4 November 2024
NODC took part in the Symposium of the European Open Science Cloud, which was held in Berlin at the end of October, together with a further 460 people. The focus was on the EOSC EU Node, which is "the first reference implementation of a gateway designed to streamline access to scientific data, publications, software and services. This digital platform will enable researchers across Europe to collaborate more effectively and drive progress in open science," explains the EOSC Association.
Launched on 10 October, the EOSC Node is hosted under the domain ec.europa.eu (https://open-science-cloud.ec.europa.eu/) and already provides access to some of the services it will welcome for the European Open Science Cloud Node federation. Following the launch of the EOSC EU Node, a build-up phase for the establishment of the EOSC Federation will begin with the identification and development of new nodes whose services will be connected to the main node. They foresee 5 categories of nodes: national, regional, thematic, institutional and other. In August 2024, the EOSC Association called for proposals to nominate organisations, research or data infrastructures as nodes or to contribute to one of these nodes.
The OGS is involved in the creation of an Italian national EOSC node and in particular the NODC is also involved in the proposal to promote the blue data infrastructure BlueCloud as a thematic infrastructure. A total of 121 applications were received, but only 52 are suitable as potential nodes and 42 already have services that can be used in a network. At the beginning of November, the EOSC Tripartite governance will approve the first 10-15 potential node candidates. The launch of the EOSC EU Node was combined with the publication of the EOSC Federation Handbook, which describes the purpose, structure, governance, architecture and operation of the EOSC Federation.
The poster presented by NODC, which is entitled Quality standards for services: a use case for marine data management, was among the 20 selected for the Symposium.
