ExPaNDS: Laying the Foundations for Achieving Open Science for Everyone

Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, has been leading work package 6 (WP6) responsible for dissemination and outreach, working alongside European light source and neutron source partners to deliver the foundations required for their collective science to be open to everyone. The collaboration of 10 national Photon and Neutron Research Infrastructures (PaN RIs) (Figure 1) from across Europe, based on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) services in partnership with EGI [1], has worked closely with PaNOSC—a European project gathering six European RIs. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Photon and Neutron Data Service grant (ExPaNDS) has worked to deliver a shift in policy to see FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) being considered and, in some cases, applied according to the users’ needs. One aspect of the work has looked to harmonize efforts to migrate a facility’s data analysis workflows to EOSC platforms, enabling them to be shared in a uniform way through the development of search Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) where it is possible to technically implement these. The ExPaNDS project plan was designed around these six work packages: