Welcome to the AARC wiki

The AARC project aims to better integrate existing AAIs operated to date for R&E purposes to facilitate sharing of research results across disciplines. (current funding runs from May 2016 to April 2019) aims to provide policy and technical guidelines to allow R&E scientific collaborations (referred to as research collaborations or research infrastructures) toenable federated access to their services and to inter-operate with each other. For simplicity we will refer to the previous AARC project as AARC1 and will instead use AARC for the current project.

We will often use the general term infrastructures to encompass both research collaborations and e-infrastructures.

Objectives

AARC works concentrates on some key areas, namely:

1. Design a blueprint architecture to facilitate the creation of inter-operable AAIs.
    
2. To harmonise procedures and policies to ease cross-discipline collaboration and to facilitate the integration of (commercial) services deemed critical for the R&E community.
3. To develope training modules for different user-communities and resource providers to enable them to use federated access.
4. support research collaboration/research infrastructures to deploy interoperable and secure AAIs. Check the Techical Work Package for more information.
5. To provide policy guidelines to those research collaboration and e-infrastructures that want to deploy an AARC compliant AAI and to support service providers to connect to such an AAI. Check the Policy Work Package for more information.
   
6. To develop training modules aimed at research collaborations and resource providers within research and e-infrastructures to enable them to deploy AARC technical and policy results; training aimed to raise awarness on the FIM key aspects may be provided upon request of AARC research collaborations. Check out the work Training and Outreach Workpackage for more information.
   
7. To support research collaborations participating in AARC to deploy an AARC compliant AAI, to pilot cross-infrastructure use cases and to.  validate policy frameworks and technical components of the proposed integrated AARC blueprint architectures in production infrastructures. Check out that Policy Work PackageTo Pilot policy frameworks and critical components of the proposed integrated AAI in existing infrastructures. for more information.
   

Outreach and dissemination will complement the above work. During the first months the project has defined a dissemination strategydissemination-strategyv1_0.docx to ensure that key messages are knownpromoted consistently throughout the AARC project.

To achieve this the project brings together 20 25 partners including national research and education networking (NREN) organisations, libraries, and research and education e-infrastructure.

Although funding is only available to project partners, AARC welcomes anybody who is interested in providing feedback to the AARC work.

AARC Dashboard

Find out what the AARC teams are currently working on, via the AARC Dashboard. 

Contacts

If you have any questions about the project or you are interested in getting invovled please do not hesitate to contact the Project Coordinator Licia Florio (licia.florio@geant.org) or Sigita Jurkynaite (sigita.jurkynaite@geant.org).or aarc-contacts@lists.geant.org .

Meetings

Check the AARC calendar to see when various groups meet: https://wiki.geant.org/calendar/spacecalendar.action?spaceKey=AARC