status: Recognised & Endorsed
Chair (s): Kheeran Dharmawardena, Andreas Rauber, Zhiming Zhao, Sandra Gesing
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: [field_secretariat_liaison]
VREs are synonymous with Science Gateways (SGs) in the USA and Virtual Laboratories (VLs) in Australia, and are increasingly being used to support a more dynamic approach to collaborative working across the internet. The proposed VRE-IG will explore all aspects of existing and planned future VRE/SG/VLs with the aim of moving towards common policies and best practices, such as those now being promoted by the European EOSC, the US XSEDE and the Australian NRDC. There is currently no coordination of the development of the underlying architectures, as well as specifications for components and interfaces in any of these initiatives, nor is there any agreed best practice way to connect to the major research infrastructures, in particular data to compute resources. Likewise there is also no mechanism for sharing best practice, skills, tools and software that connect tools to data in online environments that could ultimately allow these individual VREs to interoperate on a global scale. The goal is to create "building blocks" of common data infrastructures and building specific "data bridges" to enable online sharing and in situ processing of data. The US SGCI - started in August 2016 - starts to work on these challenges for the US and will closely collaborate with this IG.
The VRE IG will aim to act as a longer-term organization responsible for tracking and contributing to the evolution of VRE/SG/VL technologies, particularly as they relate to data access. It will also seek to engage with those seeking to make use of these online technologies in an effort to identify the necessary technical aspects, social and community building practices, required skills, as well as governance issues and best practice required to support a more coordinated approach to the development of the collaborative environments that enable data sharing and in situ online processing.
The proposed VRE-IGgroup is in effect, an ‘umbrella group’ would bring together:
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Those initiatives that are actively developing VRE/SGs/VLs internationally;
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Representatives of the common e Infrastructure (eIs) services e.g., European Data Infrastructure (EUDAT); European Open Science Cloud (EOSC); US XSEDE; and the Australian National Research Data Cloud (NRDC); and
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Specific RDA groups (e.g., software citation, metadata IG, Versioning IG, etc.) that are developing outputs that themselves are best practice inputs to groups developing VREs.
Past Plenaries:
- 20th Plenary FAIR4VRE WG Gothenburg: https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-20th-plenary-meeting-gothenburg-hybrid/draft-recommendations-making-vres-fair-and-fair
- 18th Plenary IG virtual: https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-18th-plenary-meeting-virtual/vresvirtual-labsscience-gateways-fairness-sufficient-2
- 17th Plenary IG virtual: https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-17th-plenary-meeting-edinburgh-virtual/vresvirtual-labsscience-gateways-visions
- 16th Plenary IG virtual: https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-16th-plenary-meeting-costa-rica-virtual/vresvirtual-labsscience-gateways-good
- 15th Plenary IG virtual: https://www.rd-alliance.org/towards-common-reference-architecture-vres
- 14th Plenary IG Helsinki: https://www.rd-alliance.org/virtual-research-environments-working-towards-building-common-reference-model-and-catalogue-design
- 13th Plenary IG Philadelphia: https://rd-alliance.org/ig-virtual-research-environment-vre-ig-rda-13th-plenary-meeting
- 12th Plenary IG Gaborone: https://rd-alliance.org/ig-observational-data-information-ig-vre-joint-meeting-rda-12th-plenary-meeting
- 11th Plenary IG Berlin: Virtual Research Environments – How do I find them and what skills do I need to build and use them?
