The Turkish National EOSC Node will integrate Aperta and Harman as national data sources, align with required EOSC Federation technical capabilities, and contribute compute capacity to cross-node scientific workflows.
By connecting Turkish Open Science resources and HPC capabilities to EOSC, the Node increases the visibility of Turkish research outputs and strengthens collaboration between Turkish and European research communities.
TUBITAK ULAKBIM is Türkiye’s academic network operator, the institution responsible for ensuring open access to publications by major scientific publishers, home to the largest scientific high-performance computing centre (TRUBA, Turkish Science e-Infrastructure), which houses two Top500 certified systems and is used by more than 8,000 users, and is responsible for promoting Open Science in the whole Turkish research ecosystem.
To build a national EOSC Node that interoperates technically and organisationally with the EOSC Federation and acts as a bridge between Turkish and European research ecosystems.
The EOSC Node Türkiye expands EOSC with national open archives, large-scale indexing and HPC capacity, enabling international collaboration and scalable data validation workflows.
FAIR data
- Aperta, the central Open Science archive of Türkiye
- Harman, a national harvester and indexer aggregating more than 3 million records from Turkish university open archives
- Standards-compliant metadata and APIs supporting EOSC discovery and access
Scientific use cases
- Cross-node workflows for consistent validation of sensor data from Biogeochemical ARGO floats
- Integration of Aperta into EOSC Catalogue
- Integration of Harman into EOSC Catalogue
- Integration with EOSC EU Node AAI and federated catalogue
Status
Candidate National EOSC Node (Build-up phase)
Deliverables
- Aperta integration with EOSC Catalogue
- Harman integration with EOSC Catalogue
- EOSC EU Node AAI and federated catalogue integration
- Cross-node ARGO validation workflow with compute support
Technical status
Planned
- Federated AAI (integration with EU Node planned)
- Onboarded service catalogues (Aperta; Harman; EOSC catalogue integration)
- Application workflow management (VLabs)
- Service monitoring
- Service and research product accounting
- Order management
- Helpdesk
- Management system
Interactions with other EOSC Nodes
Node capabilities
Federated services
- Aperta integration
- Harman integration
- EOSC EU Node AAI and catalogue integration
Data repositories
- Aperta
- Harman indexed Turkish university repositories
Compute and storage
- High Performance Computing
- Cloud Computing
Other
- NREN services
- Open Science promotion
- InvenioRDM support and development
Coordinating organisation
Node organisation
Coordinator
Dr. Hakan Bayındır
