Webinar

An increasingly important part of computational biomedicine workflows is the sharing, processing and publishing of datasets. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) aims to provide a virtual environment with open and seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data. This webinar will introduce the EOSC Digital Innovation Hub (DIH), which provides the primary mechanism for private organisations (start-ups, SMEs, large industry) to engage with the EOSC. Industrial participation is a key part of the remit of Centres of Excellence, such as CompBioMed, therefore we will describe how the DIH can provide them with advanced compute, storage, and data management services alongside expertise and dedicated support. Concrete examples of what can be achieved will be presented from six business pilots running within the EOSC DIH. The webinar will conclude with a call for participation to extend engagement with other research communities with ties to industry, SMEs and other DIHs (regional, European).

The video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvw5lqI_7go 

This webinar will introduce the Service Management System based on the FitSM standard for IT Service Management developed and deployed by EOSC-hub for EOSC, with a particular focus on the Service Portfolio Management as a key and highly strategic process. The structure of the EOSC Service Portfolios will be also presented.

This webinar will describe the Reference Technical Architecture for EOSC proposed by EOSC-hub during the recent EOSC-hub Technical Workshop.

The proposed architecture is based on the concepts of service composability and interoperability. Service categories and relationships between them will be presented. The process to define interoperability guidelines for different technical areas will be also depicted.

In this webinar, we will give a brief overview of the EUDAT Services and the data life cycle. We further demonstrate how these services operate and integrate with each other to meet the data management requirements of research communities and comply with the FAIR principles - which require the data to be properly documented, annotated, archived, published and accessible to the wider community. Target audience: community researchers, data managers and the IT support people.

EC3 (Elastic Cloud Computing Cluster) is a tool to deploy virtual elastic clusters over multi-clouds. It is a web tool that facilitates the access to Cloud computing platforms to non-experienced users. A virtual cluster can be deployed with a few clicks. It maintains the “traditional” work environment: clusters configured with a LRMS (SLURM, SGE, Kubernetes, etc.) and scientific applications (Galaxy, NAMD, etc.).

EC3 provides automated elasticity management. Working nodes are added or removed depending on the workload of the cluster without any user intervention and it supports a wide range of cloud providers (public, federated and on-premises) including EGI FedCloud.

EOSC-hub is organizing a webinar to introduce the project’s Early Adopter Programme and answer questions from those interested in applying.
Interested parties can apply to the Early Adopter Programme by filling an online assessment by 15 June 2019: https://www.eosc-hub.eu/application-form.

More information: https://www.eosc-hub.eu/eosc-early-adopter-programme

The aims of this FREYA webinar are manifold:

• Present the results achieved so far
• Discuss the next developments
• Discuss how research communities can engage and collaborate with FREYA

Webinar programme

00:00:00 Welcome - Francesca Morselli (DANS)

00:04:05 Introduction to FREYA - Simon Lambert (STFC) 

00:11:25 Introduction to the PID Graph - Robin Dasler (DataCite)

00:32:20 PID Graph Demonstrators - Tina Dohna (PANGAEA), Christine Ferguson (EMBL-EBI), Simon Lambert (STFC)

00:53:00 Requirements gathering for new PID Types - Christine Ferguson (EMBL-EBI)

01:08:36 FREYA Engagement and Training - Frances Madden (British Library)

01:15:20 Discussion - Francesca Morselli (DANS)

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The EGI Notebooks is an 'as a Service' environment based on the Jupyter technology, offering a browser-based, scalable tool for interactive data analysis. The EGI Notebooks environment provides users with notebooks where they can combine text, mathematics, computations and rich media output. EGI Notebooks is a multi-user service and can scale to multiple servers based on the EGI cloud service.

With the Binder ‘extension’ of Jupyter one can turn a Github repository with Jupyter notebooks into an executable environment, making code, visualisation and documentation immediately reproducible and reusable by anyone, anywhere. 

This webinar will introduce the key features of the EGI Notebooks service, particularly:

• Easy access based on user authentication through EGI Check-In using institutional (eduGAIN) or social media accounts (e.g.: Google, Facebook, LinkedIn).
• Graphical environment to write and run code, analyse and visualise data.
• Persistent storage associated to each user, available in the notebooks environment.
• Customisable with new notebook environments, expose any existing notebooks to your users.
• Leverage on the EGI e-Infrastructure cloud compute and storage resources to run the notebooks.
• Sharing of notebooks through Binder for Open Science.

The EGI Notebooks are offered in two options:

• For individual users: EGI hosts and offers a JupyterHub within the Applications on Demand service. After a lightweight approval, users login, write and play notebooks using the EGI storage and compute capacity.
• For user communities: EGI offers consultancy and technology to setup a community-specific JupyterHub on top of a community VO. This comes together with community specific compute and storage.

The need for professionally managing sensitive data is growing in science, therefore we invite you to join our webinar on good practices, tips & tricks, as well as cloud-based services for researchers.

Presenters:

• Iryna Kuchma (OpenAIRE) and Gergely Sipos (EOSC-Hub, EGI Foundation) will introduce the projects
• Elli Papadopoulou (OpenAIRE) will speak about Data Privacy
• Abdulrahman Azab (EOSC-Hub, University of Oslo) will talk about Sensitive Data Services. 

WP11 responses for coordinating training delivery for EOSC-hub core services, Thematic services and Competence Centres services. Training delivery is largely depending on EOSC-hub service providers in WP5-8.
The topics are mainly based on WP11 drafted Guidelines and Best Practises on Training Delivery, with extended contents on training delivery techniques.