D7.2 – Interoperability with EOSCpilot services

The emerging EOSC ecosystem will unquestionably require a minimum set of interoperability
metadata to ensure basic discoverability, navigation and accessibility between systems.
OpenAIRE-Advance is collaborating with the projects EOSC-hub and EOSCpilot to ensure
metadata interoperability and service integration between three infrastructures that are
important building blocks of the EOSC: OpenAIRE, EUDAT and EGI.
Different types of collaborations are envisaged, ranging from service and data integration to joint
activities for the definition and implementation of interoperability guidelines. Specifically,
OpenAIRE-Advance: (i) runs pilots for the integration of two EOSC-hub services as OpenAIRE
content providers: EUDAT B2Share and EGI Virtual Appliance Database; (ii) collaborates with
EOSC-hub and EOSCpilot for the design, development and maintenance of the EOSC portal and
catalogue; and (iii) collaborates with EOSCpilot for the definition of Open Science indicators
useful to generate reports on different aspects and facets of Open Science.