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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 de S. João da Mata 92 - 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 7 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.

 

Agenda

 

Day 1 - General Assembly and internal meetings with Blue-Cloud partners

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Time (UTC)

Topic

Chairs / Speakers

09:00 - 09:30

Welcome, introduction to the 4th GA and project status

09:00 - 09:10

Blue-Cloud in the context of EOSC and EU DTO

Sara Pittonet, Trust-IT, Blue-Cloud 2026 Project Coordinator

09:10 - 09:30

Status of the Blue-Cloud services today and overall project status

Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI, Blue-Cloud Scientific Coordinator

09:30 - 11:15

Live demos of the Blue-Cloud's VLabs

09:30 - 09:35

Overview of VLab progress and reports

Cyrielle Delvenne, VLIZ

09:35 - 09:55

Integration of coastal ocean observations along Europe

Joao Vitorino, HI

09:55 - 10:15

Coastal currents from observations

Abel Dechenne, ULiege

10:15 - 10:35

Carbon-Plankton Dynamics

Steven Pint, VLIZ

10:35 - 10:55

Marine Environmental Indicators

Francesco Palermo, CMCC

10:55 - 11:15

Global Fisheries Atlas

Julien Barde, IRD

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee break

 

11:45 - 12:40

Blue-Cloud outreach, engagement and education activities

11:45 - 12:15

Key results from the outreach activities, next steps

Rita Meneses, Trust-IT
 

12:15 - 12:40

Blue-Cloud Hackathon 2025

Julia Vera, SSBE
Angelika Karampourouni, SSBE

12:40 - 13:00

Blue-Cloud and EU DTO Task Force

12:40 - 13:00

Progress EDITO and plans for Taskforce: Tuning between Blue-Cloud Data Lakes and DTO development

Marina Tonani, MoI

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30

Instituto Hidrográfico Tour

14:30 - 17:30

Parallel Sessions

14:30 - 15:30 Internal meeting on exploitation activities (WP7-WP3)
Julia Vera, SSBE, WP7-WP3 partners

WP4-WP5 meeting
Alignment meeting

Massimiliano Assante, CNR, Cyrielle Delvenne, VLIZ, WP4 partners

15:30 - 16:30

Internal meeting on CCP methods in the VRE
Massimilano Assante, CNR, WP3, WP4, WP5 partners

 

Coffee Break available as well at 15:30 - 16:00

ESEB meeting     
Sara Pittonet, Trust-IT, Kate Larkin, SSBE, Steering Board

 

Coffee Break available as well at 15:30 - 16:00

16:30 - 17:30

Internal meeting on CCP methods for Galaxy workflows
Massimilano Assante, CNR, WP3, WP4, WP5 partners

Blue-Cloud Training Academy
Sara Pittonet, Rita Meneses, Trust-IT, Deniz Karaca, EuroGOOS, Pauline Simpson, René GarelloIEEE

17:30 - 18:30

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Blue-Cloud Steering board closed meeting

19:55

"A Severa" Restaurant - Working Dinner

 

Day 2 - First Federation Workshop - see dedicated page

 

Day 3 - Technical and Scientific Committee Meeting

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Time (UTC)

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 - 10:50

Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support

VLIZ, EurOBIS, EMBL-EBI, SU

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee break

 

11:00 - 12:00 Progress reports by selected BDIs about contents improvements and semantic support IFREMER, EMSO, SIOS, ETT, HUB Ocean

12:00 - 12:10

Outlook to D2.3 - Optimised and expanded Blue Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service – Documentation Report - M24

MARIS

12:10 - 12:25

Deployment of series of monolithic Beacon instances 

MARIS

12:25 - 12:40

Deployment of two integrated Beacon instances for WB1 and WB2 for harmonised output and further planning

MARIS

12:40 - 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 - 15:10

Progress of Workbenches: status today and plans for next release

IFREMER, INGV, OGS, ETZH

15:10 - 16:00

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 - 17:00

Technical challenges in VLabs (Introduction and outlook to D4.3 - Blue Cloud Vlabs Users Handbook V1 – M25)

Open discussion with VLab leaders

VLIZ
I
H, ULiege, VLIZ, CMCC, IRD

17:00 - 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