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- 1. The European Open Science Cloud: just what is it? Professor Carole Goble The University of Manchester, UK Head of Node ELIXIR-UK Chair FAIRDOMAssociation EOSCPilot carole.goble@manchester.ac.uk The European Open Science Cloud for Research pilot project is funded by the European Commission, DG Research & Innovation under contract no. 739563
- 2. What is the European Open Science Cloud? With thanks to: Matthew Dovey (EOSCPilot, Jisc) Brian Matthews (EOSCPilot, STFC) MassimoCocco (ENVRI) Rafael Jimenez (ELIXIR Hub) JonathanTedds (ELIXIR-Hub) Nick Juty (ELIXIR-UK,U Man) Shoaib Sufi (Software Sustainability Institute, U Man) ValentinoCavalli (LIBER)
- 3. What is the European Open Science Cloud? Explained by ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Launching the European Open Science Cloud: A virtual environment for Europe's 1.7 million researchers. Published on 27 May 2016 https://youtu.be/SC4-O8BmI4I
- 4. A trusted virtual environment to store, share & re-use research information. Reduce reinvention! Avoid duplication! Simplify access! Support interdisciplinary re-use! Serve Europe's 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals
- 5. From: EOSC Stakeholder Forum, Brussels 28-29 November 2017 Soap-box session: Intermediaries, Research communities & Libraries, Valentino Cavalli
- 6. What is the European Open ScienceCloud? Data Driven Digital Economy • data infrastructure to store and manage data • high-speed connectivity to transport data • High Performance Computers to process data • Response to non-EU and commercial drivers Open Science Move, share and re-use data seamlessly • across global markets and borders • among institutions and research disciplines • Trusted free flow of data Facilitate open science and open innovation Add value - scale, data-driven science, inter- disciplinarity, data to knowledge to innovation
- 7. What is the European Open ScienceCloud?
- 8. The Concept • FAIR principles - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable • Top issues – Skills: Data stewards shortage & incentives – Tackling fragmentation: interoperability & access • Key principles – community-based, lightweight, sustainable governance – build on existing excellence – support scientists and innovators & user driven doi:10.2777/940154 2016 EOSC High Level Expert Group
- 9. The Concept doi:10.2777/940154 2016 EOSC High Level Expert Group Analogy with the Internet • Not a new major, localised and centrally governed initiative • Minimal, open standards • Ecosystem of services Culture clash • domain researchers • data/ICT professionals
- 10. eucli d Pan-European e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures HPC Centres of Excellence NationalRegional e-Infrastructures Policy and Best Practice NationalLocal Research Infrastructures Integration Projects Thematic e-Infrastructures [Matthew Dovey, Jisc]
- 11. Stakeholders Constellation researchers? ≠ research communities Research Producing Organisations,Academic Institutions and Research Libraries Core users e-infrastructures,VREs and H2020 projects Key building blocks National, Regional or Local Government Agencies Efficient Open Science Research Funding Bodies Catalysts Research Infrastructures The engine of EOSC and basis of a federated EOSC Service Providers Heart of EOSC’s value proposition Learned Societies, Research Communities, Scientific & ProfessionalAssociations Allies Enterprises Opportunities The Public From: EOSCPilot Booklet
- 12. Research Infrastructures e-Infrastructures Member state National Infrastructures The European Commission’s Dream Lets simplify the story…. (a constellation of stakeholders) Libraries mainly fit here? Institutional infrastructures? Institutional libraries? – “the Last Mile”. More later! Libraries mainly fit here? Each intersection point is a challenge
- 13. The EC Dream Leveraging Investments Overcome fragmentation and ad-hocry many entry points, duplication of efforts across thematic initiatives and different scientific disciplines (e.g. multiple portals, web-platforms, websites, etc.). Multi-disciplinary exchange and reuse through universal access and metadata
- 14. Integrate and consolidate Federate to bridge fragmentation Simplify access & (re)use both ways
- 15. Domain thematic services Common “cross cutting” services
- 16. Communities Identifiers.org AAIBioContainers Services… Commercial Services National infrastructures
- 17. A Research Infrastructure Perspective Dataandtoolsfromcontributors NationalNodes,Sitemonitoring Community oriented Integration [Based on Massimo Cocco, ENVRI] e-InfrastructuresResearch Infrastructures
- 18. National Facilities, Research Infrastructures … and Intermediaries = Libraries Users of EOSC services and resources Suppliers of research data and software Providers of added value services Providers of thematic capabilities (metadata, standards, QC…) Trusted access to communities Knowledge and engagement with researchers Long term and well established co-ordinations at the national level
