ESCAPE Assets. The main focus of ESCAPE is to establish a single collaborative cluster of next generation ESFRI facilities in the area of astronomy- and accelerator-based particle physics in order to implement a functional link between the concerned ESFRI projects and EOSC. ESCAPE aims to produce versatile solutions, with great potential for discovery, to support the implementation of EOSC thanks to open data management, cross-border and multi-disciplinary open environment, according to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles. In order to serve ESCAPE stakeholders, a Big-Science domain-specific “EOSC cell” to be connected/integrated in the global EOSC infrastructure and to help setting up the related services. Such an EOSC cell is composed of six main components, as described in Table 2. Table 2 ESCAPE components building the “EOSC cell” Service Description The novelty / value-add A harmonised suite of citizen science experiments, improving the transparency of the scientific process, while bringing the science- inclined public directly and genuinely into the processes of scientific discovery Getting the general public genuinely involved in the scientific discoveries of the astronomy and physics facilities. It has an excellent track record for finding unexpected features missed by automated data processing, being therefore the best approach for many complex scientific data mining problems A federated data infrastructure of open access data that enables large national research data centres to work together and build a robust cloud-like service to curate and scale up to multi-Exabyte needs, while following FAIR principles The service provides capabilities for managing large volumes of data and making them accessible to very distributed communities, while optimizing the cost of storage, “hiding” the complexities of data management and data access A platform-service gateway with the capability to access and combine data from multiple collections and stage for subsequent processing and analysis. It allows data discovery and handling of large and distributed data collections It combines data, from many different physical locations, from different but related scientific disciplines, into a unique multi-messenger, transparent, user friendly way and cross- domain Open Science Cloud for fundamental science. Service Description The novelty / value-add A sustainable open-access repository to share scientific software and services to the science community an...
