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www.eudat.eu
EUDAT receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - DG CONNECT e-Infrastructures. Contract No. 654065
Service provisioning for
Excellent Science
Daan Broeder – EUDAT/CLARIN

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EUDAT

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A bit of EUDAT history
EUDAT started in 2011 as an initiative to face the data
deluge and the increasing complexities and
costs of isolated solutions
provide general data management services
for a large variety of communities
there are many common requirements
… addressed by common services delivered
by a federation of compute and data centers
… research community driven
sustainable
EUDAT Initiative Funded by EC projects
EUDAT 2011 – 2014 25 partners 16ME
EUDAT2020 2015 – 2018 37 partners 20ME
Participate in EOSC-Hub from 2018

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Community Repositories
(thema5c data centres)
EUDAT generic data
service provider
storage, workflows,
processing, archive
Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI)
A collaboration between
Service Providers and
Research Communities
A Partnership Agreement
specifying the mutual obligations
between the EUDAT centres
a portfolio of data
management services
A data and service model that
ensures the CDI’s interoperability,
extensibility and stability
Network providing consultancy,
training, sharing of technology across
partners

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What is the EUDAT Service offer?

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Common Language Resources and Technology
Infrastructure (CLARIN)
EUDAT Core Communities Partners
European Network for Earth System Modelling (ENES)
Distributed infrastructure for life-science information
(ELIXIR)
European Plate Observing System (EPOS) - Solid Earth
sciences Research Infrastructure
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) to
quantify & understand greenhouse gas balance
Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) in Europe
Partners in EUDAT2020,
instrumental for EUDAT service strategy development and positioning

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Broad community engagement
Requirements & use-case gathering
- Core Communi5es specify broad sets of requirements covering
their whole data life cycle
- Call for Data Pilots -> 24 collabora5ons, large variety of
disciplines & use cases
- Par5cipa5on in community projects, EUDAT WGs, interview TF
- Very labor intensive, 5me-consuming
Outreach & Communica5on aspects
- Communi5es organised on a EU level should be covered
- In the current project and beyond, but …
- Outreach to smaller groups and individuals scales badly
- Can leverage EUDATcenters par5cipa5ng in na5onal projects
- Training & Documenta5on addressing different levels of
technical proficiency requires large investments

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How to be more efficient?
Make use of specialized organizations & networks ….
Requirements to be delivered by RDA, W3C, ISO, IETF, …?
Accepting such input is often self-evident, but not always
What about aspects as: speed, coverage, pragmatism,
flexibility, representativity?
Data management expertise and consultancy for DM services
to be provided by academic & research libraries?
Do they have that ambition, expertise and capacity?
Overall questions:
is it in the nature of such organisations to collaborate on
this topic?
How to organise it and be inclusive to others

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A more efficient Picture?
EINFRA
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Service
Provisioning
Std.
organisa5ons
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Service Req.
Defini5on
Academic
Libraries
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DM Exper5se
& Consultancy
& Training

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QUESTIONS?