Ref. Ares(2019)5332022 - 21/08/2019
Science Cloud/Microsoft
Explain where we are in the process:
Launch in November 18 of Cloud - initial portal and governance structures.
Last week: first meetings of the executive board. Setting up working groups to
develop business plan, portal, prioritise the work – which research communities to be
included first etc.
As of Q2 2019, the portal will begin offering data access and discovery service.
However, there are a number of issues we need to deal with
Challenges in the coming year:
Complement our process mind-set – which is useful to get buy in from research
communities and other stakeholders – with a product mind-set – more focus on
building the infrastructure:
improve the portal interface (it is very poor),
interoperability of data cross border/cross discipline – with our cloud being a federated
infrastructure with decentralised data repositories, standards are crucial.
develop a business model for the Cloud – how to make it sustainable in the long run
Further steps ahead:
go beyond research data and combine with private data and industry data
develop AI capabilities
Thank for Microsoft’s useful input in the development phase (
) and invite
them to participate in the working groups that will develop the plans for the work ahead.