Network Operation
The monthly newsletter continue to go from strength to strength as instruments for NOAD engagement, allowing NOADs to contribute stories from their regions and informing the network of key developments in Open Science in Europe.
The ‘NOAD Guide’ was revised for 2016 and was distributed early in the year to give update NOADs of the tasks ahead and set out all actions in more detail.
Dissemination
6 factsheets have been created and updated for specific stakeholders, on specific themes, and have been downloaded from our site. The OpenAIRE blog continues to be a big success. 2016 saw more than 75 blog articles published (up from 52 in 2015) on a great range of themes related to OpenAIRE, Open Access and Open Science, including national updates, conference reports and updates on the progress of project tasks. The blog is open to direct editing by all project partners, and is a great engagement tool, especially for the NOADs, making the OpenAIRE blog a wide-ranging and important source of news about Open Access and Open Science from across Europe.me was delivered, adding further resources to the training package (video recordings, slides).
Training and Support
Activities were centered on the gathering, creating and disseminating support and training material. The team developed or revised a set of support tools:guides, FAQs, helpdesk, factsheets, information & dissemination material, copyright issues update and briefing papers. In parallel, an intensive webinar program
Technical Activities
OpenAIRE maintains four technical infrastructures including the production, beta, testing and development environments, each with its own backend and frontend. These include dedicated servers for individual services as well as separate Hadoop clusters for compute intensive tasks (again for testing, production, and a dedicated cluster for inference operations), adequate storage (separate for backups) hosted at ICM data centre facilities. A new cluster setup running on Cloudera Hadoop version 5 (CDH5) has been set up, configured and tuned for optimum performance to support the SPARK environment, the new system underlying the IIS.