The Blue Cloud data discovery and access service will be one of the components of the Blue-Cloud technical framework. It will serve federated discovery and access to blue data infrastructures and interact with the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment(the component federating computing platforms and analytical services). The pilot Blue-Cloud project aims at federating initially in total 10blue data infrastructures. Each of these existing infrastructures have been described in this deliverable D2.1, in particular with a focus on their current data discovery and access mechanisms.
From the descriptions and discussions, among others at the first TCom meeting in January 2020, it appears that a number of blue data infrastructures do not have to be federated with direct interfacing to the Blue-Cloud data discovery and access service, but indirectly as some are or will be coupled to another of the blue data infrastructures and that way it will be arranged that their contents will also be present in the Blue-Cloud data discovery and access service. In addition, activities are needed in several cases for providing API's which are suited for serving the planned Blue-Cloud data discovery and access service. In the following months a deeper analysis will be carried out, in order to detail technical specifications of the Blue-Cloud data discovery and access service, and developments required at and by each of the blue data infrastructures. This analysis, technical specification and workplan for the implementation and deployment of the Blue Cloud data discovery and access service will be documented in Deliverable D2.2 at M8. Thereafter, in the months till M17, the actual developments and deployment will take place for establishing an operational Blue-Cloud data discovery and access service by M17.