funders, and policymakers.

If any fysh.org users are following, yes, it's currently down.
1. We had another slew of memory errors caught in the last hour.
2. I initiated an emergency reboot to see if that cleared them.
3. It failed on boot on first attempt, kernel panic.
4. After a reset it came up, including running the user-visible VMs (river etc), but is still logging a slew of memory errors.
5. So I've now shutdown the VMs again.
We'll be poking the service provider to s…