This document discusses shaping the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Portal by building on current initiatives. It describes how the EOSC-Hub, OpenAIRE, and eInfraCentral projects are contributing resources and services to the portal's development. The EOSC Portal is envisioned as a universal entry point and gateway for users to access EOSC resources. It will require developing core elements and interfaces tailored to different user personas. Next steps include creating a mock-up portal version and conducting user experience research throughout 2018.

1. Shaping the EOSC Portal
A vision building on current initiatives
Alasdair Reid,
European Future Innovation System (EFIS) Centre
Malaga 16 April 2018

2. Contents
• The EOSC Portal - policy context and vision
• EOSC Hub - contribution to the portal development
• OpenAIRE - contribution to the portal development
• eInfraCentral - contribution to the portal development
• EOSC Portal - core elements and personas
• Next steps actions during 2018
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3. Policy context - Implementation roadmap for
the EOSC (March 2018)
• Foresees developing the initial shared resources around the EOSC
Portal and a catalogue of data infrastructures and services.
• EOSC-hub, eInfraCentral and OpenAIRE-Advance projects
identified as key building blocks for Portal
• Services provided under the EOSC should made accessible via the
EOSC portal - building on the work of the EOSC-hub and
eInfraCentral projects
• EOSC Portal as a universal entry point for all potential users - with
a full-fledged user interface supported by the common platform.
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4. A long term vision
The EOSC portal is
an engagement channel towards the EOSC stakeholders and
a gateway to resources and services that support the EOSC
actors
“Facilitate wide, user-friendly and cross-disciplinary access to the data and services
of the EOSC through the development of the necessary interfaces. The EOSC aims to
offer a trusted and open environment for research users of all scientific disciplines
across the whole lifecycle of scientific data. This requires concrete solutions to
address the current fragmentation of entry points” [H2020 INFRAEOSC-06]
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5. EOSC-hub Service Catalogue
• Compute
• Storage & Data
• Identity & Security
• Platforms
• Thematic services
• Professional services
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Thanks to
• CLARIN
• CMS, LH-LHC and VIRGO
• Copernicus Data and EO services
• DARIAH
• ENES
• GEO
• LifeWatch
• LNEC
• WeNMR
• and EGI/EUDAT/INDIGO
The catalogue is open to additional providers!
https://www.eosc-hub.eu/catalogue
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6. EOSC-hub Marketplace
Discover, order and access services from
the EOSC-hub service catalogue (general &
thematic services)
• Discover, Order & Access Management
(integrated)
• Service options
• Visibility to service provider’s brand
• Integrated with AAI (eduGAIN, social IDs,
IGTF, etc.), AARC blueprint conformant
First release: July 2018
https://marketplace.eosc-hub.eu/
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7. EOSC-hub: developments by Spring 2019
Related Project Milestones:
• June 2018:
Catalogue published online;
Marketplace allows to order baseline services
from EOSC-hub service catalogue;
• August 2018:
21 thematic services from Virtual Research
Communities
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Current plan:
• Enable personalized view for different type of users
• Automated tool for portfolio management for services
providers
• Support set of compatible services
• e.g. domain application + VM instance + co-located storage
• Prepare EOSC service certification bases
• Further improve user experience based on users profiles
• Provide “my active services” view for customers and user
Possible revised plan for collaboration:
• Design UX strategy for whole EOSC Portal
• Result should be basis for implementation in longer term
• Integrate EIC API into the EOSChub MP
• Technical feasibility study done
• Provide extended version of EIC specs & API for better
description of services

8. eInfraCentral progress to date
1st version of service
description template and
description of services of 5
e-infra partners
May 2017
Service catalogue
requirements & portal
specifications approved
September
2017
Beta version of portal
populated with
compilation of 70+
services from the five
major e-infrastructures
November
2017
Outreach to second tier of
e-infrastructure projects
for inclusion of services in
portal
First version of API for the
automatic exchange of
service related information
February 2018 Consensus on service
classification &
representation
Core set of service level
targets and performance
information agreed
March 2018
eInfraCentral has devised a service gateway architecture to collect service descriptions and related
data through registration and harvesting methods, is aggregating those service offerings and is
providing a uniform service catalogue at the eInfraCentral gateway employing formal and
standardised guidelines, a service description template and an application programming interfaces
(APIs) to continuously provide up-to-date information to end-users.

