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JERICO Science Strategy
No full textJERICO's science strategy is based on the key scientific challenges, specific scientific challenges and research axes developed in previous JERICO projects (JERICO, JERICO-NEXT) and in particular in D1.1 of JERICO-S3. It emphasises the importance of an integrated, multi-platform approach at regional level, valorised by harmonisation and common practices at the pan-European level. The science strategy encompasses collaborations with existing RIs, technological innovations and experiments, as key pillars for maximising the impact of JERICO for science and society. Furthermore, the science strategy is the base on which JERICO services are built. It is also a means of implementing a strong bottom-up approach in a top-down strategic framework
e-JERICO technical design
No full textThis deliverable presents the outcome of JERICO-DS Task 3.3: e-JERICO (from now on JERICO-CORE) Technical Design Study. The JERICO-CORE Technical Design Study aims to envision the federated cloud-computing infrastructure needed to serve all users (researchers, governmental agencies, private companies and general public), promoting the use of data, information, and services for academic, industrial, and societal purposes offered by JERICO-RI. The JERICO-RI will be the European gateway to long-term scientific observations and related services for European coastal marine systems at the convergence between the land, open ocean, and atmosphere; empowering European research excellence and expertise for the benefit of society. The JERICO-DS Technical Design Study, establishes the foundations and guidelines to the future develop of JERICO-CORE platform: - To define a Service Architecture based on well-gathered and analysed stakeholder requirements. - To embrace the latest technologies in cloud computing, suitable for use as tools for analysis, processing, and communication of the scientific production of JERICO-RI. - To not reinvent the wheel, and develop JERICO-CORE on the major existing European Initiatives (EGI, EOSC, EUDAT, D4Science and Blue-Cloud), in order to reduce risks in development, quickly gain knowledge, experience and return on investment in terms of costs and time to release
Report on updated JERICO-RI Label
No full textThis deliverable recalls, deepens, and expands on the set of guidelines that falls under the name "JERICO Label", introduced in the JERICO community since the JERICO-FP7 project and consolidated during the JERICO-NEXT project through the Deliverable D2.7 "JERICO Label" (Nair et al., 2019). The JERICO Label was created mainly as a set of technical recommendations to ensure a certain level of harmonisation of technologies, methodologies and procedures, and a demonstrable quality of data, within the emerging transnational network of coastal observatories. The JERICO Label evolved then through successive JERICO projects, as the idea of establishing a European Research Infrastructure became more and more concrete, and incorporated new and more mature concepts and tools for the practical implementation of its objectives. The current deliverable represents the outputs of tasks 5.4 ("Development of the JERICO label Committee to sustain the scientific research excellence framework of JERICO-RI") and 5.5 ("Policy for sustaining excellence and performance") of the JERICO-DS project, and is intended as an updated version of the JERICO Label. Provided that the previous version of the Label remains valid for everything that is not updated here, new sections are described as follows.
Section 2 is dedicated to the definition of the composition, role and mission of the JERICO Label Committee (JLC). JLC is an advisory panel, it represents the JERICO RI partners but it is also open to external members, and its overall objective, inspired by the JERICO Label itself, is "to support JERICO-RI's framework of scientific research excellence, to ensure that JERICO-RI keeps pace with scientific and technological development and attracts the best research teams". Section 3 addresses the need of identifying a formal pathway for endorsement of best practices developed in JERICO-RI. Within the JERICO network, a remarkable number of documents has been delivered containing technical and scientific recommendations, often referred as good/best practices, for sensor and platform operations, data management and data analysis. However, with respect to each one of these documents, the degree of consensus within the scientific community at a wider level, is not always clear. The definition and adoption of an independent and standardised procedure for peer reviewing JERICO Best Practices becomes mandatory for supporting the trust in JERICO’s leadership in coastal ocean observation.
Section 3 also summarises JERICO-S3 guidelines for the development of documented practices toward best practices through the compliance with a set of criteria proposed as the foundation of a "maturity model for methods and their applications" in the context of ocean observation.
Section 4 summarises last developed and agreed policies for accessing both physical and virtual (namely JERICO-CORE) JERICO infrastructures, with attention paid also for securing JERICO-CORE data, information, and services against any loss of conformity, integrity, and availability due to incidents, human errors, or malicious attacks.
Section 5 provides a report on the work done for identifying, evaluating and synthesising the Core Impact Indicators and key performance indicators from the ESFRI Sustainability WG (Kolar, 2019) and OECD (2019) recommendations that the JERICO-DS design will incorporate into its different life cycle phases, enabling effective performance monitoring as the RI develops. This will feed the roadmap for an operational RI.
