The 1st Blue-Cloud 2026 Technical & Scientific Committee Meeting takes place from 28 to 29 March 2023 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The meeting brings together the scientific and technical participants of the project to discuss the technical work performed in the Blue-Cloud pilot project and the next steps needed to make Blue-Cloud a federated European Ecosystem to deliver FAIR & Open data and analytical services, instrumental for deepening research of oceans, EU seas, coastal & inland waters.
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Please notice that the invitation to the meeting is restricted only to the internal members of the Blue-Cloud 2026 technical and scientific committee.
Agenda
DAY 1 - Tuesday 28 March (13:00 - 18:00 CET)
Room D1.116, Science Park 904
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Time (CET) |
What |
Speakers |
| 13:00 - 13:10 |
Welcome |
MARIS |
| 13:10 - 13:20 |
Short introduction of the participants |
ALL |
| 13:20 - 18:00 |
Gathering and analysing input for D2.1: Existing DD&AS and Blue Data Infrastructures – Review and Specifications for Optimisation Report (M8) and D2.2: New Blue Data Infrastructures – Service Analysis Report (M8) - PART 1 The session includes an introduction, followed by 10 minutes presentation per infrastructure where each speaker can showcase types of data, discovery & access mechanism, formats, vocabularies, policy, web services & 10 additional minutes for Q&A per infrastructure |
MARIS (Introduction) SIOS (Data discovery and access at new Blue Data infrastructure SIOS) ETT (Data discovery and access at new Blue Data infrastructure EMODnet Physics) EMSO ERIC (Data discovery and access at new Blue Data infrastructure EMSO) EMBL-EBI (Data discovery and access at new Blue Data infrastructure ELIXIR-MGnify)
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Gathering and analysing input for D2.1: Existing DD&AS and Blue Data Infrastructures – Review and Specifications for Optimisation Report (M8) and D2.2: New Blue Data Infrastructures – Service Analysis Report (M8) - PART 2 |
MARIS (Introduction to Existing Blue-Cloud Data Discovery & Access service) CNR-IIA (Geobroker for metadata) MARIS (How to improve FAIRness: Upgrading AAI service and connecting to EOSC federated AAI) NOC-BODC (How to improve FAIRness: Adding semantic brokerage) MARIS (How to improve FAIRness: Streamlining web services / APIs) MARIS (How to improve FAIRness: Adding subsetting functionality) UvA (How to improve FAIRness: Adding alternative search) VLIZ (How to improve FAIRness: FAIR-EASE approach) |
| 20:15 - 23:00 |
Social Dinner |
DAY 2 - Wednesday 29 March (09:00 - 16:00 CET)
Room L3.36, Lab 42, Science Park 900
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Time (CET) |
What |
Speakers |
| 09:00 - 09:10 |
Welcome |
MARIS |
| 09:10 - 10:30 |
Gathering and analysing input for D2.1: Existing DD&AS and Blue Data Infrastructures – Review and Specifications for Optimisation Report (M8) and D2.2: New Blue Data Infrastructures – Service Analysis Report (M8) - PART 3
Discussion continued from Day 1: How to improve FAIRness |
MARIS, CNR-IIA, UvA, NOC-BODC and leaders of Blue Data Infrastructures |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
WP5: Presenting current Blue-Cloud e-infrastructure and services, and planned advancements The session is composed of presentations by the main speakers followed by discussions |
CNR-ISTI (Presentation Introduction) MOI (Presentation WEKeO) EGI (Presentation related ocean projects) CNR-ISTI (Discussion and conclusion) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Networking Lunch |
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| 13:00 - 15:45 |
Gathering and analysing input for D4.1: Blue Cloud VLabs technical requirements (M4) and D4.2: Blue Cloud VLabs implementation guidelines (M6) The session is composed of a 10 minutes presentation per demonstrator: focus on approaches and requirements concerning Blue-Cloud infrastructure + 10 minutes question time per demonstrator |
IH (Demonstrator 1) ULiege (Demonstrator 2) VLIZ (Demonstrator 3) CMCC (Demonstrator 4) IRD (Demonstrator 5) VLIZ & CNR-ISTI (Discussion on technical requirements and implementation) VLIZ (Discussion and follow up activities for D4.1 and D4.2) |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Closing the meeting |
The meeting venue: where to go
The Technical & Scientific Committee Meeting takes place at the University of Amsterdam Science Park (Science Park 904 1098 XH Amsterdam)
How to reach the University of Amsterdam Science Park
You can find useful information on how to reach the University of Amsterdam Science Park at this link.
