3rd EUDAT Conference: Bringing data Infrastructures to Horizon 2020, Amsterdam, 24-25 September 2014
24 September 2014 - 25 September 2014
Netherlands
Sustainability lies at the heart of EUDAT’s mission of designing, implementing and offering common data services and infrastructures. However, to date, there is no common vision of what Sustainability for research & e-infrastructures should encompass. The topic of Sustainability will be framed in the overall context of the conference theme, ‘Bringing data Infrastructures to Horizon 2020’.
The Opening Plenary at the 3rd Conference (Amsterdam, 24-25 September 2014) sets the scene and outlines the policy perspectives on bridging national, European and international solutions in the area of data infrastructures and data management, with a focus on EU-US cooperation. Presentations from Ed Seidel, Director US National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Carl Christian Buhr Member of the Cabinet of Ms Neelie Kroes, Vice‐President for Digital Agenda, European Commission and Kimmo Koski, Managing Director CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland & EUDAT Co-ordinator will address the data infrastructure divide between disciplines, communities and countries, and explore how they can foster European cohesion going forward.
Sustainability has many strands, ranging from ensuring the funding for the maintenance and upgrading of the physical networks and servers, to data storage and curation, and the development of ontologies for annotating data and enabling the integration of data sets – both within and across academic disciplines. It is also necessary to scope future timeframes – does sustainability mean keeping data secure and available for five years, or ten, or longer?
In his presentation entitled, What could possibly go wrong?, David Rosenthal leader of the LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program at the Stanford University Libraries will outline the intense work to preserve the web-published academic literature and other types of digital content for more than 15 years. What lessons have we learned that apply to the preservation of scientific data?
The success of Europe’s €77 billion science programme – Horizon2020, running from 2014 – 2020 hangs not only on the quality of the research and the depth of collaboration, but also in curating and managing the outputs, to make them widely available and support the creation of knowledge from data. Since most R&D funding occurs at Member State level, this is obviously a topic of broader significance.
The panel discussion with representatives from BioMedBridges, CRISP, DASISH, ENVRI, EUDAT, iMarine will debate on the road ahead, how they see the landscape evolving and what sustainability plans and models they envisage. The era of big data, the internet of things, the digitisation of biology and the increasing number of large scientific infrastructures in Europe, is leading to the generation of volumes of data that are moving beyond the capacity of physical storage systems. It is transforming the discipline of data management.
The parallel sessions continue the theme of policy and sustainability of data infrastructures as well as detailing on how EUDAT is rising to the challenged faced by researchers who still lack a comprehensive data infrastructure allowing them to share raw data and research findings. Working closely with researchers, the project has created a suite of data services – the B2 family – which enables European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to find, store, share, replicate, compute, preserve and process data allowing them to carry out research effectively.
Not all business takes place in the boardroom … the conference offers two special networking opportunities for participants to continue discussions in an informal atmosphere. The networking cocktail and poster session on 24th Sept (over 300 participants) an ideal setting to showcase your initiative. Come Dancing on 25th Sept to relax after the event. Participation is free of charge, but subject to registration - http://www.eudat.eu/3rd-eudat-conference(opens in new window)
The Opening Plenary at the 3rd Conference (Amsterdam, 24-25 September 2014) sets the scene and outlines the policy perspectives on bridging national, European and international solutions in the area of data infrastructures and data management, with a focus on EU-US cooperation. Presentations from Ed Seidel, Director US National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Carl Christian Buhr Member of the Cabinet of Ms Neelie Kroes, Vice‐President for Digital Agenda, European Commission and Kimmo Koski, Managing Director CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland & EUDAT Co-ordinator will address the data infrastructure divide between disciplines, communities and countries, and explore how they can foster European cohesion going forward.
Sustainability has many strands, ranging from ensuring the funding for the maintenance and upgrading of the physical networks and servers, to data storage and curation, and the development of ontologies for annotating data and enabling the integration of data sets – both within and across academic disciplines. It is also necessary to scope future timeframes – does sustainability mean keeping data secure and available for five years, or ten, or longer?
In his presentation entitled, What could possibly go wrong?, David Rosenthal leader of the LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program at the Stanford University Libraries will outline the intense work to preserve the web-published academic literature and other types of digital content for more than 15 years. What lessons have we learned that apply to the preservation of scientific data?
The success of Europe’s €77 billion science programme – Horizon2020, running from 2014 – 2020 hangs not only on the quality of the research and the depth of collaboration, but also in curating and managing the outputs, to make them widely available and support the creation of knowledge from data. Since most R&D funding occurs at Member State level, this is obviously a topic of broader significance.
The panel discussion with representatives from BioMedBridges, CRISP, DASISH, ENVRI, EUDAT, iMarine will debate on the road ahead, how they see the landscape evolving and what sustainability plans and models they envisage. The era of big data, the internet of things, the digitisation of biology and the increasing number of large scientific infrastructures in Europe, is leading to the generation of volumes of data that are moving beyond the capacity of physical storage systems. It is transforming the discipline of data management.
The parallel sessions continue the theme of policy and sustainability of data infrastructures as well as detailing on how EUDAT is rising to the challenged faced by researchers who still lack a comprehensive data infrastructure allowing them to share raw data and research findings. Working closely with researchers, the project has created a suite of data services – the B2 family – which enables European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to find, store, share, replicate, compute, preserve and process data allowing them to carry out research effectively.
Not all business takes place in the boardroom … the conference offers two special networking opportunities for participants to continue discussions in an informal atmosphere. The networking cocktail and poster session on 24th Sept (over 300 participants) an ideal setting to showcase your initiative. Come Dancing on 25th Sept to relax after the event. Participation is free of charge, but subject to registration - http://www.eudat.eu/3rd-eudat-conference(opens in new window)