EOSC glossary

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Body which brings together representatives from research and e-infrastructures, operators of AAI services and the AARC team to bridge communication gaps and make the most of common synergies.

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Application Programming Interface

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A series of EC-funded projects which use AAI to bring researcher collaborations closer together.

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A service (or distributed set of services) which enables users to be identified and to access protected information, other services or functionality.

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An individual responsible for recording information about a Community Catalogue and onboarding and maintaining that catalogue into the EOSC Exchange.

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A Community catalogue complying with EOSC-Exchange community resource catalogue inclusion criteria and including several resources. It is an egloss catalogue that can be onboarded into the EOSC Exchange by a Catalogue Operator Representative on behalf of the Community Catalogue Operator.

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An organisation operating an EOSC-compliant community catalogue and responsible for the onboarding and validating selected resources from that community catalogue into the EOSC Exchange.

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A Community Platform is a platform operated by a community to serve its users. It can be made of multiple services (support services such as AAI, Helpdesk, etc and services for the research) and should contain at least an inventory (e.g. in form of a catalogue) of its assets (services, datasets and other research resources).

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A service that links to collections of research products (see Research Product) as well as services that provide data in response to queries.

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An international non-profit organisation (AISBL) based in Brussels to represent the interest of the EOSC stakeholder community. The association is a partner with the European Commission in the EOSC Partnership and has developed and will continuously update a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) to advise the European Commission on the development and implementation of EOSC.

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The components of EOSC that together deliver the essential operations of EOSC, including resource onboarding, discovery, ordering, use, monitoring, accounting and support, including the federated delivery of consistent services across a distributed "system of systems".

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EOSC Interoperability guideline to enable compatibility with specific EOSC Core services, including EOSC monitoring, EOSC accounting, and EOSC helpdesk.

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The collection of resources and organisations onboarded to the EOSC Platform, visible in the EOSC Resource Catalogue and EOSC Marketplace, and findable accessible and usable by EOSC Users.

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EOSC-Exchange Interoperability Guidelines facilitate interoperation of services and resources within thematic areas. As such they are defined, proposed, and maintained by EOSC providers. Specifically, horizontal Interoperability Guidelines facilitate interoperation of services and resources across communities and infrastructures, and can communicate the interoperability capabilities and boundaries of frameworks utilised by communities.

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Responsible for overseeing the EOSC Interoperability Framework; endorses/deprecates guidelines based on the recommendations of the EIAC. A temporary project-based composition has been established during the EOSC Future project, consisting of the Technical Coordination Board.

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Responsible for performing the initial assessment of the proposed guidelines; makes recommendations to the EIAB as regards candidates for inclusion in the EOSC Interoperability Framework. A temporary project-based composition has been established during the EOSC Future project, consisting of the task leads of the Architecture and Interoperability work package.

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Version-controlled document that describes standards to enable interoperability and explain how Providers can make their resources compatible with them. They outline the high-level protocols (such as REST) and low-level protocols (such as OAI-PMH), data models (e.g. DCAT model), and schemas (e.g. DCAT JSON schema) that need to be implemented or customized to ensure compatibility with each guideline. Guidelines specify the essential technical requirements and configurations that providers should follow in order to make their services compatible with the interoperability guidelines. EOSC Interoperability Guidelines pass a validation process, after which they are onboarded (registered) into the EOSC IF registry.

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Responsible for contributing and maintaining Interoperability Guidelines to the EOSC-IF Registry.

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A web-based interface to search, discover, access, order and use the resources available through the EOSC Exchange, egloss a range of filtering options, leveraging the relationships available through the Interoperability Framework, and taking advantage of integrations with EOSC Core Services and among other compatible services in the EOSC Exchange.

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An interactive dashboard to facilitate the monitoring of (1) EOSC readiness by European Member States and Associated Countries (2) indicators for the EOSC Partnership (3) contributions to the EOSC Partnership and EOSC ecosystem (4) national policies on Open Science and EOSC. The observatory will publicly present results of the monitoring and provide an overview of the implementation of EOSC.

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Catalogue Operator Representatives for Community Catalogue from the INFRAEOSC-04-2018 (thematic projects), INFRAEOSC-05-2018-2019 (regional projects), and INFRAEOSC-07-2020 (horizontal projects) to ensure implementation/alignment of onboarding of Community catalogues; representatives of the EOSC Portal Onboarding Team (EPOT); operations and maintainer of the EOSC Profiles to ensure implementation according to decisions made within the E-OSG are considered by the EOSC Provider’s Portal developers. Other Provider Representatives interested in onboarding resources to the EOSC Resource Catalogue and EOSC Marketplace.

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A Co-programmed European Partnership between the EOSC Association and European Commission to implement EOSC under Horizon Europe. The partnership is governed by the tripartite EOSC Partnership Board consisting of representatives from the EOSC Association, EOSC Steering Board, and European Commission. The European Commission will fund €490 million in project and procurement calls in the Work Programmes for EOSC under Horizon Europe. The EOSC Association will collectively via its members contribute in-kind activities to EOSC totalling at least €500 million for the duration of Horizon Europe.

