EUDAT Porto Conference 2018

1. The ENVRI user landscape
WP9 (services)
Maggie Hellström, Lund University
ENVRI workshop @ EUDAT conference, Porto on January 25, 2018 1

2. ENVRI member communities
• Quite some differences:
– Wide range of Earth Science domains
– Simple vs complex organizational structures
– Data volumes & storage needs greatly differ
– Same for computational requirements (HTC, HPC, cloud, ...)
• But also much in common:
– “All eyes on us” (climate sceptics, policymakers, news...)
– FAIRness, transparency & trust
– Need for sustainable solutions (esp. backend services)
– Metadata/cataloguing (data and non-data items)
2ENVRI workshop @ EUDAT conference, Porto on January 25, 2018

3. End users of ENVRI services & data
Very diverse set of “user communities”:
• “Stakeholders”, including global initiatives
• Large projects & collaborations, including RIs
• Research groups
• Individual researchers
Increasingly, there is interest in data and services also from
non-domain-specific communities.
3ENVRI workshop @ EUDAT conference, Porto on January 25, 2018

4. Engaging end users
• Actively engage with communities!
• Expose available services
• Focus on interoperability (of data products and services)
• Identify user requirements, and address them:
– Data product formats, granularity, versioning, ...
– Virtual research environments or other analysis platforms
– Discovery issues: portals, catalogs, visualization tools
– Mechanisms for identification & citation of relevant objects and
entities
• Provide mechanisms for user feedback
4ENVRI workshop @ EUDAT conference, Porto on January 25, 2018