9. eInfraCentral - developments to
expect by spring 2019
• April 2019 - eInfraCentral EOSC vision paper (D2.2) will explore the role and
functions of eInfraCentral in EOSC development and linkages with related
projects and initiatives.
• April 2019 – Guidelines for schema representation and APIs (D.3.3) (for service
providers to upload/update services, etc.)
• On-going to end of project – population and validation of service catalogue and
performance data – existing catalogued services and new service providers
• Ongoing to end of project – UX redesign of portal and enhanced functionality –
development of service catalogue dashboard, etc.
• Two events to organise could be used to support EOSC portal design discussions :
Partnering event (October/November) – Public Portal launch (spring 2019).

10. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731049
Primary and secondary
service ecosystems
covered by eInfraCentral
GEANTPRACE
OpenAIRE
Advance EOSC Hub
…
PhenoMeNal
READ
…
NGI1
NGI2 …
DR1
DR2
HPC1
HPC2
…
NREN1
NREN2
…
VI-SEEM
BlueBridge
AGRINFRA+
AARC2
VRE4EIC
West-
Life
MuG
OpenMinTe
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MSO4SC
EarthServer-2 EVER-EST
ComBioMed
OpenDreamKitNOAD1
INDIGO
DataCloud
EUDA
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EGI
NOAD2
ESiWAC
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BioExcel
E-CAMCOEGSS MaX
POP NoMaD EoCoE
OpenRiskNet HIRMEOS
OPERAS-D XDC
UBORA
AENEAS
ANTARE
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AENEAS
DARE
DEEP
EDISON
ESiWAC
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EUXDA
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FREY
A
PROCESS
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11. OpenAIRE developments
Catalogue
Service catalogue of own
services - June 2018
- To extend with research
community dashboards - end 2018
- Full coverage of KPIs
Future: Curator of a catalogue
for scholarly communication
services
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Policies
Development of policy toolkits for
legal and ethical issues around
research data (with EOSCpilot) -
First version summer 2018
Tools
Open Science Observatory - 2019
Open Science Registry - ?

12. OpenAIRE developments
Country pages for OA and OS policies and related infrastructures
- With real time information of published objects
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13. Early Ideas for the EOSC Portal
Sitemap
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Onboarding of
Users/Customers,
Funders/Policy
Makers and
Access to
resources
Information on
EU and MS
policies related to
EOSC
News
Events
Related initiatives
Networks
Success stories
Community Blog
EOSC structure info, governance
Onboarding of
Service/Resource
Providers and
Service
Management
Οther sections
progressively
enriched over
time
Each of the sections will require managing of community content

14. Personas Types and Related Offer
Service End Users and Customers:
What does EOSC provide to support my research activities?
How can I get access to needed EOSC ‘resources’?
• Research Organisations, Industry/SMEs, Research Projects/Collaborations
• Researchers, Scientists
Funding Agencies and Policy makers:
How can I optimize funding with EOSC and increase my impact on science?
Is EOSC aligned to open science policies?
General Public:
What is the mission of EOSC and who is contributing to it?
Service/Resource Providers:
How can I provide my resources to the researchers ? What are the benefits?
• EOSC Core Service/Resource providers
• Third-Party Service/Resource/Data Providers, etc.
EOSC Governance Structure and “Portal” Managers
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15. Next steps
• 1st half May: EOSC Portal mock-up version
• May-Oct 2018
• UX research and analysis
• Conceptualization
• Design
• November: First release
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16. Thank you
&
Let’s discuss !
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