- 19. EOSC Challenges/Opportunities Not green field – hard-won legacy Not just technologies or the e-Infrastructures. • Engagement • Governance • Policies • Scientific Motivation • Skills and Capabilities https://www.opensciencecommons.org/ Research Data and Software Digital services and applications Knowledge and Expertise Instruments [Adapted, Matthew Dovey]
- 20. Implementation Roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud, EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 14.3.2018 SWD(2018) 83 final EOSC Challenges/Opportunities: Data Management Policies Priority measure to improve data management policies at national, European and international level
- 21. Challenges / opportunities of e-Infra Service Interoperability multiple federated e-infrastructures Diversity and incompatibility of the AAIs Low awareness of the e- infrastructures and services Network services Diversity of access policies Diversity of services and providers Lack of expertise, training, easy tools, human networks Global AAI Improve Technical interoperability Multidisciplinary mutualised space Common vocabulary, global services catalogue, dissemination Foster adoption, expertise sharing, user tools, human networks [Adapted, Brian Matthews]
- 22. Elements of success openin design, participation and use publicly funded and governed with the “commons approach” research-centric with an agile co-design with researchers and research communities comprehensive in terms of universality and inclusiveness of all disciplines diverse and distributed empowering network effects interoperable with common standards for resources and services service oriented and protocol-centric social connecting diverse communities Barriers: policy, funding, lack of interoperability, access policies, coordinated provisioning Implementation Roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud, EC Brussels, 14.3.2018 SWD(2018) 83 final Technical Cultural Scientific Many of the resources and services already exist. Must be scalable, composable, deployable.
- 23. 2017 The Community • “Community of Doers” • 70+ Signatures • 33 high level statements • Data Culture & FAIR Data • Research data services and architecture • Governance and funding
- 24. Practical considerations for timely implementation of the EOSC -> a MinimalViable Product Recommendations: • Implementation (12) • Open interop & QoS standards, open dev. • Skilling data stewards and data experts • FAIR principles • Ecosystem of services (incl. commercial) • Engagement (5) • Researcher, supply and demand incentives • Steering (4) • Partnerships, doers • Act fast EOSC High Level Expert Group The Practice2018 https://eoscpilot.eu/open- consultation Closes 5 August 2018 Results 23 November 2018
- 25. The Practice https://github.com/FAIR-Data- EG/Action-plan FAIR Data 34 Recommendations https://docs.google.com/docu ment/d/1FcnBOPUm- 9gW3gjF18FDoPNUvIn- ojduLeLe0Y8yEH8/edit Consultation - 5th August 2018 EC Commission Expert Group on FAIR Data Have your say! 2018
- 26. FAIR Data, Stewardship, Skills and incentives Data & Software Rules of participation with different actors. Comply with legal and technical frameworks Increase legal certainty & trust. Rules Federated Infrastructure, consolidate e-InfrastructuresArchitecture New governance frameworks, all stakeholders – National and Research Infrastructures. Mechanisms, open data obligations, access data across different disciplines Access & Interface Ecosystem of services from a user perspective.Services Governance The Implementation Roadmap (March 2018) result of stakeholder consultation http://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/swd_2018_83_f1_staff_working_paper_en.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none
- 27. Governance Executive ExecutiveGovernance Board Strategic National Institution al Forum External Funders Forums Steering Stakeholder Forum Consumer Forums Research Communities Research Producing Organisations Provider Forums Public sector services Enterprise services Technology providers Intermediaries ESFRI E-Infrastructures Provides Solutions Subsidises Incentivises Compensates Objectives Metrics Performance and Impact Report against Objectives Metrics EOSC Resources Working Committees Engaging,Advisory Doing, Implementation Measuring, decision making Scientific Case Requirements & Proposals Technology Requirements & Proposals PolicyPrinciples of Engagement Requirements & Proposals [Adapted from Brian Matthews]
- 28. Policies, Principles of engagement processes, procedures…. • Trusted environment • Macro & micro policies • Open science • Data protection, Ethics • Procurement • IT Service Management, SLAs • e-Infrastructure-ish External EOSC Compatible Compliant EOSC Core Resources EOSC Supported Resources ExternallySupported Resources EOSC resources = technical, middleware, knowledge, access and facilitation services EOSC Resource = Services + Data + People
