DARE is the forerunner of a methodology that will deliver the power needed to gain the benefits of the next decade’s wealth and diversity of data. It aims to be a critical asset for research, business and government as Europe addresses global societal challenges. The methodology, tools and architectures developed within DARE improve the productivity of key experts and research developers who are overwhelmed today. DARE achieves this by creating data-driven and concept-enabled technology to amplify and accelerate their work.
This delivers agility by substantially reducing time to deliver data-driven scientific methods. DARE will deliver research excellence via giving those methods much increased power in their application domain and by polishing those data-powered methods through rapid and well-targeted refinement. The two use cases, of EPOS and IS-ENES provide compelling evidence of wider applicability. DARE plans to organise webinars targeting communities outside of EPOS and IS-ENES, e.g. in Nuclear Fusion and Material Sciences.
More specifically, DARE pushes the current state-of-the-art in the following ways:
1. DARE focuses on research teams, empowering them to innovate, in a holistic, accessible and interoperable framework, without bogging them down in technical detail.
2. DARE offers a developer-friendly framework along with sophisticated tools, to allow for managing data provenance, to promote communication, transparency and reproducibility.
3. DARE’s high-level workflow abstractions allow for the near-seamless combination of Cloud, HTC and HPC platforms and services.
4. DARE methods and tools are inherently FAIR and, combined with the DARE catalogues, they will be computer-actionable.
DARE’s impact is driven by enabling research developers and domain experts to work on extremes. DARE provides the capability to engage users across e-Infrastructures, enabling DARE hyper-platform to address a large part of the European research community.
Within this large market, DARE has impact on (a) the European domain specific e-Infrastructures, which can exploit DARE in order to create new data-driven services more easily, (b) science and technology professionals that can use DARE-powered infrastructures more easily, without being concerned with technicalities, and (c) the “long tail of science”, including research institutes, research teams, individual researchers, SMEs, etc., who, due to lack of tools, methodology or resources, are unable to make the most of even today’s wealth of data, scientific advances and the power of the e-infrastructure Commons.
