NICEST2 final day-3 morning

Link to the shared document https://hackmd.io/@nicest2/SyZlj6HI2

• What we learned about FAIR (Link to presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gjobLBZxN1fdOh6F8lXn6sROq-6DDgo4VRsK-EXz7RU/edit?usp=sharing)

  • Hackathons & workshops (M4M with GoFAIR)

  • EDAM onthology (with Matus Kalas)

  • The word "data" is used a lot in the DoW

    • "Research Object" is a wider concept
    • Lack of governance/authoritative body
      • Who "decided" what metada is needed, which software is to be used, etc.?
      • Until that is sorted out there are only local "solutions" implemented
        • Interoperability?
        • Roles and responsibilities?
        • Incentivization
        • Efforts vs. payoff?
        • Hamish believes this has to be a top-down approach
        • Oskar realized that there are benefits in the long run to make things reproducible for one´s future self
    • Need to engage with the community
    • Reset the goals (beyond data)

  • These are many points that we overlooked at the beginning of NICEST2

    • Really overwhelming at the begining for reseachers
    • Allocate funds for data stewarts or the like to help <- this will be easier if the incentive comes from above

  • For the afternoon HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-01 discussion

    • SND (https://snd.gu.se/en/contact/contact-management) feels like they would be a good lead partner from Sweden - if they are interested.
    • NAISS (the new SNIC) may be able to act as a back end resource provider
    • Researcher/User engagement - should be an important WP. Workshops/meetings/etc. and promoting early adoptor examples & use cases.

• ESGF in the Nordics

  • Lots of activities carried out under NICEST2 (CSC-ESFG node, NorESG/NIRD, assisted DMI, indexed data, publishing tool with custom scripts folowing strict rules & procedures -> automated workflows to minimize human errors)
    • Precheck module (supports SLURM) uses containerized deployments of nctime (to ensure that data published has the correct "time bounds" and "time axis aquareness", cmorfixer, cdf2cim, etc.
      • Not allowed to delete data (keep metadata)
      • Creates a Makefile that can be executed on the ESGF datanode
      • Thredds dataserver catalog files
      • Spotted issues with duplicate files
  • Demo