- 29. The Implementation Phase 1: 2016 Phase 2: 2017 Phase 3: 2018 Communities “Thematics” & ESFRIs Technical services/infra Governance Thematic communities Top down: EC Funding Calls, High Level Expert Groups, Summits Bottom up: Community Initiatives 6-7 Bn Euro
- 30. • Governance framework – Minimal rules of engagement, policy, best practice • Develop demonstrators – 15 pilots with research domains – integrate services & infrastructures – show interop • Stakeholder engagement • Skills and training
- 31. The EOSC-hubService Catalogue A single contact point for European researchers Access compute, data storage and analytic tools Business model & procurement framework In-kind contributions
- 33. 1. Rhetoric Reality A coordinated mission to organise and exchange their data, metadata, software and services to be FAIR To use e- Infrastructures, either EU or commercial A funding mission to integrate their services, policies and organisational structures To be used by the Research Infrastructures A mission to promote Open Science, standardisation, cross- disciplinary research and coordinated optimised investment To be a “one stop shop” for all researchers. The European Commission
- 34. Research Infrastructures e-Infrastructures European Open Science Cloud European Accessible Research Commons 2. Cloud and/or Commons shared community resources rules & governance stewardship privacy, GDPR scholarly IP incentives availability seamless, trustworthy, scalable, accessible platform digital objects, metadata F A I R
- 35. 3: Federation ≠ Centralisation “Single point of access” “One place”, “Single interface” “The EOSC Service Catalogue” “The EOSC Portal” Default universal entry point for long tail researchers Multiple entry points good and necessary Capability vs platform confusion Or command and control governance Vision decentralised, Implementation centralised; Vision bottom up, Implementation top down.
- 36. 3: Federation ≠ Centralisation Dataandtoolsfromcontributors NationalNodes,Sitemonitoring [Based on Massimo Cocco, ENVRI] e-InfrastructuresResearch Infrastructures USERS USERS USERS USERS
- 37. 4. Pan-Discipline Reuse Fantasy Universal metadata for all disciplines? Really? • EOSCpilot observation – no pan- discipline demonstrators. • Ecosystem of metadata catalogues in the disciplines – Poor at exposing metadata useful for EOSC e-Infra services • Single metadata standard exchange between catalogues? – Find, Access – ok – Interoperate, Reuse – no.
- 38. Data Interoperability Federated, multi-entry, lightweight, COTS protocols interoperability between legacy infra data catalogues Flexible metadata models to embrace domain specifics Common and minimum metadata for finding and accessing data [Adapted, Rafael Jimenez]
- 39. <data> data access metadata index metadata discovery metadata access Data resources Dataset metadata catalogues Services OmicsDI schema.org for exposing dataset metadata (based on bioschema.org) EDMI metadata to find and access datasets scalable and composable and deployable Data Interoperability Federated, multi-entry, lightweight, COTS protocols interoperability between legacy infra data catalogues [Adapted, Rafael Jimenez]
- 40. 5.The Researchers?The Last Mile* EOSC can be used by researchers and institutions • On-boarding ramps and reuse analysis platforms • Access, support and enablement • Incentives and rewards *The ‘last mile’ challenge for European research e-infrastructures https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e9933 Cloud-based automated compilation and submission of a data paper to a journal Universal tagging of Life Science datasets, tools, protocols using web-standard techniques -> knowledge graph Data2Paper Cloud-based integrative workflows and analysis over EOSC resources Platforms to help researchers manage their own research outputs, and upload /link to EOSC resources
- 41. Whither “intermediary” libraries and researchers? Skills landscape and gap analysis Skills workshops - how to fill the competence gaps Skills framework linking EOSC services to competences Recommendations to service providers and governance Scoping training- as-a-service in EOSC Layered model for delivering training/ information Jisc Partners DCC DANS EGI.ue KIT LIBER “An important aspect of the EOSC is… professional data management and long term data stewardship.” A Cloud on the 2020 Horizon, EOSC HLEG more than Skills &Training [Adapted, Brian Matthews]
- 42. The “intermediary” libraries National Infrastructures FAIR Data Stewardship & Curation RepositoryCertification Catalogue management Linking with publications Life cycle management Long term archiving Metadata & Standards Repository management Credit & scholary comms Linking institutional data platforms and their researchers with EOSC Skills An environment for researchers to be most effective in publication, dissemination, long-term preservation and reuse of all types of research results.
