Blue-Cloud first federation workshop

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Blue-Cloud Event
6 November 2024 09:00–18:00
Instituto Hidrográfico (IH), Rua das Trinas 49 - 1249-093 Lisboa (Portugal)

Workshop Overview

The Blue-Cloud Horizon Europe project is introducing a federated model where Blue research infrastructures (RIs) and other data and service infrastructures and technological providers make their services available to the community via agreed, FAIR formats and technology that the Open Science Community in Europe (under the umbrella of EOSC) recommends or accepts. 

The Blue-Cloud collaborative environment allows researchers to retrieve marine data, exploit them in the VRE, access distributed cloud resources, exploit analytical services and interdisciplinary Virtual Labs. Blue-Cloud is offering e-infrastructure services (computing, storage, analytics, SSO, AAI, generic service), a data discovery service (10M+ datasets and products from European marine infrastructures such as EMODnet, SeaDataNet, Copernicus, Ecotaxa and others), and research-intensive virtual labs, embedded in a Virtual Research Environment open to any users with federated identity to the marine research community in Europe (and beyond).

In this workshop, we aim at assessing Blue-Cloud federated services towards the needs and challenges of other research infrastructures active in marine and climate research, ultimately stimulating a debate around the impact of open science federation in practice. 

Who is this workshop for

The Blue-Cloud first federation workshop is by invitation. Invited participants are the Blue Data Infrastructures contributing to the  Blue-Cloud service offer, and managers, decision makers, service and data providers at other Research Infrastructures (RIs), projects and initiatives working on marine, environmental and climate related topics.

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Workshop Draft Agenda

Session 1 Blue-Cloud federated service offer
6 November 2024, 09:00 - 13:00 CET

Time Session title
08:00 Registration and welcome coffee
09:00 - 09.30

Welcome messages

The landscape of Marine Knowledge in view of the Ocean Pact and how to navigate it

Zoi Konstantinou, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MARE), Maritime Innovation, Marine Knowledge and Investment

09.30 - 10:30

Blue-Cloud core federated services

09:30 - 09.45

Blue Cloud VRE 

and its comprehensive suite of services and tools, including cloud storage, computing resources, collaborative workspaces, R-Studio, JupyterHub, JupyterLab, Galaxy, a Software Importer, an Analytics Engine, to empower researchers to create and manage Virtual Labs

09:45 - 10:00

Blue Cloud Collaborative Data Analytics as a Service

Streamlined platforms for executing complex data analysis tasks and workflows.

10:00 - 10:15

Blue Cloud Community-Driven Catalogue

A dynamic data repository that facilitate the publication and discovery of valuable marine research resources, aligning with FAIR principles

10:15 - 10:30 Open discussion

10:30 - 11:15

Blue-Cloud Data Discovery services

10:30 - 10:45

DD&AS (metadata federation approach)

A gateway to a vast repository of marine data,providing seamless discovery and retrieval of datasets and products from diverse Blue Data Infrastructures.

10:45 - 11:00

Beacon technology

11:00 - 11:15 Open discussion
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:30

Overview of Blue-Cloud Federated thematic services

11:45 - 12:30 Presentations from some of the operational services available in the Blue-Cloud federated environment
12:30 - 13:00 Q&A and moderated debate around reusability of those services

 

Session 2  Assessing federation at thematic level
6 November 2024, 14:30 - 17:00 CET

Time Session title

14:30 - 15:30

Invited presentations

15:30 - 16:00

Open discussion on common challenges and sharing of services

16:00 - 17:00

Towards an EOSC Federation: discussion about EOSC EU Node federation

 

Venue

Instituto Hidrográfico (IH), Rua das Trinas 49 - 1249-093 Lisboa (Portugal) - Google Maps link

 

 

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