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Blue-Cloud 2026 - 1st Technical & Scientific Committee Meeting

Blue-Cloud Event
28 March 2023 02:00 – 29 March 2023 02:00
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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. 

Please register your attendance here

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 CEST) 

Room D1.116, Science Park 904

Time (CEST)

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)

 

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 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 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: FAIRness analysis and streamlining web services / APIs)

UvA (How to improve FAIRness: Adding alternative search)

UvA (How to improve FAIRness: Adding alternative search)

VLIZ (How to improve FAIRness: FAIR-EASE approach)

MARIS (How to improve FAIRness: Adding subsetting functionality)

19:30 - 23:00

Social Dinner

 

 

DAY 2 - Wednesday 29 March (09:00 - 16:00 CEST) 

Room L3.36, Lab 42, Science Park 900

Time (CEST)

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
Discussion and follow up activities for D2.1 and D2.2 (MARIS)

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

 
13:00 - 14:00

WP3: Presenting and discussing technical requirements WorkBenches

The session is composed of a 10 minutes presentation per WorkBench focused on approaches and requirements concerning Blue-Cloud infrastructure + 10 minutes question time per WorkBench

INGV (WorkBench 1)

OGS (WorkBench 2)

ETHZ (WorkBench 3)

14:00 - 15:45

WP4: 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 focused 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 (Summary 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.