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The EUDAT Project Towards a European Collabora9ve Data Infrastructure Slides by Damien Lecarpen2er – CSC, IT Center for Science, Finland Presenta2on by Alberto Michelini, INGV Rome, VERCE KickOff, Paris October 3, 2011

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The  EUDAT  Project    

Towards  a  European  Collabora9ve  Data  Infrastructure  

Slides  by  Damien  Lecarpen2er  –    CSC,  IT  Center  for  Science,  Finland  Presenta2on  by  Alberto  Michelini,  INGV  Rome,  VERCE  Kick-­‐Off,  Paris  October  3,  2011  

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Source:  European  Commission  

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Scientific facilities, research communities . . . . . . .

Linking at the speed of the light

Sharing computers, software and instruments

Sharing and federating scientific data

e-Infrastructures Vision empower research communities through ubiquitous, trusted and easy

access to services for data, computation, communication and collaborative work

Sharing  and  federa9ng  Scien9fic  Data?  

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The  current  data  infrastructure  landscape  

    There   is   a   long   history   of   data   management   in   Europe,   with  several   exis2ng   data   infrastructures   dealing   with   established   and  growing  user  communi2es  (e.g.,  ESO,  ESA,  EBI,  CERN)        

   New  Research   Infrastructures  are  emerging  and  are  also   trying  to  build  data  infrastructure  solu2ons  to  meet  their  needs  (CLARIN,  EPOS,  ELIXIR,  ESS,  etc.)      

    There   is   a   large   number   of   projects   providing   excellent   data  services   (EURO-­‐VO,   GENESI-­‐DR,   Geo-­‐Seas,   HELIO,   IMPACT,  METAFOR,  PESI,  SEALS,  etc.)

 However,  most  of  these  infrastructures  and  ini9a9ves  address    the  needs  of  a  specific  discipline  and  user  community  

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The  current  data  infrastructure  landscape:  Challenges  and  opportuni9es  

Challenges    

   How  to  ensure  compa2bility  and   interoperability  between  the  different  infrastructures  to  promote  cross-­‐disciplinary  research?  

 

   Infrastructures  face  increasing  challenges  due  to  data  growth  in  volume  and  complexity  (the  so-­‐called  “data  tsunami”)  

    strong   impact   on   costs   threatening   the   sustainability   of   the  infrastructure

Opportuni9es    

    Poten2al   synergies   do   exist:   although   disciplines   have   different  ambi2ons,   they   have   common   basic   needs   and   requirements   that  could   be   matched   with   generic   pan-­‐European   services   suppor2ng  mul2ple  communi2es.  

   Strategy  needed  at  European  level  

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History  of  the  EUDAT  concept  

   The  concept  of  a  shared  pan-­‐European  infrastructure  was  supported  and  further        elaborated  by  a  number  of  policy  and  experts  bodies:

    EUDAT   has   its   origins   in   the   work   of   the   PARADE   (Partnership   for  Accessing  Data  in  Europe)  ini2a2ve    

     PARADE   White   Paper   (October   2009)   defining   a   ”Strategy   for   a  

European   Data   Infrastructure   that   should   be   persistent,  mul2disciplinary,  and  based  on  the  need  of  user  communi2es”

  e-­‐IRG  and  ESFRI:  e-­‐IRG  Blue  Paper  (September  2010)       Recommends   ”to   iden2fy   and   promote   common   (long   term)   data  related  services  across  different  RI”  

           High  Level  Expert  Group  (HLEG)  report  on  Scien2fic  Data  (October  2010)                  Calls  for  a  ”Collabora2ve  Data  Infrastructure”  for  scien2fic  data,                  that  supports  seamless  access,  use,  reuse,  and  trust  of  data.  

   EUDAT  will  materialise  this  vision  from  October  2011  

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Towards  a  Collabora've  Data  Infrastructure  

Source:  HLEG  report,  p.  31  

   EUDAT  will  focus  on  building  this  generic  data  infrastructure  layer  and  offer      a  trusted  domain  for  long  term  data  preserva7on  accompanied  with      related  services  to  store,  iden7fy,  authen7cate  and  mine  these  data.  

   This  need  be  done  in  close  collabora2on  with  the  Communi2es  

   Core  services  must  match  the  requirements  of  the  communi9es       Community  services  can  also  be  incorporated  into  the  common  data  service  infrastructure  when  they  are  of  use  to  other  communi9es.  

