Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DICE (Data Infrastructure Capacity for EOSC)
Período documentado: 2021-01-01 hasta 2022-03-31
The DICE project has the purpose to enable a European storage and data management infrastructure for EOSC, providing generic services and building blocks to store, find, access and process data in a consistent and persistent way. Specifically, DICE partners are offering state-of-the-art data management services with more than 50 PB of storage capacity in total. The service and resource provisioning are accompanied by work to enhance the current service offering; the aim is to fill the gaps still present to the support of the entire research data life cycle: solutions will be provided for increasing the quality of data and their re-usability, supporting long term preservation, managing sensitive data, and bridging between data and computing resources.
All services provided via DICE are being offered through the EOSC Portal and interoperable with EOSC Core via a lean interoperability layer to allow efficient resource provisioning from the very beginning of the project. The partners closely monitor the evolution of the EOSC interoperability framework and guidelines to comply with a) the rules of participation to onboard services into EOSC, and b) the interoperability guidelines to integrate with the EOSC Core functions.
The data services offered via DICE through EOSC are designed to be agnostic to the scientific domains in order to be multidisciplinary and to fulfil the needs of different communities. The consortium aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the service offering by integrating services with community platforms as part of the project and by engaging with new communities coming through EOSC. To this purpose three communities are directly part of the project to show case the usage of data management services in research data workflows: CompBioMed (Life Science), LOFAR (Astronomy) and ICOS (Atmosphere and Ecosystems Science).
All services provided via DICE are being offered through the EOSC Portal and interoperable with EOSC Core via a lean interoperability layer to allow efficient resource provisioning from the very beginning of the project. The partners closely monitor the evolution of the EOSC interoperability framework and guidelines to comply with a) the rules of participation to onboard services into EOSC, and b) the interoperability guidelines to integrate with the EOSC Core functions.
The data services offered via DICE through EOSC are designed to be agnostic to the scientific domains in order to be multidisciplinary and to fulfil the needs of different communities. The consortium aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the service offering by integrating services with community platforms as part of the project and by engaging with new communities coming through EOSC. To this purpose three communities are directly part of the project to show case the usage of data management services in research data workflows: CompBioMed (Life Science), LOFAR (Astronomy) and ICOS (Atmosphere and Ecosystems Science).
The DICE project has the following main objectives:
• To provide via the EOSC Portal state-of-the-art data services and significant capacity support by the VA funding mechanism;
• 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;
• To enhance the service provision by adding features for: easier integration with computing infrastructures; improve the integration, interoperability, and scalability of PID-systems; long-term preservation; and supporting of sensitive data management;
• Integration of DICE offered data services in community platforms to show case the advantages of the adoption of data management services;
• These activities are all supported by the Project Management and by the outreach and dissemination activities.
All actvities have been progressing in the achievements of their objectives in the first reporting period with the following results achieved so far:
1. VA service offering:
o Revision of service descriptions and service offers and onboarding in the EOSC Portal
o Regular management of the requests made by users
o Monitoring of the allocated resources for the different installations
2. Operation management:
o Set-up of the main SMS processes
o Daily operation of the services and operational tools
3. Operational tools integration with the EOSC Core services
o Monitoring and analysis of the interoperability guidelines as soon as they are available
o Technical work to update or enhance the integration
4. New services features development:
o Development of a plan for the integration of data services and HPC infrastructures with first pilots in place
o Development of draft long term preservation policies
o Definition of B2INST (a PID service for the identification of instruments that is based on B2HANDLE), concept planning for displaying PID info on the B2FIND CKAN GUI, Integration of the PID Prefix checking tool
o Definition of a plan and analysis of risks for the sensitive data management
5. Community platforms integration:
o Definition of the integration plans for the research workflows related to the communities CompBioMed, LOFAR and ICOS
o Advancements in the integration work for all three communities with the support of the interested service providers
6. Dissemination:
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
7. Collaboration started and ongoing with relevant other initiatives in EOSC landscape line EOSC Future, other INFRAEOSC-07 EC funded projects, EOSC Association and other EOSC-related projects.
