The DICE project has the following main objectives:
• To provide via the EOSC Portal state-of-the-art data services and significant capacity supported by the VA funding mechanism (WP7).
• To coordinate and manage the operations of the services and to integrate the operational tools to manage the offered services with the EOSC Core services (WP6 and WP3).
• To enhance the service provisioning by adding features for: easier integration with computing infrastructures; improving the integration, interoperability, and scalability of PID-systems; long-term preservation; and supporting of sensitive data management (WP4).
• Integration of DICE offered data services in community platforms to show case the advantages of the adoption of data management services (WP5).
The project has successfully achieved all its objectives and in particular:
- VA service offering:
o Provisioning of the available data management services under the VA mechanisms,
o Regular and efficient management of the requests made by users,
o Periodic monitoring of the allocated resources for the different installations,
- Operation management:
o Daily operation of the services and operational tools,
o Revision and update of the main SMS processes and procedures,
- Operational tools integration with the EOSC Core services:
o Monitoring and analysis of the interoperability guidelines as soon as they were available,
o Complete integration for monitoring, accounting, AAI, helpdesk, order management, and resource onboarding,
- New services features development:
o Development of solutions to integrate data services and HPC infrastructures (B2DROP with HPC-Systems and Jupyter-Hub at JSC and B2SAFE integration with HPC-Systems at CSC),
o Development of long-term preservation policies and template,
o Development of B2INST (a PID service for the identification of instruments that is based on B2HANDLE), integration of B2INST and ORCID with B2FIND and of B2FIND with OpenAIRE Explore,
o Development for the management of sensitive data of Secure B2SHARE and deployment in CSC Sensitive Data Infrastructure and in TSD research platform at the University of Oslo,
- Community platforms integration:
o Completed the integration of data management services with the research workflows related to the communities CompBioMed, LOFAR and ICOS,
o Collection of feedbacks and inputs from the Community Advisory Board,
- Dissemination and training:
o Very active participation to dissemination and outreach events as well as organisation of webinars describing the usage and features of the different services offered via DICE, collaboration in the organisation of the EUDAT conference in 2022,
o Organisation of hackathons in particular the one on Sensitive data and the EUDAT Summer School 2023,
- Collaboration with relevant other initiatives in EOSC landscape line EOSC Future, other INFRAEOSC-07 EC funded projects, EOSC Association and other EOSC-related projects.
