PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Developing Tomorrow’s Infrastructure for Science John Womersley Director, Science Strategy Science and Technology Facilities Council presented by: Keith Jeffery Director, IT & International Strategy Science and Technology Facilities Council

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Overview 1.Some STFC Science 2.Tomorrow’s Digital Infrastructure for Science 3.Supporting the Research Lifecycle 4.Some Policy Frameworks 5.Conclusion

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC What is STFC?  The Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK)  Created on April 1, 2007  It is responsible for –fundamental research in particle physics, nuclear physics, astronomy, space –major UK facilities for the physical and life sciences  synchrotrons, light sources, lasers, neutrons –national laboratories at RAL, Daresbury, UKATC –international science projects  CERN, ESO, ESA, ILL, ESRF…  Over 2000 staff and an annual budget of over £700M

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC The Science we Address Some examples  Why is there a universe?  What is the origin of mass?  Was there ever life on Mars?  How are the chemical elements created?  How can we design better treatments for cancer?  How do cells work?  How can we create new materials to store energy?

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC STFC Facilities data Computing Analysis Modelling knowledge beam sample Imaging detector Neutrons and photons Provide complementary views of matter: Photons “see” electric charge – high atomic number nuclei Neutrons “see” nucleons – especially hydrogen atoms

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Some STFC Projects ESA centre ISIS TS2 phase 3 Diamond phase 3 Sapphire Materials Innovation Institute

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Some STFC Projects ESRF upgrade 4GLS Hartree Centre Computational Science

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Some STFC Projects HIPER Future neutron sources: ESS/MW neutron source ILL 20/20 upgrade ELI DIPOLE laser

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Some STFC Projects European ELT SKA Next generation Gravitational wave observatory FAIR

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Some STFC Projects Neutrino factory International Linear Collider LHC upgrades Underground science Neutrinos, dark matter

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC XFEL  Project “launched” on 5 th June –This means DESY is now authorised to spend  XFEL GmbH to be set up by end of year  Our goal is to maximise our in-kind contributions within the £30M already allocated in LFCF –Pixel detector, streak camera…

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Part 2 Tomorrow’s Digital Infrastructure for Science

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC The 7 C’s  Creation  Collection  Capacity  Computation  Curation  Collaboration  Communication

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Its all about scale Creation:  Examining the detector arrays on the MAPs spectrometer at ISIS

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Its all about scale Collection:  An ATSR image of Sicily with Mount Etna eruption; taken 24 July 2001

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Its all about scale Capacity: eg at CCLRC  20PB by 2010  1PB = Bytes  Billions of Floppys  Millions of CDs  Thousands of PCs (today’s)

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Its all about scale Computation :  3-D rabbit heart MRI rendered at 512 x 512 x 1400 using 12 GPUs  Data needs interpretation and analysis Picture of heart

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Its all about scale Curation:  Some CCLRC based Repositories –The Atlas Datastore –The British Atmospheric Data centre –The CCLRC Data Portal –The CCLRC Publications Archive –The CCPs (Collaborative Computational Projects) –The Chemical Database Service –The Digital Curation Centre –The EUROPRACTICE Software service –The HPCx Supercomputer –The JISCmail service –The NERC Datagrid –The NERC Earth Observation Data Centre –The Starlink Software suite –The UK Grid Support Centre –The UK Grid for Particle Physics Tier 1A –The World Data Centre for Solar- Terrestrial Physics Atlas Datastore Tape Robot

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Its all about scale Collaboration:  Barrel toroid magnet and detector module from ATLAS at CERN ATLAS:  2000 scientists  150 Universities  30 countries

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC It’s all about scale Communication : “The web has changed everything...”  Technology enables: –access to everything  distributed,searchable information sources  Interlinking enables: –Revalidation of results ‘repeat experiment’  Discovery enables: –new knowledge from old  Archiving enables: –Recording unique events  Antarctic environmental data CCLRC’s “e-pubs” Institutional Repository has records of 20,000 publications spanning 20 years

