1. #TNC19 European Open Science Cloud session
The contribution of eInfraCentral to the EOSC
Alasdair Reid, Director, EFIS Centre
19 June 2019, Tallinn

2. eInfraCentral project
Coordination and Support Action (CSA) in Horizon 2020 Programmme
(INFRASUPP b-3 call)
Implementation period: January 2017 – June 2019 (30 months)
9 partners, including 5 major e-infrastructures
Effort: PMs, Budget: €1.5m€
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

3. Mission
Ensure, that by 2020, a broader and more varied set of users discovers and accesses the existing and emerging Services and Resources for Research
Context changed rapidly during
EC SWD - Implementation roadmap for the EOSC (March 2018)
Foresees to develop the the EOSC Portal with a catalogue of data infrastructures and services - as a universal entry point for all potential users
EOSC-hub, eInfraCentral and OpenAIRE-Advance projects identified as key building blocks for Portal
Services provided under the EOSC should made accessible via the EOSC portal - building on the work of the EOSC-hub and eInfraCentral projects
Digitalisation of science is moving fast
Growing interest (pressure) to extend catalogue towards data, software, etc. providers and e-services of ”physical” research infrastructures, etc.
Going beyond core EU level e-services – national and beyond (e.g. interest from Australia, etc.)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

4. Core Objectives and Key Results
Structure an open and guided discussion to consensually define a common catalogue for their services and resources
Develop a web platform to act as the gateway for researchers to browse the catalogue of services and solve the “last mile” problem
Capture and draw policy and sustainability lessons for the development of the EOSC
Reached consensus initially with 5 key e-Infras on standard description of services and resources and APIs. Now extended to 15+
Developed a production view of the EOSC Catalogue with 250+ services and resources
Lessons from building the catalogue and work with SPs fed into the EOSC Portal development and into new CatRIS project
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

5. eInfraCentral’s contribution to the EOSC
Landscape
Sustainability
Architecture
RoP
First comprehensive mapping of the eInfrastructure service landscape.
Developed the EOSC catalogue of services and service description template
Technical architecture for onboarding service providers and seamless updating (APIs) – adopted by EOSC Portal and CATRIS 12
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

6. Mapping the service landscape
Dynamics of the services and needs of the users
Researcher
looking for
a Research/
Scientific
Resource
Research/Scientific
Resources Aggregator
PhyRe/Data
Aggregator
eInfra-Services
Aggregator3
Data & App
Aggregator
Pipelines
Aggregator
App/SW/Data
Aggregator
To make this happen we need:
1. Standardised descriptions of research resources
2. Standardised APIs for the exchange of service/ resources-related information
Physical Resource
Aggregator
e-Infra Service
Aggregator1
e-Infra Service
Aggregator2
Data
Aggregator
App/SW
Aggregator
PRP1
PRP2
SP1
SP2
SP1
SP3
DP1
DP2
ASP1
ASP2

7. Service Description Template Service Classifications, APIs
Pre-standards
Allow for the development of the EOSC
Service Description Template
Service Classifications,
APIs
Creative Commons license
Heralded as a major contribution of eInfraCentral to the ESOC

8. Pre-standards
Allow for the development of the EOSC

9. EOSC Catalogue Services catalogued PRACE GEANT NOAD1 NREN1 EGI EUDAT
eInfraCentral
EOSC Catalogue
PROCESS
FREYA
EUXDAT
ESiWACE
DEEP
AARC2
OPERAS-D
XDC
ANTAREX
PRACE
GEANT
OpenAIRE
Advance
EOSC Hub
EDISON
AENEAS
PhenoMeNal
OpenMinTeD
DARE
EarthServer-2
EVER-EST
VI-SEEM
READ
BlueBridge
West-Life
MuG
NOAD1
NREN1
EGI
EUDAT
VRE4EIC
OpenDreamKit
BioExcel
HPC1
COEGSS
ESiWACE
E-CAM
MaX
NOAD2
HPC2
NREN2
POP
NoMaD
EoCoE
AENEAS … … …
OpenRiskNet
HIRMEOS
UBORA
NGI1
DR1
INDIGO
DataCloud
ComBioMed
AGRINFRA+
MSO4SC
NGI2 …
DR2 …

