Riding the Wave... one year later Data Infrastructures for Science in the Digital Age Carlos Morais Pires European Commission Information Society and Media INFSO/F3 email: carlos.morais-pires (at) ec.europa.eu "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

Data as Infrastructure http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave “Our Vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. In a sense [...] the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”. Report of the High-Level Group on Scientific Data, Oct 2010 “Riding the wave: how can Europe gain from the rising tide of scientific data”

Atmosphere/Space Physics Ptolemaic/Copernican System… Environment Atmosphere/Space Physics Agriculture Physics, Engineering Aggregated Data Sets (Temporary or Permanent) Biology Medicine Other Data VREs Social Sciences Scientific Data (Discipline Specific) VREs Workflows Researcher 2 Scientific World Aggregation Path Researcher 1 OA participatory infrastructure Tools for virtual research environments Generic services, storage and computation Tools for virtual research environments Non Scientific World

Atmosphere/Space Physics Scientific Data Landscape of Initiatives – results from call9 iMarine SCIDIP-ES Environment ESPAS Atmosphere/Space Physics AgINFRA Agriculture PanDataODI Physics, Engineering Aggregated Data Sets (Temporary or Permanent) diXa Biology Medicine Other Data VREs transPLANT Social Sciences Scientific Data (Discipline Specific) ENGAGE VREs Workflows Researcher 2 Scientific World Aggregation Path Researcher 1 OA participatory infrastructure Tools for virtual research environments OPENAire Plus Generic services, storage and computation Tools for virtual research environments EUDAT Non Scientific World

Orchestration: need for coordinating all elements and layers e-Infrastructure of DATA Scientific Information (human and machine readable) Management of Repositories Management of Access Processing, Computation Physical infrastructure Services, trust promotion, rewards, DOIs, DAIs e-Infrastructure for DATA Adapted from e-SciDR study 6 6

The way forward… Discuss the way forward to develop in Europe and beyond a Collaborative Data Infrastructure Flexible but reliable Secure yet open Local and global Affordable and high-performance Develop a broad conceptual framework for different companies, institutes, universities, governments and individuals would interact in such Collaborative Data Infrastructure. 7

EC reaction to the HLG report… e-Infrastructures for data are now rapidly emerging world-wide but are often not interoperable across countries and disciplines or are unsustainable due to lack of commonly agreed governance, legal frameworks and funding models. Domains of action include: European-level coordination and funding scientific data policy (3) global cooperation 8

Example of questions we’d like to ask How to foster interoperability between e- Infrastructures for Data across institutions, disciplines and countries while keeping the balance between community led initiatives and horizontal e- Infrastructures? How to adapt academic curricula to include “Data Scientist”, “Digital Librarian” profiles?

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Further food for debate… What is the best way to establish together a European Data Infrastructure for access and preservation of digital scientific information? How to develop an international framework for a Data Infrastructure (architecture, governance, etc) taking into account what is happening in other regions of the world (US, Australia, Brazil, India…)

Further food for debate… How to foster interoperability between platforms across institutions, disciplines and countries while keeping the balance between community led initiatives and horizontal e-Infrastructures? What policies and programs should Europe consider to ensure that the areas of Open publications, open data, open software and open education are more productively integrated?

Further food for debate… How to improve access to scientific information by all European researchers and students? For instance by creating a European scholar passport for academic and scientific information resources What are the best licensing agreements needed to ensure the best possible access and use of the scientific results?

Further food for debate… How to ensure a good balance between funding innovation by proof of new service concepts and the provision of persistent (sustainable) data services? How to adapt academic curricula to include “Data Scientist”, “Digital Librarian” profiles?