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 significant outcomes, which boosted the services to users for FAIR Data and Open Science. With the setting up of the EOSC Federation, PaNOSC has been selected by the EOSC Tripartite Governance (made up of the EC, Member States and EOSC Association) to be one of the 13 candidate nodes to build the first version of the EOSC Federation. The PaNOSC EOSC Node will be hosted by the ESRF.
The PaNOSC EOSC Node will be comprised of 11 facilities from LEAPS and LENS providing data and services to the EOSC Federation. The following facilities have expressed their interest to join the PaNOSC EOSC Node: ESRF, HZDR, ESS, ILL, DESY, ALBA, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, MAX IV Laboratory, EUXFEL, PSI, and ISIS. In addition, the commercial company Dectris has committed to onboarding the Dectris Cloud service to the PaNOSC EOSC Node. The details of building an EOSC Node and including the technical and legal requirements are in the process of being worked out. Building the PaNOSC EOSC Node will ensure that data from the PaN facilities have higher scientific impact, generate more publications, and that all the LEAPS and LENS partners have higher visibility in general.
The EOSC Federation will accelerate the adoption of Open Science practices, which will lead to more data being re-used by the scientific community. The availability of high quality data will enable more and better AI algorithms to be developed to analyse data and verify results. The PaNOSC EOSC Node will help the PaNOSC cluster facilities make data a permanent part of their infrastructure. It will ensure data from Photon and Neutron sources in domain specific portals like the Human Organ Atlas and Paleontology become part of a network of trusted data repositories and are exposed to larger scientific communities. Eventually new users (and machines) will come virtually to the PaN facilities to find and reuse FAIR Data.
For more information please join the PaNOSC EOSC Node SIG mailing list (details on how to subscribe can be found here, or send your inquiry to the PaNOSC Contacts.
