DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

A new report from the European E-infrastructure Forum (EFF) discusses ESFRI project requirements for E-infrastructures. EEF members welcome feedback on this report  from all the stakeholders and specifically the ESFRI projects.

This extract explains the purpose and content of the report:

“The EEF is a forum for the Pan-European e-infrastructures providers in the areas of High Performance Computing, Networking, secure data-storage and services and the European Grid-infrastructure. The interest of the EEF in this work is to tailor our services to the ESFRI projects’ needs, to avoid parallel e-infrastructures being set up without connection to existing or planned investments and to have links established from the EEF to the ESFRI-projects to help the e-infrastructure providers and policy makers to provide the best services at the best conditions to the European flagship research facilities. The EEF has, through a series of meetings and a questionnaire, gathered a set of e-infrastructure requirements from the ESFRI projects. Some 28 ESFRI projects were consulted as part of the requirements gathering process. Based on the information received the EEF has made an initial analysis which is recorded in this report. The implications and opportunities for the European e-infrastructures have also been analysed and included in this report. The EFF sees this activity as a first iteration in an on-going dialog that is required between e-infrastructure and ESFRI representatives and foresees a number of steps that will continue this process.”