Pasquale Pagano's presentation at Datathon for fisheries and aquaculture, 15-16 June, Heraklion, Crete. www.bluebridge-vres.eu

1. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.euBlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
The BlueBRIDGE project
Pasquale Pagano (CNR-ISTI)
pasquale.pagano@isti.cnr.it
The RDA Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon On
Fisheries And Aquaculture23 March 2017
15-16 June 2017, Heraklion,

2. Factsheet
Funded by DG-CNECT e-Infrastructure
September 2015 - February 2018
The RDA Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon On Fisheries And Aquaculture, 15-16 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete

3. BlueBRIDGE &
the Blue Societal Challenge
To offer new capacity to interdisciplinary communities actively
involved in increasing scientific knowledge about marine resource
exploitation, ecosystems conservation, and performance
improvement and sustainability in aquaculture
The RDA Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon On Fisheries And Aquaculture, 15-16 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete

4. BlueBRIDGE
Objective
To exploit the new technological landscape for facilitating
communities of scientists, innovators from SMEs and educators
from different domains addressing Blue Growth related
challenges in their knowledge production chain, from the initial
phases, data collection and aggregation, to the production of
indicators for competent authorities and investors.
Keywords
Multidisciplinay collaboration, validation, reproducibility, reuse, dynamicity,
fast adaptability, low costs of engagement, low cost of service
The RDA Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon On Fisheries And Aquaculture, 15-16 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete

5. BlueBRIDGE user communities
Communities span from EU and International world-renowned
leading institutions (e.g. ICES, IRD, FAO, UNEP), providing
informed advice on sustainable use of marine resources to
relevant Commissions and member countries, till local level
organizations, like national academic institutions and SMEs.
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6. BlueBRIDGE Services Offer
Tailored services addressing three heterogeneous domains
One common infrastructure
BlueBRIDGE
Infrastructure
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7. BlueBRIDGE Infrastructure Services Offer
The RDA Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon On Fisheries And Aquaculture, 15-16 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete
Data services addressing the whole data management value chain
Infrastructure services addressing the access and management of
infrastructure resources

8. BlueBRIDGE hides ICT complexities
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Storage
Database GIS NoSQL
Computing
D4Science EGI SeaDataNet
Data
OSCAR Copernicus

9. Integrates
WP
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Behind the scene
Analytics
EngineAggregatorStorage Mediator ….. Service CommonsRegistry
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External e-Infrastructures, repositories & services
Enables
VREs VREs VREs

10. BlueBRIDGE hides ICT complexities
Data and
Services
Hosted by different
Organizations
Accessible through
different Protocols
Described with
different Metadata
Policies
Different Licenses
Different Terms of Use
Different approaches
for Credits
Heterogeneity
Provide Discovery,
Access, Use
Support Validation,
Curation,
Harmonization
Trace Provenance
The RDA Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon On Fisheries And Aquaculture, 15-16 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete
BlueBRIDGE provides capacity for dealing with modern science
increasingly global, multi-disciplinary and networked

11. BlueBRIDGE realizes an open scientific
infrastructure ecosystem
• >800 data providers
• >19k temporal datasets
• >50k spatial datasets
• >350 physical and chemical
variables with global coverage
spanning the last ten years
• 40k data analysis/month
Data
• 5 EGI sites
• 4 D4Science sites
• 4 Organization sites
• 1000 CPUs
• 400 TB storages
• 4 TB Memory
Computing
• >250 services
• >180 analytical models
• >500 software components
integrated
Services
The RDA Europe / BlueBRIDGE Datathon On Fisheries And Aquaculture, 15-16 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete
BlueBRIDGE provides access to Data, Computing, and Services
BlueBRIDGE simplifies
the integration of new community services
the exploitation of community-specific analytical models
The analysis of community/user data

12. BlueBRIDGE supports data analytics
• are multidisciplinary, involve members belonging to diverse organisations
• require to access data and services that are spread among many providers
Dynamic groups addressing specific questions/problems
• Without relying on pre-organised and costly supporting environments managed
by dedicated organizations
BlueBRIDGE builds and operates their own VRE
• BlueBRIDGE allows to operate on remote resources via dedicated
interfaces
With limited or no additional costs for the resource providers
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Not performed by individuals but group of data analysts

13. BlueBRIDGE supports data analytics
via sharing of data and workflows
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Crete
Support collaborative data analysis and experimentation
via a virtual workspace
Enable secure and controlled data sharing
Manage heterogeneous data access policies
Implement Traceability and Reproducibility-Repeatability-
Reusability
Information objects can be
• files, dataset, workflows, experiments, etc.
• organized into folders
Users can
• share with selected users
• disseminate via persistent public URLs

14. BlueBRIDGE supports software integration
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Download the (python, R, Java, …)
script and the user’s data
Execute script
Collect output
Destroy local copies of I/O and script
Save Output on the User’s Workspace, with provenance info
Scientist provides a
method to analyse data
User’s data
BB
Infrastructure

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Shared online folders
Inputs
Outputs
Results
Computational system
In the e-Infrastructure
Through third party software
BlueBRIDGE supports collaborative experiments

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Script provider
Updates the script on
his private Workspace
The BB service
downloads
the script on-the-fly
A user executes
an experiment
on his/her data
The output, the input and the
parameters can be shared with
another user
This user can
execute the
experiment again
and share the
computation with
other users
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BlueBRIDGE enables new scientific workflows

17. Additional information
• www.bluebridge-vres.eu
• https://bluebridge.d4science.org
• www.i-marine.eu
• www.d4science.org
• http://www.bluebridge-
vres.eu/sites/default/files/januarywor
kshopreport.pdf
BlueBRIDGE
Building Research environments fostering
Innovation, Decision making, Governance
and Education
for Blue Growth
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