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Community of Practice

Community of Practice of research infrastructures in physics, radio-astronomy and other scientific domains and related collaboration agreement
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Components

A Community of Practice (CoP), referred to as SPECTRUMCoP, structured into Working Groups to stimulate cross-discipline collaboration, knowledge sharing, and relationship building across a range of actors, from research groups, and experiments’ representatives to involved RIs. The CoP acts as the main channel to source knowledge from the communities and to validate the outcomes of the project through various means (e.g. consultation, interviews, workshops).

The CoP has defined a Community Charter describing the governance, purpose, goals and expected outputs. A collaboration platform has been set up within confluence and a set of mailing lists as main communication channels to enable collaboration among the community. Assotiated branding and marketing material has been created in order to raise the interest to the relevant experts to join the community. All the content generated is being stored in the collaboration platform and stays as knowledge hub available to the community.

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Components

Exploitation Path

Who will access this result and how?

Target groups:

  • Scientific Communities within RIs with data-intensive computing needs, with a focus on RA and HEP

Exploitation path: Key experts in the community become primary members of the CoP and use it as a platform for discussion; before the end of the project, a community charter for the long-term operation of the CoP will be agreed

Ownership and access rights:

Expert WG members from project partners will become starting members of the CoP; upon the definition of community charter, access to the community will be open to any external key experts. Outputs generated by the community generated during the project will be openly distributed under permissive licence. Bylaws will be defined in case it is needed. Before the end of the project, there will be the identification of an organisation to provide continued support to the online platform for the CoP.

Related Activities

How will SPECTRUM increase uptake, adoption and reuse?
  • A Community charter has been established early in the project to establish and regulate the collaboration , that includes the commitment to contribute and provide input to SPECTRUM  project.
  • Jena (Joint activity ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC) is an interest group shares same objectives as the SPECTRUM CoP in the HEP, Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics domains. They are launching several Working Groups including JENA-HPC – in line with SPECTRUM CoP Working Groups. Key Experts from JENA have been invited to be part of SPECTRUM CoP and reports & information is expected to be shared across groups.
  • As a result the work done linked to the SPECTRUM CoP survey has been incorporated into the JENA-HPC technical report that will be used as a content for the discussions held for the future JENA Computing Workshop
  • Contribution to the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
  • Participation at Key Events where experts are usually attending.
  • Specific material created part of the communication toolkit
  • Specific One-pager to promote the SPECTRUM CoP

Related Deliverables

D3.1 Community of Practice - Interim report

The document describes the approach to creating a community of practice for HEP and RA involved in SPECTRUM, it summarises the performed consultation activities and presents the collected knowledge.