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In December 2011 the call for tender was awarded to the Consortium composed of the following four partners:
- TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Networking Association), the leading partner;
- LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries);
- UvA (Universiteit van Amsterdam hereafter called UvA);
- DEENK (University and National Library of Debrecen)
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- Diego Lopez (Telefonica I+D)
- Klaas Wierenga (Cisco Systems)
- Torbjorn Torbjörn Wiberg (Umea Umeå University)
- Nicole Harris (JISC Advance)
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The role of new technologies and standards under development in relevant bodies such as IETF, OGF, OASIS, ISO/ITU-T, IEEE as well as industry technologies (social network and others) and how these will impact of facilitate the provisioning of the SDI will be discussed.
Timetable, Deliverables, and Meetings
The study will be done in period from January 2012 till August 2012 with the following deliverables and timetable.
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| D1 - Inception report |
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| Feb 2012 | To elaborate on the methodology that will be used to carry out the study, will provide details on the resources and articulate the objectives |
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D2 - Interim study report |
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| Apr 2012 | To cover the intermediate results for the objectives listed above, specifically:
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The interim report will include initial set of use-cases collected by partners, in particular:
(i) LIBER and DEENK will collect the requirements from the library, the archive and the humanity communities on data access, data management and governance, data curation and long-term preservation as well as on AAA.
(ii) TERENA and UvA will collect to requirements from the e-Science and to the networking communities.
The initial requirements for the AAA infrastructure will be derived by the use-cases; the assessed AAA infrastructures will also be evaluated against the collected use-cases. A SWOT analysis of these infrastructures will be provided as part of this report.
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| D3 - Final study report |
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| June 2012 |
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| To present the final results |
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| and recommendations of the study. The final study report will take into account inputs received during the |
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| Final |
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| Workshop (see below), the internal meetings with the EC and the feedback received by the consortium liaisons, such as REFED, TF-EMC2 etc. | ||
| Final workshop | July 2012 | To present the preliminary results to the study and receive feedback. The workshop will be organised at the Commission’s premises in Brussels. |
| D4 - Technical Report | Aug 2012 | To report on the use of resources in the performance of the contract including e.g. time-sheets on man/days consumption, travel details, use of consumables, etc. |
Final workshop will be organised in July 2012 to discuss results if the study and findings to be presented in the Final study report. During this meeting a draft of the final study report will be presented. The workshop will be organised at the Commission’s premises in Brussels.
Consortium
TERENA (http://www.terena.org) has extensive and consolidated experience in leading pan-European initiatives and large-scale studies. TERENA operates under a model in which experts with the appropriate competence and experience from the national academic networks and the research community collaborate in the well-established initiatives operating under the TERENA’s umbrella, such as the Research and Education FEDerationS (REFEDS) initiative, the task-force on European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration (TF-EMC2) and the task-force on Mobility and Network Middleware (TF-MNM). Through the leadership of these groups (who have committed to participating in this study) and through TERENA’s participation in the GÉANT project, TERENA can provide extraordinary resources and knowledge for the task at hand: assessing the AAA-infrastructures operated by (and for) the European R&E community, define the requirements of this community for the next decade and propose recommendations to build the Scientific Data infrastructure (SDI).
LIBER (http://www.libereurope.eu) offers a network of 425 institutions (major research libraries in Europe) in more than 40 countries, which will prove very useful for consultation, dissemination and awareness raising; LIBER is also well positioned to offer a more political level consultation and outreach via the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and other major research institutes. Large scale survey experience is another main asset that LIBER will bring to the Consortium.
UvA (http://www.science.uva.nl/research/sne/) will contribute to the project study with expert knowledge in the area of Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) and emerging security models for Cloud and on-demand infrastructure services provisioning to achieve federated Authentication, Authorisation and Attributes management in heterogeneous distributed e-Science applications. Existing expertise will be effectively used for proposing a common integrated and/or federated AAA infrastructure for all components and layers of the Scientific Data infrastructure (SDI). UvA has developed generic authentication, authorisation and accounting (AAA) architecture and AAA Authorisation frameworks (described in RFC2903-2906) and provided practical implementation with the open source GAAA (Generic AAA) Toolkit Library used in a number of EU funded projects like GEYSERS (Generalised Architecture for Dynamic Infrastructure Services), Phosphorus (Lamba User Controlled Infrastructure for European Research), EGEE (Enabling Grid from E-sciencE) and others. UvA is active in many standardisation bodies including OGF (http://www.ogf.org), IETF (http://www.ietf.org) and NIST (http://www.nist.gov).
DEENK (http://www.lib.unideb.hu) is one of the leading university libraries with important national tasks in Hungary. DEENK operates the infrastructure of the National Document Supply System including the electronic document service. It provides technical support for the Hungarian Open Repository Network (HUNOR) and brings to the consortium a key role in open access initiatives both on national and international levels as well as the experience gained in developing an electronic archive to store scholarly outputs as one of the first universities in Hungary. It hosts the Open Access National website containing up-to-date information about open access events and projects.
External experts
A number of external experts have already been engaged in the preparation of this offer, namely:
Diego Lopez (Telefonica I+D), former (till October 2011) chair of the TERENA task-force on European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration and also member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data e-Infrastructures;
Nicole Harris (JISC Advance) and co-coordinator for REFEDS;
Klaas Wierenga (Cisco Systems) and chair of the TERENA task-force on Mobility and Network Middleware as well as chair of the European Committee for Academic Middleware (ECAM), and
Torbjörn Wiberg (Umeå University) responsible for the Swedish Alliance of Middleware Infrastructure; they have committed to participate in the study as well.
Contribution to AAA Study
More information about the PAAART
The Consortium and the experts will seek feedback on the preliminary results within the interested parties, such as the libraries, eScience groups and the TERENA community (mostly within REFEDS and TF-EMC2)The study is open to all interested parties both as organisations and individuals. Study documents will be regularly published at the wiki with request for comments. Public presentations on the study progress and results will be announced in advance disseminated to solicit comments and discussion.
Please If you have any question please do not hesitate to contact the project study coordinator Licia Florio (florio@terena.org) or TERENA (secretariat@terena.org).