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The EOSC Platform delivers the EOSC Core and EOSC Federation services as an integrated operational environment that enables EOSC research communities to take advantage of this suite of services. Exploiting EOSC Platform capabilities, research communities can add value to their own services in the Exchange and make them more useful and attractive to a wider range of science users. Furthermore, the EOSC Platform, with its extensible architecture, facilitates the addition of new capabilities (Core or Exchange - e.g. horizontal services such as the data transfer) to satisfy emerging user’s requirements. The EOSC Platform currently consists of services such as the comprehensive Resource Catalogues, the Marketplace, the EOSC Infrastructure Proxy for the EOSC Core services, the EOSC AAI Federation, the Helpdesk, the Monitoring, the Accounting, the Order Management, the Execution Framework and the EOSC Interoperability Framework registry.

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Gateway to research-enabling resources including research publications, data, software, and value-added services to support their research. Includes the EOSC Marketplace as well as Knowledge Hub, EOSC Observatory and other resources.

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Metadata schema for the description of services, research products or other research artefacts that their providers choose to share with the EOSC user community through the EOSC Exchange, as well as for describing the organisations offering to provide these resources to EOSC. EOSC Profiles are specified by the EOSC Profile Interoperability Guideline, which defines the entities for which Profiles have been defined and their logical relationships as part of a larger data model.

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A catalogue containing all the Research Products (datasets, software, etc.) onboarded in EOSC, together with their context in the scholarly communication infrastructure, e.g. creators, organisations, funders, projects.

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A catalogue of all EOSC Resources, the result of integrating the EOSC Service Catalogue and the EOSC Research Product Catalogue.

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EOSC Interoperability guideline to enable compatibility with the EOSC Resource Catalogue, including metadata formats such as the EOSC Profile, the OIDC protocol for authentication, etc.

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A catalogue containing all the Services onboarded in EOSC, together with their Providers.

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An expert group consisting of representatives of European Member States and Associated Countries that advises the European Commission in the development and implementation of EOSC. The board is also one of the three bodies in the tripartite EOSC Partnership Board that governs the EOSC Partnership.

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Any natural person or group of people who interacts with EOSC resources and services.

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A strategic planning document which outlines the specific EOSC implementation activities to be funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe. The work programme for 2021-2022 under Horizon Europe is expected to be updated in 2023 with the extension of EOSC Partnership projects into Horizon Europe Work Programmes for 2023-2024.

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The collection of EOSC Interoperability Guidelines onboarded to the EOSC Platform, visible in the EOSC IF Registry, which can be used to enable interoperability between individual EOSC Resources and EOSC Core services as well as interoperability between EOSC Resources (e.g. enabling data transfer, orchestration, etc.). The Framework includes the governance processes for reviewing, approving and accepting new Interoperability Guidelines into the IF Registry.

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A database of submitted and approved EOSC Interoperability Guidelines, based on an agreed profile of the W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT).

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The egloss branch of the European Union

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European Open Science Cloud. An envisioned federation of research (data) infrastructures that will create a web of FAIR data and services for science. EOSC will be a key enabler for Open Science and will support researchers in sharing and egloss research products (e.g as data, publications, and code) through value-added horizontal (i.e. cross-disciplinary) and thematic (i.e. discipline-specific) services. EOSC was developed in an initial implementation phase from 2016-2020 under Horizon 2020 and will be expanded in a second implementation phase via the EOSC Partnership from 2021-2027 under Horizon Europe.

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An expert group of representatives of the EOSC Association that is responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the EOSC Association. The executive board reports to the general assembly.

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The FAIR principles are a set of principles to make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. The principles aim to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data.

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A service offering help and support to EOSC users, providers and stakeholders.

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The body responsible for running an EOSC Core service.

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EOSC Provider contributing and maintaining Interoperability Guidelines to the EOSC-IF Registry.

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A curated collection of resources supporting EOSC users and stakeholders in understanding and contributing to EOSC.

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A service to monitor the usage of EOSC services and resources.

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A service to manage the order and delivery of resources to EOSC users.

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Any information related to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

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The European PSI Directive (2003/98/EC) establishes a minimum set of rules for the re-use of PSI held by public sector bodies in the EU. The Directive has been updated by the PSI Directive 2019/1024/EU, which obliges Member States to make certain categories of data available for reuse. The directive also requires the creation of National Points of Reference (NPRs) to provide a single access point for information about PSI available for reuse in each Member State.

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A community of researchers working in a specific domain or with specific interests.

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A resource created or used in the process of conducting research. This includes but is not limited to publications, datasets, software, workflows, and other digital objects.

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Any entity that can be provided or consumed as a service. Examples of resources include computational resources (such as CPU time and storage), data, software, and user support services.

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A means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes customers want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risks.