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Recent prioritization of openness in European research policy links science to society in ways that endeavor to strengthen and propel the EU's contributions to the global community. With the scale of this vision, it is not surprising to encounter a few obstacles in the course of implementation. In this presentation, we address one these obstacles: the (mis)alignment between the principles of openness outlined in research policy and the research evaluation protocols that play an important role in the governance of research practices. We introduce the Openness Profile concept[1] as a resource for both researchers and evaluators. Within the community of policy makers and advocates of open scholarship, there is increasing awareness that (a) better recognition and reward of openness practices is a necessary condition for broad adoption of open scholarship, (b) top-down guidance, which is aimed at a wide range of disciplinary practices, will require substantial cultural change to shift the priority of research evaluation toward principles of open scholarship and (c) bottom-up openness initiatives and practices must emerge from local contexts to enable relevant, sustainable change. Our aim in this endeavor is to provide complementary bottom-up resources linked to contemporary Research Information infrastructure. We propose an Openness Profile for making visible and being recognized for one's contributions to open scholarship. There are three observations embedded in this proposal. First, enacting increased openness in scholarship relies on many different kinds of roles, many of which would not be included as an author of a published paper. Second, many of the contributions to openness are invisible to contemporary research evaluation protocols. And third, it is still an open question of what is specifically entailed in doing open scholarship. Conceptually, the openness profile is conceived as a format for documenting contributions to open scholarship, procedures for self- publishing these contributions as a digital ...