1. Juan Bicarregui STFC Juan.bicarregui@stfc.ac.uk
EOSCpilot
Juan Bicarregui
STFC

2. RDA The Research Data Alliance

3. Outline EOSC/RDA Common Vision (2007) G7 Communique (2015)
EC Comm on European Cloud Initiatives (2016)
EOSCpilot Objectives
RDA Vision
Over to you…..

4. Data Sharing Vision [2007]
Single Infrastructure  Single User Experience
Different Infrastructures  Different User Experiences
Raw Data Catalogue
Data Analysis
Analysed Data Catalogue
Publication Data Catalogue
Publications Catalogue
Capacity
Storage
Publications
Repositories
Data
Software
Raw Data
Data Analysis
Analysed Data
Publication Data
Publications
Experiment 1
Raw Data
Data Analysis
Analysed Data
Publication Data
Publications
Observation 2
Raw Data
Data Analysis
Analysed Data
Publication Data
Publications
Simulation 3
From: PaN-Data Infrastructure for Photon and Neutron Sources (2007)

5. G7 Ministerial Communiqué Berlin Oct 2015
Neglected tropical diseases
Future of the Seas and Oceans
Global Research Infrastructures (GRIs)
“…[4 items about Global (physical) Research Infrastructures]…
Further progress on sharing and managing scientific data and information should be achieved, especially by continuing engagement with community based activities such as the Research Data Alliance RDA.
We encourage the GSO to continue their work on convergence and alignment of inter-operable data management that could accomplish an effective open-data science environment at the G7 level and beyond.”
Clean Energy

6. EC Communication on European Cloud Initiatives
April 2016
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
European Data Infrastructure (EDI)
[Exascale Computing]
[Quantum Computing]
High Level Expert Group
Open Science Policy Platform
EOSCpilot
Many other projects to come

7. Why Europe is not fully tapping into the potential of data:
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.

8. ECI - Barriers Policy and Incentives Interoperability Fragmentation
HPC
Reuse and Analysis, POPD, Copyright

9. To develop EOSC it will be necessary to:
Make all scientific data produced by the Horizon 2020 programme open by default.
Raise awareness and change incentive structures for academics industry and public services to share their data.
Develop specification for interoperability and data sharing across disciplines and infrastructures
Create a fit-for-purpose pan-European governance structure to federate scientific data infrastructures and overcome fragmentation.
Develop cloud based services for Open science supported by the necessary data infrastructure
Enlarge the scientific user base to researchers and innovators from all disciplines.

10. ECI - Actions: Open by default. Change incentive structures
Specification for interoperability
Pan-European governance
Cloud based services and data infrastructure
Enlarge the scientific user base

11. Outline EOSC/RDA Common Vision (2007) G7 Communique (2015)
EC Comm on European Cloud Initiatives (2016)
EOSCpilot Objectives
RDA Vision
Over to you…..

12. EOSCpilot: High Level Aims
The EOSCpilot project will support the first phase in the development of the EOSC. It will
Establish the governance framework for the EOSC and contribute to the development of European open science policy and best practice;
Develop a number of demonstrators functioning as high-profile pilots that integrate services and infrastructures to show interoperability and its benefits in a number of scientific domains;
Engage with a broad range of stakeholders, crossing borders and communities, to build the trust and skills required for adoption of an open approach to scientific research.
(More detailed objectives later)

13. EOSCpilot Challenges
Three types of challenges addressed by the EOSCpilot:
Scientific Challenges are really Opportunities
Scientific Challenges: deploying the EOSC to deliver Open Science
Technical Challenges are Barriers to overcome
Technical Challenges: developing technical solutions that meet the scientific needs
Cultural Challenges are also Barriers
Cultural Challenges: adopting new, more open ways of working

14. Workpackage Challenges

15. Workpackage Level Objectives
Governance Objective.
To design and trial a stakeholder-driven governance framework …
Policy Objective.
To establish the policy environment required for the effective operation…
Science Demonstrators Objective
To develop a number of Science Demonstrators … to drive the development of the EOSC.
Services Objective
To create a number of EOSC pilot services that federate data, infrastructure and services …
Interoperability Objective
To define and implement specifications, interfaces, standards and processes that …underpin interoperability and sharing …
Skills Objective.
To develop common standards and assessment frameworks to ensure …
Community Engagement Objective.
To identify and bring together … the major groups of stakeholders …

16. EOSCpilot Workpackages
Governance
Policy
Demonstrators
Services
Interoperability
Skills
Engagement

17. Outline EOSC/RDA Common Vision (2007) G7 Communique (2015)
EC Comm on European Cloud Initiatives (2016)
EOSCpilot Objectives
RDA Vision
Over to you…..

18. Bio Medicine Environment Humanities Social Sci Physical Sci Reusable
Assesable
Intelligible
Bio
Medicine
Environment
Social Sci
Physical Sci
Dicoverable Accessable
Humanities
Pont du Gard, 50km
Also 1st Centuary
Gradiant 1:3000 (bin 500m of bridge part)

19. RDA only runs Groups RDA runs Groups
Water
RDA - Data is the New Oil
Rescuing Heritage
Structural Biology
Wheat Interop
Life Sciences
Photon & Neutron
Toxico
genomics
Public Sector info
Agricultural
Marine
History & ethnogr’y
Applications draw up data from the ground like water
RDA only runs Groups
RDA runs Groups
RDA is the trunk that brings the two together
Data Types Registries
PIds
Metadata
Preservation
Semantic Interop
Federated Ids
Provenance
Data citation
Data publication
Data bibliometrics
Technologies make data discoverable and accessible

20. Outline EOSC/RDA Common Vision (2007) G7 Communique (2015)
EC Comm on European Cloud Initiatives (2016)
EOSCpilot Objectives
RDA Vision
Over to you…..

21. ECI, EOSCpilot, RDA RDA Interoperable Interdiscipline International
ECI Barriers
Policy and Incentives
Interoperability
Fragmentation
HPC
Reuse, Analysis POPD, Copyright
ECI Actions
Open by default.
Change incentive structures
Specification for interoperability
Pan-European governance
Cloud based services data infrastructure
Enlarge the scientific user base
EOSCpilot WPs
Governance
Policy
Demonstrators
Services
Interoperability
Skills
Engagement
RDA
Interoperable
Interdiscipline
International

22. Over to you…. EOSCpilot WPs RDA Added Value Governance
Policy
Demonstrators
Services
Interoperability
Skills
Engagement
RDA Added Value
Interoperability ….
Interdisciplinary …
Internationalisation
The European Open Science Cloud for Research pilot project is funded by the European Commission, DG Research & Innovation under contract no

23. Outline EOSC/RDA Common Vision (2007) G7 Communique (2015)
EC Comm on European Cloud Initiatives (2016)
EOSCpilot Objectives
RDA Vision
Over to you…..

24. "By academic freedom, I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.
This right implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.”
Albert Einstein
Letter on his seventy-fifth birthday, 1954