EUDAT Summer School 2017

From 3-7 July 2017, EUDAT has organized a Summer School,which took place in the stunning setting of Heraklion, Crete, thanks to the generous support of the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) and Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH).

The school aimed to introduce early-career researchers to the principles and tools needed for careers in data intensive science and data management. The participants included researchers working with big data, as well as researchers from less data-intensive communities. In collaboration with other pan European e-Infrastructures, this intense training course provided attendees with a better understanding of the European e-Infrastructure landscape, the different tools and services offered by them, and how they can be used to improve the quality of your research outputs.

Click here to find out the main outcomes of the EUDAT Summer School.

The focus: Data Management & EUDAT services

The focus of this Summer School was on Data Management and using EUDAT data services. We demonstrated how these services, as well as services provided by other e-infrastructures, can be used throughout the Data Lifecycle. Expert trainers illustrated established research processes from different communities and how they are enabled with these services. Attendees had the opportunity to understand how the international e-infrastructures, which originate in different fields of research, are building blocks to allow a more integrated solution to meet their needs. Attendees actively explored data services with trainers providing some individual guidance.

Attendees at the summer school were able to answer the following questions by the end of the course:

“I am a researcher and would like to know which services could help me during different phases of my research, and under which conditions I can use the services.”
“As a scientist on a data intensive project, I need to understand how to make use of e-infrastructures for the analysis, curation and provenance of my results, and how to publish the data to make it accessible for other researchers.”
“There are so many data services around; how can I set up and carry out my data management?”

The topics covered by the Summer School were:

The Research Data Lifecycle
The FAIR Data Concept
Writing a Data Management Plan
The EUDAT Service Suite Overview
High Performance Computing (HPC) Programming Models
Using the EGI Federated Cloud for Data Analysis
Linking HPC to Data Management
Open Data and Cross-disciplinary Research
Long Term Data Curation

The topics covered by the Summer School are:

The Research Data Lifecycle
The FAIR Data Concept
Writing a Data Management Plan
The EUDAT Service Suite Overview
High Performance Computing (HPC) Programming Models
Using the EGI Federated Cloud for Data Analysis
Linking HPC to Data Management
Open Data and Cross-disciplinary Research
Long Term Data Curation

EUDAT & RDM SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME
Time	Monday 3 July 2017 - Introductory Day
ROOM: AMPHITHEATER
09:00 - 09:10	Welcome \| Yannis Tzitzikas (FORTH-ICS) - view presentation \| download presentation
09:10 - 09:45	Introduction \| Sara Garavelli (Trust-IT Services) - view presentation \| download presentation
09:45 - 10:30	The Data Lifecycle \| Yann Le Franc (e-Science Data Factory) - view presentation \| download presentation
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	The Importance of Metadata \| Shaun De Witt (CCFE) - view presentation \| download presentation
11:45 - 12:30	Linked Data and Semantic Web \| Yann Le Franc (e-Science Data Factory) - view presentation \| download presentation
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
SEMINAR ROOM
13:30 - 14:15	EUDAT Service Suite Overview \| Shaun De Witt (CCFE) - view presentation \| download presentation
14:15 - 15:00	The FAIR Data Concept \| Erik Schultes (DTLS) - view presentation \| download presentation
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00	Writing a Data Management Plan \| Marjan Grootveld (DANS), Sarah Jones (DCC) - view presentation \| download presentation
17:00 - 17:30	Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30	DMPonline and re3data.org \| Marjan Grootveld (DANS), Sarah Jones (DCC) - view presentation \| download presentation
Evening	Team Building Event

Time	Tuesday 4 July 2017 - Data Management (SEMINAR ROOM)
09:00 - 10:30	B2SERVICE Hands-on \| Yann Le Franc (e-Science Data Factory) - view presentation \| download presentation
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Data Discoverability and Persistent Identifiers \| Christine Staiger (SURFsara) - view presentation \| download presentation
11:45 - 12:30	B2HANDLE Hands-on \| Sofiane Bendoukha (DKRZ) - view presentation \| download presentation
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00	EUDAT Service Training Hands-on \| Claudio Cacciari (CINECA), Christine Staiger (SURFsara) - view presentation \| download presentation
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00	EUDAT Service Training Hands-on \| Claudio Cacciari (CINECA), Christine Staiger (SURFsara) - view presentation \| download presentation
17:00 - 17:30	Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30	Linking Requirements to Data Management Services \| Marjan Grootveld (DANS), Sarah Jones (DCC) - view presentation \| download presentation - view exercise \| download exercise
Time	Wednesday 5 July 2017 - Data Management (SEMINAR ROOM)
09:00 - 10:30	Introduction to data stewardship using FAIR data principles and tools \| Mark Thompson (LUMC) - download presentation
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Semantic Integration of Data in the Marine Domain and Beyond \|Yannis Tzitzikas (FORTH-ICS) - view presentation \| download presentation
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - evening	Tours and Social Event

Time	Thursday 6 July 2017 - Data Analytics (SEMINAR ROOM)
09:00 - 09:45	Data Management in climate modelling \| Hannes Thiemann (DKRZ) - view presentation \| download presentation
09:45 - 10:30	When to use HPC and HTC - Use Cases \| Giuseppe Fiameni (CINECA) - view presentation \| download presentation
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Stream Processing and Data Analytics \| Giuseppe Fiameni (CINECA) - view presentation \| download presentation
11:45 - 12:30	Introduction to HPC Programming Models \| Stefano Markidis (KTH) - view presentation \| download presentation
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15	Using the EGI Fed-Cloud for Data Analysis \| Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI) - view presentation \| download presentation
14:15 - 15:00	Linking EUDAT services to the EGI Fed-Cloud (demo) \| Hans van Piggelen (SURFsara) - view presentation \| download presentation
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00	API Training Hands-on \| Hans van Piggelen (SURFsara), Heinrich Widmann (DKRZ), Shaun De Witt (CCFE) - view presentation \| download presentation
17:00 - 17:30	Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30	API Training Hands-on \| Hans van Piggelen (SURFsara), Heinrich Widmann (DKRZ), Shaun De Witt (CCFE) - view presentation \| download presentation

Time	Friday 7 July 2017 - Looking to the future (SEMINAR ROOM)
09:00 - 09:45	Long Term Data Curation \| Marjan Grootveld (DANS) - view presentation \| download presentation
09:45 - 10:30	Open Data and Cross Disciplinary Research \| Brian Matthews (EOSC) - view presentation \| download presentation
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Linking HPC to Data Management \| Giuseppe Fiameni (CINECA) - view presentation \| download presentation
11:45 - 12:30	Data Management Plan: What to do next week? \| Marjan Grootveld (DANS), Sarah Jones (DCC) - view presentation \| download presentation - view presentation \| download presentation - download exercise
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15	Q&A Panel with training team \| All EUDAT training team
14:15 - 15:00	One-to-one expert advice session \| All EUDAT training team
15:00 - evening	Social Event

The EUDAT & RDM Summer School is kindly hosted by the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) and Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), in Heraklion, Crete.

About FORTH:

The Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH) is a research center supervised by the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs through its General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Although its seven research institutes are located in various cities of Greece, its headquarters, as well as the central administration offices, are located in Heraklion, Crete.

For further information visit FORTH's website.

How to get there:

The venue is located at Νikolaou Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton GR - 70013, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

During the entire length of the course, students will be accommodated in twin rooms at Capsis Astoria Hotel, a stunning facility located in the heart of Heraklion (Pl. Eleftherias, Iraklio 712 02, Greece). The hotel is close to the major places of interests and offers a swimming pool with view on its sixth floor. For further information visit: www.capsishotels.gr/en/heraklion-en).

How to reach the hotel:

The hotel is located at Pl. Eleftherias, Iraklio 712 02, Greece. You can easily get there by shuttle (you can try Shuttle Direct), via cab (you can book one directly on the Taxi Tender platform) or via public transport.

Available Scolarships and Financial Contribution

A total of 40 attendees will be accepted and two different scholarships are being offered:

FULL SCHOLARSHIP – COVERS TRANSPORT / TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER COSTS (AS DETAILED BELOW) COSTS FOR THE 10 HIGHEST SCORING APPLICANTS
PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP – COVERS ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER COSTS (AS DETAILED BELOW) – TRAVEL COSTS ARE TO BE BORNE DIRECTLY BY TRAINEE

Hotel accommodation: accommodation costs including breakfast and dinner will be covered for a maximum of 6 nights at the Summer School chosen hotel.
Other costs: all coffee breaks and lunches for all days of the training course and 2 social events will be paid by EUDAT.
Transport (For full scholarships only):
Air / Train – Return economy fares; where possible please make use of lower cost and/or special offers.
Public Transport – Wherever possible we recommend using public transport; costs for travelling in taxi can be compensated in special cases which must be clarified beforehand.
In accordance with reimbursement rules you will be expected to pay transport costs in advance and submit a reimbursement claim including all original documentation immediately after the event.
No other expenses will be reimbursed. It is recommended that attendees purchase their own insurance, i.e. a health insurance.

