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e-Science: Global Science based on Information Utilities

e- Science: networked, global science

e- Communications: individual, group interfaces, collaboration services

e-Information/Knowledge: persistent e-libraries, curated data, digital objects, search engines, . . .

Recommendations

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e-Science, Cyber-Infrastructure

e-Science is about more than networks, GRIDs, High Performance Computing...e-science is about global collaboration in keys areas of science and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it

John Taylor, Director Research Councils, UK, 2000

NSF Cyber-infrastructure Initiative; “Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyber-infrastructure” 2002

e- Infrastructures initiative EU, FP 6 . . .

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Web

A great achievement and a fantastic idea, at the right time, making the internet available to everybodyIt proves something about the benefits of assembling together urgent needs, infrastructure and smart people, and letting them interact..And why it is exciting to work at CERN, and in computingAnd why we should not always listen to wise people who tell us that industry will always do better than we will….

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Grid: already extensively treated at NEC 2005

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(http://cern.ch/rsis )

Result:Education, Training and Knowledge are Keys to Development

ICT are the means of storage and access, make us virtual neighbours and enable close collaborations of distant partners

In e-Science, there is a need to integrate services accross distributed heterogeneous large dynamic

"virtual research organisations", making use of a wide set of varied resources belonging to possibly different enterprises…

e-infrastructure - the challenge

… progress in this domain is also expected to have a huge impact on e-business…

HIHIGHGH

energyenergyPHISICSPHISICS

HHUMANUMANgenomegenome

MetMetLOGYLOGYeoroeoro

SSUSTAINABLEUSTAINABLE

developmentdevelopment

…this is the case in areas requiring significant resources across Europe, such as high energy physics, earth/environment, biology, industrial simulations…

GÉANT (plus NRENs*)

The “super-vehicle” for information transfer

World leading Research Network Connecting more than 3100 Universities

and R&D centers Over 32 countries across Europe Connectivity to NA, Japan, … Speeds of up to 10 Gbps Focus on the needs of “very demanding”

user communities (PoC radio astronomers)

* National Research and Education Networks

Vision - creating an e-infrastructure…

e-Infrastructure(Grids empowered)

e-Infrastructure(Grids empowered)

security

mobility

semantic web.

automatic

managem

ent

broadband

e-Learning

e-Business

aeronautics

genomics

environment

astronomy

e-Health

e-Science

Grid

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Example: ATLAS CollaborationA "virtual" large science Laboratory

ObjectivesStudy proton proton collisions at c.m. energies of 14 000 GeV

MilestonesR&D Experiments 1988-1995Letter of Intent 1992Technical Proposal 1994Approval 1996Start Construction 1998Installation 2003-06Exploitation 2007 - 2020 (?)

Open, collaborative culture on a world scale, formed over the past decades

Particle Physics is e-Science par excellence

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e- Communications: individual, group interfaces, collaboration services

Personal relations:common interestopennesstrustrespect, . . .

internet (video-) telephonyVRVS, Access Grid EDMS (https://edms.cern.ch/cedar/plsql/cedarw.site_home )

CDS, Google scientific, . . . Agenda maker:

More than 12000 (sometimes virtual) meetings are recorded, including all presented documents and quite often video records CERN “Academic Training”, namely hundreds of lectures, training courses and schools, more or less openly available on the CERN-Web

cmsinfo (http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/Welcome.html/ ) . . .

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10297 Hosts;5845 Registered Users in 60 Countries 42 (7 I2) Reflectors Annual Growth 2 to 3X

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CERN and Open Access

CERN Convention 1954:

… shall provide … research of pure scientific and fundamental character…

… shall have no concern with work for military requirements and the results of its experimental and theoretical work shall be published or otherwise made generally available.

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Berlin Declaration 2003

‘To promote the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific knowledge base and for human reflection’

Defines open access contributions as including:‘original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material’

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CERN Document Server

CERN invented the preprint system in the fiftiethCERN Library “harvests” publications, now from almost 100 sources to offer an as complete coverage of the field as possible.

CERN has started an e-archive in 1989 SIPB:

... It is vital that CERN establishes a policy that encourages … the development and usage of electronic publishing methods, while respecting the responsibility and the freedom of choice of individual authors …... All CERN Scientific Documents that are submitted to the CERN library should also be submitted to the relevant e-archive. … CERN should support and encourage publishing in low-cost, easily accessible electronic journals.

CDS contains ~800K documents, >half of all CERN induced papers are OA today;

12K users/month, 120K searches/month, 125K distinct IP clients

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NSF ‘Atkins’ Report on Cyberinfrastructure

• ‘the primary access to the latest findings in a growing number of fields is through the Web, then through classic preprints and conferences, and lastly through refereed archival papers’.

•   • ‘archives containing hundreds or thousands of

terabytes of data will be affordable and necessary for archiving scientific and engineering information’.

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Data

Data:Physics data retention past and futureKeeping digital data available

In the longer termFor the public use

Particle Data GroupLimits of re-using data

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Physics data …

“Laboratory”,

Karnak, Egypt

> 3000 years

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… are not always cast in stone

Law of motion

Galileo’s notebook

~ 1638

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… or on film …

Bubble chamberCERN, 1973

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… now it is all electronic!

CERN – UA1 1983

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Digital Curation?• In next 5 years e-Science projects will produce

more scientific data than has been collected in the whole of human history

• In 20 years can guarantee that the operating and spreadsheet program and the hardware used to store data will not exist

Research curation technologies and best practice Need to liaise closely with individual research

communities, data archives and libraries

Edinburgh with Glasgow, CLRC and UKOLN selected as site of DCC

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HEP-wide data compilation:Particle Data Group (PDG)

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Technical issues – shelf lifetechnology cycle - metadata

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Recommendations:

Provide open, validated scientific and educational content (referees, standards, search engines, references, . . )Scientific Community Effort: persistent Data storage

Conclusions

e-Science: model for this century’s scienceOpen Access: necessary ingredientPersistent Data: great challenge to scientific community