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Core  services  are  building  blocks  of  EUDAT‘s  Common  Data  Infrastructure  mainly  included  on  bobom  layer  of  data  services  

 EUDAT  Core  Services  • Single  Sign  On  (federated  AAI)  • Data  access  and  upload  • Long-­‐term  preserva2on  • Persistent  iden2fier  service  • Workspaces  • Web  execu2on  and  workflow  services  • Monitoring  and  accoun2ng  services  • Network  services  

Extended  Core  Services  (community-­‐supported)  • Joint  meta  data  service  • Joint  data  mining  service  

EUDAT  core  services  

No need to match the needs of all at the same time, addressing a group of communities can be very valuable, too

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The  EUDAT  Consor9um  

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The  EUDAT  Communi9es:  CLARIN/Linguis9cs  

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The  EUDAT  Communi9es:  EPOS/Earth  Science  

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The  EUDAT  Communi9es:  ENES/Climate  

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The  EUDAT  Communi9es:  Lifewatch/Environment  

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The  EUDAT  Communi9es:  VPH/BMS  

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The  EUDAT  Communi9es  

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The  EUDAT  Communi9es  (by  field)  

EUDAT  targets  all  scien2fic  disciplines  (discipline  neutral):    

   To  enable  the  capture  and  iden2fy  cross-­‐discipline  requirements     To  involving  the  scien2sts  of  all  the  communi2es  in  the  shaping  of  the            infrastructure  and  its  services  

Biological  and  Medical  Science    

VPH,  ELIXIR,  BBRMI,  ECRIN    

Environmental  Science    

ENES,  EPOS,  Lifewatch,  EMSO,  IAGOS-­‐ERI,  ICOS  

Social  Sciences  and  Humani9es    

CLARIN  

Physical  Sciences  and  Engineering    

WLCG,  ISIS      

Material  Science    

ESS…  

Energy    

EUFORIA…  

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EUDAT Services Activities – Iterative Design

EUDAT’s   Services   ac2vity   is   concerned   with   iden2fica2on   of   the   types   of   data  services  needed  by  the  European  research  communi2es,  delivering  them  through  a  federated  data  infrastructure  and  suppor2ng  their  users    

1.  Capturing  Communi9es  Requirements  (WP4)       Services  to  be  deployed  must  be  based  on  user  communi2es  needs   Strong   engagement   and   collabora2on   with   user   communi2es   (EUDAT  communi2es  and  beyond)  to  capture  requirements  

   

2.  Building  the  services  (WP5)      User  requirements  must  be  matched  with  available  technologies    Need  to  iden2fy:  

 available  technologies  and    tools  to  develop  the  required  services  (technology  appraisal)   gaps  and  market  failures  that  should  be  addressed  by  EUDAT  research  ac2vi2es  

  Services  must   be   designed,   built   and   tested   in   a   pre-­‐produc2on   test   bed   environment   and  made  available  to  WP4  for  evalua2on  by  their  users  

3.  Deploying  the  services  and  opera9ng  the  federated  infrastructure  (WP6)        Services  must  be  deployed  on  the  EUDAT  infrastructure  and  made  available  to  users,  with  interfaces  

for  cross-­‐site,  cross-­‐community  opera2on    Reliability,  24h/7d  availability  and  accessibility  of  the  shared  services,  with  opera2onal  security,  data  

integrity  and  compliance  with  stakeholder  requirements  and  policies.    

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EUDAT    Kick-­‐Off  

Service  deployment  

SERVICE  DESIGN  

USER  REQUIREMENTS  

SERVICE  DEPLOYMENT  

2012   2013   2014   2015  

1st  User  Forum   4th  User  Forum  2nd  User  Forum   3rd  User  Forum  

First  Services  available  

Cross-­‐  Community  Services  

Full  core    Services    deployed  

Sustainability  Plan  

EUDAT Timeline Budget:  9.3  M€  

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Expected  benefits  of  a  Collabora9ve  Data  Infrastructure  

 Enabling  innova9ve  mul9-­‐disciplinary  data  intensive  research    

 Development  of  common  services  suppor2ng  research  communi2es     Support  to  exis2ng  scien2fic  communi2es’  infrastructures     Support  to  smaller  communi2es  through  access  to  sophis2cated  services  

 

 Inter-­‐disciplinary  collabora2on  and  exploita2on  of  synergies  between  communi2es     Communi2es  from  different  disciplines  working  together  to  build  services     Data  sharing  between  disciplines  

    Ensuring  wide  access  to  and  preserva9on  of  data  in  a  sustainable  way  

   A  robust  generic  infrastructure  capable  of  handling  the  scale  and  complexity  of  data  that  will  be  generated  over  the  next  10-­‐20  years  

