e-IRG has published a Blue Paper on data management. It provides an assessment of Europe’s e-Infrastructure service portfolio, and identifies the opportunities and challenges involved. Blue Paper reports on current trends and issues and sets out policy recommendations for several key areas, especially for ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) projects. E-Infrastructure tools and resources must be developed in a global context to support researchers’ global endeavours.

The Blue Paper identifies the most important areas of data mangement addressing following topics:

• Data e-Infrastructure  by Peter Wittenburg, Damien Lecarpentier, Norbert Meyer
• Reliability and Replications  by Johannes Reetz, John Kennedy, Maciej Brzeźniak
• Metadata  by Gera Pronk, Daan Broeder
• Unified Access and interoperability  by Angelos Bilas
• Security  by Steven Newhouse, Sergio Andreozzi

with contribution from e-IRG Data Management task force.

 

ESFRI invited the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group  to produce a report, on e-Infrastructure services and Data Management, enabling more efficient e-Infrastructure support for the science that is done by the ESFRI projects. The blue paper is now ready for consultation and can be downloaded here: