Based on the hackathon we ran the other week with representatives from @envri.bsky.social Data Terra @embrc.eu @egieinfra.bsky.social GRNET and @instruct-eric.bsky.social present representing @eosc-beyond.bsky.social EOSC Association and EOSC United

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

EOSC Service Catalogues in the Wild: EEN, EOSC Beyond, and the Case for Starting Small There is a reasonable argument that the best way to design an interoperability standard for EOSC service catalogues is to look at what nodes are actually publishing before deciding what to mandate. So I pulled…

EOSC Service Catalogues in the Wild: EEN, EOSC Beyond, and the Case for Starting Small There is a reasonable argument that the best way to design an interoperability standard for EOSC service catalogues is to look at what nodes are actually publishing before deciding what to mandate. So I pulled…

EOSC Service Catalogues in the Wild: EEN, EOSC Beyond, and the Case for Starting Small

There is a reasonable argument that the best way to design an interoperability standard for EOSC service catalogues is to look at what nodes are actually publishing before deciding what to mandate. So I pulled 239 service records from the EOSC Beyond sandbox, compared them against the EEN specification and a draft EEN-to-DCAT field mapping being developed within the working group, and mapped the results across all three schemas. The short version: the divergence between the two formats in active production use is real, it is already in the wild, and the empirical common core is smaller than either spec requires. Which is, somewhat inconveniently, the strongest possible argument for starting there.

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We had representatives from @envri.bsky.social Data Terra @embrc.eu @egieinfra.bsky.social GRNET and @instruct-eric.bsky.social present representing @eosc-beyond.bsky.social EOSC Association and EOSC United

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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…

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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I is in your repositories, cross linking your identifiers

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!

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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EOSC Node DCAT Service Catalogue Implementation Guide Following on from the #EOSC hackathon I ran a few weeks ago, I thought I would write a brief implementation guide for any other nodes that want to try playing with what we did

EOSC Node DCAT Service Catalogue Implementation Guide

Following on from the #EOSC hackathon I ran a few weeks ago, I thought I would write a brief implementation guide for any other nodes that want to try playing with what we did

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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

Introducing MeetQuorum, a Self-Hosted Meeting Scheduler Scratching an itch for my team, I build a Doodle clone over a couple of hours while enjoying some lovely wine in a sunny pub garden.

Introducing MeetQuorum, a Self-Hosted Meeting Scheduler

Scratching an itch for my team, I build a Doodle clone over a couple of hours while enjoying some lovely wine in a sunny pub garden.

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@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

Introducing Milkshake, a Sovereign, Local-First Task Manager Not wanting to bury the lede; I built a todo list application to replace my Remember The Milk subscription, entirely using free AI tools, on a Saturday morning. Here's how...

Introducing Milkshake, a Sovereign, Local-First Task Manager

Not wanting to bury the lede; I built a todo list application to replace my Remember The Milk subscription, entirely using free AI tools, on a Saturday morning. Here's how...

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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

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

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The Man with two brains Autistic note keeping, FTW!

The Man with two brains

Autistic note keeping, FTW!

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On an almost daily basis I have to swerve or slam on my brakes because one of the local squirrels decides it's had enough of life and tries to dive in front of my bike wheels. I think it's time we started talking about squirrel mental health, is everything ok my fuzzy dudes?

To give an idea at the speed of change in AI, here are two images using the same prompt "photo of alternative universe ww2 where the allies use dragons when storming the Normandy beaches". Stark the difference in just a couple of years.

AI is brilliant! Now, stop wiring it into everything. As we rush towards the AI future, it is important to take a beat to consider that AI security is... terrible.

AI is brilliant! Now, stop wiring it into everything.

As we rush towards the AI future, it is important to take a beat to consider that AI security is... terrible.

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Had another "Oh Shit" moment working with the AI this weekend, blog post incoming, but ... wow...

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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Code is now a Commodity Writing code is not what a developer gets paid for in 2026, but that doesn't mean you can get away without knowing how to code. AI has disrupted the software industry. The code is getting cheaper. Judgment is not

Code is now a Commodity

Writing code is not what a developer gets paid for in 2026, but that doesn't mean you can get away without knowing how to code. AI has disrupted the software industry. The code is getting cheaper. Judgment is not

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Very lightweight but might be of use to the various @eosc-beyond.bsky.social partners, not to mention other EOSC nodes

Marcus Povey@mapkyca.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

Introducing the EOSC node (sort of)

Got a little impatient so started making a thing

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Being prepared for Agentic Search AI Agents are people too, and in the future they're going to want to use your services.

Being prepared for Agentic Search

AI Agents are people too, and in the future they're going to want to use your services.

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There but for the grace of God and all that, so shouldn’t throw too much shade… but if a single entity, biological or silicon based, can nuke your production database and all backups in one go that was a failure mode waiting to happen. Lesson for us all - assume someone will screw up at some point!

Presentation I gave to my team on Friday around usage of AI, vibe coding and my own experience. May be useful to you, enjoy: www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2026/04/27/h...

Even if you choose not to use AI for development, managers and clients will assume you are. Expectations of timescales will adjust accordingly...

I’m brought in as a fractional CTO / senior architect to get systems under control, align technology with the business, and apply AI in ways that are genuinely useful. Available for fractional CTO, architecture advisory, or short-term high-impact engagements. Lets chat! practical-alchemy.com

Having fun exposing some of the capabilities of ARIA to AI via an MCP server, also built largely using AI (Google Antigravity). Round and round we go!

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...