EOSC-Synergy: European Open Science Cloud Synergy

Description of the project

The project will push the EOSC state-of-the-art in software and services life-cycle through a quality-driven approach to services integration that will promote the convergence and alignment towards EOSC standards and best practices. This will be complemented by the expansion of the EOSC training and education capabilities through the introduction of an on-line platform aimed at boosting the development of EOSC skills and competences.

The project introduces new capabilities by opening national thematic services to European access, thus expanding the EOSC offer in the Environment, Climate Change, Earth Observation and Life Sciences. This will be supported by an expansion of the capacity through the federation of compute, storage and data resources aligned with the EOSC and FAIR policies and practices.

Industrial partners

Indra's rol

Task 4.1. Services and Best Practices harmonization

Contribuitor to WP4 with next tasks:

Task 4.1. It targets mainly the first two objectives, by eliciting current use cases, limitations, evaluation metrics and baseline for the validation of the services. As a global task 4.1 will produce consolidated input to WP3 and will gather the necessary information to implement Task4.2-5 activities. The task will identify technical and scientific representatives from each service, obtain user profiles, bottlenecks, service needs and will select a set of representative end-users to obtain the user satisfaction baseline and use them as prescripts.

The activity in each Thematic Service task will go through four sub-tasks:

• Integration of EOSC Services
• Testing of the services by selected groups
• Development of community-specific training material
• Liaison with the user community

Task 4.2. Thematic Services for the EOS community

In the Earth Observation community (EOS), the project will deal with three thematic services:

G-Core, a production-ready technology used as a service at ESA’s and national programs led by Indra for managing EOSC data in terms of the acquisition, storage, cataloguing and processing data of several levels from different missions.

In the frame of this task we have two aims:

• To explore the sustainability of the EOS services exposed through the creation of added-value products through the integration of G-Core as a data manager

Task 4.6. Thematic Services Validation
The validation of the thematic services is a key activity and aligned with the objectives of the call. By the integration on the EOSC, the thematic services are expected to extend their functionality, increase their capacity or improve their performance and availability, reaching a wider and international user community.

These improvements will be subject to a rigorous assessment based on a set of quantitative indicators and Key Performance Indicators.

The validation will be done in two main aspects: Software and service quality and user outreach and satisfaction. The software quality will be closely aligned with the WP3 Software Quality Assessment (SQA), which defines the quality assessment for the EOSC services (infrastructure and thematic services). The EOSC integration of the thematic services will be assessed through the WP3 SQA and WP3 FAIR recommendations and guidelines. The validation at the level of the users will evaluate outreach (new users, new countries involved, new datasets integrated) and the user satisfaction by means of standardized questionnaires.

Universities and Technology Centers

Technologies employed

• Grid & cloud computing
• K8s and micro-services architecture
• Java coded
• IM and CLUES

Additional information

This project, with reference nº H2020-857647, has been funded by the European Commission in the call H2020- INFRAEOSC 2018-2020.