[NeXus-committee] Letter of Support

Thu Nov 8 11:11:21 GMT 2018

Hi Mark,
    This is clearly something the NIAC should support. Please find 
attached the signed letter of support.

Cheers,
Ben

On 11/06/2018 04:17 PM, Mark.Basham at diamond.ac.uk wrote:
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> Hi Ben,
>
> Sorry I should have sent this out with the letter, for reference EOSC 
> is the European Open Science Cloud infrastructure.  The main one we 
> are involved with is WP3.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
> ExPaNDS aims to support the coordination, convergence and federation 
> of EOSC relevant national and/or thematic initiatives for open 
> research data and services through the development of appropriate 
> common tools and mechanisms. It will support the gradual alignment of 
> policies and practices of EOSC-relevant national and/or thematic 
> initiatives to EOSC standards and enables EOSC-relevant, noncommercial 
> services to be accessed through the EOSC portal.
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> *__*
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> The project will be delivered by
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> DESY
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> PSI
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> Diamond
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> Soleil
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> STFC
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> EGI
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> ALBA
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> HZB
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> HZDR
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> MaxIV
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> Elettra
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> To achieve the objectives ExPaNDS will perform three JRE work packages
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> ·WP 2: Enabling FAIR data for EU National facilities
> The goal of this work package is to extend and deepen the adoption and 
> use of FAIR data principles within the Photon and Neutron science 
> community to allow publication and access of national facilities data 
> and services within the EOSC. The outcome will be a set of policies, 
> practises and guidelines within a FAIR Data Competency Framework for 
> Photon and Neutron Science.
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> ·WP 3: EOSC data catalogue services for EU PaN National RIs
> This work package will enable the implementation of harmonized 
> policies, practices and guidelines coordinated in WP2 and provides 
> services for WP4. It facilitates federated access to meta data, 
> experimental data and related information. Exploiting existing links 
> with communities such as PANOSC, services as OpenAIRE and standards as 
> NeXus WP3 will enable and coordinate the adoption of agreed standards 
> at a national science community level.
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> ·WP 4: EOSC data analysis services for EU PaN National RIs
> This WP will exploit the deliverables of WP2 and WP3 that will provide 
> FAIR ready data via well established meta-data catalogues. This will 
> be achieved by coordinating existing data analysis services at 
> national RI's with PaNOSC through EOSC, and other existing national 
> and thematic initiatives for provision of data analysis services. This 
> will require the coordination, adaption, and alignment of existing 
> data analysis services at national RI's with the new data analysis 
> services created within PaNOSC and other funded Horizon-2020 
> initiatives. Ultimately the service delivered will provide PaN users 
> with the ability to run analysis workflows against the EOSC aligned 
> data services. In doing so this will consolidate the reproducibility 
> of the workflows, which is key to fully developing the FAIR principles 
> for PaN data. For reproducibility and as a base for further continuous 
> development a PaN reference data set will be prepared and published.
>
> and three work packages to support application/implementation and 
> sustainability of the outcome of ExPaNDS
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> ·WP 6: Outreach, dissemination, communication
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> ·WP 5: Training
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> ·WP 1: Management and sustainability
>
> *From:*NeXus-committee <nexus-committee-bounces at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> 
> *On Behalf Of *Benjamin Watts
> *Sent:* 05 November 2018 17:05
> *To:* nexus-committee at nexusformat.org
> *Subject:* Re: [NeXus-committee] Letter of Support
>
> Hi Mark,
>    The letter looks fine in principle, but is there something I can 
> read about this ExPaNDS proposal?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> On 11/05/2018 05:37 PM, Mark.Basham at diamond.ac.uk 
> <mailto:Mark.Basham at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>     Dear All,
>
>     I don’t know what our current policy on this kind of thing is, but
>     there is an EU proposal going in called ExPaNDS which aims to do
>     the same as PaNOSC and make use of EOSC as well as possible.
>
>     NeXus is used in both PaNOSC and the new proposal ExPaNDS but I
>     thought it might be nice to provide a letter of support for this,
>     rather than find out about it after the fact.
>
>     Both Myself and Mark Könnecke are involved in the creation of this
>     project, and I have taken the liberty of drafting a LoS which we
>     might be happy to sign, please can you guys let me know what the
>     process for this is, and if you would like any changes to the letter.
>
>     One final thing is that the deadline on this is very short, so I
>     really need to have something for early next week, I understand
>     that this may not be possible, but is worth a try.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Mark
>
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