Section 6 outlines the Terms of Reference for the Equal Opportunity, Gender Balance, Ethical Issues, and Minimization of Carbon Footprint Policy of JERICO-RI.
In the final section 7 conclusions and suggestions for next steps are provided
Outlined e-JERICO Strategic Plan for implementation
No full textAfter more than 10 years of fruitful partnerships, JERICO-RI aims to provide an integrated solution in Europe to face the challenges of the coastal marine systems due to natural and anthropogenic stressors by supporting, with high-quality integrated data of the coastal areas and related services, European initiatives such as the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the EU Water Framework Directive, the Regional Seas Conventions such as OSPAR and HELCOM and consortiums such as ICES, among others. The community identified the need to create a JERICO e-infrastructure, formerly known as e-JERICO, that would support JERICO-RI activities. Two phases laid the foundation and the concepts for the full-scale technical development of eJERICO: first, the JERICO Coastal Ocean Resource Environment Pilot (JERICO-CORE Pilot), was designed to respond to the necessity of creating a common digital framework that includes a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and Thematic Services (TS). After this pilot phase, the Design Phase was the responsibility of JERICO-DS project supporting the Design Study towards a structured operational European RI included in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap. WP3 from JERICO-DS studied the key aspects for the design, implementation, and operation of e-JERICO in the long term, based on the lessons learned from JERICO-CORE pilot. This document, Deliverable D3.5: The e-JERICO Strategic Plan, presents the outcomes of the Design Phase and is the result of Task 3.7 of JERICO-DS whose objective was to develop the e-JERICO Strategic Plan aligned with the general JERICO-RI' strategy as well as with the strategies from national and international leading organisations and stakeholders in the coastal ocean. Accordingly, this deliverable D3.5 presents the e-JERICO Strategic Plan structured in four well defined phases: design, implementation, operation and closing.
After an initial introductory section, section 2 presents an in-depth analysis of the e-JERICO framework, including the analysis of the current status together with the gaps and experiences gained from the design and execution stages of the JERICO-CORE pilot, as well as the specific achievements developed in support of e-JERICO. The outcomes for a sustained e-JERICO have been also studied and include an analysis of the e-JERICO requirements, technical solutions, governance strategy and operational approach. Finally, five working streams along the process of implementing the e-JERICO roadmap have been identified and the developments of e-JERICO along the ESFRI Roadmap phases described in detail.
Section 3 describes the detailed e-JERICO project planning along the four phases described in the ESFRI Roadmap: preparatory, implementation, operational and closing. For each one of them, detailed milestones, initial planning and outcomes together with a useful visual summary are presented.
Section 4 presents the economic analysis, the schedule & resource planning for the different components of e-JERICO and, using different scenarios, shows for all of them the benefits and added value of synergies and collaboration between EU Research Infrastructures.
Section 5 explains the risk strategy and presents a mitigation plan, emphasising the project's proactive approach to managing potential challenges and uncertainties.
Finally, section 6 outlines the major conclusions
Gap analysis for JERICO-RI technologies
No full textThis report describes the results of a gap analysis study that was performed as part of the Technology Design work package of the JERICO Design Study project. The desired state of the future JERICO-RI, as described in the earlier Technology Outlook report (deliverable 2.1 of the JERICO Design Study project), is compared to the current situation as reported by JERICO nation representatives through a questionnaire. Furthermore, relevant results from earlier JERICO projects have been summarised: on the current spatial and temporal resolution of JERICO observations and on the current TRL-level of observation methods for key JERICO variables that have been defined in the Technology Outlook report. Relevant results on gaps from the on-going JERICO-S3 projects and earlier gap analysis reports have been reviewed. The information on current gaps in observation capacity from these different sources agreed on many overarching issues. The questionnaire results from nation representatives gave further insight into the reasons why current gaps in observation capacity and international harmonisation still exist. While sensor observations of relevant physical variables are operational at high TRL-level in most countries associated to JERICO, observations of biological, chemical and benthic variables are still in testing phase or developing phase. Partly this is due to observation methods that are still being developed. A major reason why many variables are still observed at a low TRL-level is the lack of sustained funding for these observations. The funding is currently nation-based or by European research projects. These scattered funding sources hamper the prioritisation of international harmonisation efforts and the required maintenance, quality control and data management efforts to make observation data suitable and available for stakeholders in a FAIR way. Stakeholders, such as the EEA, Regional Sea Conventions and COPERNICUS have a high demand for such high-quality FAIR observation data, but they don’t fund the required efforts. These results indicate that there is a need for a mature JERICO-RI, as described in the Technology Outlook report, based on international coordination and sustained funding. Next, we will develop a roadmap describing how a mature JERICO-RI can be achieved within 10 years
