Data Infrastructures for Science in the Digital Age

Carlos Morais Pires

Scientific Data e-InfrastructuresEuropean Commission

Information Society and MediaINFSO/F3

email: carlos.morais-pires at ec.europa.eu

"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

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• Objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth– headline targets, including 3% of GDP invested in R&D

• Includes the Digital Agenda for Europe flagship– ICT research and innovation as a central pillar

• Includes the Innovation Union flagship– key conditions to make Europe attractive for research &

innovation

• Includes the Industrial Policy flagship– ICT as a Key Enabling Technology

Europe 2020 Strategy

R&I are priorities of DAE

“The Digital Agenda for Europe outlines policies and actions to maximise the benefit of the digital revolution for all. Supporting research and innovation is a key priority of the Agenda, essential if we want to establish a flourishing digital economy.”

Neelie Kroes,

Vice-President of the EC, responsible for the Digital Agenda

European R&D Framework Programme FP7 (2007 to 2013)

Capacities

4097 M€

JRC1751 M€

Ideas7510 M€

Euratom4062 M€

People4750 M€

Cooperation32413 M€

Dev. of policiesINCO

Sciencein Society

Research Infrastructures 42% - 1715 M€

SMEsResearch Potential

Regions of Knowledge

e-Infrastructures(ICT for Science)

572 M€

e-Infrastructures supporting Science

e-Infrastructure is “an environment where research resources (hardware, software and content) can be readily shared and accessed wherever this is necessary to promote better and more effective research”.

Such environment integrates networks, grids and middleware, computational resources, experimental workbenches, data repositories, tools and instruments and the operational support that enable global virtual research collaborations.

Source: ICT infrastructures for e-Science

To facilitate a rapid transition to e-Science, the European Commission and Member States have made significant investments in e-Infrastructures…

What can we do for Science…

Linking the ideas at the speed of the light: GÉANT

Accessing knowledge: scientific data

Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities

Designing future facilities: PRACE - High-Performace Computing

Sharing the best resources: e-Science distributed computing

2009 Commission Communication: ICT Infrastructures for e-Science

Importance of embracing the e-Science paradigm shift

Strategic role of e-Infrastructures as a crucial asset underpinning European research and innovation

Need reinforced and coordinated effort by Member States and the scientific community

ICT Infrastructures for e-Sciencehttp://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0108:FIN:EN:PDF

e-ScienceEurope global partner

e-Infrastructure providing 24/7 services

Innovationexploiting know-how even beyond

science

Organisational Models/Governance

Sustainab

ility/C

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Excellence/K

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European strategic vectors

“A fundamental characteristic of our age is the raising tide of data – global, diverse, valuable and complex . In the realm of science, this is both an opportunity and a challenge.”

Report of the High-Level Group on Scientific Data, October 2010

“Riding the Wave: how Europe can gain from the raising tide of scientific data”

The importance of scientific data

Adapted from a slide of Dr. Mirco Albani (ESA)

Scientific Data e-Infrastructures

A wider interpretation of e-Infrastructures include technologies of various kinds for creating, collecting, annotating, manipulating, storing, finding and re-using information and services such as those to provide user support, training, and preservation.

Source: eSCIDR study

European Data Infrastructure

Scientific Data Initiatives– Started with FP7... (2007-2013)

ERA Framework and Horizon2020– Knowledge Circulation– Research Infrastructures in Horizon2020

Digital Agenda and Innovation Union– Input from stakeholders– Coordination with EU Member States– Coordination with European Parliament

Not only data...but the future of scientific information

We don't know how scholar communication will adapt to new paradigms bringing closer human and machine readable information...

Opportunities for innovation in the publishing market– new concepts: “enriched publications”– Find, Trust, Access, Preserve for re-use

Open Access Pilot in FP7, what about FP8?...– OpenAIRE e-Infrastructure– Data Management Plans– DoIs, DAIs

• “Scientific data has the power to transform our lives for the better – it is too valuable to be locked away.”

Neelie Kroes, VP of the European Commission

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carlos.morais-pires at ec.europa.eu

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