European Plate Observing System
The European Plate Observing System (EPOS)] is a solid earth sciences research framework approved by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI]) and included in the ESFRI Roadmap in December 2008.:[1]
EPOS is a long-term integration plan of national existing Research Infrastructures (RIs), it is currently in its implementation phase (2015–2019), the project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 676564.[2]
Concept[edit]
EPOS will create a single sustainable, permanent and distributed infrastructure, integrating land-based geophysical monitoring networks, local observatories (including permanent in-situ and volcano observatories) and experimental laboratories in Europe, providing open access to data products and data processing facilities.[3]
Implementation Phases[edit]
Conception Phase (2002–2008)[edit]
The conception phase evolved thanks to a number of European and national-funded projects and initiatives which focused on integrating and distributing digital data; in december 2008 EPOS had been approved by ESFRI and included in the European roadmap for research infrastructures.
Preparatory Phase (2010–2014)[edit]
November 2010: EPOS Preparatory Phase (PP) project commences. EPOS PP is funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme. May 2014: ESFRI proposes EPOS (along with two other projects) as priority project, as strategically relevant for Europe[1]; declaring it ready for immediate action towards implementation. October 2014: EPOS PP project finishes.[4]
Implementation Phase (2014–2019)[edit]
For EPOS to become an operational pan-European research infrastructure for solid Earth science, key structural pillars are required. The Implementation Phase (IP) will do just this with the establishment of the EPOS-ERIC agreed by the EPOS Governmental Representatives and the implementation of a technical, legal and governance, and financial framework for all its components. IT architecture and interoperable services will also be created.
Operational Phase (2020 onward)[edit]
The service to the user community will start in the Operational Phase.
Participating Institutions[edit]
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ICT Approach[edit]
The EPOS ICT architecture has been designed to organize and manage the interactions among different EPOS actors and assets.[5]
Three complementary elements form the ICT architecture, providing interdisciplinary metadata integration[6]
- National Research Infrastructures (Data Centers)
- Thematic Core Services
- Integrated Core Services
Operational Organization[edit]
The overall EPOS work plan is divided into 17 Work Packages (WPs), WP1–WP7 are the coordination ones: \
- WP1: Project Coordination Management
- WP2: Communication
- WP3: Harmonization
- WP4: Legal & Governance Framework
- WP5: Financial Framework
- WP6: ICS-TCS Integrations & interoperability
- WP7: ICS Development
Ten disciplinary Work packages are in charge of implementing the data provision and the associated services:
- WP8: services and data provision for Seismology
- WP9: coordination of Near-Fault Observatories and implementation of multi-disciplinary data service
- WP10: services and data provision for the GNSS community
- WP11: services and data provision for Volcano Observatories
- WP12: services and products for Satellite Earth Observations
- WP13: implementation and integration of Geomagnetic Observations services
- WP14: implementation of services and access to data in the field of anthropogenic hazards
- WP15: coordination and implementation of services and data provision for Geology
- WP16: implementation and integration of data and services from Multi-scale Laboratories
- WP17: coordination of the implementation of the Geo-Energy Test Beds.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The ESFRI roadmap document" (PDF).
- ↑ "EPOS Horizon 2020 agreement".
- ↑ "List of scientific papers mentioning the EPOS project".
- ↑ "Final report of the EPOS Preliminary Phase".
- ↑ Jeffreys, Keith; Bailo, Daniele (November 2014). "EPOS: Using Metadata in Geoscience". Metadata and Semantics Research. 478: 170–184. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ "The EPOS ICT architecture".
- "EPOS superlab for the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis to start operations". ResearchItaly.it. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- Vario, Maddalena (December 2015). "Datemi un punto di accesso e scoprirò il pianeta". Garr News (in italiano) (13). p. 5.
- Kelly, Éanna. "EU to build €6.7B Europe-wide science cloud". ScienceBusiness.net. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- "EPOS: an e-Infrastructure to integrate Solid Earth Science data". egi.eu. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- "A solid foundation for earth sciences: EUDAT interviews Massimo Cocco of EPOS". Eudat.eu. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- "Building Solid Foundations for Managing Solid-Earth Data with EPOS and EUDAT". Eudat.eu. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- "Soutien de 13 pays au projet d'infrastructure européenne EPOS (European Plate Observing System)". Cnrs.fr (in French). Retrieved 10 May 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- "Un Unico Hub Europeo per Tutti i Dati Geo". ilsussidiario.net (in italiano). Retrieved 10 May 2016.
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