30 Apr 2024
WP2 aims at optimizing the implementation of all access-related activities leading to integration and interoperability of a single Interoperable Distributed Research Infrastructure for Nanoscience (IDRIN). Optimization of user access experience, effectiveness of usage of the infrastructure and scientific output are the ultimate goals. To this effect, a continuous monitoring scheme for a smooth and harmonized operation is being put in place. Careful monitoring of the user proposals wallow identifying the scientific trends in user needs. Scientific outcomes are monitored and analyzed, both in terms of scientific publication and scientific data made available. To this effect one of its tasks is the technical and operational continuous upgrade of the IDRIN to better serve an expanding user community and to set the basis of an evolutionary model for an advanced and sustainable distributed research infrastructure. Particularly, this deliverable originates from task 2.5 (Technical and scientific evolution of the IDRIN). It foresees the analysis of the use of the TA-VA infrastructure and its scientific outcome as a whole, identifying new user communities to be targeted and preparing the calls for additional providers. The collective effort of TA-VA WP leaders, as well as the TLNet, contributes to the evaluation the scientific use of the distributed installations, identifying capacity criticalities if any, and/or capturing new science opportunities to be supported by the offer to the nanoscience users. As a result, it is foreseen that the NEP catalogue undergoes periodical revisions giving an answer to both (i) identified unmet qualitative needs of users and (ii) quantitative needs resulting from oversubscription of the current capacity.15 Apr 2024
This report is a deliverable of Task 18.2 dedicated to the outreach to industrial community as part of WP18 “Bridging academic and industrial research”. This report proposes a follow up of the activities that have been carried out in the framework of WP from M19 to M36. It follows a marketing and dissemination campaign that has started in April 2022, just after the outreach strategy report (D18.2) have been issued at M13 and the publication of the first outreach report at M36. It also follows This report includes the main objectives of the outreach activities, the activities that have been implemented so far and some guidelines about how to improve the future campaign and foster innovation. It will cover the different topics: - THE CONTEXT, OBJECTIVES, CURRENT KPI AND THE ONGOING MARKETING STRATEGY - THE FOLLOW UP ABOUT MARKETING, OUTREACH AND DISSEMINATION - GOOD PRACTISES AND NEXT STEPS FOR UPGRADED OUTREACH CAMPAIGN31 Mar 2024
This deliverable presents the second set of Virtual Access (VA) services integrated into the NEP infrastructure. These online services, all running on a virtual machine (4 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB SDD, OS: Debian 11, SSL via Apache reverse proxy) hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), were developed within the Work Package (WP) 16 and were designed to improve the data FAIRness and to facilitate the user experience on (meta)data generation, postprocessing or exploration. The services are authenticated upon the NEP Single Sign-On (SSO) system via Keycloak [14]. The usage is monitored by aggregating the Units of Access (UoA), which are established to be every single action made by a logged-in user on one of the services, and monitored: whenever a loggedin user performs an action, the service backend sends a REST request to the NEP backend including the service ID and increases the usage counter by 1 UoA. No information about the users is handled or stored by the services. The Keycloak token, used by the Single Sign-On, is the only piece of information needed to grant access to the service. The document consists of three sections describing one VA service each. For completeness, each section explicitly mentions the corresponding WP16 task in which the service was framed and the deliverable in which it was described, if applicable.
