Blue-Cloud | General Assembly & Technical and Scientific Committee
The Blue-Cloud 2026 team is gathering for its 4th General Assembly (GA) meeting and Technical and Scientific Committee (TSC) meeting, which takes place at the Instituto Hidrográfico in Lisbon, Portugal, from 5 to 8 November 2024. This meeting offers the consortium a valuable opportunity to reflect on the progress made over the first two years of the project and to plan the upcoming activities necessary for the successful implementation of Blue-Cloud.
As part of the event, the Blue-Cloud team also hosts the 1st Federation Workshop. The workshop aims to evaluate Blue-Cloud's federated services in relation to the needs and challenges of other marine and climate research infrastructures. It will encourage discussions on the practical impact of open science federation.
The agenda is still under development, but the main activities for each day are as follows:
- 5 November 2024: General Assembly and internal meetings with Blue-Cloud partners
- 6 November 2024: Federation Workshop
- 7 November 2024: Technical and Scientific Committee meeting
Please note that registration for the General Assembly and Technical and Scientific Committee meetings is closed and is limited to Blue-Cloud 2026 members.
If you are a member please register using this link
Agenda
Day 1 - General Assembly and internal meetings with Blue-Cloud partners
|
Time (CEST) |
Topic |
Chairs / Speakers |
|---|---|---|
|
09:00 - 10:00 |
Welcome, introduction to the 4th GA and administrative status |
Sara Pittonet, Trust-IT, Blue-Cloud 2026 Project Coordinator, Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI, Blue-Cloud Scientific Coordinator |
|
10:00 - 12:00 |
Live demos of the Blue-Cloud's VLabs |
Cyrielle Delvenne, VLIZ |
|
12:00 - 13:00 |
WP6: updates on outreach, engagement and education activities |
Rita Meneses, Trust-IT |
|
13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
|
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Internal meeting on exploitation activities | Julia Vera, SSBE |
|
15:00 - 16:00 |
Internal meeting on CCP methods in the VRE |
Massimilano Assante, CNR |
|
16:00 - 17:00 |
Internal meeting on CCP methods for Galaxy workflows |
Massimilano Assante, CNR |
Day 2 - First Federation Workshop
The agenda is accessible on the dedicated page.
Day 3 - Technical and Scientific Committee Meeting
|
Time (CEST) |
Topic |
Chairs / Speakers |
|---|---|---|
|
09:00 - 09:10 |
Introduction |
MARIS |
|
09:10 - 09:30 |
DD&AS: Progress with level 1 information from BDIs for extended common metadata profile, including semantics, and proposed actions by BDIs |
CNR-IIA |
|
09:30 - 09:45 |
DD&AS: Progress with harvesting level 2 information and data links from BDIs for extended common metadata profile, including semantics |
MARIS |
|
09:45 - 10:00 |
Progress with semantic analyser and mappings |
NOC-BODC |
|
10:00 - 10:10 |
Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support (EurOBIS) |
VLIZ |
|
10:10 - 10:20 |
Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support (Elixir-ENA) |
EMBL-EBI |
|
10:20 - 10:30 |
Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support (Mgnify) |
EMBL-EBI |
|
10:30 - 10:40 |
Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support (EcoTaxa) |
SU |
|
10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
|
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support (EuroArgo) | IFREMER |
|
11:10 - 11:20 |
Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support (EMSO) |
EMSO |
|
11:20 - 11:30 |
Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support (SIOS) |
SIOS |
|
11:30 - 11:40 |
Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support (EMODnet Physics) |
ETT |
|
11:40 - 11:50 |
Outlook to D2.3 - Optimised and expanded Blue Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service – Documentation Report - M24 |
MARIS |
|
11:50 - 12:10 |
Deployment of series of monolithic Beacon instances |
MARIS |
|
12:10 - 12:25 |
Deployment of two integrated Beacon instances for WB1 and WB2 for harmonised output and further planning |
MARIS |
|
12:25 - 13:00 |
Feedback WBs and Outlook to D2.5 - Established BDI sub-setting APIs and Data Lakes – Documentation Report - M26 |
INGV, OGS, MARIS |
|
13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch break |
|
|
14:00 - 14:10 |
Workbenches introduction |
IFREMER |
|
14:10 - 14:30 |
Progress of WB1 |
INGV |
|
14:30 - 14:50 |
Progress of WB2 |
OGS |
|
14:50 - 15:10 |
Progress of WB3 |
ETZH |
|
15:10 - 15:30 |
Progress new developments and outlook to D5.3 - Blue-Cloud VRE federated infrastructures, 1st release – M24 |
CNR-ISTI |
|
15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee break |
|
|
16:00 - 16:10 |
Introduction and outlook to D4.3 - Blue Cloud Vlabs Users Handbook V1 – M25 |
VLIZ |
|
16:10 - 16:20 |
Progress of VLab 1 |
IH |
|
16:20 - 16:30 |
Progress of VLab 2 |
ULiege |
|
16:30 - 16:40 |
Progress of VLab 3 |
VLIZ |
|
16:40 - 16:50 |
Progress of VLab 4 |
CMCC |
|
16:50 - 17:00 |
Progress of VLab 5 |
IRD |
|
17:00 - 17:15 |
Progress EDITO and plans for Taskforce - outlook to D2.7 - Tuning between Blue-Cloud Data Lakes and DTO development, 2nd report – M26 |
MOI |
|
17:15 - 17:30 |
AOB |
MARIS |
Venue
The Blue-Cloud 2026 meetings take place at
Instituto Hidrográfico (IH), Rua das Trinas 49 - 1249-093 Lisboa (Portugal)
Recommended hotels
For your convenience, we've listed some nearby hotels close to the workshop venue: