UC-NGI-NW-I
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Use Case Title: Grid services for a European infrastructure for the curation of scientific data
Short Description: The main objective is to develop and maintain a collection of grid-services that contribute to the deployment of a broad and sustainable European infrastructure for the sharing, curation, archiving and preservation of scientific data. The services support groups and projects that have a need to deploy digital repositories that are of interest to multiple disciplines and include large-scale complex repositories that are distributed over multiple physical locations. The aim is to enhance the ability of researchers to access and extract further meaning from the many data sets that are stored in institutional, national, international or community repositories and databases. The services promote the standardization and interoperability of digital repositories in order to improve the reuse and reusability of scientific data and improve collaboration between international and multidisciplinary research communities. The services support the deployment of standardised or interoperable mechanisms to store, archive, preserve, authenticate, certify, access, transfer, and interpret scientific data. The services will connect a manifold of repositories and will connect these to other infrastructures that comprise heterogeneous computing systems, networks, other data storage systems and scientific instruments.
Actors involved: All National Grid Initiatives, national and European data centers, national libraries, ...
Related Requirement:
Pre-conditions: (optional) The infrastructure assumes the existence of establishment of European-wide policies that ensure the quality of (and trust in) data collections. These concern policies for proper access and rights management, open access to publicly funded research, and ownership, confidentiality and privacy of data (where that is an issue).
Steps:
- Establish a model for collaboration between the NGIs
- Establish strategies and models to define, develop, manage and operate the services
- Identify the requirements for interoperability and standardization of services
- Identify the main user communities and their requirements
- Ensure the uptake of the services by the infrastructure- and service-providers and end-users
Post-conditions (optional):
Project(s) involved (optional):
Middleware (optional):
Application(s) (optional): There are numerous application areas, ranging from the natural sciences (incl. physics, earth sciences, bio-sciences, medical sciences), human and social sciences, and national and cultural heritage.
