The Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (CVTI SR) is building the Slovak EOSC Node to integrate national research resources into the EOSC Federation. Through its KOMIS interoperable platform, the Node connects Slovak research organisations, universities, and data repositories, including the Research Data Objects Repository (SVD).

CVTI SR also leverages substantial infrastructure, including the Datacentre for Research and Development, alongside specialised bioinformatics environments and HPC resources interconnected with Slovak research stakeholders. Key contributions include FAIR-compliant data management and cross-border research collaboration capabilities in the form of cross-node scientific use cases.

CVTI SR’s combined role as National EOSC SK Secretariat and National Office for Open Science positions the Slovak EOSC Node as a bridge between Slovak research infrastructures and the broader European research ecosystem, addressing data fragmentation while enhancing interoperability and accessibility for Slovak and European researchers.

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Key objective: To enhance Slovakia’s research capabilities, contribute Slovak resources and expertise, address the fragmentation of Slovak research data, and improve data accessibility. The initial technical objective involves integrating KOMIS subsystem SVD while ensuring compatibility with FAIR principles and other EOSC Federation standards. Subsequent goals include achieving integrations of the Datacentre of CVTI SR and establishing interconnections with HPC-related services of Slovak research stakeholders.

Science areas: Multidisciplinary—the initial build-up phase will focus particularly on bioinformatics and biomedical research domains, such as antimicrobial resistance research and AI for medical diagnostics.

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Interactions with other EOSC Nodes

How to access the Node

Rules of Participation

The Slovak EOSC Node’s RoP policy is

  • aligned with the EOSC Federation’s RoP;
  • mirroring tiered access groups (AP-0, AP-A, AP-A1, AP-B) applied across use cases;
  • GDPR-compliant.

Access points

  • EOSC Node | Slovakia’s one-stop portal, eosc.sk (under development)
  • Via KOMIS systems still under development (komis.cvtisr.sk/en)
  • Relevant subsystem SVD repository under development (svd.cvtisr.sk/en)
  • In parallel, deploying and adapting the OneData (open source by Cyfronet PL) solution to the Slovak environment (under development)

Initial access to selected onboarded resources will be provided through the EOSC EU Node (onboarding catalogues are still in progress). The next phase will be implemented through the KOMIS interoperable platform, which will be transformed into the EOSC Node Slovakia portal with compatible AAI (to be developed in enrollment phase).

Node capabilities

Federated services

  • AAI (under development)
  • Metadata harvesting (finalising)
  • Repositories (finalising)
  • Workflows (under development)

Data repositories

  • KOMIS subsystems (mainly SVD, secondary SCIDAP, and SK CRIS)
  • External institutional catalogues (rUMBa of Matej Bel University etc.)
  • OneData test implementation of OneProvider connected to EOSC Node Poland (OneData production on Slovak domain under development)

Compute and storage

  • CVTI SR Datacentres (allocation portal planned)
  • Potential of interconnecting HPC from other Slovak research stakeholders

VRE

  • Jupyter notebooks (planned)
  • Containerised environments (planned)

File sync-and-share

This is in development.

Other

  • Bioinformatics software environment
  • Citizen science integration
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