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ISSUE 3 MAGAZINE March 2019 EOSC-hub: one year of achievements Five ways of working with EOSC- hub EOSC-hub and the ESFRI cluster projects EOSC in practice: ICOS The two-fold benefit of collaborating with EOSC-hub: the EnviDat story OPENCoastS and EOSC-hub New improvements for data- driven research in the Geohazards community HADDOCK helps scientists to look at the evolution of brain tumours eosc-hub.eu Data sharing done right EOSC-hub Magazine The EOSC-hub Magazine is a publication of the EOSC-hub project, edited to showcase major results and achievements of the project, collaborations ongoing with other initiatives and updates from the communities. The magazine also provides an overview of the latest highlights from the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) landscape. Disclaimer: The information and views set out in this magazine are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Commission. Neither the European Commission guarantees the accuracy of the information included in this magazine. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on the European Commission’s behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein. Issue 3 // Table of content EOSC-hub: one year of achievements ____________________________________________ 2 Five ways of working with EOSC-hub ____________________________________________ 4 EOSC-hub and the ESFRI cluster projects _________________________________________ 5 EOSC in practice: ICOS _________________________________________________________ 6 The two-fold benefit of collaborating with EOSC-hub: the EnviDat story _______________ 8 OPENCoastS and EOSC-hub ____________________________________________________ 9 New improvements for data-driven research in the Geohazards community __________ 10 HADDOCK helps scientists to look at the evolution of brain tumours __________________11 Data sharing done right _______________________________________________________ 12 About EOSC-hub he EOSC-hub project brings together to deliver a common catalogue of research multiple service providers to create the data, services and software for research. THub: a single contact point for European EOSC-hub is funded by the European Union’s researchers and innovators to discover, access, Horizon 2020 research and innovation use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources programme under grant agreement 777536. for advanced data-driven research. For researchers, this will mean a broader access Start: January 2018 to services supporting their scientific discovery and collaboration across disciplinary and End: December 2020 geographical boundaries. The project mobilises providers from the EGI Total budget: 33 million Federation, EUDAT CDI, INDIGO-DataCloud and 100 Partners other major European research infrastructures EOSC-hub Magazine Issue 3 // EOSC-hub: one year of achievements OSC-hub started in January 2018 with a Emission to create a single contact point for European researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-driven research. One year on, here is a summary of the main achievements. Optimised access to IT equipment and services ] EOSC-hub service portfolio integrating over 70 ] EOSC-hub operates the EOSC Portal website, services from EGI, EUDAT, INDIGO-DataCloud the Marketplace and the whitelabel EOSC and from research communities AAI ] From Nov 2018, EOSC-hub services are ] Service Providers onboarding process in place discoverable and orderable via the Marketplace and integrated with the EOSC portal in the context of the EOSC portal ] 21 new services currently under integration ] July-Dec 2018: +27% registrations of service ] Streamlined service management entries in the Marketplace ] > 60 individuals FitSM certified Success story: HADDOCK is an EOSC-hub Thematic Service for structural biologists provided through the EOSC Marketplace. In the past year: +30% users, +126% simulations submitted. Partnerships with industrial and private partners ] The EOSC Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) was ] Vouchers programme for free Cloud service successfully established in late 2018 and is access now open! now officially part of the EU Digital Innovation ] Earth Observation (EO) service providers Hub catalogue actively engaged in the Marketplace ] 6 business pilots up and running Success story: Terradue, an EO private company, provides the engineering and operational support for the Geohazards Exploitation Platform (GEP), which offers a rich set of ready to use EO data processing services for the analysis and monitoring of earthquake, volcanoes and landslides. GEP is integrated with the EGI Federated Cloud and is now part of the Marketplace offering. ] 1.4 Million Cloud Compute hours ] +108% increase of use of Terradue services EOSC-hub Magazine Issue 3 // Page 2 Over 800 individuals trained in research and academic sectors ] 9 Data Management training events (6 with ] 4 FitSM Certification Training events + OpenAIRE-Advance) 2 webinars + 1 individual FitSM process ] Other areas grouping webinar ] Security, AAI, Storage and Cloud ] Domain-specific: CODATA, VIRGO, ENVRI, Technologies, service-specific training for INSTRUCT and NGSchool users Success story: OPENCoastS: first national EOSC-hub thematic service provider which joined the Marketplace, opening access to international user communities thanks to VA funding. ] 148 participants from 14 countries attended the OPENCoastS e-tutorial. Progress with technical implementation ] 2 technical joint roadmaps developed (OpenAIRE ] Implementation of AARC AAI Blueprint for the and GÉANT) focusing on DMP, AAI, Cloud EOSC AAI interoperability, etc. and one under development ] Implementation of the EOSC-hub service with RDA management system compliant to the FitSM ] 4 Thematic Service Providers successfully standard and to ISO service management and integrated into the EOSC Marketplace exploiting quality standards the open interfaces EOSC-hub provides Success story: EOSC branded multi-tenant service: for federated AAI supporting all standard authentication options (eduGAIN, social media, ORCID) and group membership capabilities. Completed integration activities: Interconnection of EGI Check-in with EUDAT B2ACCESS; Online Certification Authority (Rcauth) migration and support for high availability. Extended user base ] Expanded access to services outside the ] A stakeholder database with over 50 potential traditional user base via the EOSC portal leads ] 8 Competence Centres piloting EOSC-hub ] 5 new funded ESFRI-cluster projects working Services: ICOS, ELIXIR, Radio-Astronomy; in collaboration with EOSC-hub Disaster Mitigation, EPOS-Orfeus, CLARIN, ] An online community of around 2000 GEO-DAB members (Twitter, LinkedIn, SlideShare) Success story: EGI Federation: increase in the use of computing resources: ] 4.4 billion CPU core wall time delivered in 2018 ] > 1 million computing cores for the first time in the EGI history ] 356 PB disk & 380 PB tape storage EUDAT CDI : ] Over 700K datasets discoverable (repositories from 16 communities harvested, 10k datasets in B2SHARE) ] 90M data objects registered within the CDI (+15% in 2018) ] 1600 users registered on B2ACCESS (+33% in 2018) EOSC-hub Magazine Issue 3 // Page 3 Five ways of working with EOSC-hub Gergely Sipos writes about EOSC-hub collaborative framework for EOSC implementation he EOSC-hub Marketplace (marketplace. Training and user support eosc-portal.eu) plays a central role in EOSC-hub runs a training programme on implementing the EOSC vision, where T topics ranging from data management issues researchers can order the services, tools and to integration support and discipline-specific computing resources they need for their work. tutorials. EOSC-hub offers five engagement channels Training events and materials are catalogued for stakeholders to benefit from EOSC and the by EOSC-hub on the project website (eosc-hub. EOSC-hub Marketplace: eu/training-material) and the project promotes online and face-to-face courses. Use EOSC-hub services Interested? Browse the Training Materials The EOSC-hub service catalogue is available eosc-hub.eu/training-material through the EOSC-hub Marketplace and includes services provided by the EGI Federation, EUDAT, the INDIGO-DataCloud Digital Innovation Hub project and services provided by research communities and research infrastructures. EOSC-hub has set up the EOSC Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) as a mechanism for private companies The EOSC-hub services cover Compute & to collaborate with public sector institutions in Storage, Data Management, Processing & order to access technical services, research data, Analysis, Security & Operations, Sharing & and human capital. Discovery, Training & Support. The DIH is open for new partners to join either The Engagement Team offers advice on which as service, resource or technology providers or services to use, and on how to combine multiple as new business pilots. There is also a voucher services for maximum value. scheme to support testing. Interested? Go to the EOSC-hub Marketplace Interested? Fill the form here: marketplace.eosc-portal.eu bit.ly/2SMVFQd Join as provider Networking The EOSC-hub Marketplace is open for service EOSC-hub is keen to build solid networks to providers willing to develop EOSC into a rich support the national e-Infrastructures (NGIs) that environment. represent the backbone of the EGI Federation, By contributing services and resources to the EOSC- OpenAIRE national nodes (NOADs), EUDAT