Life. Watch developments and interaction with GBIF (nodes) Wouter Los
Which actions to ensure long-term sustainability How to manage multi-functional land/sea-scapes Can we adapt to environmental change ? What are the impacts of changes in climate, pollution and land/sea-use on biodiversity Where are thresholds in ecosystem structures and functions How do changes affect the provision of ecosystem services
The biodiversity system is complex and cannot be described by the simple sum of its components and relations Experimentation on a few parameters is not enough: Limitations to scaling up results for understanding system properties Life. Watch adds a new methodology to support the generation and analysis of large-scale data-sets on biodiversity. Find patterns and learn processes.
Andrew D. Barton et al, Patterns of Diversity in Marine Phytoplankton, Science online 25 Feb 2010 A single vizualized result. But we would like to see thousands of these.
Life. Watch architecture Virtual laboratories for scientific cooperation Select the data, software, computing power Integrate resources Linking to resources (databases, sensors, software, computing power) Service Centre
Virtual Labs – from data to science and policy • • Access to your selection of integrated data Model biological systems: tackle complexity Visualize data and model outcomes Virtual experimentation: decision support
Distributed Data Generation Terrestrial LTER Sites Marine reference and focal sites Natural science collections Physical Infrastructures And many other European and global data facilities
External data liaisons (> 30 Eur + global)
Data examples Deposition Gases Aerosoles Wet Dry Wind Precipitation Temperature Tree response Tree bioelements Epiphyte response Litter fall Understory veg. Throughfall Soil water Weathering Deer, birds Soil (litter, humus, minerals) Decomposition mineralization Root uptake Groundwater Credit: Michael Mirtl Surface water
Life. Watch as a distributed research infrastructure Data grid monitoring sites sensors collections Soft/Middleware grid Computing grid Part of an international infrastructure grid
Construction work - 1 • • Apps. Services & Workflow enhancement (NL) Virtual research environments with Bio. VEL and Vi. BRANT projects • • • Dedicated Virtual Labs (Communities in all countries) Concertation & Scientific priorities (NL + IT) Innovation Lab (NL) Proof of concept and testing: Bio. VEL project Core ICT support (ES) • • 32 European data facilities & networks Enhancing data structures with EUDAT project Data discovery: ENVRI project Computational access: EGI • • • Grid/Cloud framework SOA & semantic web Data reference/provenance Sensors/devices support Taxonomic backbone (BE) Citizen science (SE) Cooperation with i 4 Life and COOPEUS projects
Construction work - 2 • Service Centre Service operations (IT) • • • Users access Partnership & networking Training & Cap. Building Helpdesk Life. Watch National Centres Committee (Lin. CC) Data Providers Platform
Construction details and costs Cost categories 14 construction projects 73 construction components 203 construction items Capital costs Major third party costs Running costs Specialist staff costs Service staff costs Other costs Depreciation costs d ed an. escrib d ulated c Each ts cal s ed co at ssoci a
Cooperative (support) projects • Bio. VEL • Vi. BRANT • ENVRI • EUDAT • PESI • i 4 Life • COOPEUS Related projects • Creative-B • EUBrazil. Open. Bio • • • i. Marine D 4 Science Env. Europe ag. INFRA EXPEER EU BON
• Community priorities • Infrastructure interoperability • Legal and governance implications www. creative-b. eu
www. creative-b. eu
Structure Life. Watch is cooperating with “distributed” Life. Watch Centres in cooperating countries, operating parts of the facilities and services. 15 % in-cash contributions Distributed Life. Watch Centre Life. Watch ERIC Common Facilities 85 % in-kind contributions Distributed Life. Watch Centre All together these constitute the “Life. Watch Research Infrastructure”
Legal personality • European legal entity according to the ERIC Council Regulation. • ERIC = European Research Infrastructure Consortium. • The ERIC Regulation allows a number of countries (the Consortium) to establish a European legal entity. • The ERIC organisation than has a number of advantages, such as VAT exemption. • Life. Watch Statutes have been prepared and are in process for EC approval. • Countries can join the Life. Watch ERIC at any time. • This spring is the Inter-ministerial meeting of founding countries
Managing distributed Life. Watch Countries General Assembly ERIC organisation Executive Management Service level agreements (Independent) Centres Operational relations
Dealing with in-kind contributions • 15 % in-cash for Common Facilities • 85 % in-kind contributions controlled by contracts and SLAs Construction Contracts • Description of delivery • Agreements on production, delivery, adjustments • Assignments of responsibilities and credits • Developments guided by a Life. Watch expert group • Involvement of the user community • Review mechanisms (assessment procedure) • (Transfer of) ownership and IPR • • Service level agreements • Position of distributed centre(s) in Life. Watch • Agreements on tasks, standards, protocols and quality • Alignment of responsibilities • Financial support (following country commitments) • Identification and valuation mechanisms of in-kind contributions Valuation of costs, cost changes • Periodic evaluation of services Settlement of disputes • Provisions for finishing the agreement
Current status 2008 2011 Preparations 2013 2016/18 Construction Operations Life. Watch is currently in a transition phase towards starting full construction
Positions of countries • Planning to join the Life. Watch ERIC - 8 countries • Still processing domestic decision - 5 countries • Expressed interest, but currently no action possible - 7 countries
Interaction with GBIF (nodes) • Global cooperation through Creative-B project • Memorandum of Cooperation GBIF-Life. Watch – Development of joint demand-driven data discovery and mobilisation plans – Promotion, of GBIF Informatics processes and tools by Life. Watch users, and Life. Watch e-infrastructure services by GBIF users – Promoting the participation of European countries • Cooperation between national Life. Watch Centres and GBIF-nodes – Global/European cooperation to be reflected at the national scale – Consider plans to deploy GBIF-nodes data in applications – Be pro-active to enter cooperation opportunities with Life. Watch
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