The Photon and Neutron Open Science Cluster (PaNOSC)
The Photon and Neutron Open Science Cluster (PaNOSC) is the Science Cluster representing Photon and Neutron European Research Infrastructures (RIs), developing and providing services for its scientific community and connecting these to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Objectives
- Participate in the construction of the EOSC by linking with the e-infrastructures and other science clusters.
- Make scientific data produced at Europe’s major Photon and Neutron sources fully compatible with the FAIR principles.
- Generalise the adoption of open science, standard metadata and data stewardship from all photon and neutron RIs and physics institutes across Europe
- Provide innovative data services to the users of these facilities locally and the scientific community at large via the EOSC.
- Increase the impact of RIs by ensuring data from user experiments can be used beyond the initial scope.
- Share the outcomes with the community at large to promote the adoption of FAIR data principles, data stewardship and the EOSC.
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Latest News
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Published 13th May 2025
New paper published - OSCARS: Consolidation of Services in the PaNOSC Cluster
The EU project OSCARS (Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society) brings research data to new audiences and targets new use-cases in a broad range of scientific clusters including Photon and Neutron Sciences (PaN). As recommended by a new White Paper from the user organisations, ESUO and ENSA, adherence to the FAIR principles facilitates […]
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Published 16th April 2025
PaNOSC selected to be one of the EOSC Nodes
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a project to provide FAIR data and services to all researchers in Europe and to help them in adopting Open Science practices. The Photon and Neutron community has been closely involved with EOSC through the PaNOSC and ExPaNDS projects, which ran from 2018 to 2023. These projects provided […]
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Published 4th February 2025
New IUCrJ paper: FAIR data – the PaN communities move together towards Open Science
Data storage, traceability, and data use and reuse in the years following experiments is an increasingly important topic in Europe and worldwide. Following the FAIR principles in the whole research data life cycle has also become a requirement of the EC and other funding agencies, for both EU-funded projects and experiments at EU-funded RIs. The […]
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Use Cases
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Published 5th July 2023
Use Case 32 - Reflectometry case study
Description of research Dr McCluskey et al. were interested in the structure of phospholipid monolayers at the surface of a novel Deep Eutectic Solvent (DES). They were able to collect a series of X-ray reflectometry data. However the analysis could not rely on the usual assumptions made about these materials previously measured on water. Challenge […]
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Published 5th July 2022
Use case 31 - Seamless connection of Jupyter notebooks and GUI applications for e-learning purposes
Open education through MOOCs (massive open online courses) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, both due to availability in technology, and to a recent increase in demand for online content. The PaN e-learning platform is a portal which represents the joint effort of the PaN community. The PaNOSC and ExPaNDS projects have been building […]
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Published 26th April 2022
Use Case 30 - VISA - Data Analysis in the Cloud
With the introduction of VISA (Virtual Infrastructure for Scientific Analysis) in June 2020, there has been a significant change with how scientists analyse experimental data and perform experiments at the ILL. Using a web browser, within a couple of minutes, a researcher can get access to a high-performance and secure data analysis environment, installed with […]
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