SyA meeting 2017-02-28

Synchronisation Assembly meeting on Tuesday 28 February 2017

Time: 09:00 - 16:00 CET
Location: Meeting Room Strasbourg, Science14, Rue de la Science, 14b - Brussels (www.science14.com)
Registration HAS CLOSED: https://www.rd-alliance.org/synchronisation-assembly-meeting-registratio...

• Ways RDA / RDA Europe can contribute to the EOSCpilot governance and ecosystem (i.e. interaction mechanisms)
• Definition of standards to be used by EOSC services (c.f. the "rules of engagement")
• Provision of education and training on services (c.f. the shortage of 500K data scientists)
• Provision of social bridges related to the above (ie at RDA plenaries and other meetings)
• Ensuring EOSC fits with global initiatives (c.f.  "open to the world")
• EOSCpilot web site (http://eoscpilot.eu/) with some information

Agenda (still expecting some input)

09:00              Review of agenda and the goals of the meeting

09:05              Introduction

• Tour de table: introductions and expectations for the meeting

Presentations on current state and activities in RDA Global

09:15              The future and challenges for RDA Global Mark Parsons, RDA Secretary General

09:35              The RDA Council Doris Wedlich, KIT & RDA Council

09:45              The RDA TAB Françoise Genova, CNRS & RDA TAB

09:55 - 10:30 Discussion

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break and networking

11:00 - 12:30 Discussion of how RDA can contribute with input for the EOSCpilot

• EOSC Governance (stakeholder driven governance framework) - Per Öster

• EOSC services architecture - Donatella Castelli

• EOSC Research and Data Interoperability - Niklas Blomberg

• EOSC Skills (open data science skills framework) - Kevin Ashley

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and networking

13:30 - 15:30

• Time for presentations from participants of what they see as the most important support activities for a fruitful RDA/RDA Europe collaboration with EOSCpilot. 
  • Yuri Demchenko - RDA IG/WGs and activities related to education & training on core data skills can do a lot to solve the shotage of data scientists, data stewards and related core data experts
  • Wolfram Horstmann - About how Long-Tail Data and Libraries could be involved in EOSC.
  • Juan Bicarregui - Views on how the EOSCpilot and RDA can unite forces for the re-use of data
  • Odile Hologne - Towards an e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture

15:30            Sum-up and planning actions (Juan/Leif)

16:00 Close