Preliminary operational Plan for e-JERICO service delivery, including draft agreement with JERICO partners delivering e-JERICO services and data
No full textConsidering the operation phase as from the JERICO-CORE service design is crucial due to several compelling reasons. This approach places users’ expectations and satisfactions at the heart of the design. It allows designers to anticipate potential challenges and to streamline processes. It enhances efficiency, success and sustainability of the delivered service. It ensures a smooth transition and seamless integration of the systems from the development phase to the operation phase. Moreover, considering the operation phase from the design facilitates the robust implementation of the access and security policies (Deliverable D3.1). Finally, it allows understanding the operational requirements and anticipating the requested resources. In brief, taking the operation phase into account during the design is imperative for the JERICO-CORE long-term success. It allows for anticipatory problem-solving, optimization of resources, enhancement of security, and ultimately results in a more resilient, user-friendly, and cost-effective IT service. This "Preliminary operational plan for e-JERICO/JERICO-CORE service delivery" is a comprehensive guide explaining how ITIL best practices do seamlessly integrate and coordinate these different challenges. It considers the establishment of a service desk, efficient IT operations management, effective application management, thorough technical management, and meticulous IT facilities management. Furthermore, the plan outlines processes such as service portfolio and service catalogue management, information security management, knowledge management, release and deployment management, monitoring and event management, incident and problem management, user request fulfilment, and access management
JERICO. Report after JERICO Meeting in Brussels 26-27 feb. 2014
No full textThe objective of the workshop was to address main issues of JERICO project:
- TNA: overview and formal approval of the selected proposals after the 3rd call
- The JERICO Label document: content and issues
- The JERICO strategy for the future.
The document reports hereafter the synthesis of the discussion
JERICO-NEXT. Progress Report #2
No full textThe WP4 of the JERICO-Next is a synthesis of the project built upon activities in other WPs, gathering the consortium around applied Joint Research Activity Projects (JRAPs) selected to put forward the added value of JERICO-NEXT. In order to reach this objective, WP4 keeps on track the JERICO-NEXT course of actions via synthesis and application activities based on interactions with other WPs. WP4 helps establishing some topical approaches for the scientific strategy in WP1 (task 1.2) and will give inputs to establish the network strategy after JERICO-NEXT (task 1.6). Indeed, six JRAPs are being implemented to address different key environmental questions and/or policy requirements such as those considered by the MSFD, and according to the 6 JERICO scientific areas: 1- JRAP-1 on pelagic biodiversity 2- JRAP-2 on benthic biodiversity 3- JRAP-3 on chemical contaminant occurrence and related biological responses 4- JRAP-4 on hydrography and transport 5- JRAP-5 on carbon fluxes and carbonates system 6- JRAP-6 on operational oceanography. This document reports the work led in the framework of the JRAP activities during the 2nd year of the project whereas the deliverable D4.2 reports the activities led the 1st year. In the following pages, for each JRAP, we report main achievements with comparison to the initial plan, the next steps, the acquired data (link with WP5), and acquired communication material (to feed WP8)
Report after the JERICO Strategy Workshop. 30th April 2015
No full textThe workshop “Strategy towards JERICO-NEXT” took place on April 30, 2015, in Brest, as a closure for the JERICO(FP7) project and a bridge towards JERICO-NEXT (H2020).
The workshop focused on four topical round tables addressing key issues for the JERICO RI long-term sustainability in the context of European Strategies. It aimed at initiating an appropriate coordination between JERICO-NEXT and relevant European organizations, to be followed up during the JERICO-NEXT projec
JERICO. Report on Biofouling Prevention Methods
No full textThe main aim for this report is to provide an overview of biofouling prevention practices adopted by the JERICO consortium, to evaluate new methods used by the community external to JERICO, and to provide recommendation for best practices and methodologies across the network with the aim towards a common approach. Information on practices in use were collected through a questionnaire, from the JERICO workshops, and from the literature. Furthermore, JERICO started a Biofouling Monitoring Program (BMP) aiming in identifying major organisms responsible for biofouling in different geographical area, as an input to the development and application of more suitable approach to any specific region
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