Learn more about the work packages in EOSC Data Commons

Lead Beneficiary: EGI Foundation

WP1 covers overall project administration, finance, and project management, including quality and risk management. It is responsible for monitoring resource and financial expenditures, ensuring adherence to contractual obligations, and overseeing all reporting activities. WP1 also provides high-level supervision of other work packages, conducts internal reviews of deliverables and plans, and monitors risk analysis, contingency plans, procedures, KPIs, and metrics. Additionally, it ensures full compliance with the project’s ethics requirements.

Lead Beneficiary: EGI Foundation

WP2 ensures that project results are effectively captured, disseminated, and exploited for maximum impact. It manages the project’s intellectual property (IP) assets, guaranteeing that each result is protected with appropriate intellectual property rights (IPR). It identifies, refines, and enforces key exploitable results (KERs) to support their uptake, adoption, and long-term sustainability. Moreover, WP2 oversees external communication and dissemination of project activities and outcomes, organises flagship events, and facilitates participation in third-party events. It maintains engagement with stakeholders from research, industry, and the public sector, with a particular focus on user communities. Finally, the WP2 coordinates training activities tailored to these communities, ensuring the transfer of knowledge and skills.

Lead Beneficiary: EGI Foundation

WP3 co-designs the EOSC Data Commons architecture, ensuring that its components meet both the functional and non-functional requirements of the identified use cases. It ensures that the developed services are capable of integrating with EOSC by adhering to the relevant Interoperability Framework (IF) guidelines and by targeting the EOSC EU Node, and EOSC Nodes in general, as the primary deployment infrastructure. WP3 also contributes to the evolution of relevant EOSC IF guidelines. Furthermore, it provides services and software tools to support integration of EOSC Data Commons modules with common access mechanisms, including authentication and authorisation, accounting, monitoring, security, and operational policies. It ensures the deployability and integration of the EOSC Data Commons software with the EOSC Nodes. Finally, WP3 coordinates the delivery of services in production, maintaining a common level of software quality and consistent deployment processes.

Lead Beneficiary: DANS/KNAW

WP4 aims to establish a federated and scalable data system infrastructure and pipeline tooling to efficiently crawl, harmonise, and manage EOSC Data Commons metadata from selected national, thematic, and institutional repositories (WP7). This will support the development of a Metadata Warehouse, Data Commons Knowledge Graph, Index, and Vector Database, enabling use-case-driven, AI-based discovery. Additionally, WP4 defines a workflow to connect the Metadata Warehouse resources with a catalogue of tools and code to facilitate research analytical reuse. The WP also involve the application and customisation of existing assessment tools to monitor and evaluate data FAIRness throughout the research lifecycle of the EOSC Data Commons and more broadly across general EOSC data producers.

Lead Beneficiary: SWITCH

WP5 aims to develop harmonised definitions and APIs for tools and code registries to enable seamless information exchange and to create a federated Catalogue of tools that offers an EOSC-wide perspective, fully integrated with and contributing to the EOSC Federation. It also develops a harmonised specification for encoding processing requests involving one or more datasets and tools, while supporting a diverse range of deployment and processing platforms. Additionally, WP5 implements an application and API—deployable within EOSC nodes, including the EOSC EU Node – to assist end users in matching datasets with suitable tools, facilitate the materialisation of requests, and ensure that the resulting outputs are deposited with the appropriate FAIR, reproducibility, and provenance metadata.

Lead Beneficiary: CESNET

WP6 implements a service for the EOSC nodes that triggers the deployment of the data analysis package to supported compute infrastructure. It integrates established deployment mechanisms and data analysis environments through an extensible plugin mechanism. Moreover, WP6 develops a unified abstraction layer for data access, enabling seamless use of the data within the analysis environments.

Lead Beneficiary: EGI Foundation

WP7 aims to ensure that the EOSC Data Commons Services developed by the project are functionally validated by a wide range of communities through use cases that span multiple disciplines and data sources. It co-designs and implements these use cases across a broad spectrum of scientific domains to guarantee the broad applicability of the services. This includes collecting use case requirements, piloting co-design activities, and integrating the research data lifecycle with the EOSC Data Commons components.