1. EOSCpilot All Hands Meeting 8 March 2018 Pisa
WP4 – Science Demonstrators
Lead: Hermann Lederer, MPG
Co-lead: Steven Newhouse, EMBL

2. WP4 Overview Tasks: Partners involved: Effort:
CNRS, EMBL, EGI, ESS, DESY, ICOS, XFEL, PIN, MPG
Tasks:
T4.1 (MPG, EMBL)
T4.2 (CNRS, EMBL, DESY, ICOS, XFEL, PIN)
T4.3 (EGI, ESS; DESY, XFEL)
Effort:
12 PMs (T4.1) PMs for 15 Science Demonstrators (T4.2) + 60 PMs (T4.3)
Deliverables:
Science Demonstrator Engagement Model (M3)
Science Demonstrator Selection process (M3)
Science Demonstrator Progress Report (M12)
Science Demonstrator Evaluation Report (M24)
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3. WP4 Objectives Science Demonstrators Objective:
To develop a number of Science Demonstrators in particular domains that will show the relevance and usefulness of the EOSC Services and their enabling of data reuse, and will drive the further development of the EOSC.
Science Demonstrators will be:
early adopters of the EOSC Pilot, selected from across a range of science areas, stimulate the engagement of the science communities and stakeholders in open science, building on the expertise of the research infrastructures and their service providers.
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4. WP4 Objectives
Of special interest are societal challenges i.e. from Life Sciences, Energy, Climate, Materials, involving the access and re-use of data and knowledge
Focus on challenges already being addressed by members of: EIROforum, EU Flagship Projects, EU Centres of Excellence, Citizen Science, Long-tail of science, Evolving multi-national science initiatives
These Science Demonstrators will be used
- to drive and prioritise the integration of the EOSC services
- to meet the functional and non-functional needs of researchers
- to ensure that the proposed technical governance structures provide the control needed by researchers.
Together, these Science Demonstrators will help drive the development of the EOSC ecosystem and its associated infrastructure.
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5. WP4 Task 1 & Task 2
Task 4.1: Selection, coordination and evaluation of the Science Demonstrators [Lead: MPG]
This task will manage the selection and coordination (with Task 3) of the Science Demonstrators
Task 4.2: Technical Requirements from the Science Demonstrators [Lead: EMBL]
The selected Science Demonstrators will each be allocated 12 PMs of effort to engage with the EOSC Project during the 12 months duration of each Science Demonstrator. Each Science Demonstrator will:
Work with their assigned shepherd to engage with the EOSC in establishing their technical use cases, and the software tools, data models, and scientific workflows that they use.
Commit to adopting and using the EOSC services as they become available to meet their technical requirements and providing feedback on the use and suitability of these services.
Engaging with the other WPs within the project through domain specific experts to provide requirements and to review the policies/procedures coming out of the project.
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6. WP4 Task 3 Task 4.3: Shepherding the Science Demonstrator [Lead MPG]
Each Science Demonstrator will be assigned to a ‘shepherd’ who will provide the link between the Science Demonstrator and the technical experts both within this WP and other technical activities within the project. The shepherd will attend relevant meetings relating to their assigned Science Demonstrator, track its progress and escalate issues with the EOSC Pilot as required. The shepherd will work with each new Science Demonstrator and the relevant technical experts within the project to:
Identify and capture the key ‘technical use cases’ within each Science Demonstrator by capturing the functional and non-functional commonalities and requirements within the software tools, data models, and scientific workflows that each Science Demonstrator uses.
Maintain the technical use cases as living documents that are reviewed, revised and consolidated as additional Science Demonstrators are included in the EOSC Pilot. It is expected that many of these technical use cases will be repeated with slightly different requirements across the different Science Demonstrators.
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7. Work carried out in Task 4.1
First five Science Demonstrators: pre-selected through a call prior to the start of EOSCpilot.
For the selection of 10 more Science Demonstrators:
Procedure developed at project start for carrying out Open Calls, described in deliverable D 4.2 in March 2017.
