Users meet the service providers: a discussion on needs and opportunities to define the EOSC service roadmap

Chair Name and Organisation

• Ilaria Fava Project Officer for EOSCpilot, OpenAIRE and RDA EU 4.0

Description of the session

The EOSC implementation roadmap, defined by the Commission Staff Working Document published in March 2018, envisages that EOSC will offer a range of access enabling services including “horizontal services such as a portal, authentication and authorisation and security services” and research enabling services including “computing, data and services of pan-European and disciplinary research data infrastructures, which already federate data infrastructures at the European level”.

This workshop gives the opportunity to prospective consumers and providers - from both the public and commercial sectors - to discuss needs and opportunities that should drive the definition of the EOSC service portfolio roadmap:

• What prospective needs and priorities do scientific communities have as consumers of the EOSC?
• How should EOSC facilitate the sharing of data, scientific outputs and services across national and organisational borders?

The workshop will start with a presentation of today’s state of play in federating resources and services to enable multi-disciplinary science and transnational access; it will feature invited talks from representatives of digital infrastructures, research projects and communities and the long-tail of science. The workshop will also involve representatives from both public and commercial organisations in their role as a service provider and service consumer. The workshop participants will have the opportunity to define a list of recommendations giving direction to the development and provisioning of the EOSC portfolio.

Agenda

I. Welcome and introduction to the workshop

II. Session 1: The user needs

• Needs and Opportunities for the EOSC Service Roadmap - An Arts and Humanities Perspective: Jennifer Edmond, DARIAH.eu
• Frictionless Data Exchange: Petr Knoth, Open University (UK)
• E-infrastructures from the Viewpoint of Bioinformatics: Fotis Psomopoulous, Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB|CERTH)
• Earth Science Needs and Opportunities to Define the EOSC Service Roadmap: Pedro Gonçalves, Terradue (Earth Science, SME)
• Discussion with the participation of the speakers and the audience [20’]

III. Session 2: The Provider Needs

• New Data Services: Lothar Wolf (EUMETSAT)
• ELIXIR: Niklas Blomberg (ELIXIR)
• ILL & PANOSC- EOSC:Provision of Services and Expectations: Jean-François Perrin, Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL)
• EOSC and National Providers: Achim Streit, Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC)
• EMBL-Sustainable Access to the World's Largest Biomolecular Data Resources: Rupert Lueck, EMBL
• Discussion with the participation of the speakers and the audience [20’]

IV. Workshop conclusions from the workshop rapporteur/convener