Service Description Template v1.12

Service Description Template

V1.12

July 2018

Contributors

JNP: Jorge Sanchez, Nikos Vogiatzis, Nektaria Berikou, Theodore Ntezes

EFIS: Alasdair Reid, Jelena Angelis, Elina Griniece, Gaël le de Meeûs, Orsolya Gulyas, Henry Varga

UOA: Natalia Manola, George Papastefanatos, Akrivi Katifori, Panagiotis Lambropoulos, Stefania Martziou, Antonis Lempesis

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover/e-IRG: Jan Wiebelitz, Gabriele von Voigt

Stichting EGI/EOSC-Hub: Yannick Legre, Sergio Andreozzi, Malgorzata Krakowian

EPCC/EUDAT: Rob Baxter

GÉANT Ltd: Annabel Grant, Shaun Cairns, Karl Meyer, Afrodite Sevasti, Michelle Williams

CNR/OpenAIRE: Donatella Castelli, Paolo Manghi, Franco Zoppi

PRACE AISBL: Florian Berberich, Pedro Alberto, Oriol Pineda

ARC: Penny Labropoulou, Androniki Pavlidou

Licence

This work is licensed by eInfraCentral under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It is based on previous work of an informal group of representatives and specialists of e-Infrastructures and of European Union’s Horizon 2020 projects (BLUEBRIDGE, EGI, EUDAT, GEANT, OpenAIRE, Thor), of the work of the e-IRG, the FedSM and e-nventory projects co-funded by the European Commission/FP7 and the TMForum and the COBIT, FitSM, ISO/IEC 20000, and ITIL standards and frameworks. It was developed by JNP Strategy and Management Consulting with the contribution of the contributors in the cover page in the framework of the eInfraCentral project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731049.

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1. Deleted Attributes (Service Full Name, Service Provider Description)
2. Change of Attribute Names (Target Users, User Value, User Base, Service Symbol, Service Multimedia)
3. Change of Attribute Block (Service Provider Name)
4. Changes of Attribute Format (Service ID, Service Name, Service Tagline, Service Description, Service Options, User Base, Service Version, Service Change Log, Service Life Cycle Status, Service TRL, Service Category, Service Subcategory, Required Services, Related Services)

5. Redefined Service Level Targets and Performance Information Block

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6. New Subcategories in Category (Compute, Storage, Data, Security, Consulting)

7. Update of Examples in Attributes (Service Order, Service Helpdesk, Service User Manual, Service Training Information, Service Feedback)

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8. New Service Category (Aggregator)

9. Deleted Subcategories in Category (Application, Data)

10. Update of Examples in Attributes (Service Life Cycle Status, Service TRL, Service Place, Required Services, Related Services, Service Price, Service Funding)

11. Update of Recommendations in Attributes (Service Name, Target Users, Service Symbol, Service Multimedia, Service Valid For, Service Life Cycle Status, Service TRL, Service Category, Service Subcategory, Required Services, Related Services, Service Funding, Service Level Agreement)

12. Redefined Service Level Targets and Performance Information Block

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Introduction to eInfraCentral

The mission of eInfraCentral is to “ensure that by 2020 a broader and more varied set of users discovers and accesses the existing and emerging e-Infrastructure capacity and e-Infrastructure Services”. The aim is to structure an open and guided discussion between e-Infrastructures to consensually define a common catalogue for their services. Based on the bottom-up consultation process, eInfraCentral designed, developed and deployed a service gateway for end-users to browse to the catalogue of services and solve the “last mile” problem.

The eInfraCentral Gateway aims at offering end-users a central entry point/gateway to a harmonized and aggregated service catalogue and an additional distribution channel to e-infrastructures services offered disparately by each e-Infrastructure or other aggregators, including service-level targets and end-user ratings.

Each of those e-Infrastructures should have their own service catalogue, perhaps with customer views and internal views, and, potentially, service portfolios. eInfraCentral intends to harmonise the parts of the service description aiming to create a homogenised customer view of the individual service catalogues and impact, to the extent possible, the deployment of full service portfolios; so, any information which might be considered internal view to a service description is not of direct interest to eInfraCentral.

Crucial in achieving the eInfraCentral goal is, among others, a) describing and b) exchanging service-related information in a formal way to allow for increase in accessibility, discoverability, interoperability, aggregation, monitoring and comparison of services and thus their uptake and to allow for enhancing the understanding of gaps and improvements that could be delivered by e-infrastructure services. eInfraCentral, therefore, is focusing much of its efforts in those directions.

In this respect, eInfraCentral has worked in its first phase closely with the European e-Infrastructure flagship initiatives EGI, EUDAT, GEANT, OpenAIRE and PRACE and with EOSCPilot, EOSC-Hub and OpenAIRE-Advance as well as 30+ other e-Infrastructure Service Providers.

From this process, eInfraCentral has devised a Service Description Template for an entry in a Service Catalogue. The Service Description Information is organised in various blocks of information: Basic Service Information, Service Classification Information, Service Support Information, Service Contractual Information and Service Performance Information.

The Service Description Template provides a definition, potential values and their format (if any) as well as information related to whether the information is related only to the catalogue or to the overall portfolio (Use column) as well as whether the attribute is mandatory or optional for the implementation of a number of features in the eInfraCentral platform/common catalogue.

The eInfraCentral Service Description Template

The current version of the Service Description Template, provides definitions of the service features/attributes organised in blocks, example values and their specific format, recommendations as well as whether the attribute is mandatory or optional for the implementation of a number of features in a service catalogue.

Following the overall presentation of the SDT, all service attributes are listed and expanded.