Two Open Calls carried out according to this procedure :
First Open Call in April 2017 – resulted in 30 proposals
Second Open Call in Aug/Sep 2017 – resulted in 26 proposals
All proposals were subject to technical and scientific review processes with scientific reviewers from the Scientific Advisory Board and technical reviewers from a pool of experts.
Many more highly ranked proposals received than could be supported
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8. Work carried out in Task 4.1
Prioritization step ensured a balanced result for represented science areas and science communities.
Proposed selections approved by the Executive Committee and the General Assembly.
July 1, 2017: Start of 5 selected Science Demonstrators from First Open Call
Dec 1, 2017: Start of 5 selected Science Demonstrators from Second Open Call
The second Open Call was executed a little earlier than originally planned to allow for project start on Dec 1, 2017, rather than on Jan 1, 2018, with an end already in Nov rather than at the EOSCpilot end on Dec 31, 2018.
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9. Work carried out in Task 4.2
The science areas targeted in EOSCpilot have been covered as follows:
 First five Science Demonstrators (pre-selected)
Environmental & Earth Sciences - ENVRI Radiative Forcing Integration to enable comparable data access across multiple research communities by working on data integration and harmonised access
High Energy Physics – DPHEP/WLCG: large-scale, long-term data preservation and re-use of physics data through the deployment of HEP data in the EOSC open to other research communities
Social Sciences – TEXTCROWD: Collaborative semantic enrichment of text-based datasets by developing new software to enable a semantic enrichment of text sources and make it available on the EOSC
Life Sciences - Pan-Cancer: Analyses & Cloud Computing within the EOSC to accelerate genomic analysis on the EOSC and reuse solutions in other areas (e.g. for cardiovascular & neuro-degenerative diseases)
Physics (including materials science): The photon-neutron community to improve the community’s computing facilities by creating a virtual platform for all users (e.g., for users with no storage facilities at their home institutes)
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10. Work carried out in Task 4.2
Second five Science Demonstrators:
Energy Research  – PROMINENCE: HPCaaS for Fusion - Access to HPC class nodes for the Fusion Research community through a cloud interface
Earth Sciences – EPOS/VERCE: Virtual Earthquake and Computational Earth Science e-science environment in Europe
Life Sciences / Genome Research:  Life Sciences Datasets: Leveraging EOSC to offload updating and standardizing life sciences datasets and to improve studies reproducibility, reusability and interoperability
Life Sciences / Structural Biology: CryoEM Workflows: Linking distributed data and data analysis resources as workflows in Structural Biology with cryo Electron Microscopy: Interoperability and reuse
Physical Sciences / Astronomy: LOFAR Data: Easy access to LOFAR data and knowledge extraction through Open Science Cloud
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11. Work carried out in Task 4.2
Third five Science Demonstrators:
Generic Technology: Frictionless Data Exchange Across Research Data, Software and Scientific Paper Repositories
Life Sciences – Genome Research - Bioimaging: Mining a large image repository to extract new biological knowledge about human gene function.
Astro Sciences: VisIVO: Data Knowledge Visual Analytics Framework for Astrophysics
Earth Sciences – Hydrology: Switching on the EOSC for Reproducible Computational Hydrology by FAIR-ifying eWaterCycle and SWITCH-ON.
Social Sciences and Humanities: VisualMedia: a service for sharing and visualizing visual media files on the web
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12. Work carried out in Task 4.2
Selected Science Demonstrators receive central funding of 12 PMs for their 12 months long engagement with EOSCpilot and their various tasks and missions to help improving the service portfolio and processes essential for the EOSC thus contributing to the advancement of Open Science in Europe (exception CERN: participated without funding with contributions in kind).
Details of the engagement model of Science Demonstrators have been developed in the Deliverable D4.1 due April The engagement model described in D4.1 has been applied to the accepted Science Demonstrators.
Kickoff meetings have been organized to familiarize contacts of Science Demonstrators and their respecting shepherds with their tasks and duties and expected contributions.
