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EGI Federated Data

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Overview

The EGI Data Federation is part of EGI infrastructure. It is built using the EGI Open Data Platform, based on Onedata technology.

For scientists or member of research projects, the EGI Data Federation provides you with a means of accessing and working with data from the cloud. It also allows your data to be made discoverable and accessible to the general public via the EGI DataHub.

For organizations, institutions or companies which provides (or is willing to provide) data storage or hosting of open data, the EGI Data Federation can easily link you to a wide research and public European network.

EGI DataHub

The EGI DataHub is the front end of the EGI Data Federation. It is a Data as a Service (DaaS) - a first port of call to datasets hosted by data providers who are members of the EGI infrastructure - or to users' datasets themselves. Whilst the EGI DataHub does not store data itself, it provides an easy means of discovering datasets hosted by different data providers, and making those datasets easily accessible via different means. This could be by using a simple web browser or over POSIX to virtual machines on the cloud.


Getting started

For the meaning of the terms in the following guides, please refer to the EGI Glossary.

Overview This introduction page.
For users Individuals and institutions using or planning to use federated data technologies for their activities
For resource providers Institutions and companies contributing or willing to contribute to the FedData providing access to their cloud infrastructure via the Federation
Infrastructure Status Updated status of the data infrastructure via the Federation
Innovation roadmap Developments ongoing and planned for the EGI Federated Cloud