Role of Shepherds in EOSC-Hub Project
The role of Shepherds in the EOSC-Hub project involves supporting the Principal Investigator in identifying resource providers, ensuring efficient communication channels, clarifying details for provider selection, and reporting project status to coordinators. Shepherds play a key role in enhancing customer experience and project coordination. They help in connecting technical experts, maintaining prompt communication, and addressing any issues that arise during project implementation.
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Diego Scardaci T10.3 leader and AMB co-chair (EGI Foundation) 21 January 2020 Dissemination level: Public/Confidential If confidential, please define: Disclosing Party: (those disclosing confidential information) Recipient Party: (to whom this information is disclosed, default: project consortium) eosc-hub.eu @EOSC_eu EOSC-hub receives funding from the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 777536.
Outline Role of the Shepherds Implementation & collaborative tools Use case analysis and requirements gathering EOSC Portal and Marketplace OCRE Sustainability Participation @ EOSC-hub week Reports 2 09/04/2025
Role of the Shepherds Keep contact with the Principal Investigator (PI) of the project; Support the PI in identifying the providers that will supply the requested resource capacity and services leveraging on processes (SOCRM) and services (Marketplace) of the project. Ensure that a project is defined in the marketplace The shepherd is responsible for an excellent customer experience - Ensure that efficient and prompt communication channels between PI and providers are established - Take actions if the due attention is not provided:, if the enabling of a service takes too much time, or if pledged capacities are not provided in time, etc. Clarify any details that are necessary to select adequate capacity and providers. Assist the PI on contacting technical experts T10.3 can help you on this. Periodically report to the project technical coordinator and the AMB co-chairs about the status of the project and promptly inform them in case of any relevant issue - Meetings every 1 or 2 months 3 09/04/2025
Implementation & Collaborative tools Task in WP8 Competence Centres (https://wiki.eosc- hub.eu/display/EOSC/WP8+Competence+Centres) started on 1st Apr 2020 9 months (extension of 3 months under discussion) - WP led by Gergely Sipos (EGI.eu) - T8.9 Early Adopter Programme pilots led by Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu) Wiki page: https://wiki.eosc- hub.eu/display/EOSC/T8.9+Early+Adopter+Programme+pilots - 1 sub-page per pilot - Please, fill it in with details of your pilot! 4 09/04/2025
Implementation & Collaborative tools Mailing list: eap-pilots2@mailman.eosc-hub.eu Shepherds + principal investigators Indico entry: https://indico.egi.eu/category/283/ Shepherds are admin Please, record meetings with the community here Google folder: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sD5bZfX4xbuK9bOxKXuTDyk8 c_5LlVXl Please, request the access 5 20/04/2018
Use case analysis and requirements gathering Follow methodology defined in T10.3 - Refer to D10.5: https://www.eosc-hub.eu/deliverable/d105-requirements-and- gap-analysis-report-first-version-under-ec-review New entry for your project in the Community Requirement Database - User stories - Use cases - Technical requirements EOSC-hub WP10 JIRA project 6 09/04/2025
EOSC Portal and Marketplace Create a project in the EOSC Portal and Marketplace - https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/about_projects Submit an order for each service you need 7 09/04/2025
OCRE Vouchers from OCRE project are available to integrate the computing and storage resources - Cloud Bursting - 2K Euro x voucher Vouchers fit well for HTC computing Vouchers do not fit well to deploy long-running services Any interested projects? 8 09/04/2025
Sustainability As a part of your activities you should start to discuss long term agreement with the service providers Sustainability aspects should be included in the final report from your pilot Shepherds can support you on this activity 9 09/04/2025
Participation @ EOSC-hub week (May 18-20) Community session @ EOSC-hub week - Online event: https://www.eosc-hub.eu/events/eosc-hub-week-2020-goes- virtual - Agenda: https://www.eosc-hub.eu/eosc-hub-week-2020/agenda - Posters and demo competitions: https://www.eosc-hub.eu/eosc-hub-week- 2020/posters-demos-application 10 09/04/2025
Reports from the pilots / Day 1 Technical plan / Entry in the Comm. Requ. DB / projects in the EOSC MP Supporting FAIR data discoverability in clinical research: providing a global metadata repository (MDR) of clinical study object (PI: Goryanin, Sheperds: Van Piggelen, Nicotri) VESPA-Cloud (PI: Cecconi, Shepherd: Grenier) EOSC DevOps framework and virtual infrastructure for ENVRI-FAIR common FAIR data services (PI: Zhao, Shepherd: Manzi) Integration of toxicology and risk assessment services into the EOSC marketplace (PI: Exner, Shepherds: Nicotri, Bruno) 11 09/04/2025
Reports from the pilots / Day 2 Technical plan / Entry in the Comm. Requ. DB / projects in the EOSC MP Open AiiDA lab platform for cloud computing in Materials Science (PIs: Pizzi, Talirz, Shepherd: Fernandez) Towards a Global Federated Framework For Open Science Cloud: Three Use Cases (PI: Sherief, Li , Shepherd: La Rocca) OpenBioMaps data management service for biological sciences and biodiversity conservation (PI: Ban, Shepherd: Caballer) AGINFRA+: Virtual Research Environments to Support Agriculture and Food Research Communities (PI: Candela, Shepherd: Orviz) 12 09/04/2025
Thank you for your attention! Questions? eosc-hub.eu @EOSC_eu