• To provide via the EOSC Portal state-of-the-art data services and significant capacity support by the VA funding mechanism;
• 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;
• To enhance the service provision by adding features for: easier integration with computing infrastructures; improve the integration, interoperability, and scalability of PID-systems; long-term preservation; and supporting of sensitive data management;
• Integration of DICE offered data services in community platforms to show case the advantages of the adoption of data management services;
• These activities are all supported by the Project Management and by the outreach and dissemination activities.
All actvities have been progressing in the achievements of their objectives in the first reporting period with the following results achieved so far:
1. VA service offering:
o Revision of service descriptions and service offers and onboarding in the EOSC Portal
o Regular management of the requests made by users
o Monitoring of the allocated resources for the different installations
2. Operation management:
o Set-up of the main SMS processes
o Daily operation of the services and operational tools
3. Operational tools integration with the EOSC Core services
o Monitoring and analysis of the interoperability guidelines as soon as they are available
o Technical work to update or enhance the integration
4. New services features development:
o Development of a plan for the integration of data services and HPC infrastructures with first pilots in place
o Development of draft long term preservation policies
o Definition of B2INST (a PID service for the identification of instruments that is based on B2HANDLE), concept planning for displaying PID info on the B2FIND CKAN GUI, Integration of the PID Prefix checking tool
o Definition of a plan and analysis of risks for the sensitive data management
5. Community platforms integration:
o Definition of the integration plans for the research workflows related to the communities CompBioMed, LOFAR and ICOS
o Advancements in the integration work for all three communities with the support of the interested service providers
6. Dissemination:
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
7. Collaboration started and ongoing with relevant other initiatives in EOSC landscape line EOSC Future, other INFRAEOSC-07 EC funded projects, EOSC Association and other EOSC-related projects.
The DICE consortium expects the following results to be achieved by the end of the project:
* Increase the storage resources available to researchers by scaling-out the EOSC Portal.
* Enhance the data management service provisioning to cover the whole research data life cycle
* Service provisioning fully interoperable with the EOSC core
* Engage research communities in the exploitation of DICE services
* Advance community platforms with data services offered through DICE
* Provide support for the management of sensitive data
With those objectives being achieved the partners expect to have the following impacts:
1. Scale up the EOSC Portal through a growing catalogue to the broadest possible set of high-quality services and resources supporting the whole research life cycle from service providers across Europe and beyond.
2. More scientific communities across Europe are equipped and have access to state-of-the-art services (including storage and computing) for their research activities, increasing data-intensive research.
3. Facilitate Open Science practices across the research community in Europe with services to connect, share and re-use all type of research outputs, fostering collaboration and enhancing scientific discovery.
4. Foster synergies between pan-European e-infrastructures operators, leading to harmonised services, improved use of resources and economies of scale across Europe.
5. Support the collaboration in data provision and exchange across regional and national related infrastructures allowing the integration of data from a myriad of resources and research communities.
6. Coordinate and incentivise institutional and public actors so that they open up their services and resources to researchers across Europe, through a transparent and quality assured process.
* Increase the storage resources available to researchers by scaling-out the EOSC Portal.
* Enhance the data management service provisioning to cover the whole research data life cycle
* Service provisioning fully interoperable with the EOSC core
* Engage research communities in the exploitation of DICE services
* Advance community platforms with data services offered through DICE
* Provide support for the management of sensitive data
With those objectives being achieved the partners expect to have the following impacts:
1. Scale up the EOSC Portal through a growing catalogue to the broadest possible set of high-quality services and resources supporting the whole research life cycle from service providers across Europe and beyond.
2. More scientific communities across Europe are equipped and have access to state-of-the-art services (including storage and computing) for their research activities, increasing data-intensive research.
3. Facilitate Open Science practices across the research community in Europe with services to connect, share and re-use all type of research outputs, fostering collaboration and enhancing scientific discovery.
4. Foster synergies between pan-European e-infrastructures operators, leading to harmonised services, improved use of resources and economies of scale across Europe.
5. Support the collaboration in data provision and exchange across regional and national related infrastructures allowing the integration of data from a myriad of resources and research communities.
6. Coordinate and incentivise institutional and public actors so that they open up their services and resources to researchers across Europe, through a transparent and quality assured process.