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This document presents the progress of the ExPaNDS project between March 2021 and February 2023. It reproduces the explanation of the work carried out by our partners as provided to the European Commission in the second and last periodic report of the project.

Over 115 participants, including researchers, managers and IT professionals from the photon and neutron communities and representatives of the European Commission, attended the 2nd online Photon and Neutron EOSC Symposium, jointly organised by PaNOSC and ExPaNDS on 26 October 2021. Find in this booklet all presentations, the recordings will also be made available shortly.

This document presents the progress of the ExPaNDS project after its first 18 months of activities, spanning from September 2019 to February 2021. It reproduces the explanation of the work carried out by the ExPaNDS partners as provided to the European Commission in the first periodic report of the project.

This document presents the progress of the ExPaNDS project after its first 18 months of activities, spanning from September 2019 to February 2021. It reproduces the explanation of the work carried out by the ExPaNDS partners as provided to the European Commission in the first periodic report of the project.

The ExPaNDS project aims at deploying into EOSC Data Catalogues and data analysis services. This document describes the status, a gap analysis, and a roadmap required to achieve harmonised and federated (meta)data catalogues within EOSC of the participating national Photon and Neutron (PaN) Research Infrastructures (RIs).

Research Infrastructures within the Photon and Neutron science community have a significant track record in publishing and implementing data policies to support the access and use of experimental data generated by the user. Recent developments within European science policy, in particular the drive towards supporting FAIR data in the European Open Science Cloud has meant that it is timely to review and revise these data policies. The PaNOSC project has developed a new PaNOSC Data Policy Framework with the contribution of ExPaNDS partners. The aim of this Deliverable 2.1: Draft extended data policy framework for photon and neutron research infrastructures is to reflect upon and extend that work. We review the FAIR data policy landscape at European and national levels, consider the current state of data policy adoption and implementation at ExPaNDS partner facilities, and examine existing FAIR ecosystem data policy recommendations, in particular, from the Turning FAIR into reality report and the recent FAIRsFAIR Deliverable 3.3: Policy enhancement recommendations In response, we make twenty-six recommendations of our own that serve to translate these recommendations to the local level of photon and neutron research infrastructures. As the report’s key output, we present thirty elements that should inform a data policy framework for photon and neutron research infrastructures. These focus on enabling FAIR data and are those elements about which RIs need to make choices — both on the level of commitments that they themselves are prepared to make as well as with regards to the obligations that they will place on users. We conclude with some next steps that will inform the final version of this deliverable: D2.3 Final data policy for photon and neutron research.&nbsp

The ExPaNDS project aims at deploying into EOSC data catalogues and data analysis services. This document describes the proposed architecture for these services and how they are planned to integrate into EOSC. The first part elaborates on our plan to abstract the data and analysis services with common APIs in order to make them available to portals and processing pipelines without knowing where the actual facility data, analysis stacks and ICT infrastructure resides. Then, as this is one of ExPaNDS high level objectives, the document describes the relationship between services provided by ExPaNDS RIs and the EOSC as well as their interdependencies.

The ExPaNDS project is a collaboration between 10 national Photon and Neutron Research Infrastructures (PaN RIs) as well as EGI. The project aims to deliver standardised, interoperable, and integrated data sources and data analysis services for Photon and Neutron facilities, within the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). As part of its programme, it is considering how to enable and promote the generation and use of FAIR data within facilities’ processes (work package 2), and the harmonisation of tools and processes for data cataloguing and management (work package 3). WP2 and WP3 are conducting a landscape analysis in order to establish a baseline on the current state of the 10 participating institutions on FAIR data policies and data management practises. This activity can be compared with a similar activity which was undertaken within the PaNOSC project, which covers the transnational (ESFRI) facilities in the same domain. This baseline can then be used to steer the subsequent activity of the project and to assess its impact. This report summarises the results of a survey of the 10 participating institutes which was undertaken in December 2019.

This paper identifies the needs specific to synchrotrons and FELs towards the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and how these research infrastructures and their user communities can best take advantage of the EOSC. The CALIPSOplus project [http://www.calipsoplus.eu/] brings together all photon sources in Europe. A significant number of them have participated in the Joint Research Activity 2 (JRA2 also referred to as WP24), to develop a prototype of a remote Data Analysis as a Service (DAAS) platform. The prototype was deployed and tested at the participants site and an online workshop was held at the end of 2020 to present the results. The prototype DAAS service was instrumental in identifying the needs for remote analysis and cloud-like access to IT resources for photon research infrastructures. This experience furthermore allowed the authors to reflect on the promise on "The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is an environment for hosting and processing research data to support EU science" made by the EOSC and its application to photon sources. The paper starts by defining the needs of the Photon and Neutron (PaN) community towards cloud computing and then presents the achievements from JRA2. It then goes on to analyse the situation for photon sources according to the services recommended by the EOSC: FAIR data, data storage, data processing, data re-use. It continues with a brief overview of the Helix Nebula Science cloud and then proceeds to an overview of EOSC services, their state and suitability for the PaN RIs.

