RESILIENCE’s strategy and preparatory steps for developing a comprehensive service catalogue are ready. They focus on integrating existing services from both the RESILIENCE headquarters and community (in-kind) contributions, other Research Infrastructures and e-infrastructures.
Key outcomes of Deliverable D2.1 include the development of RESILIENCE’s guiding principles, outlining the responsibilities of national nodes, identification of service types and integration strategies with European infrastructures.
The strategy is driven by user needs and distinguishes three priorities that guide this strategy: the discoverability of data sources, networking and mobility and research data management and data deposit according to the FAIR principles.
The Guiding Principles include but are not limited to our services being findable and accessible, driven by expertise and excellence, serve a wide user base, adhere to the FAIR principles and be transparent, reliable and sustainable.
Since RESILIENCE is a distributed RI, it is to be organised around a central hub that coordinates a network of services that are delivered through national nodes. We identified four service types: Core Services managed by either (1) RESILIENCE headquarters or (2) a national consortium member, (3) Community (in-kind) Services contributed by national nodes, and (4) Internal Services which are essential for the operation of the RI but not part of the public service catalogue.
Besides contributing to the service catalogue, the national nodes have the responsibility to establish and grow a collaborative local network, identify user needs, contribute national data and expertise, facilitate engagement and communication with the local community and align with other national research consortia.
Since a crucial aspect of our strategy is future integration with the broader European landscape of research infrastructures and e-infrastructures, a big part of the preparatory work done in this phase involves assessing how to best integrate our services into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) to ensure global accessibility.
Read more in Deliverable D2.1, the Services Preparation and Implementation Strategy.