BoF: VREs- Keith G Jeffery & Helen Glaves

Agenda Tour de Table (Keith Jeffery) Introduction to the meeting and its purpose (Keith Jeffery) Existing Draft Case Statement (Helen Glaves) Discussion (moderator Keith Jeffery) Conclusions and Next Steps (Helen Glaves)

Tour de Table

Introduction

Rationale Confusion Requirement Timeliness Need agreed-upon concepts and definitions Requirement Researchers demanding ‘workbench’ to cover all their requirements Timeliness VRE development projects underway http://www.vre4eic.eu/related-projects

Virtual Research Environment (VRE) A VRE or virtual laboratory is an online system helping researchers collaborate. Features usually include: Collaboration support (Web forums and wikis) Document hosting Discipline-specific tools, such as data analysis, visualisation, or simulation management May include publication management and teaching tools such as presentations and slides Important in fields where research is primarily carried out in teams spanning institutions and even countries The ability to easily share information and research results is valuable. (Wikipedia)

VREs Becoming of great interest in all regions where research data is being used actively. Emerging European model: VREs to access one or more e-Research Infrastructures (e.g. EPOS, ENVRI+, EXCELERATE) These in turn utilise common e-Infrastructures (e.g. GEANT, EUDAT, PRACE, EGI) Ouch!! Think you can put more words on this slide??! See next as possible alternative

Proposed IG Address: Will relate to just about all RDA groups architectural principles governance issues technologies design and development best practices Will relate to just about all RDA groups Draw on expertise of RDA groups Be based, when possible, on RDA output products and recommendations Ouch!! Think you can put more words on this slide??! See next as possible alternative

Approaches Built upon: content management systems learning environments access to datasets analysis / visualisation / modelling software tools digital libraries (publications) research management systems collaborative tools

An Overview (European) e-RI e.g. EPOS e.g. ENVRI+ e-I (GEANT, EGI, OSC, EUDAT……) VRE Reference Architecture Components Implementation

Reference Architecture Interfacing VRE Reference Architecture Components Implementation Interfaces to (for each e-RI): AAAI systems Catalog of users, datasets, software services, resources (computing, equipment/detectors), services with associated information on rights, costs And from this…… Access to datasets Access to (APIs of) software services Access to workflows Access to computing resources (including GRIDs and CLOUDs) Access to equipment/detectors for data taking and parameter control Collaboration Communication Research Management

Reference Architecture Interfacing VRE Reference Architecture Components Implementation Interfaces to (for each e-RI): AAAI systems Catalog of users, datasets, software services, resources (computing, equipment/detectors), services with associated information on rights, costs And from this…… Access to datasets Access to (APIs of) software services Access to workflows Access to computing resources (including GRIDs and CLOUDs) Access to equipment/detectors for data taking and parameter control Collaboration Communication Research Management metadata

Questions Interest: Is there interest in evolving from BoF to IG? If so: Organisation: more co-leads? Process: case statement (next) Schedule: timeline – aim for next plenary? Intermediate meetings: online?

Case Statement Review and discuss

Discussion

Conclusions and next Steps