Speaker
Description
Within CSIC, a portfolio of community-driven use cases is being developed to capture real scientific requirements and explore how digital infrastructures, repositories, computing resources, and data services can better support cross-disciplinary and data-intensive research. This work is carried out in connection with the “Momentum CSIC Programme: Develop Your Digital Talent” and the interdisciplinary CSIC Thematic Platform on Digital Science (PTI Ciencia Digital), which provide a framework for engaging research communities, mapping digital capabilities, promoting FAIR and Open Science practices, and identifying opportunities for integrating resources across CSIC.
The use cases originate from concrete research workflows and needs identified together with scientific communities. They are used to analyse requirements related to data management, distributed computing, repositories, authentication and access mechanisms, interoperability, and the integration of digital services. Particular attention is given to cross-disciplinary workflows, FAIR data management, access to distributed computing resources, integration of repositories and data services, and connections with emerging research data spaces.
This contribution presents the methodology adopted to identify, collect, and structure these requirements and translate them into representative use cases. The approach combines direct engagement with researchers with the mapping of existing digital capabilities across CSIC, allowing technical and organisational gaps, dependencies, and interoperability barriers to be identified from the perspective of real scientific workflows. The resulting scenarios also help determine where existing resources can be combined more effectively and where additional services or coordination mechanisms may be required.
These CSIC use cases also contribute to the EOSC-ES-Prep project, which is preparing the governance, service portfolio, and federation readiness of the emerging Spanish National EOSC Node. In this context, the CSIC scenarios provide practical input for understanding how national services and research infrastructures can respond to community requirements and how existing institutional capabilities can be connected to the broader European Open Science Cloud ecosystem.
The presentation will discuss selected CSIC use cases, the methodology used to identify them, and the lessons emerging from their implementation, including common and domain-specific requirements, interoperability challenges, and opportunities for sharing digital capabilities across research communities. The experience illustrates how use-case-driven approaches can connect researchers with infrastructure and service providers, translate scientific needs into interoperable solutions, and provide practical input to the development of EOSC-ES and the wider EOSC ecosystem.