1. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 1 Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure Keith G Jeffery Science and Technology Facilities Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, OX11 0QX UK e-mail: keith.jeffery@stfc.ac.uk

2. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 2 STRUCTURE Introduction Why This Workshop Why APA Metadata Conclusion

3. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 3 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

4. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 4 Affiliations www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu/ ERCIM European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics www.ercim.eu www.eurocris.org

5. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 5 STRUCTURE Introduction Why This Workshop Why APA Metadata Conclusion

6. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 6 Context Internet –1.5 billion fixed connections –Estimated 4 billion mobile connections Digital Storage –Estimated 280 billion Gigabytes Users : –Asia 550 million 14% penetration –Europe 350 million 50% penetration –USA 250 million 70% penetration Expect technology to grow ~ 1 order of magnitude each 4 years –and accelerating Scalability Trust & security & privacy Manageability Accessability Useability Representativity

7. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 7 So… This is the ‘internet of things’ or ‘future internet’ We need to : –Manage the huge numbers, sizes –Integrate the different kinds of systems –Into one environment leading to human decision-making whether managing a business, shopping, media choice, social interaction But there is a problem…in last 20 years –Data storage density increased ~10**18 –Processor power increased ~10**15 –BUT broadband capacity increased ~10**4 IN FACT WE HAVE TO MAKE ICT AUTONOMIC AND TO DO THIS REQUIRES METADATA

8. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 8...and The European research infrastructures on (and off) the ESFRI roadmap will be major contributors to and requirers of the e- infrastructure. RIs are expensive and so we should optimse (a) their use (b) use of the outputs (data, publications, patents, products etc) This requires curation/preservation and in turn this requires metadata There is a danger of different RIs / communities doing things differently so precluding interdisciplinary interoperation

9. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 9 STRUCTURE Introduction Why This Workshop Why APA Metadata Conclusion

10. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 10 Why APA Mission and Goals The Alliance aims to develop a shared vision and framework for a sustainable organisational infrastructure for permanent access to scientific information Major stakeholders in European science have therefore joined together to establish an Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science. http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu/ Annual Conference 23rd November 2010

11. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 11 STRUCTURE Introduction Why This Workshop Why APA Metadata Conclusion

12. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 12 Metadata Discovery description Matching for use Functional and non-functional Access and access restrictions Security, privacy, trust, cost Integrity, accuracy, quality Schema Provenance Temporal Curation / Preservation Functions and aspects of metadata For services or datasets All inter-related

13. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 13 STRUCTURE Introduction Why This Workshop Why APA Metadata Conclusion

14. ©STFC/Keith G Jeffery Metadata in the European e-Infrastructure 201009 14 Conclusion There is a way forward for the e-infrastructure and the curation/preservation of research data / software / services It is based on bringing together all the relevant strands of R&D GRIDs Clouds SOA Web 2.0 Supported by: Formal software engineering Formal data/information/knowledge representation Advanced standardised metadata New systems development methods