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The SKA Regional Centres Network (SRCNet) is the sole interface between the SKA Observatory (SKAO) and the international scientific community. Within this framework, Science Delivery is a core service to support, enable and coordinate the delivery of SKA science, covering many aspects from the generation of science-ready data products to user support and community engagement.
In this talk, we review the Italian node (itSRC) participation in Science Delivery since the earliest activities of the SRCNet, highlighting our collaboration with international teams. Key contributions include addressing the discovery, access, and retrieval of data by defining a metadata model for the scientific exploitation of SKA observations. In collaboration with SKA Project Scientists and Science Working Groups (SWGs), we have also tackled data visualisation and analysis by collecting a preliminary set of science workflows.
The deployment of the itSRC involved both the development and accreditation of a computing infrastructure (see the talk by Tudisco et al.) and extensive data transfer tests within the SKA Data Lake to assess system performance. Our most recent achievement is the successful execution of the v0.1 prototype science test suite on the itSRC infrastructure, a key step in validating the node.
The next phase will be crucial for the SRCNet, and for the itSRC in particular, as we aim to expand engagement with national scientific communities beyond the radio domain. This broader collaboration will drive further improvements to our infrastructure by leveraging the community's scientific expertise, which will in turn maximize the scientific exploitation of the SKA telescopes.
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