   Greater  access  to  exis2ng  data  and  beber  management  of  data  for  the  future     Increased  security  by  managing  mul2ple  copies  in  geographically  distant  loca2ons  

 Put  Europe  in  a  compe22ve  posi2on  for  important  data  repositories  of  world-­‐wide  relevance    

 Economies  of  scale  and  cost-­‐efficiency   Shared  resources  and  work  are  less  costly

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Ini9al  work  of  the  Collabora9ve  Data  Infrastructure:    WP4  -­‐  Capturing  Communi9es  Requirements    

The design of CDI poses a significant challenge, requiring active collaboration between all actors, and it needs to be based on an organic and open discussion process involving data architects and practitioners. “…Open and widely accepted registries of different sort will play a key role, since they make otherwise embedded knowledge explicit and therefore also allow people to re-use their content for own purposes and to carry out assessments….” From “Data Access and Interoperability Task Force” Preparation note

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Digital Object Architecture Kahn, Wilensky (2006)

Canonical Workflow

originator depositor repository A user

registered DO - data - metadata (Key-MD)

handle generator

PID property record rights type (from central registry) ROR flag mutable flag transaction record

repository B

work ownership

data metadata (Key-MD) PID access rights

hands-over

requests

deposits via RAP

requests

stores

maintains

receives disseminations

via RAP

replicates

Definitions/Entities originator = creates digital works and is owner; they can already request Handles depositor = forms work into DO (incl. metadata), deposits DO, specifies access rights and provides PID if available digital object (DO) = instance of an abstract data type with 2 components (typed data + key-metadata (as part of more metadata, includes a Handle)); can be

elementary and composed; registered DOs are such DOs with a Handle; DO content is not considered repository (Rep) = network accessible storage to store DOs; has mechanisms for deposit and access; has a unique name (X.Y.Z) to be registered centrally; store

additional data about DOs; one rep is the ROR RAP (Rep access protocol) = simple access protocol with minimal functionality required for DOA; reps can specify more Dissemination = is the data stream a user receives upon request via RAP ROR (repository of record) = the repository where data was stored first; controls replication process Meta-Objects (MO) = are objects that store mainly references mutable DOs = some DOs can be modified, others not property record = contains various info about DO (metadata, etc) type = data of DOs have a type transaction record = all disseminations of a DO are recorded

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EPOS  Architecture  1    

originator   Depositor  2  

repository  B  

user  

registered  DO  -­‐  data  -­‐  metadata        (Key-­‐MD)  

handle  generator  

PID  property  record  rights  type    (from  central                          registry)  ROR  flag  mutable  flag  transac2on  record  

repository  D  

work  ownership   data  (mutable  DOs)  

(both  con2nuous    and  discrete)  

hands-­‐over  

requests  triggered  by  user  requests  

deposits  via  RAP1  

requests  

stores  

maintains  

receives  dissemina2ons  

via  RAP1  

replicates  

Defini9ons/En99es  originator  =  creates  digital  works  and  is  owner;  it  can  be  a  probe  or  a  computa2onal  simula2on  depositor1  =  forms  work  into  DO,  which  are  only  metadata,  deposits  DO,  specifies  access  rights;  it  can  be  a  person  depositor2  =  forms  work  into  DO,  deposits  DO,  specifies  access  rights;  it  can  overwrite  DO  depositor3  =  forms  DO  into  registered  DO,  deposits  DO,  specifies  access  rights  and  provides  PID  if  available  digital  object  (DO)  =  instance  of  an  abstract  data  type  with  2  components  (typed  data  +  key-­‐metadata  (as  part  of  more  metadata,  includes  a  Handle));    

 can  be  elementary  and  composed;  registered  DOs  are  such  DOs  with  a  Handle    repository  (Rep)  =  network  accessible  storage  to  store  DOs;  has  mechanisms  for  deposit  and  access;  has  a  unique  name  (X.Y.Z)  to  be  registered  centrally;    

 store  addi2onal  data  about  DOs;  one  rep  is  the  ROR    RAP1  (Rep  access  protocol)  =  simple  access  protocol  with  minimal  func2onality  required  for  DOA;  reps  can  specify  more  RAP2  =  the  protocol  used  for  metadata  is  different  from  that  one  used  for  data.  Dissemina9on  =  is  the  data  stream  a  user  receives  upon  request  via  RAP  ROR  (repository  of  record)  =  the  repository  where  data  was  stored  first;  controls  replica2on  process,  it  is  the  repository  B.  Meta-­‐Objects  (MO)  =  are  objects  that  store  mainly  references    mutable  DOs  =  some  DOs  can  be  modified,  others  not  property  record  =  contains  various  info  about  DO  (metadata,  etc)  type  =  data  of  DOs  have  a  type  transac9on  record  =  all  dissemina2ons  of  a  DO  are  recorded    handle  generator  =  it  provides  PIDs  (Persistent  Iden2fier),  but  its  implementa2on  has  not  been    defined  yet.    

