The 1st EUDAT User Forum took place on 7-8 March 2012 in Barcelona and gathered more than 60 participants, including representatives from 18 research communities across Europe. Since its start on the 1st of October 2011, EUDAT has been reviewing the approaches and requirements of research communities regarding the deployment and use of a cross-disciplinary and persistent data e-infrastructure. This analysis initially focused on a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH). The preliminary results of this analysis were presented at the 1st User Forum. Several user communities outside the EUDAT consortium also participated, presenting their data architectures and sharing the functionalities they would require from a common layer of data services.

For more information, read the press release about this event: “EUDAT unveils new data services as part of the Collaborative Data Infrastructure for science

 

 

Wednesday March 7, 2012

 
12.00 Registration and Snacks
 
12.50 Welcome talk Sergi Girona
 
12.55 Opening talk Kimmo Koski
13.00 SESSION 1 - SETTING THE SCENE CHAIR: KIMMO KOSKI
13.00 EUDAT - an Overview for a User Perspective Damien Lecarpentier
13.15 CDI and EUDAT Peter Wittenburg
13.30 Climate modeling and EUDAT Michael Lautenschlager
13.40 Seismology and EUDAT Alberto Michelini
13.50 Physiology and EUDAT Stefan Zasada
14.00 Linguistics and EUDAT Pavel StraÃ?Â?ák
14.10 Ecology and EUDAT Wouter Los / Michael Mirtl
 
14.20 Discussion
 
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 SESSION 2 - EUDAT SERVICE CASES CHAIR: ALBERTO MICHELINI
15.30 Replication service and its requirements Peter Wittenburg
15.40 Staging Replicas for computations and requirements Stefan Zasada
15.50 Researchers’ Data Store and requirements Daan Broeder
16.00 Metadata requirements Daan Broeder
 
16.10 Discussion
 
16.45 Short break
 
17.00

Community Presentations I

ECRIN – European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network

ICOS – Integrated Carbon Observation System

ELIXIR – Data for Life

diXa – a data infrastructure for chemical safety

PanData – Open Data Infrastructure for research with Photons and Neutrons

 

Wolfgang Kuchinke

Timo Vesala

Tommi Nyrönën

Jos Kleinjans

Juan Bicarregui

 
18.30 End
 
20.30 Dinner
 

Thursday March 8, 2012

09.00 SESSION 3 - ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES CHAIR: MORRIS RIEDEL
09.00 Safe Replication Jedrzej Rybicki
09.15 Data Staging Giuseppe Fiameni
09.30 Creating a Joint Metadata Domain Michael Lautenschlager
09.40 Distributed Authentication Claudio Cacciari
09.50 PID Systems for Digital Objects Ulrich Schwardmann
10.00 The EUDAT Research Agenda David Corney
10.10 Hosting and Service Provisioning Johannes Reetz
 
10.20 Discussion
 
10.40 Coffee Break
 
11.00

Community Presentations II

INCF - Toward a collaborative research infrastructure for neuroscience

Simulation and data analysis data and data access requirements for ITER

BioVeL - Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory

EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory

 

Sean Hill

Par Strand

Vera Hernandez

Giuditta Marinaro

12.00 SESSION 4 - EUDAT AND THE WAY FORWARD CHAIR: PAVEL STRAÃ?Â?ÁK
12.00 Sustaining the infrastructure Alison Kennedy
12.15 Training the new data scientist Adam Carter
 
12.25 Discussion
12.40 WRAP UP AND GENERAL DISCUSSION D. LECARPENTIER/ P. WITTENBURG
13.00 End