The Second EOSC Catalogue Hackathon: Still Building, Now With More Reality The first EOSC catalogue hackathon proved federation could work. The second made it more real: messier, broader, and much more useful. With EOSC Beyond, Data Terra, ENVRI, EMBRC, EGI, GRNET, and the Life Science Connect…

The Second EOSC Catalogue Hackathon: Still Building, Now With More Reality

The first EOSC catalogue hackathon proved federation could work. The second made it more real: messier, broader, and much more useful. With EOSC Beyond, Data Terra, ENVRI, EMBRC, EGI, GRNET, and the Life Science Connect node in the room, we moved from “can catalogues talk?” to the harder question: “can they understand each other well enough to build on?”

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ARIA and Instruct digital services are back up, thanks for your patience

Our provider is reporting that maintenance is taking a little longer than expected, please bear with us!

Spent a little time this afternoon extending my eosc-node middleware to include a speculative @eosc-beyond.bsky.social to EEN service catalogue crosswalk. Should allow chaining to DCAT, which could be useful to some folks. Standard disclaimers and validation required. gitlab.com/aria-php/eos...

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Due to critical maintenance at our hosting facility, Instruct digital services & ARIA are unavailable this morning. We expect this work to be completed by 1pm CEST today. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Getting ready to represent the life sciences connect node on behalf of @instruct-eric.bsky.social at the eosc federation meeting hosted at the EC

@instruct-eric.bsky.social forms part of the Life Sciences Connect Node (along with @elixir-europe.org , @embl.org and @eurobioimaging.bsky.social ), so this is an important step towards making our services available to the wider European scientific community.

Marcus Povey@mapkyca.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Stop Talking About Federation. Build Something. Last week we had a hackathon during which time we successfully demonstrated discovery and federation of catalogues between EOSC nodes

Mapping EOSC EU Node Service Catalogue to DCAT Based on work done in EOSC United, I have drafted how one might map the required fields from the EOSC EU Node service catalogue schema to DCAT.

Mapping EOSC EU Node Service Catalogue to DCAT

Based on work done in EOSC United, I have drafted how one might map the required fields from the EOSC EU Node service catalogue schema to DCAT.

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Introducing the EOSC node (sort of) Got a little impatient so started making a thing

Introducing the EOSC node (sort of)

Got a little impatient so started making a thing

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And we are back. Things appear to be working normally. Please continue usage as normal while we sweep up the sawdust

ARIA has suffered an outage due to an issue at our hosting provider. The issue has been identified and engineers are working to bring things back. We hope to be back online shortly!

If you are running a Research Infrastructure or are writing a EU grant application and need help with access management, then please hit me up! www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2026/04/07/w...

ARIA and related services have successfully been migrated to new hosting, please bare with us while we clean up the sawdust!

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