1. 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
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"

3. Data as Infrastructure
“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”

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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?

10. carlos.morais-pires (at) ec.europa.eu
Thank You
carlos.morais-pires (at) ec.europa.eu
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11. 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…)

12. 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?

13. 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?

14. 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?