- 43. So….. What is EOSC? An EU driven attempt to drive forward open sciences by assembling a virtual environment to store, share & re-use FAIR research information out of prior investments. In practice depends on where you come from. Challenges for implementation instruments and entrenched legacy to meet the vision Research Libraries users/enablers – providers? • Uptake of the FAIR principles • Driving Open Science • Scholarship evaluation • Add value to data-driven research, inter-disciplinarity, data to knowledge to innovation)
- 44. Funder Acknowledgements The European Open Science Cloud for Research pilot project is funded by the European Commission, DG Research & Innovation under contract no. 739563 http://www.fair-dom.org http://www.fairdomhub.org http://seek4science.org http://rightfield.org.uk http://www.bioschemas.org http://www.commonwl.org http://www.elixir-europe.org http://www.eoscpilot.eu
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC4-O8BmI4I Session title: The European Open Science Cloud: just what is it? Session Abstract: The European Open Science Cloud. What exactly is it? In principle it is conceived as a virtual environment with open and seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines. How? By federating existing scientific data infrastructures, currently dispersed across disciplines and Member States. In practice, what it is depends on the stakeholder. To European Research Infrastructures it’s a coordinated mission to organise and exchange their data, metadata, software and services to be FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable – and to use e-Infrastructures, either EU or commercial. To EU e-Infrastructures offering data storage and cloud services, it’s a funding mission to integrate their services, policies and organisational structures, and to be used by the Research Infrastructures. To agencies it’s a means to promote Open Science, standardisation, cross-disciplinary research and coordinated investment with a dream of a “one stop shop” for researchers. And for Libraries?
- https://youtu.be/SC4-O8BmI4I Google for it!
- A history through 4 documents Offer Europe's 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals a virtual environment to store, share and re-use large volumes of information ts…
- From Matthew Dovey: Data not always open and lack of incentives and rewards for data sharing Lack of interoperability required for data sharing … noting deep-rooted walls between disciplines. Fragmentation between data infrastructures that are split by scientific and economic domains, countries and governance models Surging demand for High Performance Computing at a scale above single member state resources Data reuse employing advance analysis techniques adequate protection of personal data considering forthcoming revision of Copyright legislation.
- 2 parents We need some historical context to understand EOSC This initiative will provide European science, industry and public authorities with: a world-class data infrastructure to store and manage data; high-speed connectivity to transport data; and ever more powerful High Performance Computers to process data. The Cloud Initiative will make it easier for researchers, businesses and public services to fully exploit the benefits of Big Data by making it possible to move, share and re-use data seamlessly across global markets and borders, and among institutions and research disciplines. Making research data openly available can help boost Europe's competitiveness, especially for start-ups, SMEs and companies who can use data as a basis for R&D and innovation, and can even spur new industrie
- We need some historical context to understand EOSC This initiative will provide European science, industry and public authorities with: a world-class data infrastructure to store and manage data; high-speed connectivity to transport data; and ever more powerful High Performance Computers to process data. The Cloud Initiative will make it easier for researchers, businesses and public services to fully exploit the benefits of Big Data by making it possible to move, share and re-use data seamlessly across global markets and borders, and among institutions and research disciplines. Making research data openly available can help boost Europe's competitiveness, especially for start-ups, SMEs and companies who can use data as a basis for R&D and innovation, and can even spur new industrie
- Directorate-General for Research and Innovation Policy recommendations P1: Take immediate, affirmative action on the EOSC in close concert with Member States. P2: Close discussions about the 'perceived need'. P3: Build on existing capacity and expertise where possible. P4: Frame the EOSC as the EU contribution to an Internet of FAIR Data and Services underpinned with open protocols. Governance recommendations G1: Aim at the lightest possible, internationally effective governance. G2: Guidance only where guidance is due (this relates to technical issues, best practices and social change). G3: Define Rules of Engagement for service provision in the EOSC. G4: Federate the gems and amplify good practice. Implementation recommendations I1: Turn the HLEG report into a high-level guide to scope and guide the EOSC initiative. I2: Develop, endorse and implement the Rules of Engagement for the EOSC. I2.1: Set initial guiding principles to kick-start the initiative as quickly as possible. I3: Fund a concerted effort to develop core data expertise in Europe. I4: Develop a concrete plan for the architecture of data interoperability of the EOSC. I5: Install an innovative guided funding scheme for the preparatory phase. I6: Make adequate data stewardship mandatory for all research proposals. I7: Provide a clear operational timeline to deal with the early preparatory phase of the EOSC.