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13. Work carried out in Tasks 4.1 + 4.3
Kickoff meetings held:
Jan 2017 for the first five pre-selected Science Demonstrators
July 2017 for the second five Science Demonstrators
Nov 2017 for the third five Science Demonstrators
Activities of the Science Demonstrators guided to progress along their work plans.
First five Science Demonstrators carrying out work from Jan to Dec 2017
(with the exception of ERFI which was starting with a delay due to organisational complications (start in July together with the second five Science Demonstrators)).
Second five Science Demonstrators carrying their work from July 2017 to June 2018
Third five Science Demonstrators carrying out their work from Dec 2017 to Nov 2018 .
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14. Work carried out in Task 4.3
The activities of Science Demonstrators have been closely accompanied through shepherding. According to the engagement model proposed in deliverable D4.1, each Science Demonstrator will:
Work with their assigned shepherds to engage with the EOSCpilot in establishing the technical use cases, software tools, data models and scientific workflows that they use.
Commit to adopting and using the EOSCpilot services (in WP5 and WP6) as they become available to meet the Demonstrator’s technical requirements and providing feedback on the use and suitability of these services.
Engage with the other WPs within the project through domain specific experts.
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15. Work carried out in Tasks 4.1 + 4.3
The support provided by shepherds is essential.
For each Science Demonstrator, a suitable shepherd has been assigned to act as the sole contact point for the Science Demonstrator during the engagement process. Additionally, a deputy shepherd supports the main shepherd in its activities.
Shepherd and deputy shepherd have been selected among the staff belonging to the Partners taking part in Task 4.3.
The shepherds closely interact with their Science Demonstrators independently for carrying out the work plans and help with the identification of issues and solutions.
Shepherds guide and moderate the interactions between Science Demonstrators and WP5 and WP6 and take part in respective meetings organized by WP5 and WP6.
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16. Work carried out in Tasks 4.1 + 4.3
The support provided by shepherds is essential.
For each Science Demonstrator, a suitable shepherd has been assigned to act as the sole contact point for the Science Demonstrator during the engagement process. Additionally, a deputy shepherd supports the main shepherd in its activities.
Shepherd and deputy shepherd have been selected among the staff belonging to the Partners taking part in Task 4.3.
The shepherds closely interact with their Science Demonstrators independently for carrying out the work plans and help with the identification of issues and solutions.
Shepherds guide and moderate the interactions between Science Demonstrators and WP5 and WP6 and take part in respective meetings organized by WP5 and WP6.
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17. Work carried out in Tasks 4.1 + 4.3
In monthly meetings the Science Demonstrator and shepherd activities and respective project progress has been monitored.
Reports from Science Demonstrators have been collected after 4 and 8 months, respectively.
In Nov 2017 the active Science Demonstrators engaged in the First Stakeholder Engagement event and contributed their views in plenary and parallel sessions
In Jan final reports collected from Science Demonstrators TextCrowd and DPHEP/WLCG
In Feb 2018 pre-final reports collected from Science Demonstrators PanCancer and Photon & Neutron Research (as they prolong a few months on own resources)
In Feb months reports collected from second five Science Demonstrators (+ERFI)
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18. Work carried out in Tasks 4.1+4.2+4.3
Reports of Science Demonstrators stored in EOSCpilot repository
and provided to all WPs
- for evaluation for further guidance of EOSCpilot
- to draw general conclusions from the experiences made by the
Science Demonstrators
Discussion on technical aspects and on functional and non-functional requirements to take place in two WP4 sessions this afternoon
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19. WP4 work remaining for 2018
Continue shepherding of Science Demonstrators
Guiding, Interacting and discussing with Science Demonstrators in meetings
Sharing issues/progress/reports to other WPs
Guiding further reporting from Science Demonstrators
Evaluating reports from Science Demonstrators
Dissemination with Science Demonstrators: Suggestion for 1 page high level outcome per Science Demonstrator for booklet
Engagement for next Stakeholder Event
M24 Deliverable D4.4: Conclusions from Science Demonstrators
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