Technical Elements

Technical Elements#

This section includes details of technical elements of EU e-infrastructures.

Reference Architectures#

Cross-Cutting Elements#

User Management#

Centralized user management? Which IT services? Federate with other EU/research management system?

Authorization technologies and services?

Data Management#

Lifetimes#

Security#

IP#

FAIR#

Foundation Elements#

Data network#

GEANT#

GEANT is a provider of a pan-european data network for research and education activities. It connects National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Europe.

Resources#

Federated Compute#

EGI#

The European Grid Infrastructure with federated computing cloud infrastructures. Often partners with National Grid Initiatives (NGIs).

EuroHPC JU#

Successor of Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)

Helix Nebula Science Cloud#

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/687614

Cloud Platform#

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)#

Provider Hub: https://eosc-portal.eu/eosc-providers-hub Provider API: https://providers.eosc-portal.eu/openapi

Data Management System#

A system for collecting, organizing and accessing data.

Sample systems used by EU projects:

ckan#

Used by GHub and by extension BlueCloud

Source: ckan/ckan License: AGPL3

iRODS#

Used by B2Safe

Also dpm, dcache

Data Infrastructure#

A digital infrastructure for promoting data sharing and consumption, often supporting data services.

Some EU Data Infrastructures:

Catalogue Services#

A Service Catalogue (or simply Catalogue) is a collection of business and IT services provided by an organisation.

A Catalogue Service allows interaction with collections of Catalogues.

Sample EU Catalogues:

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)#

PIDs (or PIs) are long-lasting identifiers for digital objects usually accessible over the internet.

In the context of EU E-Research (use of IT to support research) generic PIDs are commonly provided by the ePIC consortium through their handle.net API.

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a commonly used PID for individual researcher’s online profiles.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are often managed by DataCite in a scientific setting.

https://datacite.org

Monitoring#

https://www.nagios.org

Ontologies#

OntoStack

NatLibFi/Skosmos

https://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/

Data Management Plans#

References#

Data Services#

Middleware#

User Management#

Authentication and authorization infrastructure (AAI)#

Federated identity and access management in the e-infrastructure context.

OAUTH, JWT, BasicAuth, OIDC, etc.

https://www.eudat.eu/use-cases/the-eida-authentication-system-a-federated-approach-to-aai-for-the-scientific-community

Some tools:

eduGain#

Federation of European AAI providers by GEANT.

eduGate#

eduGain node in Ireland. https://edugate.heanet.ie/rr3/?/

ICHEC https://edugate.heanet.ie/rr3/metadatalocations

eduPKI#

Cert and trust service provided by GEANT.

marineID#

Federates with B2Access

EUDAT B2ACCESS#

EUDAT B2Access powered by Unity IDM https://unity-idm.eu (Open Source, Java)

Others#

Shibboleth contrail

Federation Protocols#

Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration (AARC)#

Specification for common AAI implementations

Snctfi#

Snctfi

Federation Communities#

Research and Education FEDerations group (REFEDS)#

https://refeds.org Sirtfi https://refeds.org/sirtfi Assurance Framework https://refeds.org/assurance

Data Management#

Federated Data Infrastructures#

BlueCloud#

EOSC element for marine research area.

Compute Environments#

D4Science#

Built on gcube platform.

GCube#

Software: https://www.gcube-system.org/software-releases Repo: https://code-repo.d4science.org/gCubeSystem

Visualization#

Sensor Data Visualization#

Web Based#
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