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ExPaNDS webinar series to showcase achievements and look to the future

2023/01/262023/01/26

We’re pleased to announce our upcoming topic-based webinars which will take place during the coming month before the end of our grant in February 2023. The webinar topics have been selected with the help of our work package leaders and some of the highlighted use cases taken directly from the PaN community throughout our grant.

The series will provide a great opportunity to showcase some of the outcomes of our grant to the PaN facility user communities. We will present some key findings from the recently conducted data consultation, which was sent to over 14,000 PaN facility users.

The ongoing work of ExPaNDS has been very important to the PaN community and we have invited senior community figures to discuss the future needs and requirements for their respective discipline or technique to keep the momentum going beyond the grant.

We will have flash talks from our work packages with focus being on FAIR, data catalogue services, data analysis and an overview of the PaN training platform.

Read more on the ExPaNDS website

Image: Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors – Professor Dr Helmut Dosch

The benefits of Open Data with ExPaNDS

2020/05/142020/05/14

Diamond is a key collaborator in this European project, which will be mapping the data behind the thousands of published scientific papers

ExPaNDS, alongside the Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud (PaNOSC) are European H2020 projects who are working towards the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

The Photon and Neutron Research Infrastructures (PaN RIs) containing free electron laser, synchrotron light and neutron sources are generating petabytes of research data each year and such vast amounts of data can be hard to share. Researchers around the globe use the data to advance knowledge across a variety of societal challenges. These challenges can be found in energy, transport, healthcare, food safety, and sustainable living to list only a few.

Understanding more about the ExPaNDS project

2020/04/092020/04/09

Diamond is a key collaborator in this European project, which will be mapping the data behind the thousands of published scientific papers

ExPaNDS is the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Photon and Neutron Data Service, which is a collaboration project between ten national Photon and Neutron Research Infrastructures (PAN RIs). This ambitious project will create opportunities for facilities’ users to access the data behind the thousands of successful published scientific papers generated by Europe’s PaN RIs – which every year create petabytes of data.
ExPaNDS will link all relevant data catalogues to ensure that any scientific research communities have access to both the raw data collected that is linked to their session(s) at these facilities, and the relevant peer review articles produced as a direct result of their usage.

The project brings together a network of ten national PaN RIs from across Europe as well as EGI, a federated e-Infrastructure set up to provide advanced computing services for research. In order to do this, ExPaNDS will develop a common ontology for all the elements of these catalogues, a roadmap for the back-end architecture, functionalities and a powerful taxonomy strategy in line with the requirement of the EOSC user community.

ExPaNDS presentation video