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Data e-infrastructures in Horizon 2020:

in the context of developing world class research infrastructures

Vienna, 19 May 2014

LIBER Conference on Digital Curation

Carlos Morais Pires

European Commission

e-Infrastructures, DG CNECT.C1

Authors views do not commit the European Commission


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I propose to think together about

logic and logistics in the context of research and education

strategic relevance of research infrastructures

e-infrastructures: moving, processing and managing data

reading and processing

coherent strategies and opportunities to implement them


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logic, logistics, science and education

from Wikipedia

Logic(from the Ancient Greek: , logike) is the use or

study of valid reasoning in some activity

Logisticsis the management of the flow of goods between thepoint of origin and the point of consumption in order to meetsome requirements, for example, of customers or corporations,

from Greek logistiks skilled in calculation, rational,


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libraries: research and education infrastructures

Libraries have been a major, if not the main researchinfrastructure of academic institutions

Libraries were able to collect a large segment of the worldsknowledge and make it accessible to researchers andstudents

Libraries estates were established at the heart of the campus toperform their organizational function for the circulation of

knowledgefuture?... a new sort archiving time-space relativity anecessary (painful) transition

Herbert Van de Sompel a few hours ago in the opening keynote on archiving in the WEB era


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Research Infrastructures

Men of science [] could formerly work in isolationas writers still can.

Cavendish and Faraday and Mendel depend hardly atall upon institutions and Darwin only in so far as thegovernment enabled him to share the voyage of theBeagle.

But this isolation is a thing of the past.

Most research requires expensive apparatus [].Without facilities provided by a government or auniversity, few men can achieve much in modernscience.

from Bertrand Russell in BBC Reith Lectures,1949


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data has been and remains key to science

Need for "expensive apparatus" is something that modernscience intensified (need for more powerful telescopes, light

sources, research boats, geological probes etc)

Intrinsic to the ambition that European researchers remain atthe vanguard of scientific discovery

But there is something about research data:

information opens new worlds for science


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research logic machines

Research Data collected at observation or experimentationphase were registered in the scientists notebooks, whichused to be paper books

Now research data is stored in digital form. Easier to beprocessed by "logic machines" programmed with complexmodels able to dig into the data

Logic machines are made of human scientific knowledgeand creativity, softwareand the underlying hardware

Scientist notebooks can now be linkedto a huge amount ofother data resources (including scientific papers), computerswith unprecedented capacity, eventually connected to globalnetworks


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Europe riding the research data wave

Vision: "data e-infrastructure thatsupports seamless access, use, re-use,and trust of data.

In a sense, the physical and technicalinfrastructure becomes invisible and thedata themselves become theinfrastructure a valuable asset on whichscience, technology, the economy and

society can advance". The High Level Expert Group onScientific Data presented Ridingthe Wave in October 2010

Russell's quote could be extended:

without data and computing infrastructures few men

can achieve much in 21

st

centurys science


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who is involved?

data generators

research projects, big research infrastructure,installations or medium size laboratories,simulation centres, surveys or individual

researchers

discipline-specific data services

providing data and workflows as a service

generic common data services

computing centres, libraries, publishers

researchers as users

using (and producing) data for science andengineering

and research funders

community driven data infrastructure, includingESFRI, ESFRI clusters and others


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network infrastructure, GANT

HPC/distributed computing/software infrastructure

scientific data infrastructure

e-infrastructure building bridges
http://www.seadatanet.org/


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issues to be addressed (policy framework)

Are publically funded research data a public good?

How do we ensure preservationand access?

How to we make data discoverableand exchangeable?

How to ensure integrityand reliabilityof data?

How do we ensure appropriate recognition?

How do we manage intellectual property?

How do we deal with privacyin the research context?

How do work the long term funding and cost/benefit?

How to work at European and globallevels?

How to foster cooperation with developing countries?

etc


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Policy context

A Reinforced European Research Area Partnership forExcellence and Growth, COM(2012) 392 July 2012

Towards better access to scientific information:boosting the benefits of public investments inresearch, COM(2012) 401 final - July2012

Commission, Recommendation on access andpreservation of scientific information, C(2012) 4890final July 2012

Horizon 2020

- Open Access to Scientific PublicationsOpenAIRE supporting infrastructure

- Pilot on research data

Data Management Plan is required

Open Science


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a Friend

Clear Green and Pure Gold

Frederick Friend, Honorary Director Scholarly Communication, UCL

This paper explores the mechanisms whereby theEuropean Commission might implement its decision inprinciple to introduce open access for all publicationsresulting from Horizon 2020 research, following the

successful pilot for open access to FP7 publications [].2012, Fred Friendscontribution paper to the European Commission


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issues to be addressed (e-infrastructure)

The EC in coordination with EU Member States is looking afterresearch data as an infrastructure

As a valuable and a strategic resource, research data opens atleast three key issues to be addressed(*):

Howdata can be networked

How to envision and set up data governance on a globalscale

How the EU can play a leading role in helping start andsteer this global trend

(*) Fred Friend, Jean-Claude Gudon, Herbert Van de SompelBeyond Sharing and Re-using: Toward Global Data Networking