Research Infrastructures within the Photon and Neutron science community have a significant track record in publishing and implementing data policies to support the access and use of experimental data generated by the user. Recent developments within European science policy, in particular the drive towards supporting FAIR data in the European Open Science Cloud has meant that it is timely to review and revise these data policies. The PaNOSC project has developed a new PaNOSC Data Policy Framework with the contribution of ExPaNDS partners. The aim of this Deliverable 2.1: Draft extended data policy framework for photon and neutron research infrastructures is to reflect upon and extend that work. We review the FAIR data policy landscape at European and national levels, consider the current state of data policy adoption and implementation at ExPaNDS partner facilities, and examine existing FAIR ecosystem data policy recommendations, in particular, from the Turning FAIR into reality report and the recent FAIRsFAIR Deliverable 3.3: Policy enhancement recommendations In response, we make twenty-six recommendations of our own that serve to translate these recommendations to the local level of photon and neutron research infrastructures. As the report’s key output, we present thirty elements that should inform a data policy framework for photon and neutron research infrastructures. These focus on enabling FAIR data and are those elements about which RIs need to make choices — both on the level of commitments that they themselves are prepared to make as well as with regards to the obligations that they will place on users. We conclude with some next steps that will inform the final version of this deliverable: D2.3 Final data policy for photon and neutron research.

This paper identifies the needs specific to synchrotrons and FELs towards the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and how these research infrastructures and their user communities can best take advantage of the EOSC. The CALIPSOplus project [http://www.calipsoplus.eu/] brings together all photon sources in Europe. A significant number of them have participated in the Joint Research Activity 2 (JRA2 also referred to as WP24), to develop a prototype of a remote Data Analysis as a Service (DAAS) platform. The prototype was deployed and tested at the participants site and an online workshop was held at the end of 2020 to present the results. The prototype DAAS service was instrumental in identifying the needs for remote analysis and cloud-like access to IT resources for photon research infrastructures. This experience furthermore allowed the authors to reflect on the promise on "The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is an environment for hosting and processing research data to support EU science" made by the EOSC and its application to photon sources. The paper starts by defining the needs of the Photon and Neutron (PaN) community towards cloud computing and then presents the achievements from JRA2. It then goes on to analyse the situation for photon sources according to the services recommended by the EOSC: FAIR data, data storage, data processing, data re-use. It continues with a brief overview of the Helix Nebula Science cloud and then proceeds to an overview of EOSC services, their state and suitability for the PaN RIs.

The ExPaNDS project is a collaboration between 10 national Photon and Neutron Research Infrastructures (PaN RIs) as well as EGI. The project aims to deliver standardised, interoperable, and integrated data sources and data analysis services for Photon and Neutron facilities, within the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). As part of its programme, it is considering how to enable and promote the generation and use of FAIR data within facilities’ processes (work package 2), and the harmonisation of tools and processes for data cataloguing and management (work package 3). WP2 and WP3 are conducting a landscape analysis in order to establish a baseline on the current state of the 10 participating institutions on FAIR data policies and data management practises. This activity can be compared with a similar activity which was undertaken within the PaNOSC project, which covers the transnational (ESFRI) facilities in the same domain. This baseline can then be used to steer the subsequent activity of the project and to assess its impact. This report summarises the results of a survey of the 10 participating institutes which was undertaken in December 2019.

Report on lessons learned and future prospects for adopting best practices in education and training (incl. the training platform) on data FAIR principles, data management and data stewardship at the ExPaNDS RIs and in the PaN community at large.

ExPaNDS deliverable D2.3: Final data policy framework for photon and neutron RIs, considers how data policies for research infrastructures providing photon and neutron facilities should be framed, in particular in the light of supporting open science and FAIR data. It builds on and revises the initial policy framework presented in ExPaNDS deliverable D2.1: Draft extended data policy framework for photon and neutron RIs. To produce the final, revised version of our data policy framework, ExPaNDS undertook a series of detailed consultation meetings with all ten of our partner PaN RIs. Drawing extensively on quotes from the write ups of those conversations, this report presents the themes that emerged from the consultation, focusing especially on those that featured most often and most strongly. Based on the consultation feedback, we present a revised version of the ExPaNDS data policy framework, which now proposes 21 elements for RIs to consider when formulating data policy. Overall, the consultation provided an opportunity to engage deeply in discussion with ExPaNDS partners about data policy and policy making. The consultation feedback and the level of engagement with the consultation process itself highlight ExPaNDS partners’ strong interest in data policy. There is a clear recognition that having an appropriate data policy is fundamental to supporting good research data management. While some differing views exist, ExPaNDS partners express consensus on key fundamental aspects of the data policy framework, especially the importance of a high level commitment to FAIR data. There is also the strong recognition that flexibility in a data policy framework is vital to accommodating the diversity found across national PaN RIs. As well as incorporating the final version ExPaNDS data policy framework as a key output, our report concludes with two overarching points: Data policy diversity will remain across ExPaNDS partner facilities Data policy is a powerful and important tool for national PaN RIs. It is clear from the consultation feedback that the ExPaNDS data policy framework is already having an impact on facilities’ plans for future work, especially around ensuring that key implementations are in place to support FAIR data. Further work within ExPaNDS, for example, around PIDs, metadata, and FAIR assessment, will provide guidance to support these activities.

This data management plan describes the data management life cycle for the data to be collected, processed and generated by the ExPaNDS project. Like all Horizon 2020 projects, the first version of the DMP is submitted by month 6 of the project but is intended as a living document. Information will be made available on a finer level of granularity through updates as the implementation of the project progresses and when significant changes occur. One of ExPaNDS main objectives is to promote FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data in national Photon and Neutron Research Infrastructures (PaN RIs). ExPaNDS also takes part in the Open Research Data Pilot, which aims to make the research data generated by H2020 projects accessible with as few restrictions as possible, while at the same time protecting sensitive data from inappropriate access. The way we deal with the project’s data must then be an example of FAIRness and openness. That is why we plan to publish all our deliverables in the ExPaNDS community created on Zenodo ( zenodo.org/communities/expands ) and to integrate our software in the PaN software catalogue ( panosc.eu/services/pan-software-catalogue ) which will be further developed by PaNOSC. Survey and personal data, which are the only sensitive data in ExPaNDS, will be dealt with in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).