10. Current deployments of the eInfraCentral catalogue
catalogue.eosc-portal.eu
Views
Views
Database
Rules
Rules

11. Offered Functionality in a nutshell

12. eInfraCentral User Guide
e-publication: How-To-Guide
3 target groups : end users (researchers), service providers and funders/policy-makers
What is the Service catalogue in EOSC
A common Service Description Template: Why? What? How?
How to find and access services in the EOSC Catalogue
How to register and manage services in the EOSC Catalogue
How to gain insights about the EOSC service landscape?
How to automate working with the EOSC Catalogue

13. Service Provider Registration Process
Login in EOSC Portal
Academic, Social Logins

14. Service Provider Dashboard
Visualizes statistics per Provider’s offerings
Data collected by eInfraCentral usage/traffic (Matomo)
Facets by organization or by service
History of service updates in EIC

15. Documented in developers section and in GitHub
API v2.0
Due by 30/6/2019
SDT 1.12 compliant
Will fully support new features added in last releases
Get\Add\Update a service
Get \Add\Update a Provider
Get \Add\Update KPIs
Get Statistics for service providers and funders
Get all SDT Vocabularies
Documented in developers section and in GitHub

16. eInfraCentral – the backbone to European research service catalogues
An integrated and tested solution !
catalogue.eosc-portal.eu
catris.eu (coming soon)
View A
Rules A
View B
View C
Database
Rules B
Rules C

17. Thank you catalogue.eosc-portal.eu contact@einfracentral.eu12
catalogue.eosc-portal.eu
@eInfraCentral
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

18. Project timeline (background slides)

19. Design of User Assessment
Highlights 2017
1st version of service classification
1st version of Portal Technology ready
March 2017
1st version of SDT
1st version of common Catalogue for EGI, EUDAT, GEANT, OpenAIRE, PRACE
1st version of Service Representation
Portal Mockups approved
May 2017
Portal Design, Functional and non-Functional specs
August 2017
Service catalogue requirements approved
1st Demo
September 2017
2nd Demo
70+ services at the Portal/onine Catalogue
November 2017
Design of User Assessment
Beta released
1st User Assessment
eInfraCentral has devised a service gateway architecture to collect service descriptions and related data through registration and harvesting methods, is aggregating those service offerings and is providing a uniform service catalogue at the eInfraCentral gateway employing formal and standardised guidelines, a service description template and an application programming interfaces (APIs) to continuously provide up-to-date information to end-users

20. Highlights 2018
SPs Dashboards
January 2018
Outreach to 2nd tier SPs
Training sessions
Benchmarking reports on service maturity
February 2018
Consensus on service classification & representation
Core set of service level targets and performance information agreed
March
APIs v1.0
April
SP and Services registration process documented
Leading EOSC branding creation
August
Deployed the EOSC branded catalogue (production)
Registration Services with EOSC-based AAI
September 2018
255+ services from key 15 SPs
November 2018
EOSC Catalogue released
Project Interim Review
Onboarding SW released
OpenAIRE-Advance and EOSC-HUB KO
Preparations for EOSC launch start
APIs tested to feed the catalogue
eInfraCentral has devised a service gateway architecture to collect service descriptions and related data through registration and harvesting methods, is aggregating those service offerings and is providing a uniform service catalogue at the eInfraCentral gateway employing formal and standardised guidelines, a service description template and an application programming interfaces (APIs) to continuously provide up-to-date information to end-users

21. eInfraCentral EOSC community event
Highlights 2019
Update of SDT (v1.13) turning it into EOSC SDT
Benchmarking Reports for registered SPs (target 10)
February 2019
Dashboard visualisation tools
Service uptake, trends, comparisons, correlations
Regional/discipline outreach, targeted stakeholders etc.
March 2019
Update of SP Registration Process
Benchmarking Reports for registered SPs (target +15)
May 2019
Update SDT (v2)
Update API (v2)
Update EOSC Catalogue (25+ SPs)
June 2019
SDT, APIs, OBP, Catalogue Platform extended with CatRIS, INFRAEOSC
July+
CatRIS KO
2nd User Assessment
eInfraCentral EOSC community event
INFRAEOSC
eInfraCentral has devised a service gateway architecture to collect service descriptions and related data through registration and harvesting methods, is aggregating those service offerings and is providing a uniform service catalogue at the eInfraCentral gateway employing formal and standardised guidelines, a service description template and an application programming interfaces (APIs) to continuously provide up-to-date information to end-users