Nordic data services workshop

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This first meeting will be mostly introductions and getting to know each other's work


Practical Information


Tools

Here are some tools that will be available during this workshop:

Background information and possible topics:

  • NeIC could survey or interview participants on their main challenges
  • Providers should propose use cases for presentation (one each)
  • Providers need to prepare
    • a short general presentation
    • a lightning talk on a pet problem
    • a lightning talk on policy

Potential questions:

  • who are the users? what are the growth dators/areas of use?
  • What are the minimum expectations of users
  • What type of hw?
  • what are the services you offer/ aim to offer? Why?
  • how many people are working on various aspects of the problem
  • what do you mean with data management?
  • what part of the data life cycle are you referring to ?
  • who are the primary stakeholders?
  • what are your allocations mechanisms?
  • Create a "table" with hopefully overlapping interests btw countries
  • What types of data are you providing services for?
  • Simulations, experiments, observations?
  • Are there associated analysis requirements?

Agenda

Day 1, (31.08.2015)

* Present status and plans, policies
* Propose collaboration opportunities 

10:00 - 10:30 Arrival and Coffee 

10:30 - 10:40 Welcome, Expectations for the workshop, (Gudmund)  
10:40 - 11:00 International viewpoints on data, (Rob) Click Here
11:00 - 12:30 National cases from five countries, (15 minutes each)
    11:00 - 11:15 Norway -  Click Here
    11:15 - 11:30 Denmark - Click Here
    11:30 - 11:45 Island - Click Here
    11:45 - 12:00 Sweden
    12:15 - 12:30 Finland - Click Here
* National Data Service Overview 
* Overview of physical set-up, implementation, storage architecture
* Present principal users, who is your service intended for; which part of the data life cycle your data service covers
* In which direction is your Data Service/Infrastructure is evolving and how?

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00  Couple of representative use cases, national and international, (15-20 minutes each)  
    13:30 - 13:45 Norway
    13:45 - 14:00 Denmark
    14:15 - 14:30 Island
    14:30 - 14:45 Sweden
    14:45 - 15:00 Finland
* NB! Ask participants to present couple of relevant use cases to mark important aspects of data services   

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45 Lightning talks "your pet problem" (5 minute each) + followed by a 15 minute discussion
* What is your "favourite" or biggest problem 

16:45 - 17:00 Summary of the day (Dejan)
* What were the questions that came up during the day?

17:00 - 18:30 Social activity 

19:00 - Dinner

Day 2, (01-09-2015)

09:00 - 09:30 Relationship between the national data services and EUDAT (Damien) 
* Complementary or competitive? 
* How would the research infrastructure relate to the national services and EUDAT?
* National data services in the Nordics the most advanced in Europe?

09:45 - 10:30 Lightning talks "policy" (5 minute each) + followed by a 15 minute discussion
* What is your primary consideration for setting policy for data management?
* What drives your policy? Security? Financial aspect? Organisational aspect? ...

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 Interactive session (whiteboard, or similar) defining problems (list) and opportunities (list). (Rob)
* Summarizing issues that came up in policy session and other sessions 

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Agreeing on the next steps (Dejan)
* Future steps and meetings
* Identifying concrete use case?
* Other stakeholders to engage?
* Defining working groups if needed

Registration and Participants

The workshop is by invitation only. Please register by email to the NeIC Generic Area Coordinator Dejan Vitlacil, or by adding yourself to the list below.

Registration ends ...

The workshop includes 2 lunches and dinner, so please state any special requirements (diet, travel, accommodation, ...).


Name Organisation Country Confirmed Steningevik room reservation for 31st night Special requirements
Dejan Vitlacil NeIC Norden Yes No
Rob Pennington NeIC USA Yes No
Gudmund Høst NeIC Norden Yes No
Henrik Pedersen DeIC Denmark Yes No
Diba Markus DeIC Denmark Yes Yes Vegetarian
Rene Belsø DeIC Denmark Yes No
Frederik Orellana DeIC Denmark Yes No
Andreas O. Jaunsen Sigma2 Norway Yes No
Ann-Charlotte Sonnhammer SNIC Sweden No Yes Gluten and lactose intolerant, and allergic to almonds and nuts
Jacko Koster SNIC Sweden No No
Jens Larsson SNIC Sweden Yes No
Niklas Edmundsson SNIC Sweden Yes No
Magnús Gíslason Reiknistofnun Háskóla Íslands (RHÍ) Iceland Yes (31,1) No
Damien Lecarpentier CSC Finland Yes No
Stina Westman CSC Finland Yes No
Riina Salmivalli CSC Finland Yes Yes Gluten Free

Background Information

Norway

Denmark

Finland

Sweden

Europe

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