- 10th Plenary IG Montreal: Understanding VREs/SGs/VLs: planning a roadmap for sustainable collaborative development
- 9th Plenary IG Barcelona: Virtual Research Environments: coordinating sustainable online research environments across multiple infrastructures
- 8th Plenary IG Denver: VREs/Virtual laboratories/science gateways: opportunities for developing a more coordinated approach to support interoperability across different systems
- 7th Plenary BoF Tokyo: Kick-Off Meeting to establish the Virtual Research Environment Interest Group
Posts
Call for Papers - DaMaLOS 2024 co-located with ESWC
Dear all IG and WG at RDA Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the Call for Papers for the 4th Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management for Linked Open Science - DaMaLOS 2024 , this year co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference ESCW 2024. Drop me a line if you have any questions. Looking forward to some submissions from RDA groups. Kind regards, on behalf of DaMaLOS Organizing Committee ---------------- DaMaLOS 2024 - 4th Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management0 | Add new comment
Call for Contributions - SWAT4HCLS 2024 in Leiden
Dear Semantic Web community, ---apologies for cross-posting--- We would like to warmly invite you to submit your recent work to the 2024 edition of the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Science conference (SWAT4HCLS 2024) that will be held in Leiden from the 26th to the 29th of February 2024. SWAT4HCLS will publish work in the form of papers, posters, and demonstrations on original research, data, semantic models, and application experiences. As a guide, please consider the topics of interest.0 | Add new comment
Re: [vre_ig][fair4rs][fair4vres] RDA P20 - FAIR for Virtual Research Environments on Thursday, March 23, at 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | 13:30 - 15:00 Sweden
Sorry for the typo: It’s Thursday, March 23! From: Sandra Gesing via Virtual Research Environment IG (VRE-IG) <***@***.***-groups.org> Date: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 3:45 PM To: ***@***.***-groups.org <***@***.***-groups.org>, ***@***.***-groups.org <***@***.***-groups.org>, FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) WG <***@***.***-groups.org>0 | Add new comment
RDA P20 - FAIR for Virtual Research Environments on Thursday, March 20, at 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | 13:30 - 15:00 Sweden
Dear all, Sorry for cross-posting. We are excited about our session on FAIR for Virtual Research Environments on Thursday, March 20, at 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | 13:30 - 15:00 Sweden. We will discuss Draft recommendations for making VREs FAIR and FAIR-enabling We will have talks to show the draft recommendations in general and on examples of VREs. We are seeking feedback from attendees in-person and virtually. Please join us! Leyla Jael Castro and I will be in person and Kerry Levett and Kheeran Dharmawardena will join virtually.0 | Add new comment
Second Call for papers - DaMaLOS 2023 co-located with ESWC
Dear all IG and WG at RDA Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the Call for Papers for the 3rd Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects) Management for Linked Open Science - DaMaLOS 2023 , this year co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference ESCW 2023. Drop me a line if you have any questions. Kind regards, On behalf of the organizing committee ---- *DaMaLOS 2023 CfPESWC 2023. Hersonissos, Greece, May 29, 2023Conference0 | Add new comment
Data Streams Podcast Series: Episode 8 - "RDA FAIR for VRE Working Group Discussion with Co-chairs"
Hello VRE Interest Group members. This is a quick note to inform you that our latest podcast in the ‘RDA Data Streams” series may be of particular interest to you. Featuring RDA FAIR for Virtual Research Environments Working Group co-chairs Sandra Gesing (co-chair of your group as well as University of Illinois) and Kerry Levett (ARDC), the podcast will discuss the activities, challenges and opportunities taking place within the group.0 | Add new comment
CFP: Submissions for 15th International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2023) due to 19 March 2023
************************************************************* * IWSG 2023 * 15th International Workshop on Science Gateways * 13-15 June, 2023, Tübingen, Germany * Website: https://iwsgateways.github.io/iwsg2023/ * ***********************************************************Important dates: The deadline for paper/abstract submission: March 19, 2023 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 20230 | Add new comment
CFP: Submissions for 15th International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2023) due to 19 March 2023
************************************************************* * IWSG 2023 * 15th International Workshop on Science Gateways * 13-15 June, 2023, Tübingen, Germany * Website: https://iwsgateways.github.io/iwsg2023/ * ***********************************************************Important dates: The deadline for paper/abstract submission: March 19, 2023 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 20230 | Add new comment
CFP: Submissions for 15th International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2023) due to 19 March 2023
************************************************************* * IWSG 2023 * 15th International Workshop on Science Gateways * 13-15 June, 2023, Tübingen, Germany * Website: https://iwsgateways.github.io/iwsg2023/ * ***********************************************************Important dates: The deadline for paper/abstract submission: March 19, 2023 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 20230 | Add new comment
FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG meetings for Feb and March
by Kerry Levett
Dear FAIR for Virtual Research Environments WG and VRE IG members We have scheduled the next two meetings for the FAIR4VREs WG : - 16 February @ 19:30 UTC (your time ): Join zoom meeting - 16 March @ 19:30 UTC (your time ) Join zoom meeting Agenda and past meeting notes We will be testing our draft recommendations for how to make VREs FAIR and FAIR-enabling0 | Add new comment