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Development,

deployment &

operation of

e-Infrastructures

Fostering the innovation potential

of Ris and their human capital

Reinforcing European RI policy and

international cooperation

Integrating

and opening

existing

national RI of

pan-European

interest

Developing new

world-class RI

ResearchInfrastructures

WP 2014-2015190 million Euro

Horizon 2020


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RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (E-INFRASTRUCTURE HIGHLIHGTED)Work Programme 2014-2015

CALL 1DEVELOPINGNEW

WORLDCLASSINFRASTRUCTURES

CALL 2INTEGRATINGANDOPENING

RESEARCHINFRASTRUCTURES

OFPAN-EUROPEANINTEREST

CALL 3

E-INFRASTRUCTURES

CALL 4SUPPORTTOINNOVATION,

HUMANRESOURCES,

POLICYANDINTERNATIONAL

COOPERATIONFORRESEARCHINFRASTRUCTURES

DESIGN

STUDIES

SUPPORT TO

PREPARATORY PHASE

OF ESFRI PROJECTS

SUPPORT TO THE

INDIVIDUAL IMPLEMENTATION

AND OPERATION

OF ESFRI PROJECTS

SUPPORT TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF

CROSS-CUTTING INFRASTRUCTURE

SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS FOR

CLUSTER OF ESFRI AND OTHER

RILEVANT RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

INITIATIVES IN A GIVEN THEMATIC AREA

INTEGRATING AND OPENINGEXISTING NATIONAL AND REGIONAL

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES OF

PAN-EUTROPEAN INTEREST

MANAGING, PRESERVING

AND COMPUTING WITH

BIG RESERACH DATA

E-INFRASTRUCTURES

FOR OPEN ACCESS

TOWARDS GLOBAL DATA

E-INFRASTRUCTURES:

RESEARCH DATA ALLIANCE

Pan-European

High Performance Computing

infrastructure and services

Centres

of Excellence

for Computing

applications

Network ofHPC CompetenceCentres for SMEs

PROVISION OF

CORE SERVICES

ACROSS

E-INFRASTRUCTURES

RESEARCH AND

EDUCATION

NETWORKING

GEANT

E-INFRASTRUCTURES FORVIRTUAL RESEARCH

ENVIRONMENTS (VRE)

INNOVATION

SUPPORT

MEASURES

INNOVATIVE PROCUREMENT

PILOT ACTION IN THE FIELD OF

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTATION

STRENGTHENING THE

HUMAN CAPITAL OF

RESEARCH

INFRASTRUCTURES

NEW PROFESSIONS

AND SKILLS

FOR E-INFRASTRUCTURES

POLICY MEASURES

FOR RESEARCH

INFRASTRUCTURES

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

FOR RESEARCHINFRASTRUCTURES

E-INFRASTRUCTURE

POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND

INTERNATIONALCOOPERATION

NETWORK OF

NATIONAL CONTACT

POINTS

CALLS IN 2014DEADLINES SEPT 2014 AND JAN 2015

INITIATIVES STARTING IN 2015 UNTIL 2018


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Research Data Alliance: a funder perspective

Societal challenges of our time transcend borders

Data and computing intensive science is made of globalcollaborations

Research data are global like the web

The European Commission has been supporting the set-up ofthe Research Data Alliance (RDA) to enable data exchangeon a global scale

The initial phase of RDA has been supported by thecollaboration between the European Commission, the USNational Science Foundation and National Institute of Standardsand Technology and the Australian Ministry of Research

Extending to more countries and funding agencies


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Tools for virtual

research environments

Tools for virtual

research environments

Generic services:

preservation, curation storage and computation

Open Access:participatory, distributed infrastructure

Environment

Atmosphere/SpacePhysics

Scientific Data(Discipline Specific)

Other Data

Researcher 1

Non Scientific World

Scientific WorldResearcher 2

Aggregated Data Sets(Temporary or Permanent)

Workflows

Aggregation Path

VRE

VRE

RDA projection wall


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take five

5 principles describing the benefits of a globalresearch data infrastructure (G8+O6)

Data is:

DiscoverableIDs, Descriptive Metadata, ...

AccessibleAcknowledgment, License, Terms of Use,Intellectual Property, Legal ...

UnderstandableSemantics, Analysis, Quality,Language translation ....

ManageableResponsibility, Costs, Preservation ...

People (Usable) - Workforce, Cultural, Training, ...


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Final remarks

Data e-Infrastructures increase scope, depth and economiesof scale of the scientific enterprise

Horizon 2020 provides tools and opportunities addressingdata and computing e-infrastructures

If taken with appropriate resources and critical mass, canproject Europe into the new world of data driven science

The objective is to combine the expertise of scientific

communities with the expertise of ICT communities capable ofexploring the limits of high bandwidth communication, high-performance computing, open scientific software and virtualresearch environments


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Carlos Morais Pires

carlos.morais-pires(at) ec.europa.eu

Thank you!

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