Presentation by Massimiliano Assante, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy How the FAIR principles should manifest in reality is largely open to interpretation. In this presentation it is described the approach exploited in the context of the BlueBRIDGE EU project. This approach culminates in an open, flexible and rich catalogue where an ample set of research resources are expected to be seamlessly discovered and accessed by overcoming interoperability and reusability issues. Behind the catalogue there is a rich and powerful infrastructure (D4Science.org) that enacts the catalogue FAIRness by deploying and operating a set of service and facilities enabling to actually have access the catalogue items payload (beyond metadata). The presentation describes some of the prototypical patterns implemented to enable the collaborative production and publication of scientific output compliant with the Open Science and FAIR principles. More on BlueBRIDGE here www.bluebridge-vres.eu

1. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
A Research Data Catalogue supporting Blue
Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case
M. Assante & L. Candela
BlueBRIDGE Workshop “FAIR friendly research data catalogues: How far are we?”
03 April 2017
Barcelona, Spain
massimiliano.assante@isti.cnr.it

2. BlueBRIDGE project objective
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To implement and operate a set of Virtual
Research Environments (VREs) facilitating
communities of scientists, innovators from
SMEs and educators in their knowledge
production chain:
• From the initial phases, data collection and
aggregation, to the production of indicators for
competent authorities and investors.
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3. BlueBRIDGE (BB) VREs
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Integrates
D4Science.org Infrastructure
Unified Resource Space
Powered by gCube
Enables
VRE VRE VRE
WPS
VRE / Vlab / Collaboratory, Science Gateway

4. BB VREs thematics & products
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VREs support production of scientific knowledge:
assessing the status of fish stocks and producing a GRSF
analysing socio-economic performance in aquaculture
fisheries & habitat degradation monitoring
By exploiting VRE services users generate
heterogeneous [research] products: e.g.
Distribution Maps
Records
Enhanced Publications
Graphs
…

5. FAIR and FAIRness
• FAIR is a set of (metadata-based) principles
aiming at making research outcomes Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable, & Reusable
• … not a standard
• … not equal to semantic web /Linked Data/RDF
• … not only for human users
• … not equal to “Open”
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6. BlueBRIDGE FAIRness settings
• What is worth being FAIR
• Every [research] product
• When
• In every step of the research lifecycle thus to foster
collaborative open-science practices
• Where
• Within and beyond Virtual Research Environments
• How
• By leveraging a comprehensive set of services
operated by the D4Science Infrastructure
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Transparency, Openness,
Reproducibility

7. The BlueBRIDGE Way
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https://bluebridge.d4science.org/catalogue
Services
Access
&
Reuse
• Custom items
• Multi-tenancy
• VRE-friendly
DCAT
Disseminate
Publish
VRE

8. The BlueBRIDGE Way:
Findability
By extending the concept of resources
datasets, methods/algorithms, research objects, and services
By assigning to resources unique identifiers and
rich and extensible metadata
By publishing resources in tailored and global
catalogues
supporting keyword, faceted and temporal/geo discovery
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9. The BlueBRIDGE Way:
Accessibility
By making published resources available
through multiple protocols
By providing for transparent Authentication
and Authorization
By enabling policies enforcement
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10. The BlueBRIDGE Way:
Interoperability
By exposing the resources with metadata in
multiple formats
By promoting exploitation of ontologies and
controlled vocabularies
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11. The BlueBRIDGE Way:
Reusability
By systematically provide resources with (a) a
clear licence (b) citation and attribution
statements
By systematically generating provenance
metadata
By allowing the execution of the experiment
in the same environment
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12. A research data catalogue supporting Blue Growth: the BlueBRIDGE case
Tom is looking
for an algorithm for his
research
Finds the algorithm on
the Data catalogue
The BB service verifies
Access policies and
downloads
the algorithm on-the-fly
Tom executes
the algorithm
on his data,
multiple times
Tom got a
positive/negative
result
and can publish it
along with the
computation on
the catalogue for
Reuse
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BlueBRIDGE way: an actual example

13. THANK YOU
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https://bluebridge.d4science.org/catalogue