Donatella Castelli's presentation from the 3rd eROSA Workshop in Athens, Greece (21-22/5/2018)

1. www.bluebridge-vres.eu
The D4Science Infrastructure
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI
CNR-ISTI
donatella.castelli@isti.cnr.it
3rd eROSA Stakeholder Workshop,
21-22 May 2018, Athens

2. Basic design principles
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o Offer «simple» to use services and environments
o Support cross-disciplinary activities
o Support evolution
(Data Infrastructure for Science)

3. Multiple served domains
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Marine
scienceSocial Mining
Agri-food
Humanities
PARTHENOS
Environment
5100+ users
in 44 countries

4. Multiple target stakeholders
SMEs
Educators&
students
Researchers
Scientific
authorities
Citizens
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5. Leveraging others’ resources
Federation services
data mgmt services &
own resources
Existing
providers
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WP
S
APIs
As-a-service provision
“in the style of cloud”
Open to
evolution
(users &
providers)

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Data discovery, access, harmonization
& curation
Data Catalogue(s)
Retrieval
Access
(Tables, Geo datasets,
Texts, Statistics, Methods,…)
Harmonization
& Integration
Disambiguation
Integration
Consistency Checking
Validation
Metadata Mgmt &
Generation
Mapping and
Transformation,
Automatic Metadata
Generation

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Data Processing and Knowledge
generation
Powerful and Elastic Analytics Framework
Easily and openly plug-in of models and processes
Transparently leveraging of distributed computing services
Automatic production of “research objects”
Automatic prodution of provenance information

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Data Publishing & Hosting
Database
High-availability
Standard
Ready-to-use
Cloud Storage
Scalable
Reliable
Secure
Geographical DB
Scalable
OGC Standard
Documents, datasets,
tabular data, worksflows, maps,
research objects, methods, …
Workspace Catalogue
Specialised repositories

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VRE-as a Service
• Across-disciplines &
sectors
VRE VRE VRE
Virtual Research Environment
Dynamic VRE Creation
Policy Control
Collaboration
• Collaboration

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Tom provides a script
Updates the script on
his private Workspace
The D4S service
configures the
infrastructure on-the-fly
Tom executes
an experiment
on his/her data
The output, the input and the
parameters can be shared with
another user
John can execute
the experiment
again
and share the
computation with
other users
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Enabling new scientific workflows
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11. VREs (today)
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• 129 VREs
• 55,000+ data analysis/month
• 99.8 % availability

12. References / Links
• D4Science Web Site: http://www.d4science.org
• D4Science for developers: http://dev.d4science.org
• Catalogue of Applications
• https://www.gcube-system.org/catalogue-of-applications
• Software Key Features
• https://wiki.gcube-system.org/GCube_Features
• Developer Guide
• https://wiki.gcube-system.org/Developer%27s_Guide
• FeatherWeightStack
• https://wiki.gcube-system.org/Featherweight_Stack
• SmartGears
• https://wiki.gcube-system.org/SmartGears
• gCube APIs
• https://wiki.gcube-system.org/GCube_Application_Programming_Interface
• Administration Guide
• https://wiki.gcube-system.org/Administrator%27s_Guide
Introduction to D4Science - P. Pagano 125/24/2018