Analyzing the research data infrastructure in Europe

Abstract

Over the past decade, research data have been increasingly recognized as the distinctive asset on which the research community can capitalize as the new gold. In line with this, the European Union is implementing the European Open Science Cloud in order to give the European Union a global lead in research data management and ensure that European scientists reap the full benefits of data-driven science by offering a virtual environment for storing, managing, analyzing and re-using research data across borders and disciplines. The EOSC model envisions a pan-European federation of data infrastructures built around a shared core, as well as providing access to a wide range of publicly funded services supplied at national, regional and institutional levels, and to complementary commercial services. In order to build this federation, the Governing Board together with the Executive Board has established EOSC priorities around which five EB Working Groups have been formed. Within the Landscape working group, a stock taking of the existing research infrastructures is made, i.e. national data e-infrastructures, thematic, computational and networking infrastructures. During this presentation, the goals and the state of affairs of this working group will be explained with focus on the position of current research information systems.