Conveners
Open to the World: collaborating e-Infrastructures for borderless research
- Peter Solagna (EGI.eu)
Description
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 session 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.