 PIDs  should  be  related  to  URIs,  which  are  increasingly  used  to  iden2fy  DO.    

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repository  A2  

replicates  

repository  C  

requests  

deposits  via  RAP1  

Depositor  3  

repository  A1  Depositor  1  

deposits  via  RAP2  

hands-­‐over  metadata  

Part related to mutable DO

Part related to registered DO

originator  

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EPOS  Architecture  2    

Originators

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EPOS  Architecture  3    For example, the main seismic data format is called SEED (Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data), which is

organized in this way: l  Control headers (formatted in ASCII) – called dataless (metadata) l  information about the volume, the station-channels, and the data l  Time series (binary, unformatted) – called mini-seed (data) l  seismic waveform data And the protocol to exchange such format is called ArcLink, a TCP based distributed data archive access protocol, which allows to perform data request based on time windows. The Handle Generator has not been implemented yet, but it should be able to manage URIs (IETF rfc 3986), which are used as PIDs.

originator   Depositor  2  

Full-­‐seed    (dataless+mini-­‐seed)  

user  

registered  DO  -­‐  data  -­‐  metadata        (Key-­‐MD)  

URI  generator  

PID  property  record  rights  type    (from  central  registry)  ROR  flag  mutable  flag  transac2on  record  

repository  D  

work  ownership   data  (mutable  DOs)  

(both  con2nuous    and  discrete)  

hands-­‐over  

requests  triggered  by  user  requests  

deposits  via  ArcLink  

requests  

stores  

maintains  

receives  dissemina2ons  via  ArcLink  

replicates  

Mini-­‐seed  Repository  (filesystem    based)  

replicates  

repository  C  

requests  

deposits  via  ArcLink  

Depositor  3  

Dataless  Repository  (DB)  

Person  who  manually    creates  the  dataless  

deposits  via  RAP2  

hands-­‐over  metadata  

Part related to mutable DO

Part related to registered DO

Seismic  sta2on  

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Ini9al  work  of  the  Collabora9ve  Data  Infrastructure:    WP7  -­‐Assessing  Scalability  

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Ini9al  work  of  the  Collabora9ve  Data  Infrastructure:    WP7  -­‐Assessing  Scalability  

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Ini9al  work  of  the  Collabora9ve  Data  Infrastructure:    WP7  -­‐Assessing  Scalability  

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Challenges  

 Delivering  high  level  mul9-­‐disciplinary  data  services    

    Achieving  a  high   level   of   interoperability   in   the   context  of  diversity  of  data,   research  disciplines  and  prac2ces  

   Need  to  strongly  involve  the  different  communi2es  in  the  design  and  evalua2on  of  services     EUDAT  as  a  platorm  to  discuss  interoperability  issues  (along  with  other  ini2a2ves:  e.g  DAITF)  

  Building  trust  among  stakeholders    

    Trust   between   service   providers   and   users   but   also   between   the   researchers   and  disciplines  themselves     Trust  in  the  EUDAT  infrastructure,  the  data  deposited  and  collected,  data  integrity  

   Ensuring  the  sustainaibility  of  the  infrastructure    

 Providing   a   framework   and   a   plan   to   ensure   the   con2nuity   of   services   beyond   the  immediate  funding  window,  through  the  seung  up  of  a  sustainable  en2ty  

   Funding  and  business  models     Parnership  and  governance  models  

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How  to  get  in  touch  with  EUDAT?  

Kimmo  Koski,  CSC  -­‐  IT  Center  for  Science  EUDAT  Project  Coordinator  

[email protected]    

Peter  Wigenburg,  Max  Planck  Ins2tute  for  Psycholinguis2cs  at  Nijmegen  (MPI-­‐PL)  EUDAT  Scien2fic  Coordinator  [email protected]  

 Damien  Lecarpen9er,  CSC  -­‐  IT  Center  for  Science  

EUDAT  Project  Manager  [email protected]  

 Alberto  Michelini,  INGV  

EUDAT  EPOS  community  representa2ve  [email protected]  

 THANK  YOU!  

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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles

must begin with a single step.”

Lao Tzu

The  beginning  of  a  long  journey…