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 was by invitation. Invited participants were 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 UTC
| Time | Session title |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | Registration and welcome coffee |
| 09:00 - 09.45 |
Welcome messages Portuguese contribution to EOSC and to the ESFRI landscape (Presentation | Video) Marta Coelho Abrantes, João Moreira and Filipa Pereira - Department of International Relations, The landscape of Marine Knowledge in view of the Ocean Pact and how to navigate it (Presentation | Video) Zoi Konstantinou, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MARE), Maritime Innovation, Marine Knowledge and Investment |
09.45 - 10:30 |
Blue-Cloud core federated services |
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Blue-Cloud VRE (Presentation | Video) and its comprehensive suite of services and tools, including cloud storage, computing resources, collaborative workspaces, R-Studio, JupyterHub, JupyterLab, Galaxy, a Software Importer, and Blue Cloud Collaborative Data Analytics as a Service: Streamlined platforms for executing complex data analysis tasks and workflows. Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI, Blue-Cloud Scientific Coordinator |
10:30 - 11:30 |
Blue-Cloud Data Discovery services |
| 10:30 - 11:15 |
DD&AS (metadata federation approach) and Beacon: High performance data lake for sub-setting of big data sets (Presentation | Video) A gateway to a vast repository of marine data, providing seamless discovery and retrieval of datasets and products from diverse Blue Data Infrastructures. Dick Schaap, MARIS, Blue-Cloud Technical Coordinator |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Open discussion |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee break |
12.00 - 13:00 |
Overview of Blue-Cloud Federated thematic services |
| 12:00 - 12:40 |
The Global Fisheries Atlas VLab. A FAIR-compliant entry point for end users to discover, access and understand the state of stocks and fisheries worldwide. (Presentation | Video) Workbench for Ecosystem-level EOVs. A generic modelling workflow to generate high-quality interpolated maps of the global distribution of these plankton entities. (Presentation | Video) |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Q&A and moderated debate around reusability of those services (Video) |
Session 2 Assessing federation at thematic level
6 November 2024, 14:30 - 17:00 UTC
| Time | Session title |
|---|---|
14:30 - 16:00 |
Invited presentations |
| 14:30 - 14:45 |
The marine restoration toolbox by CLIMAREST. |
| 14:45 - 15:00 |
The data life cycle within ICOS RI for the marine domain. (Presentation | Video) |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
LifeWatch federated services: the LifeWatch search engine, the LifeBlock system, the LifeWatch workflow engine. (Presentation | Video) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Euro-Argo platform and a global network contributing to the Global Ocean Observing System and the Global Climate Observing System. (Presentation | Video) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | EMSO ERIC Data Federation and Management via ERDDAP. (Presentation | Video)
Ingrid Puillat, EMSO ERIC General Director |
16:15 - 17:00 |
Towards an open science federation of marine services (Video)Panel discussion with the session speakers, Blue-Cloud partners and the audience |
18:00 - 20:00 |
Networking Cocktail - Catch Me restaurant (Google Maps) |
Venue
Instituto Hidrográfico (IH), Rua das Trinas 49 - 1249-093 Lisboa (Portugal) - Google Maps link
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