Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

1. Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments Pasquale Pagano BlueBRIDGE Technical Director CNR-ISTI pasquale.pagano@isti.cnr.it Digital Infrastructures for Research November 30 2017 Brussels, Belgium

2. Outline Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

3. BlueBRIDGE objective To exploit the new technological landscape for facilitating communities of scientists, innovators from SMEs and educatorsfrom different domains in their knowledge production chain, from the initial phases, data collection and aggregation, to the production of indicators for competent authorities and investors. Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

4. BlueBRIDGE Services Offer D4ScienceInfrastructure Tailored services addressing three heterogeneous domains One common infrastructure Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

5. BlueBRIDGE Infrastructure Services Offer • Data services addressing the whole data management value chain • Infrastructure services addressing the access and management of infrastructure resources Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

6. BlueBRIDGE hides ICT complexities D4Science Storage Computing Data Database GIS NoSQL D4Science EGI SeaDataNet OSCAR Copernicus Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

7. BlueBRIDGE hides ICT complexities BlueBRIDGE provides solutions for dealing with modern science increasingly global, multi-disciplinary and networked Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

8. Providing researchers with the skills and competencies they need to practise Open Science Courtesy of Open Science Skills Working Group Requirements for Open Science Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

9. Vision When all researchers are aware of Open Science, and are trained, supported and guided at all career stages to practice Open Science, the potential is there to fundamentally change the way research is performed and disseminated, fostering a scientific ecosystem in which research gains increased visibility, is shared more efficiently, and is performed with enhanced research integrity Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

10. Categories of Open Science Skills Skills and expertise necessary for open access publishing. Skills and expertise regarding research data, data production, management, analysis/use/reuse, dissemination and a change of paradigm from “protected data by default” to “open data by default”, respecting legal, and other constraints. Skills and expertise to act in and beyond one’s own scholarly and disciplinary community. Skills and expertise resulting from a general and broad concept of citizen science, where researchers interact with the general public to enhance the impact of science and research. Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

11. Data Science Competences Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

12. Recommendations • Recommendation 5: Providing Support for Open Science • Provide the technical infrastructure for Open Science (high-speed data centres, data repositories and virtual platforms). • Provide the technical tools to facilitate researchers in doing Open Science (software for data creation, storage, and sharing). • Provide professional support staff for general and specialist support for researchers (data stewards, IT technicians, data scientists, legal experts, discipline specific data managers and librarians). • Implement and promote the use of data management plans in all research projects. • Ensure a legal framework is in place for the secure, legal, and ethical sharing of data. Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

13. Challenges, best practices, and technologies for … Delivering Capacities for Open science Skills Building Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

14. Challenges The scattered nature of facilities and data of potential interest for a course or for an instructor, the ever growing multidisciplinary nature of courses, the aim to reduce as much as possible the distance between the way scientists work, the latest research results and what the students are provided with Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

15. Practical Challenges All the steps in preparing course supporting environments require manual work, which is repeated each time a new course is held. • Available data processing services and models come under heterogeneous programming languages, which usually require installing complex software on users’ computers. • Executing models on users’ data usually demands a long phase of data preparation and powerful hardware, not always available in the institutions laboratories. • Sharing data, parameters and results of experiments is difficult and collaboration between teachers and students is limited to the duration of the physical course. • No instrument exists that currently bridges the scientific environments with the training environments. Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

16. Delivered Capacities An easy, automatic, and costless way to create a new tailored environment for each course Integrate data processing services and models Store and make accessible data Support collaborative research and experimentation Implement Reproducibility-Repeatability-Reusability Manage heterogeneous data/processes access policies low operational and low maintenance costs Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

17. Environment Preparation Trainer Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

18. Environment Exploitation Updates the script on his private Workspace 1 Trainer The service downloads the script on-the-fly 2 8 Either the trainee or the trainer can execute the experiment again 9 4 7 A trainee executes an experiment on his/her data 3 5 10 The output, the input and the parameters can be shared with trainees and with the trainer 6 Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

19. Integrating New Processes Web interface and Web service Computing platform e.g. R script Automatic SAI - Importing tool Integration: putting a script/software that works offline into the Cloud computing platform. Software can be written in R, Python, Java, Octave, Linux compiled, Windows compiled, Knime Workflow. Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

20. Advantages • Tools and software are available also as-a-Service • Can be invoked via communication standards • Can exploit higher computational capabilities • Becomes accessible via a Web interface • Data generated through the integrated tools • are empowered with provenance management • store the results on a high-availability storage • The course environment (VRE) enables • Security, accounting and multi-tenancy • Collaboration and sharing • Re-usability, Reproducibility, Repeatability - also using other software (e.g. QGIS) Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

21. Conclusions BB manages Policies Authz ToU BB supports Training Adoption Use BB operates Monitoring Accounting Provision Security Users exploits Discover Access Re-use Share BlueBRIDGE simplifies the integration of tools and software into e-infrastructure BlueBRIDGE ensures access to an integrated environment designed by the trainer BlueBRIDGE closes the gap between scientific and training environments BlueBRIDGEpromotes open science practices by enabling them transparently Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments

22. Thank You Questions? Visit the BlueBRIDGE Website: http://www.bluebridge-vres.eu Visit the BlueBRIDGE Catalogue & VREs: https://bluebridge.d4science.org/catalogue Supporting Open Science Oriented skills building by Virtual Research Environments