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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
WP leader:
- Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management (Leader: EGI.eu, M1 - M30)
- Task NA1.2 Technical Management (Leader: EGI.eu, M1 - M30)
- Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management (Leader: EGI.eu, M1 - M30)
WP2 (NA2) Strategy, Policy and Communications
WP leader: S. Andreozzi
- TASK NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination (Lead: EGI.eu, M1 – M30)
- TASK NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation (Lead: EGI.eu, M1 – M30)
- TASK NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain (Lead: EGI.eu, M1 – M30)
WP3 (JRA1) E-Infrastructure Commons
WP leader: D. Scardaci
- TASK JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (Lead: GRNET, M3 – M27)
- TASK JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace (Lead: SWING, M1 – M30)
- TASK JRA1.3 Accounting (Lead: STFC, M1 – M30)
- TASK JRA1.4 Operations Tools (Lead: CNRS, M1 – M30)
- TASK JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT (Lead: CYFRONET, M1 – M30)
WP4 (JRA2) Platforms for the Data Commons
WP leader: 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
WP leader: 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
WP leader: 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>)
- 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.