Project description
Data infrastructures for e-Science
EUDAT is our proposal for the next stage in the realisation of the vision of "data as infrastructure". The EUDAT consortium includes representatives from each stage of the value chain that has evolved to deliver scientific knowledge to researchers, citizens, industry and society as a whole. It includes funding agencies that invest in research infrastructures and programmes of research, infrastructure operators and research communities who rely on the availability of data-management services, national data centres and providers of connectivity and, of course, the users who rely on the availability of data and services, innovators who add value to the raw results of scientific research.
EUDAT is a three-year project that will deliver a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) with the capacity and capability for meeting future researchers' needs in a sustainable way. Its design will reflect a comprehensive picture of the data service requirements of the research communities in Europe and beyond. This will become increasingly important over the next decade as we face the challenges of massive expansion in the volume of data being generated and preserved (the so-called 'data tsunami') and in the complexity of that data and the systems required to provide access to it.
Although those user requirements will vary between scientific disciplines, the micro-systems from which each community's services are built are largely generic. This commonality will make it easier to achieve the minimum critical mass of users necessary for significant economies of scale to be achieved. The ability to rapidly provide bespoke responses to the evolving needs of our research communities additionally strengthens the business case for those communities. With the inclusion of disciplines from across the spectrum of scientific endeavour sharing a common infrastructure, EUDAT also provides the opportunity for data-sharing between disciplines and cross-fertilisation of ideas.
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2
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02101 Espoo
Finland
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Participants (28)
1090 Wien
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1211 GENEVE 23
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116 36 Praha 1
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72074 Tuebingen
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20146 Hamburg
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76131 Karlsruhe
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52428 Julich
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80539 Munchen
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08034 Barcelona
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28020 Madrid
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34097 Montpellier
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74370 ARGONAY
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31057 Toulouse Cedex
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40033 Casalecchio Di Reno Bo
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00143 Roma
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1098 SJ AMSTERDAM
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3511 EP Utrecht
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7030 TRONDHEIM
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61 704 Poznan
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101 38 Stockholm
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751 05 Uppsala
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SN2 1SZ SWINDON
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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EN2 6NF Enfield
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WC1E 6BT LONDON
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0313 Oslo
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100 44 STOCKHOLM
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100 44 Stockholm
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