25 September 2015
RDA Six Plenary Venue
Europe/Amsterdam timezone
Different international research collaborations and infrastructures are close to their implementation stage and time is ripe to reflect on status and perspectives of federating e-infrastructures world wide to serve these research communities. Europe and other continents benefits from increasing research community coordination thanks to funding initiatives that support the implementation of thematic research infrastructures. In parallel to this, nowadays, research practice is increasingly and in many cases exclusively data driven. Knowledge of how to use tools to manipulate research data, and the availability of e-infrastructures to support them, are foundational. Along with this, new types of communities are forming around interests in digital tools, computing facilities and data repositories. By making infrastructure services, community engagement and training inseparable, existing communities can be empowered by new ways of doing research, and new communities can be created around tools and data. Life science and bioinformatics, brain research, astronomy and environmental sciences are examples of prominent research domains where international collaborations are quickly expanding. While international research communities need increasing computing,storage, data and other digital resources to advance knowledge, computing storage and other digital resources are increasingly becoming commodity services offered by large commercial players. In this new landscape e-Infrastructures face the challenge of reviewing their existing business models, of establishing partnerships with the private sectors, and provide an environment where open science can flourish. This workshop provides an opportunity to different e-Infrastructure representatives to discuss status, opportunities, common problems, and investigate new collaborations and joint strategies. This workshop puts together partners that recognize the need of collaboration between international e-Infrastructures and are willing to cooperate to join up research support efforts worldwide.

OBJECTIVES
  • Identify which existing/new international research collaborations require collaboration between e-Infrastructures worldwide for cooridnated service provisioning. How do we engage with those communities as a federation and not a single infrastructure?
  • Identify actions and present ideas for new collaborations. What additional infrastructure is need to support int. research communities? how to manage the provision of resources for these "community platforms" ?
  • Share information about strategic future directions and identify areas where strategies can be aligned and efforts joined, and possibly to negotiate coordinated funding actions, like exchange of services across e-Infrastructure Share information about success stories in technical outreach to research communities
  • How can e-Infrastructurs work as a persisten federation, what types of collaboration support is needed?
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Europe/Amsterdam
RDA Six Plenary Venue
Room Number: 17.2.06
The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam), Paris
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