- Directorate-General for Research and Innovation Policy recommendations P1: Take immediate, affirmative action on the EOSC in close concert with Member States. P2: Close discussions about the 'perceived need'. P3: Build on existing capacity and expertise where possible. P4: Frame the EOSC as the EU contribution to an Internet of FAIR Data and Services underpinned with open protocols. Governance recommendations G1: Aim at the lightest possible, internationally effective governance. G2: Guidance only where guidance is due (this relates to technical issues, best practices and social change). G3: Define Rules of Engagement for service provision in the EOSC. G4: Federate the gems and amplify good practice. Implementation recommendations I1: Turn the HLEG report into a high-level guide to scope and guide the EOSC initiative. I2: Develop, endorse and implement the Rules of Engagement for the EOSC. I2.1: Set initial guiding principles to kick-start the initiative as quickly as possible. I3: Fund a concerted effort to develop core data expertise in Europe. I4: Develop a concrete plan for the architecture of data interoperability of the EOSC. I5: Install an innovative guided funding scheme for the preparatory phase. I6: Make adequate data stewardship mandatory for all research proposals. I7: Provide a clear operational timeline to deal with the early preparatory phase of the EOSC.
- Confusagram to disentangle
- Data, Registries & Catalogues Collection management Standards, metadata, interoperability Software, tools, workflows, Training, Computing, containers Computing clouds, HPC Data storage and archiving Secure data transfer AAI Networking Open Access services
- Data, Registries & Catalogues Collection management Standards, metadata, interoperability Software, tools, workflows, Training, Computing, containers Computing clouds, HPC Data storage and archiving Secure data transfer AAI Networking Open Access services
- Research Infrastructures Providers of added value services Providers of thematic capabilities (metadata, standardisation, QC…) Trusted subjects to engage scientific communities and users
- Intermediaries
- Next section – the priorities and challenges
- Note – not institutional level % respondents
- Propose an architecture, validated technical solutions and best practices for enabling interoperability across multiple federated e-infrastructures, overcoming current gaps expressed by user communities and resource providers.
- scalable and composable and deployable The position papers and joint e- Infrastructures statement on the EOSC identify eight elements for the success of the EOSC, that it be: 1) open in design, participation and use, 2) publicly funded and governed with the 'commons approach', 3) research-centric with an agile co-design with researchers and research communities, 4) comprehensive in terms of universality and inclusiveness of all disciplines, 5) diverse and distributed empowering network effects, 6) interoperable with common standards for resources and services, 7) service oriented and protocol-centric, and 8) social connecting diverse communities. They also noted that many of the resources and services already exist and that most of the barriers are related to policy and concern funding, lack of interoperability, access policies and coordinated provisioning. These principles and analysis are fully in line with the e-Infrastructure Commons vision put forward by e-IRG. Scientific Challenges: deploying the EOSC to deliver Open Science Technical Challenges: developing technical solutions that meet the scientific needs Cultural Challenges: adopting new, more open ways of working
- The Summit resulted in the EOSC Declaration, which is composed of 33 high level statements that capture stakeholders' shared understanding of the action needed on the Data culture and FAIR data, Research data services and architecture, Governance and funding, to make the EOSC a reality by 2020. About 70 scientific stakeholders signed the EOSC Declaration following the Summit.
- This Open Consultation, launched and carried out by the EOSC High Level Expert Group, supports the dialogue with all the actors involved in the EOSC. A rich feedback on Rules of Participation from all the relevant stakeholders is essential for the EOSC. Get involved by publishing/commenting posts, agreeing/disagreeing with principles & recommendations, or by simply leaving a ‘like’. Thank you in advance for your support!
- A simple way for dealing with open data obligations or accessing research data across different disciplines. 1 Summary This Staff Working Document (SWD) presents the outcome of the exploration of appropriate governance and financing mechanisms for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in the form of a possible implementation Roadmap, as foreseen by the Communication on the 'European Cloud Initiative'1 (henceforth 'the Communication').2 The document also describes the measures taken under Horizon 2020 Work Programmes to start implementing the EOSC. 1 COM(2016)178 final. 2 http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=15266 The implementation Roadmap draws upon the outcome of an extensive and conclusive consultation with scientific and institutional stakeholders in 2016 and 2017 and builds concretely on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.3 The consultation confirmed and upheld the intervention logic presented in the Communication, to create a fit for purpose pan-European federation of research data infrastructures, with a view to moving from the current fragmentation to a situation where data is easy to store, find, share and re-use. On this ground, this SWD sets out a comprehensive overview of the implementation of the EOSC, with possible action lines and timelines resulting from the consultation. The document serves as a basis for further consultation with Member States, the European Parliament and other relevant stakeholders on the next steps to take. It will also help stakeholders to orient their future contributions to the initiative.
