DATA SERVICES

Data Science Environments

Open Data Systems

On-demand Data Transfers

Collaborative Documents

Mission

CS3MESH4EOSC is a 3-year EU-funded project that addresses the challenges of the fragmentation of file and application services, digital sovereignty and the application of FAIR principles in the everyday practice of researchers.

Initially, 7 major data services will be combined into ScienceMesh - a federated service mesh providing a frictionless collaboration platform for hundreds of thousands of users (researchers, engineers, students and staff). The service will offer easy access to data across institutional and geographical boundaries. The infrastructure will be gradually expanded and offered to the entire eduaction and research community in Europe and beyond.

The initial service will connect SURFdrive, CERNBox, PSNCBox, CloudSTOR, Sciebo, owncloud@CESNET, SWITCHdrive and ScienceData.

The CS3MESH4EOSC project will design, build and deploy the necessary technology to achieve this.

Specifically the project will promote vendor-neutral APIs and protocols, and follow an open-source approach to software development and service delivery - thus creating a platform for a data-centric application ecosystem in the European Open Science Cloud.

Impact

Researchers will gain access to a global collaboration platform which will be seamlessly integrated in their current working environments. Collaboration with users and groups at other institutions will be just one click away and readily accessible. FAIR-abiding data archiving, sharing and publication will be available to all.

Institutions will gain the freedom to choose their storage and application providers without compromising on functionality and without the risk of creating disconnected service silos for their users.

Service managers and site administrators will gain a streamlined and well documented environment for stable service operation at scale. They will benefit from the cumulated knowledge, operational experience and support of a large community.

The tech Industry in Europe and beyond will gain the opportunity to extend their current user base and ensure integration with the growing and evolving service ecosystem of the European Open Science Cloud.

ScienceMesh

A key result will be ScienceMesh - a mesh of connected data services for research and education.

This will encompass:

  • using, promoting and contributing to developing APIs for server-to-server file-sharing
  • using, promoting and contributing to developing APIs for applicationsand file-service interoperability
  • implementing and deploying both set of APIs at core sites in the form of site services
  • creating services/functionality for seamless user selection and group creation across sites/services
  • creating services/functionality for metadata and seamless data publishing, searching and archiving

Once created, the next key steps will be:

  • engaging with research communities and creating data-centric applications for selected scientific use cases
  • engaging with additional service providers and extending ScienceMesh into a pan-europan service, reaching users across the continent
  • engaging with industry players to further extend the reach and use of the infrastructure
 

GOAL

 

CS3MESH4EOSC delivers a global collaboration service for researchers, educators, data curators and analysts. It provides an interoperable platform to easily share & deploy application and software components, while providing rich collaborative workflows. 

This global collaboration platform will be fully integrated with the European Open Science Cloud, while ensuring data-centric & FAIR data management principles. The Science Mesh will make EU research more efficient, reliable, collaborative and transparent. 

EARLY ADOPTERS

The project builds on unique experience developed in the CS3 community.

All current and future CS3 participants are welcome to join the infrastructure and participate to its development.
Specifically, collaboration with storage and application vendors will actively be pursued.

If you're a service provider interested in joining ScienceMesh, or a researcher or tool builder interested in deploying applications on ScienceMesh, get in touch.

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