JAM3.3 White paper outlining common vision for EOSC, service placement, and role in upcoming EOSC governance

 M12 → M15 (March 2019)

This paper outlines a common vision for EOSC, service provision, and role in EOSC governance, as defined in the Joint Activity Plan of the two EC projects EOSC-Hub and OpenAIRE-Advance (April 2018). In the meantime, the EOSC landscape has evolved, notably with the establishment of the EOSC Governance and the enactment of the EOSC Implementation Roadmap (Commission Staff Working Document, March 2018). Authoritative structures are now in place and, accordingly, the primary addressee of this paper is now the EOSC Governance Board through the working instruments of the European Commission. Policy decisions, in particular, are now firmly in the hands of the EOSC Governance and not in the remit of the two projects. As a consequence, this paper takes the form of a concise position paper (and not a fully fledged white paper) identifying the necessary alignment processes between the EOSC Governance and the two projects EOSC-Hub and OpenAIRE-Advance. Possible contributions of the two projects are temporarily confined by the project runtime (end of 2020) but affect, to varying degrees, the projects’ constituent ongoing stakeholders in the EGI Federation, EUDAT CDI, INDIGO-DataCloud, and OpenAIRE, as well as the constituent communities of computing centres and libraries or the global academic infrastructure system.

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