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European Open Science Cloud. An envisoned invisoned federation of research (data) infrastructures that will create a web of FAIR data and services for science. EOSC will be a key enabler for Open Science and will support researchers in sharing and exploiting research products (e.g as data, publications, and code) through value-added horizontal (i.e. cross-disciplinary) and thematic (i.e. discipine-specific) services. EOSC was developed in an initial implementation phase from 2016-2020 under Horizon 2020 and will be expanded in a second implementation phase via the EOSC Partnership from 2021-2027 under Horizon Europe.
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The basic component of EOSC which provides the key internal capabilities - the 'glue' - to support the basic operations of EOSC. This predominantly consist of services and resources which face service providers and the people coordinating EOSC.
EOSC-
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Core Interoperability Guideline
Human-readable context and technical specification for the purposes of instructing Providers how to integrate or interoperate with EOSC-Core services; provides context and technical instructions to Providers that would like to integrate their services and/or resources with (or be interoperable with) one or more EOSC-Core Services (EOSC Federated AAI, Monitoring, Accounting, Helpdesk, Metrics, service and resource registries, Provider Portal, Marketplace, etc).
EOSC-Exchange
The basic component of EOSC containing the researcher-facing resources from the EOSC community
EOSC-Exchange Interoperability Guideline
Where services and resources interoperate with each other.
Thematic Interoperability Guidelines facilitate interoperation of services and resources within thematic areas.
Horizontal Interoperability Guidelines facilitate interoperation of services and resources across communities and infrastructures, and can communicate the interoperability capabilities and boundaries of frameworks utilised by communities.
EOSC Interoperability Advisory Board (EIAB)
Responsible for overseeing the EOSC Interoperability Framework; endorses/deprecates guidelines based on the recommendations of the EIAC. A temporary project-based composition has been established during the EOSC Future project, consisting of the Technical Coordination Board.
EOSC Interoperability Area Chairs (EIAC)
Responsible for performing the initial assessment of the proposed guidelines; makes recommendations to the EIAB as regards candidates for inclusion in the EOSC Interoperability Framework. A temporary project-based composition has been established during the EOSC Future project, consisting of the task leads of the Architecture and Interoperability work package.
EOSC-Interoperability Framework
Provides guidelines and technical components using which interoperability may be achieved using “community practices for data sharing, data formats, metadata standards, tools and infrastructure” and to “guide digital object producers and/or consumers, [by providing a] framework to set a foundation for an efficient machine-enabled exchange of digital objects within EOSC and between EOSC and the outside world”.
The EOSC-IF consists of governance and procedures promoting interoperability guidelines through EOSC which are registered in the EOSC-IF Registry.
EOSC-Interoperability Framework Registry
A registry database of EOSC Interoperability Guidelines as defined and used by Providers; records each identified or proposed EOSC Interoperability Guideline, based on an agreed profile of attributes.
EOSC Interoperability Guideline Provider
Responsible for contributing and maintaining Interoperability Guidelines to the EOSC-IF Registry. The basic component of EOSC containing the researcher-facing resources from the EOSC community
EPOT
EOSC Portal Onboarding Team. The cross-project collaborative team which manages and operates the EOSC Onboarding processes, populating the EOSC-Exchange, using the EOSC Profiles and according to the EOSC Rules of Participation.
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