- ESFRIs and others should be in STRATEGIC part too! Functions: Strategy, implementation, monitoring, reporting Staged approach in setting governance: Phase 1 (<end 2020): steering and overseeing the initial EOSC development, primarily led by MS and EC, with stakeholders consulted and advising Separation between advisory role, decision-making and implementation Stakeholders (mainly) advise, propose and implement, while funders (MS/EC) (mainly) set orientations and endorse proposals, Low intervention cost, light mechanisms, high accountability Phase 2 (>2020): (following a thorough evaluation) steering and overseeing initial EOSC operations and further development, largely stakeholder-driven, with MS/EC keeping a higher-level oversight role Any proposal for governance in 2nd phase would be included in FP9 proposal operational framework for the overall governance of the EOSC, including the coordination between relevant national initiatives. The analysis of all inputs received indicates that the EOSC governance framework should support well-defined functions including strategy (e.g. setting the long-term orientation and priorities and deciding on compliance), implementation (e.g. budgetary orientations), monitoring (e.g. setting out key performance indicators) and reporting, exercised within a clear and bounded remit. Such remit would encompass the actions needed for the coordination and the federation of research data infrastructures in Europe as discussed in previous sections, notably the development and implementation of the European framework for FAIR research data, EOSC shared resources, the Rules of Participation and the EOSC portal. 17 Stakeholders and national experts converge on the need for a two-staged approach in building the EOSC governance. In the first phase, the governance could entail steering and oversight of the initial development of the EOSC, primarily led by the Member States and the Commission. In a second phase, following thorough evaluation of the first phase, the governance could oversee the initial operations and further development of the EOSC. This second phase would become more stakeholder-driven, with Member States and Commission keeping a higher-level oversight role. As the current Multi-Annual Financial Framework runs until end of 2020 with resources committed through Horizon 2020 for supporting the EOSC's initial development, an evident cut-off date for the first phase could be the end of Horizon 2020. Any further Commission proposal for governance and decision-making beyond 2020 would be part of the Commission's proposal for the next EU R&I Framework Programme and would depend on whether EU resources for the EOSC become available under the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework. Starting from Committed resources (non-exhaustive) Action Milestones 2018, Q1 EC, with support of EOSCpilot project, High Level Expert Group EOSC, OSPP and other sources Set up the EOSC governance framework in consultation with MS Q4 2018: EOSC Governance established 2019, Q1 INFRAEOSC-05-2018-2019 (a) Prepare legacy for 2nd implementation phase (post 2020) Q3 2020: Recommendations on strategic and financing orientations and organisational settings for the future of the EOSC, post 2020
- The macro policies provide a harmonised framework to a certain degree, but this needs to be complemented by further measures at the micro level close relationship with the Principles of Engagement. 3. Clear rules- Data trust. Increase the level of understanding and standardisation of interactions with the industry 4. In relation to services – WP5 5. From PSI and GDRP directive experience 6. Trusted environment: The focus on the e-infrastructures is suggested to the extent that these offer horizontal services to more than one constituencies Micro policies aimed at RPOs, RFOs, RIs Open Science & Open Scholarship FAIRness of research outputs, data stewardship, RDM, Metrics, IPR, Access policies for interfaces & services Data Protection, assurance and ownership Geodata, IPR, data privacy, licensing regimes Procurement What type of EOSC resources, at what levels, which rules/regulations to follow Ethics EOSC in need of ethics related services. Where to embed? Clear need for special skills and training Produce consistent policies at the EU, the Member State and the institutional level Standardise interactions at the organisational and institutional (micro) level Focus on the interactions with the industry, where the greater inefficiencies currently exist Focus on interactions with platforms in order to maximize value, protect data ownership and portability and avoid vendor lock-in Automate the application of policies supporting OS by design and default, as well as data sovereignty for the user Support the development of the e-infrastructures services that could use the EU GDPR as a competitive advantage Objectives Describe the implementation of IT Service Management (ITSM) principles, policies and structured processes of the EOSC Define the operational constituents, roles and responsibilities of the EOSC Service Providers Entirety of activities performed by a service provider to plan deliver operate control … services offered to customers The activities carried out in the service management context should be directed by policies and structured and organised by processes and supporting procedures.
