Scientific data valorisation on federated, national compute resources in EGI

Background:

This is the slideset that was presented on 23/May/2024 at the 8th edition of the HPC workshop of the European Network for Earth SyStem modelling (ENES), organised by ESiWACE3 at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, CMCC). https://www.esiwace.eu/events/8th-enes-hpc-workshop

The abstract of the presentation:

A collaborative approach is the hallmark of modern science and research.  Scientists and researchers, from different disciplines and countries, work together to advance humanity's understanding of the world around us.  As science and research become more “digital” – combining both digital assets and digital tools and services to increase the speed and excellence of scientific process – those digital assets and services must also be used collaboratively and increasingly provided and shared on a collaborative basis. Several terms have been used to describe this collaborative process, including open science commons and research ecosystems.  Both terms point to concepts from economics.

There is great potential in investigating how this can be better applied to the interrelated resource systems that are needed to support the open creation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge.
In 2015, EGI presented a vision for an Open Science Commons (OSC) as an approach for sharing and governing advanced digital services, scientific instruments, data, knowledge and expertise that enables European researchers to collaborate more easily, be more productive and achieve higher levels of excellence.

The Open Science Commons builds on the understanding that managing shared resources as a Commons maximises excellence in science and benefits society. Applying this principle to the Open Science process is expected to (1) democratise access to research objects otherwise difficult or impossible to access, and (2) create clear and non-discriminatory access rules together with the sense of shared ownership that stimulates a higher level of participation, cooperation and social reciprocity.

Computing and Storage is one of the Open Science Commons model components. In this presentation we show the role of scientific computing for research data valorisation and the contribution of EGI to the European Open Science Cloud.