••• Open Access: towards a European e-Infrastructure (*) Presentation at the ‘Knowledge Exchange Workshop’, Brussels, 22 June 2009 “ The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission” Kostas Glinos, Head of Unit European Commission - DG INFSO GÉANT and e-Infrastructures

Global scientific challenges with high societal impact Born digital material… virtual-labs, information flood Big distances, big numbers, big files, big processing Cross-disciplinarity, spread of skills and competences ••• Science and ICT e-Infrastructures changing Science, Science changing e-infrastructures

Global scientific challenges with high societal impact

Born digital material… virtual-labs, information flood

Big distances, big numbers, big files, big processing

Cross-disciplinarity, spread of skills and competences

••• e-Infrastructures supporting Global Virtual research Communities Economies of Scale Efficiency Gains Workspace Scientific Data Computing/ Simulation Network Laboratory Workspace Scientific Data Computing/ Simulation Network Laboratory Workspace Scientific Data Computing/ Simulation Network Laboratory Workspace Scientific Data Computing and Simulation Network Workspace Laboratory Workspace Laboratory Scientific Data Computing/ Simulation Network Scientific Data Computing/ Simulation Network Laboratory Virtual Community

To facilitate a rapid transition to e-Science , the European Commission and Member States have made significant investments in e-Infrastructures… ••• What can we do for Science… Linking the ideas at the speed of the light: G É ANT Accessing knowledge: scientific data Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities Sharing the best computational resources: E-Science grid and high performance computing Experimenting in silico : Simulation and visualisation

To facilitate a rapid transition to e-Science , the European Commission and Member States have made significant investments in e-Infrastructures…

••• Coverage of the SDI projects The e-Infrastructure domain of Scientific Data Infrastructures has currently 15 projects running (worth 40 MEuro) network infrastructure, GÉANT biology distributed computing/software infrastructure astro Geo Earth Climate scientific data infrastructure

The e-Infrastructure domain of Scientific Data Infrastructures has currently 15 projects running (worth 40 MEuro)

••• Information Management of Repositories Management of Access Processing, Computation Physical infrastructure Repository services Collections: data, work-flows, publications, learning materials, etc. Deposit, application software, annotation, visualisation, search, etc Repository management, curation, physical security, etc Authentication, authorisation, logical security, federation, portals etc Platform software, Distributed computing, Grids, etc Networks, computing, HPC, physical storage, etc Authenticity Quality Longevity Ease of use Availability Reliability Trusted Open Well managed Standardised Stable Flexible Transparent Responsive Informed Available Scaleable Reliable e-Infrastructure of repositories e-Infrastructure for repositories Adapted from e-SciDR study A data-centric view of e-Infrastructures Layers of e-Infrastructure and some of their desired characteristics

••• Adapted from e-SciDR study The OA Pilot To experiment with e-Infrastructure in support of European policy Call concluded and negotiations with consortia started Conditions for success: engaging researchers from all communities and initiatives at member state and world level leveraging synergies of existing initiatives at Member State and Institutional levels tackling the preservation issues addressing the longer term perspective going beyond research results and address the data dimension Open Access Pilot Information Management Repositories Management of Access Processing, Computation Physical infrastructure Repository services

To experiment with e-Infrastructure in support of European policy

Call concluded and negotiations with consortia started

Conditions for success:

engaging researchers from all communities and initiatives at member state and world level

leveraging synergies of existing initiatives at Member State and Institutional levels

tackling the preservation issues addressing the longer term perspective

going beyond research results and address the data dimension

••• Conclusion Data-intensive science is there to stay; it is a dynamically evolving and global enterprise Systematic approaches and policies across all SDI layers needed The OA-Pilot is an important initiative for implementing the OA policy through a European e-Infrastructure It should also contribute to develop an ecosystem of digital repositories, federating and adding value to national and discipline-based repositories We need to exploit the growing sensor/effector layer to make the world itself a real-time database. (from the creativity machine, V. Vinge)

Data-intensive science is there to stay; it is a dynamically evolving and global enterprise

Systematic approaches and policies across all SDI layers needed

The OA-Pilot is an important initiative for implementing the OA policy through a European e-Infrastructure

It should also contribute to develop an ecosystem of digital repositories, federating and adding value to national and discipline-based repositories