The Global Open Science Cloud Landscape
Creators
- Yin Chen1
- Jianhui Li2
- Simon Hodson3
- Mark Dietrich1
- Tiziana Ferrari1
- Lili Zhang2
- Ane Persic4
- Geoffrey Boulton5
- Hussein Sherief6
- Sarah Jones7
- Corina Pascu8
- Ingemar Häggström9
- Xinna Yue10
- Junyi Wang10
- Eric Yen11
- Chenzhou Cui12
- Guido Lemoine8
- Kerstin Lehnert13
- Happy Sithole14
- Rosie Hicks15
- Natalia Manola16
- Erik Huizer17
- ZHUANG Yan18
- Kostas Glinos8
- Manish Parashar19
- 1. EGI.eu, Netherlands
- 2. Chinese Network and Information Center, China
- 3. CODATA, Europe
- 4. United nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, United Nations
- 5. International Science Council, Europe
- 6. AASCTC, Africa
- 7. EOSC Executive Board, Europe
- 8. European Commission, Europe
- 9. EISCAT Science Association, Swidden
- 10. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, China
- 11. Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre, Taiwan
- 12. National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Science, China
- 13. Columbia University, US
- 14. National Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure System, South Africa
- 15. Australian Research Data Commons, Australia
- 16. OpenAIRE, Europe
- 17. GÉANT, Netherlands
- 18. Chinese Academy of Science, China
- 19. National Science Foundation, US
Description
We are at the threshold of an era with unprecedented opportunities for cross-disciplinary and cross-border research collaborations. Open Science that started years ago and is growing in momentum with the digitalization and many big investments such as those made by the European Commission. Open Science Cloud, Platform, Commons are developed at national and regional level. It is very timely for developing Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) that aims to connect the different international, national and regional research infrastructures to create a global digital environment for borderless research and innovation. Fundamentally, it aims to make it easy for scientists to access cross-continent digital resources in order to resolve global challenges such as problems caused by the COVID19, and those identified in the UN sustainable Development Goals.
This report discusses the concept and landscape of GOSC. It is a major outcome from a workshop during EGI Conference 2020 that gathered global digital infrastructures, scientific communities, policy makers and funders to review the existing work, examine the available resources, and identify collaboration opportunities. This report is among the initial publications that document GOSC discussions with the aim to inform future developments.