eInfrastructures

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• e-Infrastructures for e-Science
• the EU Policy
• Presentation at the DRIVER Confederation Summit,
  20 October 2009

Wim Jansen INFSO F3 European Commission GEANT
and eInfrastructure
"The views expressed in this presentation are
those of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the European Commission"
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Science and ICT

• Scientific advances more important than ever
• Global challenges with high societal impact
• Innovation, research and economic development
• The Fifth Freedom (Free movement of Knowledge)
• Adoption of ICT changes the scientific discovery
  process
• Computing, simulation and data virtualisation
  of experiments
• Tackling the very small, the very big and the
  very complex
• Cost efficiency
• Open, cross-border and cross-discipline
  collaboration

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ICT infrastructures for e-Science a
Communication to European Institutions COM(2009)
108

• Highlighting the importance of embracing the
  e-Science paradigm shift
• Highlighting the strategic role of
  e-Infrastructures as a crucial asset underpinning
  European research and innovation policies
• Calling on Member States and the scientific
  communities, in cooperation with the European
  Commission, for a reinforced and coordinated
  effort to further develop world class
  e-Infrastructures

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e-Infrastructures for scienceubiquitous
research environments for accessing and sharing
resources and tools
Connecting the finest minds Sharing and
federating the best scientific resources Building
global virtual communities
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ICT infrastructures for e-ScienceCOM(2009) 108
Three vectors of a renewed European Research
strategy 2020
Europe as hub of excellence ine-Science
Sustainable and continuous services of production
quality 24/7
Innovation by exploiting know-how beyond Science
(Health, Learning, large scale experimentation,
LL)
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Conclusions by Competitiveness Council of 29 May
2009

• Highlight strategic importance of
  e-Infrastructures key to overcome fragmentation
  and digital divide
• Member States to consider e-Infrastructures in
  their national roadmaps
• Commission to ensure
• sustainability
• global connectivity and interoperability
• unimpeded use

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e-Infrastructures in action today
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Examples of projects
network computing data
generic e-Infrastructure user communities
involvement
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Scientific Data Infrastructure
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Fostering Global Virtual Research Communities

• Scientific Communities
• Geographically spread
• Culture heterogeneity
• Problem Complexity
• Volumes of information
• Quality of information
• Incentives to share
• Organisational barriers

• e-Infrastructures
• Connectivity
• Collaboration
• Processing, Simulation
• Repositories of data
• Curation/Review
• Trust
• Knowledge advantage

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e-Science workspaces
Data/Visualisation
e-Science Workspace
e-Science Workspace
e-Science Workspace
Database
Database
Laboratory
Library
Laboratory
Library
Computer/Simulation
Computer
Computer
EfficiencyGains
Economies of Scale
Networking
Networking
Networking/Connectivity
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WP2010 (e-Infastructures) Publication 30/07/2009
/ Deadline 24/11/2009
Call for proposals FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2
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Topic objectives
INFRA-2010-1.2.3 Virtual Research Communities

• General objectives
• Enable an increasing number of users from all
  disciplines to access, share and use
  e-Infrastructures (facilities, instruments,
  software data
• Remove constraints of distance, access and
  usability, as well as barriers between
  disciplines for a more effective scientific
  collaboration and innovation
• More specifically
• Deployment of e-Infrastructures in research
  communities to enable multi-disciplinary
  collaboration
• Deployment of end-to-end e-infrastructure
  services and tools for integrating and increasing
  research capacities
• Build user-configured virtual research facilities
  and test-beds from collection of diverse
  resources
• Address human, social and economic factors to
  facilitate the creation, take up/maintenance of
  e-Infrastructure services
• Integrate and link regional e-Infrastructures
• Expected impact
• Increased effectiveness of European research
  through the broader use of e-Infrastructures by
  research communities the emergence of virtual
  research communities of European and
  international dimension that cannot be achieved
  by national initiatives alone

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Call for Proposals Publication 30/07/2009 /
Deadline 24/11/2009
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Orchestration within the e-Infrastructure need
for coordination all the elements and layers

• In the Communication to the Council and EP, the
  Commission asks the involvement of Member States
  and key stakeholders to build robust, dynamic and
  innovative e-Infrastructures for scientific data
• This cooperation started already by launching 15
  projects, including the FP7 Open Access Pilot (40
  Mio Euro)
• There is still a long way to go...

Adapted from e-SciDR study
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eInfrastructure Community building need for
coordination all the elements and layers

• - The changing role of Repositories
• in future visions of scholarly
• communications
• - Repository activity needs to be
• joined up more closely with
• Virtual Research Community
• developments in eScience, data
• sharing, preservation and
• distributed Computing
• infrastructure
• From a Repositories perspective
• via the enhanced publications
• concept towards a thematic
• based scientific data
• eInfrastructure.

Information

Repository services
Management of Repositories
Libraries in the value chain between data and
preservation

Processing, Computation

Physical infrastructure
Adapted from e-SciDR study
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Scientific Data - Looking ahead

• Big, complex data-intensive science" of global
  dimension is here to stay hence the increasing
  value of observational and experimental data in
  virtually all fields of science
• Europe pays particular attention to the aspects
  of accessibility to scientific information, its
  quality assurance and preservation
• Developing an ecosystem of European Digital
  Repositories, federating and adding value to
  national or discipline-based repositories will be
  necessary
• Multi-disciplinary approaches, new participative
  paradigms and global research communities are an
  essential part and driver of the strategy
• but organisational, governance and financing
  models need reconsideration, informed by
  sociological, political and cultural
  considerations
• Upcoming Calls of e-Infrastructures programme to
  provide support to the e-Science transition

We need to exploit the growing sensor/effector
layer to make the world itself a real-time
database. (from the creativity machine, V. Vinge)
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For further information
www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/
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• Thank you