2025-05-20 –, Showroom
Large-scale research infrastructures (LSRIs) form a vital backbone of scientific research and increasingly rely on robust digital infrastructure for their operation and exploitation by the research community over multiple years. However, building and maintaining LSRIs poses a multi-disciplinary challenge: You understand how you want to advance research in a specific domain, and you have found your partners. But how to find the expertise to build and maintain the technical infrastructure? How to govern and sustain it? What are the available infrastructure and tools that can be reused?
The first talk of this session will provide an overview of the advanced light microscopy LSRI NL-Bioimaging, including its IT landscape and challenges, as well as bridging activities with other LSRIs and (inter)national initiatives.
The second presentation will present the Research Infrastructure Commons (RIC) initiative, which intends to guide the fragmented expertise landscape in the Netherlands (available at national expertise centers, institutions, and research infrastructures) towards a common national infrastructure, optimising its building, operation, and sustainability.
This talk will present the current thinking and activities on RIC and how LSRIs could contribute and benefit. The presentation will also explain how concepts like workflow-centricity, federation and the Global Open Research Commons (GORC) can be applied, as well as how current activities for institutions, LSRIs and European infrastructures like Open Science Cloud (EOSC) contribute to RIC. The audience is welcome to share ideas and feedback.
