Virtual Research Environments as-a-Service Donatella Castelli CNR-ISTI donatella.castelli@isti.cnr.it EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

Context Research work is driven by Research Problems/Questions These emerge dynamically & corresponding activities have a limited lifetime Addressing research problems often requires interdisciplinary approaches Multidisciplinary team & (re-)use of data, methodologies, model, tools produced in different domains http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/introduction/researchproblem IT support can largely facilitate research work and it can enable research methods that were not possible before The time and the cost of a research activity and of its assessment can be largely influenced by the capabilities & services offered by the IT supporting environment EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

D4Science: an infrastructure ecosystem enabler www.d4science.org D4Science own resources +50 heterogeneous data providers, over a billion quality records +20,000 processes/month 99,7% service availability Third-party providers WPS EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

D4Science services: supporting the entire data mgmt lifecycle Metadata generation and management Harmonisation Semantic Data Biodiversity data Geospatial Statistical data Documents Analytics Sharing Cloud storage Multi-platform: R, Java, Fortran Geospatial data Store Cloud computing Databases EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam VRE as-a-Service web-based working environment providing access to services and resources tailored to serve the needs of the research team in addressing a research question open and flexible with respect to service offering and lifetime providing fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results Low cost of creation and operation Virtual Research Environment e-Infrastructure VRE Public Restricted EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

VRE Definition 1. Specify VRE metadata (including policies) 2. Select applications Un punto chiave in questo contesto sono le policy – certi utenti possono usare certe risorse (dati & computazionali) – certe applicazioni possono essre attivate solo su certi dati 4. Select data collections 3. Configure applications Hardware setup and software deployment completely hidden Evolving needs of its users completely supported EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

D4Science offer VREs to … Environmental Science, Marine biodiversity, Fisheries&Aquaculture science, Culture Heritage, Social data mining, Geothermal Science, Smart cities +50 VREs 2000 scientists in 44 countries EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

Collaborative Environment A single point to Get status and updates from applications and other users they are interested in Get notifications about messages, jobs completion, new generated products, etc. Share Updates User news feed VREs user is a member of EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam User Workspace Folders can be shared Including documents, datasets, software & computations Data and processes can be hosted elsewhere – this is only what the user perceive EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam Inside a VRE Data Trends Processing Tools Visualization Tools Species Discovery Search Trusted access to services & systems!!!! Resuse of shared data Across discilinary, socia and geographic borders Federated env across member states Solution for managing policies EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

Data preparation & Processing EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

Store software in a personal workspace EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

Prepare software through a Web interface (JAVA programming is also supported: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/How-to_Implement_Algorithms_for_the_Statistical_Manager) EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

Execute the process and analyse the results EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

Store and share “research objects” EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

Infrastructure as a “Publisher” VRE e-Infrastructure VRE–as-a-service Workspace &sharing Publishing service (re-)Usage of the “research object” Reseach Activity Review Dissemination & access EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

www.d4science.org www.bluebridge-vre.eu EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam