Descripción del proyecto
Un entorno de nube híbrida para gestionar datos de investigación
En el proyecto ARCHIVER, dedicado a la contratación precomercial y cofinanciado por Horizonte 2020, se combinan diversas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) con modelos de negocio en un entorno de nube híbrida a fin de ofrecer servicios de archivado y preservación de extremo a extremo, que estén preparados para la infraestructura de la Nube Europea de la Ciencia Abierta (EOSC, por sus siglas en inglés) y abarquen el ciclo de vida completo de la investigación en múltiples ámbitos. Los servicios se están diseñando en asociación con miembros de los siguientes centros de investigación: la Organización Europea de Investigación Nuclear (CERN), el Puerto de Información Científica (PIC) del Instituto de Física de Altas Energías (IFAE) y el Sincrotrón de Electrones Alemán (DESY). Estas organizaciones dedicadas a la investigación están implementando casos de uso procedentes de la astrofísica, la física de alta energía, la biología y la ciencia de fotones-neutrones, estimulando la creación de un ecosistema para las empresas europeas especializadas en TIC que se dedican a archivar y preservar datos que quieran introducir nuevos servicios capaces de atender las necesidades crecientes de las comunidades investigadoras. ARCHIVER es el único proyecto de Horizonte 2020 relativo a la EOSC centrado en comercializar servicios de archivado y preservación a largo plazo para conjuntos de datos con volúmenes de petabytes para diversos países y campos de investigación.
Objetivo
Data has both a value and a cost and modern research data management makes many promises in terms of capacity, scalability, ease-of-use and security. The stewardship of
research data involves not only all data-related tasks during the active lifetime of a project itself but also preparing the data and associated information for later re-use.
The period during which research data remains valuable can stretch into decades.
Currently, many research projects cannot manage their data, as the archiving and preservation services are inadequate and fall below expectations while data stewardship costs are frequently underestimated during the planning phase.
Using the PCP instrument and building on results of recent projects, ARCHIVER’s goal is to fulfil these data management promises in a multi-disciplinary environment, allowing each research group to retain ownership of their data whilst leveraging best practices, standards and economies of scale.
ARCHIVER will combine multiple ICT technologies, including extreme data-scaling, network connectivity, service inter-operability and business models, in a hybrid cloud environment to deliver end-to-end archival and preservation services that cover the full research lifecycle.
The use-cases driving the consortium’s need for research and development of innovative data preservation services will extend the preservation ecosystems of the procurers to create more dynamic solutions using a hybrid model combining on-premise capacity with external services operated by commercial suppliers that will be enhanced to comply with the OAIS (ISO 14721) series of standards.
One of the main benefits of such a hybrid approach is that it can be implemented in a way that is transparent to data producers and (re-)users. This transparency will address issues that cross discipline and national boundaries, such as findability and interoperability of datasets, as well as reduce costs.
The potential uptake for the services resulting from this proposal are many-fold, including supporting the needs of ESFRI and related research infrastructures as well as the results of short-term research projects funded at the regional, national and European-level. The European Open Science Cloud is a major European undertaking that will provide this project with a privileged engagement channel with Europe’s research communities who seek reliable and scalable solutions that satisfy the obligations of data management plans required by funding agencies.
Ámbito científico
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H2020-ICT-2018-2
Régimen de financiación
PCP - Pre-Commercial ProcurementCoordinador
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