ScienceSoft: Open Software for Open Science

ScienceSo Open Soware for Open Science Alberto Di Meglio, Florida Estrella – CERN Morris Riedel -‐ FZJ First Workshop on Maintainable So3ware Prac7ces in e-‐Science (So3warePrac7ce12) Chicago -‐ 09/10/2012 ScienceSo is incubated by EMI, par6ally funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement RI-‐261611

Content • Background and context • Plans and current ac6vi6es • Next steps EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 2

EU eInfrastructures An interoperable Distributed Compu7ng Infrastructure for Europe EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 3

EMI in a nutshell •  Collabora6on of 4 mw providers (ARC, dCache, gLite, UNICORE) •  26 partners •  24M EUR •  3 years (05/10 – 04/13) •  55 products •  2M SLOC EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 •  Open source 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 4

EMI Vision and Challenges EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 5

Cri6cal issues •  How to ensure technical coordina6on? •  How to share informa6on across projects and across scien6ﬁc domains? •  How will the soware be supported in the future? •  Are all products sustainable? Are all worth being sustainable? •  Anything that can be exploited commercially? How? •  Is there something else we can use? Is it good? Does it work as it should? Can we contribute to it? •  Who is using the soware and how does usage evolve? EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 •  Do users men6on the soware, acknowledge its contribu6on to their research? 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 6

Ini6al discussions • Other projects, communi6es and SMEs shared the same challenges and concerns or expressed interest in similar discussions EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 The ScienceSo Steering Commi?ee (Dec 2011-‐Feb 2013) 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 7

First workshop •  1st ScienceSo Workshop – CERN, Feb 2012 –  Original “Steering Commidee” and other interested persons, 33 in total –  Helped streamlining the requirements and possible features •  Overview document: –  hdp://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1451518/ﬁles/ scienceso_v1.0.pdf EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 8

Roadmap –  Alpha (March-‐June 2012): reﬁnement of ideas, requirements and features, state-‐of-‐the-‐art –  Design (July-‐December 2012): ini6al design and prototyping –  Concept (January-‐April 2013): proof-‐of-‐concept, itera6ons on features –  OperaMon (May 2013 onwards): community managed ac6vi6es Roadmap: hdp://scienceso.org/roadmap EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 18/09/2012 EGI TF 2012 -‐ Prague 9

Features Catalogues Processed informaMon Soware, people, what, where, who, how organiza6ons, projects, good/bad, help, licensing, events, etc. data import/export, no6fica6ons, etc. Marketplace IdenMficaMon and citaMon Communi6es, services, Unique iden6fiers, incuba6on, “soographical” formats, crowdsourcing, etc. EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 consultancy, etc. 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 10

Sustainability • Create wider communi6es around worthwhile soware • Generate revenues by: –  Enabling the provision of specialized soware-‐ related services to well-‐iden6ﬁed groups •  So3ware engineering, consultancy, specialized technical development, training, etc. –  Commercial incuba6on support •  Business plans, legal informa7on, IP, licensing, etc. EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 11

Soware Iden6ﬁca6on & cita6on • Improve academic recogni6on of soware development • Make scien6ﬁc results fully reproducible –  Unique IDs, code runs, VMs • Extend methods from publica6ons and datasets (DOI) • Agree on a format suitable for cita6on equivalent to bibliographical formats EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 12

State of the art EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 13

Design and prototypes • Func6onality: –  Web portal –  Data model, Data discovery and automa6on –  Comment and ra6ng system, Subscrip6ons and no6ﬁca6ons –  Informa6on processing and repor6ng –  Marketplace, Soware Iden6ﬁca6on & cita6on • Forums on the ScienceSo portal at hdp://scienceso.org/forum EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 18/09/2012 EGI TF 2012 -‐ Prague 14

First steps (technical) •  Web site at hdp://scienceso.org –  Based on Drupal (hosted at CERN), features added as modules –  Easy to contribute features •  Simple data model deﬁned for objects and rela6onships •  Registra6on, search, maps •  OpenID-‐based access, support for Facebook, gmail (not yet public) •  Automa6on of rela6onship and data collec6on being EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 discussed 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 15

Snapshot EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 16

First steps (strategic) • Crea6on of collabora6ons and networking –  Exis6ng project and ini6a6ves –  Developers and researchers (ISGC 2012, EGI/EMI CF 2012, EGI TF 2012, SowarePrac6ce 2012, OGF) –  Decision-‐makers in interna6onal organiza6ons, research centers and funding bodies (EIROForum, EC, FAO) –  Open source consultancy companies and incubators EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 17

Opera6onal Challenges Governance Funding Founda6on? Public funding Roles, policies Sponsoring Admin, legal, Paid-‐services logis6cs, etc. Voluntary EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 contribu6ons 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 18

Next steps • Finish the prototype according to plan • Discuss with other projects about common ac6vi6es and extending/reusing func6onality • Disseminate the results • 2nd workshop tenta6vely Feb 2013 –  Governance, funding, future plans • Based on feedback and par6cipa6on, stop EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐261611 or con6nue with opera6onal phase 09/10/2012 SowarePrac6ce12 -‐ Chicago 19

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