Note: in all cases attendees will be required to pay the costs in advance and will be reimbursed by Trust-IT Services Ltd. (EUDAT Communications Manager) upon receipt of all documentation. Specific reimbursement guidelines and templates will be provided.

Early-career data scientists and data managers applying to the EUDAT & RDM Summer School should satisfy the following criteria:

Currently engaged in or have finalised Masters, PhD or Post Doc studies with a strong focus on data management, data science and/or data preservation
Affiliation or project is based in Europe
Proficient oral and spoken English, to actively participate in the Summer School: all lectures and sessions will be in the English language
A good understanding of the UNIX command line interface (mandatory)
Experience of programming (mandatory), preferably in python (recommended) - note the programming elements of the school will be taught in python.

Applicants should also explain the relevance of their work in reference to the EUDAT research data management services activities, as expressed by the applicant in answer to the questions related to current and future benefits and follow-up activities. Applications will be evaluated by the EUDAT Training team and a group of external experts according to the following criteria:

Area of interest (as broad a coverage of data management as possible)
Alignment of current research to EUDAT vision (see below) - 40%
Impact of possible adoption of EUDAT services within research field - 30%
Alignment of Research Field with Horizon 2020 Vision - 25% (the applicant does not need to provide details; this will be judged by the evaluation panel)
Letter of Recommendation - 5%
Geographical balance (to establish a good European representation in the selection)
Gender balance (to establish a good gender balance in the selection)

Each criterion will be given a score between 1 and 5 and the score will then be weighted according to the above percentages. In cases where applicants have equal scores, gender and geographical balance will be taken into account.

The Horizon 2020 vision can be found at http://2020visionnetwork.eu/horizon2020/.

The application form is closed.

The EUDAT Summer School is kindly hosted by the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) and Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), in Heraklion, Crete.

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION

A total of 40 attendees will be accepted and two different scholarships are being offered:

FULL SCHOLARSHIP – COVERS TRANSPORT / TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER COSTS (AS DETAILED BELOW) COSTS FOR THE 10 HIGHEST SCORING APPLICANTS
PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP – COVERS ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER COSTS (AS DETAILED BELOW) – TRAVEL COSTS ARE TO BE BORNE DIRECTLY BY TRAINEE

Hotel accommodation: accommodation costs including breakfast and dinner will be covered for a maximum of 6 nights at the Summer School chosen hotel.
Other costs: all coffee breaks and lunches for all days of the training course and 2 social events will be paid by EUDAT.
Transport (For full scholarships only):
Air / Train – Return economy fares; where possible please make use of lower cost and/or special offers.
Public Transport – Wherever possible we recommend using public transport; costs for travelling in taxi can be compensated in special cases which must be clarified beforehand.
In accordance with reimbursement rules you will be expected to pay transport costs in advance and submit a reimbursement claim including all original documentation immediately after the event.
No other expenses will be reimbursed. It is recommended that attendees purchase their own insurance, i.e. a health insurance.

