Blue-Cloud first federation workshop
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.
Workshop Draft Agenda
Session 1 Blue-Cloud federated service offer
6 November 2024, 09:00 - 13:00 CET
| Time | Session title |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09.15 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 09:15 . 09:30 | RIs & projects tour de table |
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 of federated services |
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