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Is EUDAT Blue? We asked Dick Schaap, SeaDataCloud Technical Coordinator

29/09/2017
SeaDataCloud is a new project funded by the European Commission to considerably advance the SeaDataNet Services and increase their usage, adopting cloud and High Performance Computing technology for better performance. EUDAT participates in SeaDataCloud through 5 sites which joined the project as partners. These 5 EUDAT centres will establish a common cloud and computing environment that will be integrated with the SeaDataNet data management infrastructure to provide central caching and cloud computing facilities...
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The ICSU World Data System (ICSU-WDS) and the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) announce the launch of a new certification organization: CoreTrustSeal.

22/09/2017
The CoreTrustSeal Board offers all interested data repositories a core-level certification based on the DSA–WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements catalogue and procedures. CoreTrustSeal Data Repository certification replaces the DSA certification and the WDS certification of Regular Members.
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EMODnet launches its first hackathon on open marine data, 15-17 November 2017, Antwerp: Applications close on 23 October

20/09/2017
The first EMODnet hackathon, 15-17 November 2017 – Antwerp, will offer coders, developers, data enthusiasts, marine/maritime companies, students and entrepreneurs the chance to play with archived and near-real time marine open data to create prize-winning innovative applications in the areas of Marine Environment, Blue Economy and Public Knowledge or Services.
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EUDAT launches the Generic Execution Framework

20/09/2017
The EUDAT team is pleased to announce the release of the beta version of the Generic Execution Framework (GEF). The trend towards larger data volumes exacerbates the problem of costly and time consuming data transfers to off-site data processing locations. The EUDAT GEF enables you to deploy your containerised scientific tools to computational resources in close proximity to the input data in order to minimise overall data transfer costs for your research community.
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EUDAT featured in the last SeaDataCloud newsletter to describe their strategic and technical cooperation

18/09/2017
In the SeaDataCloud project, the SeaDataNet members have entered into a strategic and technical cooperation with the EUDAT consortium: find out more about their collaboration in the latest SeaDataCloud newsletter.
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eInfraCentral, the Support Action aiming to harmonise service catalogues across EUDAT, EGI, PRACE, GEANT and OpenAIRE, has just published its first newsletter

13/09/2017
eInfraCentral, a foundation stone of the future EOSC, releases its first Newsletter: discover what the project is about, how the survey on e-infrastructure service catalogue is carried out and the main project's results!
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Use your voice to shape the DI4R 2017: call for abstracts opens today!

12/09/2017
DI4R 2017 is taking place on 30th November and 1st December 2017 in the heart of the European Union: Brussels, Belgium. The organisers (EUDAT, EGI, GÉANT, OpenAIRE, RDA Europe and PRACE) invite all interested contributors to submit their abstracts by 13th October 2017 choosing among 6 different topics: Interoperability, Data Science & Skills, Impact evaluation and metrics, Security, trust and identity, The EOSC & EDI building blocks and Business models, sustainability and policies.
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Meet the DI4R 2017 Programme Committee

09/09/2017
The Programme Committee for the upcoming 2017 edition of the DI4R event has just been announced!
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Paying for Open Access: two new Open Access Journal Reports published by Knowledge Exchange

16/08/2017
How are authors of journal articles paying Open Access fees or Article Processing Costs? What is the administrative burden for authors? And do their research organisations have an accurate overview of all these payments? Knowledge Exchange has just published two new open access journal reports, both based on their recent study carried out among authors of six research organisations.
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24 EUDAT partners involved in the EOSC-Hub project, expected to start in early 2018

02/08/2017
The European Commission has successfully reviewed the proposal for the EOSC-hub project, submitted at the end of March 2017 as a Research Innovation Action to the H2020-EINFRA-12-2017(a) call, which is expected to start in early 2018.
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