	Christopher Ariyo Christopher (Chris) Ariyo is currently working at the CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd (CSC). He has been working in CSC for more that 17 years as capacity of System Specialist (HPC, Storage, Backup and Archiving), Storage Specialist (online storage, backup and archiving), Storage Team Manager and currently leading the EUDAT team in CSC as well as Service Area Manager (SAM) for Data Access and Re-use (B2ACCESS, B2DROP, B2FIND, B2SHARE & Data Type Registry). He was also involved with EUDAT1 in the capacity as the manager leading the team working on storage and started again as SAM 2016.
	Sofiane Bendoukha Dr. Sofiane Bendoukha holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Over the last years he has been working on research areas related to process modeling, (scientific) workflow management systems and Grid/Cloud computing. Since January 2017, he has been working at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) as Software engineer within the EUDAT project. Main activities concern usage scenarios and tool support for persistent identifiers (PIDs). Currently, with a development team, he is working on maintaining and supporting the development and integration of B2Handle, which enables easy creation, management and resolution of PIDs of data hosted on EUDAT CDI.
	Claudio Cacciari Claudio Cacciari has been working since 2002 at Cineca, the biggest Italian supercomputing center, in the High Performance Computing area. In this context he matured experience in software integration, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) tools, Grid and Cloud environments. He is currently part of the Cineca's middleware group which manages tools for high performance data transfer, data visualization, analysis and long term preservation. He is collaborating to European projects in the field of data management, such as EuHIT, EUDAT2020 and SeaDataCloud. In particular, he is leading the EUDAT2020's service area dedicated to data preservation.
	Shaun De Witt Experienced Systems Engineer/Systems Developer specialising in scalability, resilience, performance and interoperability of data heading towards the Exa Scale. Based on over 25 years experience both in industry and research, primarily on UNIX based systems using a variety of languages and CASE tools. Also experienced in algorithm development for many scientific and commercial applications including real time data analysis in massively parallel and grid environments.
	Giuseppe Fiameni Giuseppe Fiameni holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bologna and has been working in CINECA since 2004 when he joined the middleware and infrastructure group of the Super Computing Department. He has been contributing to several European projects, such as EMBRACE, DEISA, A-WARE, HBP and PRACE, maturing a strong experience in distributed systems, authentication and authorization mechanisms, computational and data resource management. He is currently leading the “Middleware for HPC Services” group of the SuperComputing Applications and Innovation Department of CINECA and involved into the EUDAT project as responsible of the collaboration with external EU infrastructures. Giuseppe is also member of the Human Brain Project and PhD student of Computer Engineering at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
	Sara Garavelli Sara Garavelli is a Project Manager and Project Management Officer at Trust-IT Services, a UK SME specialised in analysing and communicating Information and Communication Technologies across Europe and globally. Sara is currently the Outreach Manager for the BlueBRIDGE EU-funded project, Building Research environments fostering Innovation, Decision-making, Governance, and Education for Blue Growth. Sara’s expertise lies in analytical reporting, research and problem solving, primarily related to streamlining company internal procedures & informatics processes, and design of technological solutions (mainly ICT web-centric communication platforms & mobile apps) specifically for communities to promote their services and increase their revenue in an international market. Sara also serves as Communication Manager the EUDAT European Data Infrastructure, and HNSciCloud initiatives. Finally, Sara has a degree in Telecommunications engineering from the University of Parma, Italy, and has a Masters degree in logistics and organization for industry and commerce.
	Marjan Grootveld Marjan Grootveld works at Data Archiving and Networked Services in The Netherlands (DANS, dans.knaw.nl/en/). DANS promotes sustained access to digital research information and encourages researchers to archive and reuse data – Open when possible, Restricted when necessary. As senior policy consultant Marjan advises knowledge institutes and research funders on data management policy and practice. She is involved in the EC-funded EUDAT, OpenAIRE and EOSC Pilot projects. She also coaches research support staff in the training “Essentials 4 Data Support”, a collaboration of three national academic service providers (datasupport.researchdata.nl/en/). “There is no progress without reuse.”
	Sarah Jones Sarah Jones is Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre. She coordinates work on the DCC’s Data Management Planning tool - DMPonline - and undertakes research on data policy and data management planning. She has written several articles and book chapters on these topics, and co-edited 'Delivering Research Data Management Services: fundamentals of good practice'. Sarah provides advisory services, training and consultancy via the DCC and is involved in the EC-funded FOSTER, OpenAIRE and EUDAT projects. Her work in a European context focuses primarily on training and data management planning to facilitate open science and compliance with Horizon 2020 requirements.
	Giuseppe La Rocca Giuseppe has a master degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Catania (Italy). Prior to EGI, Giuseppe worked as technologist at the Italian National Institute for High Energy Physics (INFN). During this experience he worked in training and user support in several FP6, FP7 and H2020 projects co-funded by the European Commission. Since Dec. 2015 he joined EGI.eu as Technical Outreach Expert and he is currently involved in several projects including HNSciCloud, ENVRIplus and EGI-Engage.
