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Introduction to PAART (is this the name?)

Supporting and promoting scientific research and innovation as well enabling access to scientific information are key priorities for the European Commission and for the Member States.

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The targeted actors in the study are the research and education communities, information service providers (data centres, libraries) and e-Infrastructure/technology providers.

General Study Organization

The goal of the study will be achieved by meeting three different objectives:

Objective I – Identify use-cases and their requirements concerning AAA

During this phase of the study, use-cases will be identified via interviews with different user-groups; particularly LIBER and DEENK will collect the requirements from the library, the archive and the humanity communities on data access, data management and governance, data curation and long-term preservation as well as on AAA; TERENA and UvA will collect to requirements from the e-Science and to the networking communities.

The results of these interviews will be used to assess how the existing initiatives can meet the resulting requirements. The rationale for the SDI and its added value to access, store and preserve heterogeneous data will also be highlighted.

Objective II – Analyse existing and emerging infrastructures to address identified use-cases.

A strengths and weaknesses study (SWOT Analysis) of the existing infrastructures will be carry out; during this phase the support for the identified use-cases will also be assessed. Data protection, access issues and trust models will also be considered.

This part of the study will be driven mostly by TERENA, UvA and the experts.

This part of the study will also describe scenarios that would benefit from an integrated AAA and evaluate options to deliver an integrated and manageable AAA/AAI for the SDI (or e-Infrastructure).

The outcome of this part of the study will be:

• A complete overview of the AAA landscape in Europe (with references to US and/or other regions) and the main current trends;
• A description of the inter-operability features of the AAA systems surveyed in light of their suitability as elements of integrated infrastructures.
• An evaluation of the user-friendliness of the considered AAA infrastructures.

Objective III – Recommendations to deliver the SDI

In the third part of the study options to deliver an integrated and manageable AAI for SDI (Objective 3) will be proposed.

The outcome of this study will be:

• Provide recommendations for adapting the existing, widely used platforms and services to be fully compliant with the requirements posed by the use of data/information resources (papers, catalogues, raw data, images, etc)

• Provide recommendations on how European regulations could support such an integrated SDI;
• Provide technical recommendations for developers to favour specific technologies to ensure future inter-operability;
• Address the (organizational, legal and technical) challenges to provide pan-Europe AAA/AAI for SDI/e-Infrastructure.

The role of new technologies and standards under development in relevant bodies such as IETF, OGF, OASIS, ISO/ITU-T, IEEE as well as industry technologies (social network and others)  and how these will impact of facilitate the provisioning of the SDI will be discussedRead more on the Organisation of the Study...

Timetable, Deliverables, and Meetings

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