1. The BlueBRIDGE project
Pasquale Pagano (CNR-ISTI)
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2. Factsheet Funded by DG-CNECT e-Infrastructure
September February 2018
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3. BlueBRIDGE & the Blue Societal Challenge
To offer new capacity to interdisciplinary communities actively involved in increasing scientific knowledge about marine resource exploitation, ecosystems conservation, and performance improvement and sustainability in aquaculture
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4. BlueBRIDGE Objective Keywords
To exploit the new technological landscape for facilitating communities of scientists, innovators from SMEs and educators from different domains addressing Blue Growth related challenges in their knowledge production chain, from the initial phases, data collection and aggregation, to the production of indicators for competent authorities and investors.
Keywords
Multidisciplinay collaboration, validation, reproducibility, reuse, dynamicity, fast adaptability, low costs of engagement, low cost of service
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5. BlueBRIDGE user communities
Communities span from EU and International world-renowned leading institutions (e.g. ICES, IRD, FAO, UNEP), providing informed advice on sustainable use of marine resources to relevant Commissions and member countries, till local level organizations, like national academic institutions and SMEs.
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6. BlueBRIDGE Services Offer
BlueBRIDGE Infrastructure
- Ecosystem
Tailored services addressing three heterogeneous domains
One common infrastructure
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7. BlueBRIDGE Infrastructure Services Offer
- Ecosystem
Data services addressing the whole data management value chain
Infrastructure services addressing the access and management of infrastructure resources
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8. BlueBRIDGE hides ICT complexities
- Ecosystem
D4Science
Storage
Computing
Data
Database
GIS
NoSQL
D4Science
EGI
SeaDataNet
OSCAR
Copernicus
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9. Behind the scene VREs Enables Integrates Analytics Engine Storage
Aggregator
Mediator
Registry
….. Service Commons
Integrates
WPS
External e-Infrastructures, repositories & services
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10. BlueBRIDGE hides ICT complexities
BlueBRIDGE provides capacity for dealing with modern science increasingly global, multi-disciplinary and networked
Data and Services
Hosted by different Organizations
Accessible through different Protocols
Described with different Metadata
Policies
Different Licenses
Different Terms of Use
Different approaches for Credits
Heterogeneity
Provide Discovery, Access, Use
Support Validation, Curation, Harmonization
Trace Provenance
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11. BlueBRIDGE realizes an open scientific infrastructure ecosystem
>800 data providers
>19k temporal datasets
>50k spatial datasets
>350 physical and chemical variables with global coverage spanning the last ten years
40k data analysis/month
Data
5 EGI sites
4 D4Science sites
4 Organization sites
1000 CPUs
400 TB storages
4 TB Memory
Computing
>250 services
>180 analytical models
>500 software components integrated
Services
BlueBRIDGE provides access to Data, Computing, and Services
BlueBRIDGE simplifies
the integration of new community services
the exploitation of community-specific analytical models
The analysis of community/user data
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12. BlueBRIDGE supports data analytics
Not performed by individuals but group of data analysts
are multidisciplinary, involve members belonging to diverse organisations 
require to access data and services that are spread among many providers 
Dynamic groups addressing specific questions/problems
Without relying on pre-organised and costly supporting environments managed by dedicated organizations
BlueBRIDGE builds and operates their own VRE
BlueBRIDGE allows to operate on remote resources via dedicated interfaces
With limited or no additional costs for the resource providers
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13. BlueBRIDGE supports data analytics via sharing of data and workflows
Support collaborative data analysis and experimentation via a virtual workspace
Enable secure and controlled data sharing
Manage heterogeneous data access policies
Implement Traceability and Reproducibility-Repeatability-Reusability
Information objects can be
files, dataset, workflows, experiments, etc.
organized into folders
Users can
share with selected users
disseminate via persistent public URLs
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14. BlueBRIDGE supports software integration
Scientist provides a method to analyse data
Download the (python, R, Java, …) script and the user’s data
User’s data
Execute script
Collect output
BB Infrastructure
Save Output on the User’s Workspace, with provenance info
Destroy local copies of I/O and script
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15. BlueBRIDGE supports collaborative experiments
Shared online folders
In the e-Infrastructure
Inputs
Results
Outputs
Computational system
Through third party software WS
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16. VRE Social BlueBRIDGE enables new scientific workflows1
Updates the script on
his private Workspace
Script provider
The BB service downloads
the script on-the-fly 2 9 8
This user can execute the experiment again
and share the computation with other users 4 3
A user executes an experiment on his/her data 5 7 5
The output, the input and the parameters can be shared with another user 6
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17. Additional information
BlueBRIDGE
Building Research environments fostering Innovation, Decision making, Governance and Education
for Blue Growth
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