GOSC: Global Open Science Cloud

Workspace for teams, Working Groups and Case Studies, working under the CODATA GOSC Initiative to facilitate collaboration and exchange of information.

A number of regional initiatives are underway or emerging that aim to provide holistic support for Open Science and FAIR. The Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) initiative aims to encourage cooperation, and ultimately alignment and interoperability, between these initiatives. The benefits of Open Science/Research Cloud/Platform/Commons initiatives such are likely to be significant: the benefits will be even greater if alignment can be achieved on a global scale.

The Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) initiative is an integral part of the ISC CODATA Decadal Program ‘Making Data Work for Cross Domain Grand Challenges’. The vision for a global coordinating activity emerged from a number of discussions, including those at the 2019 CODATA Conference in Beijing, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has granted seed funding for CNIC to help launch the initiative.  A series of subsequent meetings and workshops, including the EGI, CNIC, and CODATA GOSC Workshop, and the GOSC Panel and GOSC Parallel Session during the International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020, have helped validate and enrich the GOSC concept. A CODATA GOSC Steering Group was established to help develop the foundations for the initiative and to ensure that it is fully international. 

GOSC will pursue its activities through thematic Working Groups addressing a number of challenges shared by Open Science Clouds and will also develop Case Studies of domain and cross-domain research supported by different Open Science infrastructures. The Case Studies will provide a concrete grounding and exemplars of collaboration, alignment and interoperability.

Reporting and collaboration schedule

  • Completed work plans to be sent to the GOSC Steering Group by 15 October 2021.

  • Collaboration and ad-hoc meetings WGs and CSs organised by the co-chairs and secretariat

  • Occasional All Hands Meetings, quarterly or as needed, to report on progress.

  • Monthly reports of WG and CS representatives as part of the GOSC Steering Group meetings.

Workshops at conferences

  • SciDataCon 2021, 18 - 28 October 2021. Virtual.

    • GOSC work plans presentation on 27 October. Sessions at 11:00 - 12:30 UTC and 13:00 - 14:30 UTC. Programme

  • Annual EGI Conference,19 - 21 October 2021. Virtual. 

  • International Data Week 2022, 20 - 23 June 2022. Hybrid, online and in Seoul. 

  • FDO Conference and the FAIR Convergence Symposium, 24 - 28 October, 2022 (exact days and website TBC). Leiden.

  • First International Symposium on Open Science Clouds, TBC.

  • International Data Week 2023, October, Salzburg.