Blue-Cloud | General Assembly & Technical and Scientific Committee

Blue-Cloud General Assembly
Blue-Cloud Event
5 November 2024 09:00 – 7 November 2024 18:00
Instituto Hidrográfico (IH), Rua das Trinas 49 - 1249-093 Lisboa (Portugal)

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
Joao Vitorino, VLab 1 Leader
Alexander Barth, ULiege
Steven Pint, VLIZ
Francesco Palermo, CMCC
Julien Barde, IRD

12:00 - 13:00

WP6: updates on outreach, engagement and education activities

Rita Meneses, Trust-IT
Deniz Karaca, EuroGOOS

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:

  • Amazonia Lisboa Hotel - link

  • Lisbon São Bento Hotel - link

  • Lisboa Arsenal Suites - link

  • York House - link