The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO) aims to explore the oceans and explain the driving factors and the effects of changes they play in the broader earth systems, focusing on climate change, warning signals of biodiversity loss and ecosystem impact, and geo-hazards. A fundamental component of the EMSO cyber-infrastructure that allows integrating multiple ocean variables from EMSO ERIC regional facilities is its data management platform. EMSO engaged with European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) to develop an initial data management platform as part of the EMSODEV H2020 project. The EOSC-hub Early Adopters Programme now supports the transition of the EMSO data management platform to pre-production providing, through its partners, resources, and solutions for the deployment of EMSO ERIC data services. This transition enables data and services to be harmonized and standardized across EMSO observatories. It also increases its interoperability with the marine subdomain according to FAIR principles as part of the ENVRI-FAIR H2020 project, which will ultimately deliver EMSO ERIC added value data services via the EOSC marketplace impacting different communities. This effort also establishes an appropriate workflow for taking stewardship of every stage of the data lifecycle and ensuring long-term preservation and redundancy and additional mechanisms for data, metadata, and data product discovery and delivery based on decentralized approaches and broadly used technologies and tools. The envisioned architecture is based on robustness and fault tolerance, including redundancy and failover capabilities on computing and storage resources, and scalability and security, including a distributed architecture for data access and analysis. EOSC-hub currently provides cloud-based resources from two geo-distributed datacenters in Italy (RECAS-BARI) and Spain (CESGA), delivering over 10TB online storage and in excess of 4M CPU-hours over twelve months, guaranteed by an SLA. Additional critical services are provided, such as support for integrating an Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure based on the EGI Check-In service. User-related information is planned to be managed according to anonymization standards using tools such as OpenAIRE Amnesia

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021, New Orleans

Peer reviewed