What do genomes, brains and earthquakes have in common?
They are just some of the many topics that will be addressed at the 2nd EUDAT Conference to be held in Rome from 28-30 October 2013.
EUDAT and EPOS are collaborating to provide safe back-up and service redundancy to the Italian seismological community (INGV). The challenge of daily copying and synchronizing the whole of the INGV community archive from its data centre in Rome to the EUDAT node in Bologna (CINECA) has been overcome through using the EUDAT Safe Replication service, which has been carefully tuned to the specific requirements of the community. The seismologists' data sets archived and registered in the EUDAT CDI will also form the base for the community services to be hosted by EUDAT.
This is just one of the data infrastructure and service success stories that you can learn about at the 2nd EUDAT Conference in Rome. There will be keynote presentations from Richard Frackowiak of the Human Brain flagship project, Ewan Birney on Annotating the Human Genome, and Maryline Lengert of the Helix-Nebula Science Cloud, with Bill Michener giving a view from across the Atlantic on DataONE. These presentations will be complimented by a series of parallel tracks and training sessions on the EUDAT services, along with associated workshops on topics that include humanities and social sciences, novel big data technologies and ultra-scalable data management technologies, as well as policies for the management of research data.
Check out the rich three day programme at www.eudat.eu/events/programme-eudat-2nd-conference and register on-line.