sciencesoft: open software for open science

ScienceSo' is incubated by EMI, par6ally funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement RI-‐261611

ScienceSo' Open So'ware for Open Science

Alberto Di Meglio, Florida Estrella – CERN

Morris Riedel -‐ FZJ

First Workshop on Maintainable So3ware Prac7ces in e-‐Science (So3warePrac7ce12) Chicago -‐ 09/10/2012

EMI INFSO-‐RI-‐2

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• Background and context • Plans and current ac6vi6es • Next steps

Content

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EU eInfrastructures


An interoperable Distributed Compu7ng Infrastructure for Europe


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•  Collabora6on of 4 mw providers (ARC, dCache, gLite, UNICORE)

•  26 partners •  24M EUR

•  3 years (05/10 – 04/13)

•  55 products •  2M SLOC

• Open source

EMI in a nutshell



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EMI Vision and Challenges



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•  How to ensure technical coordina6on? •  How to share informa6on across projects and across scien6fic domains?

•  How will the so'ware be supported in the future? •  Are all products sustainable? Are all worth being sustainable?

•  Anything that can be exploited commercially? How? •  Is there something else we can use? Is it good? Does it work as it should? Can we contribute to it?

• Who is using the so'ware and how does usage evolve?

•  Do users men6on the so'ware, acknowledge its contribu6on to their research?

Cri6cal issues



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• Other projects, communi6es and SMEs shared the same challenges and concerns or expressed interest in similar discussions

Ini6al discussions


The ScienceSo' Steering Commi?ee (Dec 2011-‐Feb 2013)


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First workshop


•  1st ScienceSo' Workshop – CERN, Feb 2012 –  Original “Steering Commidee” and other interested persons, 33 in total

–  Helped streamlining the requirements and possible features

• Overview document: –  hdp://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1451518/files/scienceso'_v1.0.pdf


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– Alpha (March-‐June 2012): refinement of ideas, requirements and features, state-‐of-‐the-‐art

– Design (July-‐December 2012): ini6al design and prototyping

–  Concept (January-‐April 2013): proof-‐of-‐concept, itera6ons on features

– OperaMon (May 2013 onwards): community managed ac6vi6es

Roadmap: hdp://scienceso'.org/roadmap

Roadmap

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Features


Catalogues

So'ware, people, organiza6ons, projects,

events, etc.

Processed informaMon

what, where, who, how good/bad, help, licensing,

data import/export, no6fica6ons, etc.

Marketplace

Communi6es, services, incuba6on,

crowdsourcing, consultancy, etc.

IdenMficaMon and citaMon

Unique iden6fiers, “so'ographical” formats,

etc.


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• Create wider communi6es around worthwhile so'ware

• Generate revenues by: –  Enabling the provision of specialized so'ware-‐related services to well-‐iden6fied groups •  So3ware engineering, consultancy, specialized technical development, training, etc.

–  Commercial incuba6on support •  Business plans, legal informa7on, IP, licensing, etc.

Sustainability



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• Improve academic recogni6on of so'ware development

• Make scien6fic results fully reproducible – Unique IDs, code runs, VMs

• Extend methods from publica6ons and datasets (DOI)

• Agree on a format suitable for cita6on equivalent to bibliographical formats

So'ware Iden6fica6on & cita6on



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State of the art



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• Func6onality: – Web portal

– Data model, Data discovery and automa6on –  Comment and ra6ng system, Subscrip6ons and no6fica6ons

–  Informa6on processing and repor6ng

– Marketplace, So'ware Iden6fica6on & cita6on

• Forums on the ScienceSo' portal at hdp://scienceso'.org/forum

Design and prototypes

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• Web site at hdp://scienceso'.org –  Based on Drupal (hosted at CERN), features added as modules

–  Easy to contribute features •  Simple data model defined for objects and rela6onships

•  Registra6on, search, maps

• OpenID-‐based access, support for Facebook, gmail (not yet public)

•  Automa6on of rela6onship and data collec6on being discussed

First steps (technical)



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Snapshot



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• Crea6on of collabora6ons and networking –  Exis6ng project and ini6a6ves – Developers and researchers (ISGC 2012, EGI/EMI CF 2012, EGI TF 2012, So'warePrac6ce 2012, OGF)

– Decision-‐makers in interna6onal organiza6ons, research centers and funding bodies (EIROForum, EC, FAO)

– Open source consultancy companies and incubators

First steps (strategic)



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Governance

Founda6on? Roles, policies

Admin, legal, logis6cs, etc.

Opera6onal Challenges


Funding

Public funding Sponsoring

Paid-‐services Voluntary

contribu6ons


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• Finish the prototype according to plan • Discuss with other projects about common ac6vi6es and extending/reusing func6onality

• Disseminate the results

• 2nd workshop tenta6vely Feb 2013 – Governance, funding, future plans

• Based on feedback and par6cipa6on, stop or con6nue with opera6onal phase

Next steps


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Documents

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