Participation according to the business model

Jun 07 2018
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Given the dispersed nature of scientific research and the variety of tools and processes required by scientists in different fields and locations, a federated environment requires a similarly decentralized business model to support the technical environment that will be developed. The development of novel capabilities, long-term storage/maintenance of data resources and fixed cost capabilities are likely to be provided using direct payments to organisations setting up nodes in the EOSC. By contrast, numerous research activities by individual investigators may be supported via EOSC vouchers. Nodes in the EOSC will have to be able to engage with the business model. This will probably imply a business arrangement with the brokers set up by funding agencies in order to accept these vouchers as payment.




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1 comment on "Participation according to the business model"

  • draban
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    Date: 15 Jul, 2018

    I wonder: is all data equal in terms of importance and need to preserve and make available? Or should we consider a policy for determining "data shelf life"? A post in the "data security" conversation described how high-energy physics data is often replaced by new measurements, making old measurements obsolete. Should we preserve the old measurements? For how long? What about other fields of science? My point is: if preservation, storage, and access are costly and require a business model, then we need to understand the product/service we are offering and the change in its value over time. I call this "data shelf life".