e-infrastructures User Forum

Friday 21 Mar 2014, 09:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

National Library of the Netherlands

CANCELLED! SEE E-MAIL ARCHIVE FOR MORE INFO This is the second meeting of the e-infrastructures User Forum through which the end-users themselves, in a cross-disciplinary body collaborate to define requirements and policies for the services that they use.

1 Welcome from Local Host

2 Report from pre-meeting in H2020 "UF" call

3 Discussion on H2020 plans and actions

4 Update on Action Items from 1st UF (including discussion)

• Set up steering/organisational body
• Identify communities to address and invite to the Forum in the first instance
• Communities to appoint representatives
• Develop terms of reference for the Forum
• Schedule next meeting/s (last week in Feb or first three weeks in March)
• Prioritise initial topics for discussion (see list below), including a possible Horizon 2020 proposal to fund Forum activities
• Investigate the possibilities and opportunities to join the RDA interest group on engagement
• Evaluate the possibility of submitting a Horizon 2020 proposal to support Forum activities by 2 September 2014 (NOTE: this would have to be drafted over the next few months/summer 2014)

10:30 Coffee

5 UF deliverables

6 UF topical workshops

7 A UF Conference in 2015?

12:00 Lunch

User Community Priorities and/or other topics

Possible topics include:

• Prioritising and publishing issues facing the scientific communities in the areas of infrastructures;
• Maintaining a database of contact information; (already done under action items?)
• Providing an estimation of the impact of the e‐infrastructures on the research communities;
• Providing information on the potential for a service in terms of market size and likely adoption;
• Organising representative input from the scientific communities through workshops and polls;
• Participating in strategic discussions with e‐infrastructure providers and projects;
• Participating and providing input on strategic directions from the scientific community for the e-IRG, European Commission and national funding agencies.

8 Conclusions and Next Steps

We have to have left the building by 17:30 when it is locked.