PaNOSC – Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud

About: The Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud (PaNOSC) project is an EU funded project aiming to provide common policies, strategies and solutions for enabling Open Science through the adoption of FAIR principles across European photon and neutron facilities. A major outcome of PaNOSC is to have ensured that 5 RIs on the ESFRI roadmap and an ERIC make their data open and available to the EOSC. Although two of the RIs (ESS and ELI) are still in the process of construction and ramping up to user mode, respectively, they are ready to publish Open Data from the beginning of User Mode, thanks to their Open Data policies based on the PaNOSC policy framework and the implementation of data catalogues. PaNOSC has also allowed the partners to offer data analysis services by developing an Open-Source data analysis portal, VISA, which is ready to be deployed as a generic service at an e-infrastructure and/or other RIs and made available via the EOSC. It offers remote control, data analysis and simulation services of experiments, and experimental set-ups, but also allows analysis of data available in the data portals. PaNOSC has onboarded the following services in the EOSC Portal:

• PaNOSC Software Catalogue: giving access to over a hundred standard software tools used for analysing data from PaN RIs;
• The e-learning platform, giving access to e-learning materials for PaN students and researchers, and which has been integrated with the training catalogue developed by ExPaNDS. Both services are accessible through a single platform, pan-training.eu.
• Human Organ Atlas: an open data portal of 3D scans of human organs with micron resolution for different pathologies, including COVID-19.

A number of other services, including the 6 data portals of the PaNSOC partners and the search API service are in the process of being registered.
Finally, PaNOSC, together with GÉANT, has put in operation a standard Authorisation and Authentication Infrastructure (AAI) common to all PaNOSC RIs and EOSC contributors to facilitate access to the different services.

The PaNOSC project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 823852

Project duration: 01 December 2018 - 30 November 2022

Looking for: Visibility of PaNOSC project and results

Interested to learn more? Get in touch via: Andrew Goetz, ESRF, [email protected]