EGI-Engage - Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons (ISTI) (DIT.AD004.017)
Area tematica
Ingegneria, ICT e tecnologie per l'energia e i trasporti
Area progettuale
Dati, Contenuti e Media (DIT.AD004)Struttura responsabile del progetto di ricerca
Istituto di scienza e tecnologie dell'informazione "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI)
Responsabile di progetto
DONATELLA CASTELLI
Telefono: +39 050 621 2902
E-mail: donatella.castelli@isti.cnr.it
Abstract
Over the last decade, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) has built a distributed computing and data infrastructure to support over 21,000 researchers from many disciplines with unprecedented data analysis capabilities. EGI builds on the European and national investments and relies on the expertise of EGI.eu - a not-for-profit foundation that provides coordination to the EGI Community, including user groups, EGI.eu participants in the EGI Council, and the other collaborating partners.
The mission of EGI-Engage is to accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons vision, where researchers from all disciplines have easy and open access to the innovative digital services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for their work. The Open Science Commons is grounded on three pillars: the e-Infrastructure Commons, an ecosystem of key services; the Open Data Commons, where any researcher can access, use and reuse data; and the Knowledge Commons, in which communities have shared ownership of knowledge and participate in the co-development of software and are technically supported to exploit state-of-the-art digital services.
Obiettivi
EGI-Engage will expand the capabilities offered to scientists (e.g. improved cloud or data services) and the spectrum
of its user base by engaging with large Research Infrastructures (RIs), the long-tail of science and industry/SMEs. The
main engagement instrument will be a network of eight Competence Centres, where National Grid Initiatives (NGIs),
user communities, technology and service providers will join forces to collect requirements, integrate community-specific
applications into state-of-the-art services, foster interoperability across e-Infrastructures, and evolve services
through a user-centric development model. The project will also coordinate the NGI efforts to support the long-tail
of science by developing ad hoc access policies and by providing services and resources that will lower barriers and
learning curves.
Data inizio attività
01/03/2015
Parole chiave
Scientific computing and data processing, e-infrastructure, Research Data Infrastructures
Ultimo aggiornamento: 10/09/2024