1. Federated Open Data Repository in EGI
Sergio Andreozzi
Strategy and Policy Manager, EGI.eu
6/24/2018

2. Motivation Open Research Data Pilot in WP 2014-2015
Some projects in Horizon 2020 are part of the Open Research Data Pilot which aims to improve and maximise access to and re-use of research data generated by projects. For the Work Programme the following areas are participating in the Open Research Data Pilot.
Future and Emerging Technologies
Research infrastructures - part e-Infrastructures
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies
Societal Challenge: 'Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy' - part Smart cities and communities
Societal Challenge: 'Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw materials' - except raw materials
Societal Challenge: 'Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies'
Science with and for Society

3. Article 29.3 of the Model Grant Agreement
Regarding the digital research data generated in the action (‘data’), the beneficiaries must:
deposit in a research data repository and take measures to make it possible for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate — free of charge for any user — the following:
the data, including associated metadata, needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications as soon as possible;
other data, including associated metadata, as specified and within the deadlines laid down in the data management plan

4. Where should EGI users publish their open data?

5. Setting up a Virtual Team for federated open data repository
In February 2014, we started an initial investigation that led to the creation of a virtual team with the following goals:
Define a set of requirements for a federated open research data repository to comply with the H2020 data management policy
Identify existing possible technical solutions
Set up a pilot service driven by real world use cases
A business model including a pricing scheme
Costs for open data hosting eligible in EC projects
Interest from:
CSIC(ES), STFC (UK), CESNET (CZ), South-Africa Grid Initiative (ZA), GRNET (GR), IIAP NAS RA (AM)

6. Repositories for Open Research Data
as a service
Zenodo (developed by CERN within OpenAIRE)
B2SHARE (developed by EUDAT) …
software for in-house installation
Invenio (open source, from CERN)
CKAN (open source)

7. Question 1
EGI resource centres have capacity to host large amount of open data Should EGI invest in setting up a federated open research data repository? (re-using current open source software solutions)

8. What approaches would you recommend to move forward?
Question 2
What approaches would you recommend to move forward?

9. Thank you!
Any question?
21/05/2014
EGI CF 14, Helsink