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Part 3 Supporting the Research Lifecycle

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC The Body of Knowledge The Government Process The Research Process Aggregation of Knowledge lies at the heart of the innovation lifecycle Enabling Knowledge Creation Enabling Wealth Creation Quality Assessment Strategic Direction Improved Quality of Life Improved Understanding The Innovation Lifecycle

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC The Body of Knowledge The Information Infrastructure Creation Archival Access Storage Compute Network Services Curation the researcher acts through ingest and access Virtual Research Environment the researcher shouldn’t have to worry about the information infrastructure Information Infrastructure

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Current View Raw Data Data Analysis Analysed Data Publication Data Publications Facility 1 Raw Data Data Analysis Analysed Data Publication Data Publications Facility 2 Raw Data Data Analysis Analysed Data Publication Data Publications Facility 3 Distinct Infrastructures / Distinct User Experiences

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Future View Raw Data Data Analysis Analysed Data Publication Data Publications Facility 1 Raw Data Data Analysis Analysed Data Publication Data Publications Facility 2 Raw Data Data Analysis Analysed Data Publication Data Publications Facility 3 Capacity Storage Publications Repositories Standards/ Converters Data Repositories Raw Data Catalogue Data Analysis Analysed Data Catalogue Publication Data Catalogue Publications Catalogue Common Infrastructure / Common User Experience

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Part 4 Some Policy Frameworks

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Some Policy Frameworks –UK Research Councils’ initiative on access to research outputs  2005 and 2006 statements of principles –OECD Guidelines on Access to Research Data  2004 Declaration, 2007 Guidelines –UK Office of Science and Innovation Report (2006) Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC RCUK Policy (2005, 2006) Four principles:  Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research are made available and accessible for public use, interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly, and effectively as practicable  Effective mechanisms are in place to ensure that published research outputs are subject to rigorous quality assurance, through peer review  The models and mechanisms for publication and access to research results are both efficient and cost-effective in the use of public funds  The outputs from current and future research can be preserved and remain accessible not only for the next few years but for future generations

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC OECD Recommendation (2006) OECD Recommendation on Access to research data from public funding 13 principles: A – Openness  Openness means access on equal terms for the international research community at the lowest possible cost,....  B – Flexibility, C – Transparency, D – Legal conformity, E – Protection of intellectual property, F – Formal responsibility, G – Professionalism H – Interoperability  Technological and semantic interoperability is a key consideration in enabling and promoting international and interdisciplinary access to and use of research data....  I – Quality, J – Security, K – Efficiency, L – Accountability M – Sustainability ... taking administrative responsibility for the measures to guarantee permanent access to data that have been determined to require long-term retention.

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC OSI e-Infrastructure Steering Group “Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation” –Cross departmental view –6 working groups: 1.Data and Information creation 2.Preservation and curation 3.Search and navigation 4.Virtual research communities 5.Networks, compute power and storage hardware 6.Middleware, AAA and digital rights management –Reports available on UK National eScience Centre Website  –Note here report on Data and Information Creation

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC OSI e-Infrastructure Steering Group Data and Information Creation Key findings: 1.The future e-infrastructure should directly support the management of data throughout its lifecycle ’from cradle to grave’ 2.The future e-infrastructure should reduce the cycle time from conducting research, through analysis, publication and feedback into new research 3.There should be a much greater use of simulation-based research and its much closer integration with physical research 4.The future e-infrastructure should support the use for research purposes of data collected for other purposes 5.The future e-infrastructure should be based upon standards which support uniform classification, integration, certification and citation of data across all sources

PARSAlliance Conference ©John Womersley/Keith Jeffery/STFC Conclusion  STFC has massive holdings of data and information  The benefits of ready, online, open access to research are self-evident –wealth creation, improvement in quality of life  The data and information requires: –Preservation: making it available indefinitely –Curation: making it understandable indefinitely  This implies use of metadata –Needs to be ‘more intelligent’ (semantics on syntax) –Needs standards (for interoperation)  This is what the PARS Alliance is all about

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