	Yann Le Franc Dr. Yann Le Franc holds a PhD in Neuroscience with more than 10 years’ experience in academic research. He is expert in Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies applied to research data management solutions. In 2014, he created e-Science Data Factory, a start-up company aiming at developing data management solutions for researchers and providing expertise for building data management plans. He is involved in the development of semantic web services within the EUDAT CDI, the designer of the annotation service and the co chairman of the EUDAT semantic working group.
	Stefano Markidis Stefano Markidis is Assistant Professor in High Performance Computing at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MS from the Politecnico di Torino. Stefano is a recipient of the 2005 R&D100 award. He is author and coauthor of more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed publications. His research interests include parallel programming libraries and runtimes for high performance computing and I/O.
	Brian Matthews Brian Matthews is group leader of the Data Science and Technology Group in the Scientific Computing Department of the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, where he leads a research and development group looking at advanced techniques for handling and analysing scientific data. He has over 30 years’ experience in research and development in software engineering, data and metadata modelling, web technologies and distributed systems; in the last 10 years he has focussed on data management, preservation and sharing, especially within large-scale scientific programmes and facilities, working in European projects, recent ones including PanData, SCAPE, and SCIDIP-ES. He is currently taking a leading role as project manager of the EOSC-Pilot project which is paving the way for a common ecosystem to support open science within Europe and beyond. Brian has a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow, over 150 refereed publications, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
	Erik Schultes Erik Schultes is FAIR Data Scientific Projects Lead at the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences and at the Human Genetics Department at the LUMC. Erik’s research interests focus on mapping the growth of biomedical knowledge and the development of tools that help biologists create, find, access, annotate, and share biomedical data.
	Christine Staiger Christine Staiger is working as an advisor at SURFsara, the Dutch HPC centre. Sha has a background in bioinformatics and worked in the field of cancer research before joining SURFsara. In her daily working life she helps scientist to integrate data management and compute workflows. She is a trainer for EUDAT and is part of the ELIXIR work package 'Compute, Data access and exchange services’.
	Hannes Thiemann After his degree as geophysicist Hannes Thiemann joined the Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) in 1991. After 25 years of experience in data management he is now the Deputy Department Head of the Data Management department. His particular ambition is the area of long-term archiving. He is responsible for the World Data Centre for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ, including its implementation, certification and operation. He has been and is involved in many national and international projects, most current ones EUDAT and SeaDataCloud.
	Mark Thompson Mark Thompson is a Postdoc in the Biosemantics group, which is part of the Human Genetics department of the Leiden University Medical Center. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam in 2012 and has expertise in hardware and software architecture (co-)design, computational aspects of knowledge discovery, data management, data modeling and data infrastructure. Previously working for the OpenPHACTS and RDConnect projects, now Mark is developing FAIR data infrastructure with DTL as part of the ODEX4All project and within the LUMC in the role of “FAIR data steward”. He has served as Linked Data expert/trainer at Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) events.
	Yannis Tzitzikas Yannis Tzitzikas is Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Computer Science Dep. at University of Crete and Affiliated Researcher of the Information Systems Laboratory at FORTH-ICS (Greece), coordinator of the Information Analysis and Retrieval activity. His research focuses on Semantic Data Management and Exploratory Search. He has published more than 100 papers in refereed international conferences and journals, including prestigious journals and venues (e.g. ACM Transactions on the Web, VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, JIIS, JDAPD, ISWC), he has received two best paper awards, and he actively participates as scientific responsible of FORTH to several EU (past and ongoing) projects.
	Hans van Piggelen Hans van Piggelen has a degree in astronomy and medical imaging, and after some projects at national institutes, the technical challenges and innovative side of research data processing and storage proved to be his main interest. He currently works at SURFsara, the Dutch HPC centre, as a data consultant and together with his development team and colleagues he is building innovative services and infrastructure. For EUDAT2020, he is involved in user training, service documentation and data pilots.
	Heinrich Widmann Heinrich Widmann is a scientific programmer at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ). He has long term experience in data management and data processing. Since the beginning of the project he works within EUDAT and is the product manager of the accomplished metadata catalogue and discovery service ‘B2FIND’. As a software engineer he is not only responsible for the development, maintenance and operational implementation of the service, but as well for the project plans, the user documentation and the presentation of the product at workshops and conferences.