- Phase 1 and Phase 2 are overlapping https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h2020-infraeosc-2018-2020.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2020/1/1/1/default-group&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0/default-group&callStatus/t/Open/1/1/0/default-group&callStatus/t/Closed/1/1/0/default-group&+identifier/desc Deeply depressing how its become a centralised thing European Strategy Forum on Research and Innovation
- Investigate organisational Rules of Engagement for scientific users and service providers in the EOSC The aim is to recommend a minimum set of compatible organisational rules and practices, necessary for EOSC participation and function More later…
- Tiziana Ferrari explains the vision behind the EOSC-hub project. The EOSC-hub project was set up to create the Hub - an integration and management system of the future European Open Science Cloud. We see the Hub as an access and delivery channel for the services, software and data provided e-Infrastructures and research communities across Europe. The Hub will be grounded on mature processes, policies and federated tools. At the first instance, the Hub will deliver the services and products provided by the EGI Federation, the EUDAT CDI and INDIGO-DataCloud. The catalogue of services and resources of the Hub will grow over time with the contribution of Research Infrastructures and communities from within and outside the project. The Hub is constructed to be open to all service and resource providers meeting a small set of requirements. A Hub for researchers The Hub will offer the possibility to discover, compare, order, get access and support, and request additional services and products; all of this will be using own institutional credentials. This will include compute capabilities (e.g. HighThroughput Compute, Cloud), mechanisms to store and access data, tools to manage data. The Hub will also provide access to a broad spectrum of analytic tools (the Thematic Services) covering a wide range of sciences: Humanities, Engineering, Medical and Health Sciences and Natural Sciences. Sponsored access will be offered thanks to EC project funding and in-kind contributions of the participating providers. EOSC-hub through WP2 and WP12 will contribute to the definition and prototyping of an enhanced EOSC business model and procurement framework for its longterm sustainability. A Hub for research communities The research communities that are driving the scientific progress in Europe (for example Research Infrastructures and large research collaborations) can become Thematic Service providers and use the Hub to expose their service catalogues to their user communities. This will also give them the opportunity to expand their user base and build a stronger case for their sustainability. A Hub for the EOSC The Hub will be the first European online platform to integrate services from major European e-Infrastructures and Research Infrastructures, as well as services from local, regional and national e-Infrastructures. This will be one of the steps that will bring us closer to the vision of a European Open Science Cloud. Specifically, providers will be able to use the Hub as delivery channel that allows to manage the services and products according to policies and standards; promote them to a broader group of target groups through a Marketplace; manage orders and review service level agreements; support users through a shared helpdesk facility.
- To European Research Infrastructures it’s a coordinated mission to organise and exchange their data, metadata, software and services to be FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable – and to use e-Infrastructures, either EU or commercial. To EU e-Infrastructures offering data storage and cloud services, it’s a funding mission to integrate their services, policies and organisational structures, and to be used by the Research Infrastructures. To agencies it’s a means to promote Open Science, standardisation, cross-disciplinary research and coordinated investment with a dream of a “one stop shop” for researchers.
