HELIX, the Hellenic Data Service, is the national eInfrastructure in support of data-intensive research, handling the data management, analysis, sharing, and reuse needs of Greek scientists, researchers and innovators in a cross-disciplinary, scalable, and low-cost manner.
HELIX provides its services directly to its users as an autonomous cloud infrastructure in support of data sharing, open access publishing, and data experimentation. Further, it is an integral building block for all national Research Infrastructures, offering its services in a horizontal manner to thematic and domain-specific infrastructures and communities. As such, HELIX achieves economies of scale, added value, and maximum return on national human and capital investments.
HELIX is a joint effort of Athena RC and GRNET, with an official mandate to support cross-disciplinary data-intensive research and innovation, promote and democratize Data Science, support Open Access policies, and contribute to our Data Economy, EU’s and national vision for our future sustainable growth. HELIX fully embraces the principles of openness for scholarly communication and scientific data sharing, ensuring that data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).
HELIX is the only horizontal eInfrastructure of our National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures, with an implementation plan spanning almost two decades. In incubation since 2012, Phase 1 of its implementation begun in 2018 and intends to setup the basic technology and policy foundations, assemble the initial user communities, and deliver select lighthouse services. Estimated to start in 2020, Phase 2 will scale out its services and expand its reach across more domains, ensuring the sustainable operation of HELIX as a cost-effective eInfrastructure and Industrial Data Platform.
HELIX is currently funded by EU’s European Structural and Investment Funds allocated through the ‘Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation’ Operational Program of the Partnership Agreement 2014-2020.
The Hellenic Data Service is powered exclusively by open source software which you can download and use, or extend and share back. The system is deployed over the national Okeanos-Knossos cloud computing infrastructure and exposes the national HPC infrastructure ERMIS. All provided publications are harvested from OpenAIRE, as well as national, and institutional Open Access repositories. Data are contributed and self-published directly by users, or harvested from institutional data catalogues and repositories, as well as public data catalogues and crowdsourcing initiatives.
Learn more about HELIX, how you can join and publish data, and the services it provides.