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Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons

Over the last decade, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) has built a distributed computing and data infrastructure to support over 21,000 researchers from many disciplines with unprecedented data analysis capabilities. EGI builds on the European and national investments and relies on the expertise of EGI.eu - a not-for-profit foundation that provides coordination to the EGI Community, including user groups, EGI.eu participants in the EGI Council, and the other collaborating partners. The mission of EGI-Engage is to accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons vision, where researchers from all disciplines have easy and open access to the innovative digital services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for their work. The Open Science Commons is grounded on three pillars: the e-Infrastructure Commons, an ecosystem of key services; the Open Data Commons, where any researcher can access, use and reuse data; and the Knowledge Commons, in which communities have shared ownership of knowledge and participate in the co-development of software and are technically supported to exploit state-of-the-art digital services. EGI-Engage will expand the capabilities offered to scientists (e.g. improved cloud or data services) and the spectrum of its user base by engaging with large Research Infrastructures (RIs), the long-tail of science and industry/SMEs. The main engagement instrument will be a network of eight Competence Centres, where National Grid Initiatives (NGIs), user communities, technology and service providers will join forces to collect requirements, integrate community-specific applications into state-of-the-art services, foster interoperability across e-Infrastructures, and evolve services through a user-centric development model. The project will also coordinate the NGI efforts to support the long-tail of science by developing ad hoc access policies and by providing services and resources that will lower barriers and learning curves.

WP1 (NA1) Project Management

• Task NA1.1 Project Management
• Task NA1.2 Administrative and Financial Management
• Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management

WP2 (NA2) Policy, Strategy and Communications

S. Andreozzi

• TASK NA2.1 Communication, Events and Research Champions
• TASK NA2.2 Strategy, Policy and Business Development
• TASK NA2.3 SME and Industry Engagement and Support to the European Big Research Data Value

WP3 (JRA1) e-Infrastructure Commons

D. Scardaci

• TASK JRA1.1 Authentication, Authorization and Identify Management
• TASK JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
• TASK JRA1.3 Accounting
• TASK JRA1.4 Operations Tools (includes operations portal, GOCDB, ARGO, Messaging, Security monitoring)
• TASK JRA1.5 Resource allocation

WP4 (JRA2) Platforms for the Data Commons

M. Drescher

• TASK JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
• TASK JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
• TASK JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
• TASK JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing

WP5 (SA1) Operations

P. Solagna

• TASK SA1.1 Operations coordination
• TASK SA1.2 Development of Security Operations
• TASK SA1.3 Integration and Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms

WP6 (SA2) Knowledge Commons

G. Sipos

• TASK SA2.1 Training
• TASK SA2.2 Technical User Support
• TASK SA2.3 ELIXIR (Tommi Nyrönen <tommi.nyronen@csc.fi>)
• TASK SA2.4 BBMRI (Irene Nooren <irene.nooren@surfsara.nl>)
• TASK SA2.5 MoBrain (Alexandre Bonvin <a.m.j.j.bonvin@uu.nl>)
• TASK SA2.6 DARIAH-ERIC (Karolj Skala <skala@irb.hr>)
• TASK SA2.7 LifeWatch (Jesus Marco de Lucas <marco@ifca.unican.es>)
• TASK SA2.8 EISCAT_3D (Ingemar Häggström <ingemar.haggstrom@eiscat.se>, Mats Nylen <Mats.Nylen@tp.umu.se>)
• TASK SA2.9 EPOS (Mariusz Sterzel <m.sterzel@cyfronet.pl>)
• TASK SA2.10 Asia Pacific (Eric Yen <Eric.Yen@twgrid.org>)

Objectives

Objective 1 (O1)

Ensure the continued coordination of the EGI Community in strategy and policy development, engagement, technical user support and operations of the federated infrastructure in Europe and worldwide.

Objective 2 (O2)

Evolve the EGI solutions, related business models and access policies for different target groups: the large and medium size RIs, small research communities, the long tail of science, education, industry and SMEs.

Objective 3 (O3)

Offer and expand an e-Infrastructure Commons solution

Objective 4 (O4)

Prototype an open data solution and contribute to the implementation of the European Big Data Value.

Objective 5 (O5)

Promote the adoption of EGI services and extend them with new capabilities through user co-development

Objective 6 (O6)

Increased sustainability of the EGI stakeholders outside of specific project funding.