- Make more digestable Authentication & Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) Goal: To provide a centralised user identity and access management service. Leaders: Mikael Linden (ELIXIR Finland), Michal Procházka (ELIXIR Czech Republic) Partners: Paul van Dijk (AARC), Ramon Bastiaans (SURFsara) Activities: Extending the functionality of the AAI e.g. to provide new attributes that can be consumed by relying services. See the AAI Production Implementation Study and view the related webinar. Extending the number relying services that use the AAI. Current relying services include the ELIXIR Marine Metagenomics and Human Data Use Cases as well as EGI (EGI Checkin) and EUDAT (B2ACCESS). They also include commercial services. See the list of relying services. Working with the AARC2 project to collaborate with and integrate with other infrastructure AAI services. With the CORBEL and AARC2 projects, planning a Life Science AAI, a common AAI for Life Science research infrastructures. Storage and data transfer Goal: To provide an easy way to move, store and synchronise large datasets across ELIXIR and other e-Infrastructures. Leaders: Mikael Borg (ELIXIR Sweden), Steven Newhouse (EMBL-EBI), Christine Staiger (ELIXIR Netherlands) Partners: Arcadi Navarro (ELIXIR Spain), Angel Carreno (ELIXIR Spain), David Antos (ELIXIR Czech Republic), Olivier Collin (ELIXIR France), Harri Salminen (ELIXIR Finland) Activities: Deploying GridFTP servers across ELIXIR Nodes to create a file transfer infrastructure. Providing user-friendly portals such as Globus Transfer and File Transfer Service (FTS3), to make it easy to use this infrastructure to transfer data. Developing a Reference Data Set Distribution Service, in collaboration with EUDAT2020. This will allow ELIXIR Core Data Resources and other datasets to be replicated between ELIXIR Nodes, so the data is easier to access. Building a catalogue of the available reference data sets. You can search this to find what datasets replicas are accessible to you, and where they are hosted. Collaborating with EUDAT2020 to explore how to integrate the ELIXIR AAI with B2ACCESS, so you can use your ELIXIR ID to access EUDAT services. Starting an Implementation Study (6 months) on 'DataMovement: ELIXIR Proof of concept study on the availability of big datasets on remote compute infrastructure'. Cloud and computing resources Goal: To integrate cloud and compute services across Europe so they can be used in a seamless workflow. Leaders: Christophe Blanchet (ELIXIR France), Mirek Ruda (ELIXIR Czech Republic) Partners: Irene Nooren (SURFsara), Anatoli Danezi (SURFsara), Maarten Kooyman (SURFsara), Rob Hooft (ELIXIR Netherlands), Jarno Laitinen (ELIXIR FINLAND) Activities: Integrating the ELIXIR AAI with EGI services. For example, it will give ELIXIR researchers access to EGI's cloud services via the AAI, which ensures the cloud resources are only accessible to those with the right credentials (institution, ELIXIR group). Working with national and European compute service providers to make their services available to all ELIXIR users. Some of the services, for example, are currently only available to national institutes, or are only funded for a particular range of activities. Working on a one-year Implementation Study: 'Using clouds and VMs for bioinformatics training (Workshop as a Service)'. Infrastructure services registry Goal: To create a registry of ELIXIR infrastructure services, with metadata like who can access the service and how much capacity it has. Leaders: Steven Newhouse (EMBL-EBI), Ludek Matyska (ELIXIR Czech Republic) Activities: Assessing existing frameworks used to catalogue services (e.g. BDII, Consul) in order to choose the most appropriate for ELIXIR's needs.
- The long tail scientist might need one portal There were some seriously dodgy ideas around 'one place to go', 'gold standard deposition only' and reuse rates (currently 14%) - not sure how they measured that - as metric that needed improving (Anna worried about confirmation bias) - this certainly was not a meeting of doers - technical managers and supporters at best - those who decide rather than those who do the whole "one place" thing is known to be problematic and moreover impossible. It just will not happen One portal? One catalogue? For who? Becomes invisible I do not see the “cloud” I see apps, dropbox, google docs, tools Commercial stuff
- Across disciplines? Use case? EOSC pilots all mon-disciple Universal panaeca of 50,000 feet Helicopter vs archeology – barend slide
- Reuse, Least, Practical
- Data2paper last mile Bridging the gap from infra Data2Paper FAIRDOMHub Bridging No need to leave the research space or wrestle with the journal’s submission system.
- Taking its cue from the EOSC High Level Expert Group report which identified major gaps in data stewardship skills in the data science and open research context. EOSCpilot wp7 is enabling research organisations to fill those gaps. The work has three strands Identifying competences and surveying the data stewardship skills development landscape, analyzing gaps, and running workshops to identify how stakeholders can best fill gaps 2) Developing a skills framework to relate the competences to EOSC service capabilities identified in the other parts of the project 3) Scoping training-as-a-service in EOSC, to coordinate skills provision across universities, research infrastructures and other organisations, identifying open events and self-paced learning materials, as well as other activities such as staff exchanges that support skills acquisition The first report on this was published in July and is available on the website. The second will be available at end of the year.
- Stakeholders Constellation researchers? research communities create an environment for researchers to be most effective in publication, dissemination, long-term preservation and reuse of all types of research results. Making these optimally suitable for FAIR is a key element of the EOSC. How do you see your role as users/enablers in fostering the uptake of the FAIR principles in your environment?