B2STAGE

The main objective of this session is to show how EOSC services can be used for managing active research data (i.e. data transfer, storage, and sharing) and for preserving final research data (i.e. data archiving and publishing). During this training, we will give a brief overview of the EUDAT Services in the data life cycle and 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.

This training track is relevant for researchers, IT support people, and service providers who operate services for Open Science.

The main goal of the EOSC-hub project is to synergize the services and infrastructures from major European providers including EGI and EUDAT, enabling researchers to freedom of choice of the services, data and infrastructure necessary for their work.  Users from many communities have reported interest in being able to use resources provisioned by these 2 infrastructures simultaneously in a transparent fashion, i.e.:

• using single sign on mechanisms between infrastructures
• being able to transparently transfer data between infrastructures

EOSC-hub WP6 has been endeavoring to enable transparent data access between the infrastructures. The main data management components in EGI and EUDAT are respectively, EGI-DataHub based on Onedata platform and B2SAFE/B2STAGE based on iRODS. Currently no transparent mechanisms allowing users to move data between these infrastructures exists, the only options are manual transfers using such tools as GridFTP.

These two demo videos present the managment of data transfer across EGI, EUDAT, INDIGO data and compute services. 

The first demo video shows the how data can be transparently moved from EGI to EUDAT. It divided into 4 sections:

• Registration of B2STAGE storage in EGI-DataHub
• Creation of dsata space in EGI-DataHub supported by the B2STAGE storage
• Upload of some data to the data space
• Data access from GUI and command line

The second demo video presents import of existing data from EUDAT to EGI. The demo is divided into the following 4 sections:

• Registration of B2STAGE storage in EGI-DataHub
• Creation of data space in EGI-DataHub supported by the B2STAGE storage from which existing data is imported to EGI-DataHub
• Access of data from B2STAGE using EGI-DataHub user interface
• Automatic discovery of new data added on the B2STAGE storage

This training module provides you with instructions on how to deploy B2SAFE and B2STAGE. It also shows you how to use these services. Moreover, the module provides hands-on training on Persistent Identifiers, more specifically Handle v8 and the corresponding B2HANDLE python library.