1. A Research Data Catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case
M. Assante & L. Candela
BlueBRIDGE Workshop “FAIR friendly research data catalogues: How far are we?”
03 April 2017
Barcelona, Spain

2. BlueBRIDGE project objective
To implement and operate a set of Virtual Research Environments (VREs) facilitating communities of scientists, innovators from SMEs and educators in their knowledge production chain:
From the initial phases, data collection and aggregation, to the production of indicators for competent authorities and investors.
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

3. A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case
BlueBRIDGE (BB) VREs
VRE / Vlab / Collaboratory, Science Gateway
Integrates
D4Science.org Infrastructure
Unified Resource Space
Powered by gCube
Enables
VRE
WPS
VREs for supporting the collaborative production of scientific knowledge required for assessing the status of fish stocks and producing a global record of stocks and fisheries
VREs for supporting the production of scientific knowledge for analysing socio-economic performance in aquaculture
VREs for supporting the production of scientific knowledge for fisheries & habitat degradation monitoring
VREs for boosting education and knowledge bridging between research and innovation in the area of protection and management of marine resources
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

4. BB VREs thematics & products
VREs support production of scientific knowledge:
assessing the status of fish stocks and producing a GRSF
analysing socio-economic performance in aquaculture
fisheries & habitat degradation monitoring
By exploiting VRE services users generate heterogeneous [research] products: e.g.
Distribution Maps
Records
Enhanced Publications
Graphs …
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

5. A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case
FAIR and FAIRness
FAIR is a set of (metadata-based) principles aiming at making research outcomes Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, & Reusable
… not a standard
… not equal to semantic web /Linked Data/RDF
… not only for human users
… not equal to “Open”
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

6. BlueBRIDGE FAIRness settings
Transparency, Openness, Reproducibility
What is worth being FAIR
Every [research] product
When
In every step of the research lifecycle thus to foster collaborative open-science practices
Where
Within and beyond Virtual Research Environments
How
By leveraging a comprehensive set of services operated by the D4Science Infrastructure
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

7. A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case
The BlueBRIDGE Way
VRE
Publish
DCAT
Disseminate
Custom items
Multi-tenancy
VRE-friendly
Access
&
Reuse
Standard-based
Services
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

8. The BlueBRIDGE Way: Findability
By extending the concept of resources
datasets, methods/algorithms, research objects, and services
By assigning to resources unique identifiers and rich and extensible metadata
By publishing resources in tailored and global catalogues
supporting keyword, faceted and temporal/geo discovery  
By extending the concept of resources to datasets, methods/algorithms, research objects, and services
By assigning to each managed resources (i) a unique identifier and (ii) rich and extensible metadata including attribution, provenance and licence information
By publishing resources in tailored and global catalogues that supports keyword, faceted and temporal/geospatial discovery  
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

9. The BlueBRIDGE Way: Accessibility
By making published resources available through multiple protocols
By providing for transparent Authentication and Authorization
By enabling policies enforcement
By making published resources available through multiple protocols in order to maximise the set of potential exploitation cases
By providing also for transparent Authentication and Authorization, whenever the published resource requires it
By enabling policies enforcement
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

10. The BlueBRIDGE Way: Interoperability
By exposing the resources with metadata in multiple formats
By promoting exploitation of ontologies and controlled vocabularies
By exposing the resources with metadata in multiple formats including ISO 19115, Darwin Core, Dublin Core, DCAT and application profiles
By exposing the resource payload in multiple formats and catering for its reformatting
By promoting exploitation of ontologies and controlled vocabularies
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

11. The BlueBRIDGE Way: Reusability
By systematically provide resources with (a) a clear licence (b) citation and attribution statements
By systematically generating provenance metadata
By allowing the execution of the experiment in the same environment
By systematically endowing shared and published resources with (a) a clear licence governing their use/re-use and (b) citation and attribution statements
By systematically generating provenance metadata
By design allowing the execution of the experiment in the same technical and contextual environment
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

12. BlueBRIDGE way: an actual example
Finds the algorithm on
the Data catalogue 1
Tom is looking
for an algorithm for his research
The BB service verifies Access policies and downloads
the algorithm on-the-fly 2 8
Tom got a positive/negativeresult
and can publish it along with the computation on the catalogue for Reuse 4 3
Tom executes the algorithm on his data, multiple times 6 5 5
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case

13. A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case
Thank you
April 3, 2017
A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case