Database

The EU is ideally positioned to take a global leadership role in the development of a cloud environment for science. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will be the virtual environment where multidisciplinary data, access infrastructures, and computing resources are made available to researchers and private-sector actors. Europe has long promoted the sharing of scientific research data, which should be remembered as an investment on which national governments and the European Community are spending substantial resources, in the order of billions of euros. ...

There are moments when, sometimes almost unexpectedly, you find yourself taking stock of all the work done in previous years. That kind of meticulous work, made of small daily refinements and microscopic steps forward that you may not even notice. In fact, sometimes it feels as if you are standing still. Then opportunities arrive when… BOOM… everything is illuminated by a new light and the puzzle comes together. What emerges is a beautiful mosaic, with thousands of tiny tiles placed with patience and consistency. ...

Interview with Daniele Bailo, Zhiming Zhao, and Ari Asmi, who explain the key components forming the ENVRI-hub: the ENVRI Catalogue of Services, the ENVRI Knowledge Base, and the ENVRI Use Cases. Daniele, can you explain in more detail why these three components are crucial to the ENVRI-hub? Daniele: These are three distinct but complementary elements used as containers to support the provision of heterogeneous datasets, services, and software within ENVRI. ...

Are you about to graduate, or close to starting an internship, and would you like to gain experience in a dynamic international environment? Take a look at the internship and thesis proposal from the European Plate Observing System (EPOS). EPOS - European Plate Observing system Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia EPOS (www.epos-eu.org) is an innovative European research infrastructure whose purpose is to integrate data and services in the domain of solid Earth sciences. These include data and services related to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, geodetic deformation, satellite observations, and more. They are highly heterogeneous in terms of data-provision technologies, formats, and ways of presenting resources. Integration is performed through an advanced system, the Integrated Core Services (ICS), which allows users to search, download, and analyze data from specific communities through a single web platform and interface. This collaboration proposal is addressed to interns and thesis students interested in using innovative technologies. It aims to contribute to the further development and optimization of the Integrated Core Services system, and covers the following topics: relational databases (PostgreSQL) and non-relational databases, for example MongoDB; systems based on the microservices paradigm; optimization and tuning of the system and services; creation of Java and Python modules for mapping and converting data and metadata; creation and optimization of graphical interfaces with AngularJS; semantic integration, development, and optimization of DCAT-AP extensions. The activities to be carried out will be agreed with the student based on their topics of interest. ...