feat(fixtures): new blog post "Ten years of CERN Open Data portal"

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+    "author": "CERN Open Data team",
+    "body": {
+      "content": "ten-years-of-cern-open-data-portal.md",
+      "format": "md"
+    },
+    "date_published": "2024-12-10",
+    "short_description": {
+      "content": "The CERN Open Data portal celebrates its ten year birthday! Find out about its journey and today's challenges."
+    },
+    "featured": 1,
+    "slug": "ten-years-of-cern-open-data-portal",
+    "title": "Ten years of CERN Open Data portal",
+    "type": {
+      "primary": "News"
+    }
+  }
+]

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+Ten years ago, a handful of enthusiastic researchers from the
+[ALICE](https://alice.cern), [ATLAS](https://atlas.cern/),
+[CMS](https://cms.cern/) and [LHCb](https://lhcb.web.cern.ch/) collaboration
+open access teams, together with a handful of software engineers from the CERN
+[Department of Information
+Technology](https://information-technology.web.cern.ch/) and the information
+specialists from the CERN [Scientific Information
+Service](https://sis.web.cern.ch/), grouped together to build the CERN Open
+Data portal.
+
+Under the umbrella of the [Data Preservation in High Energy
+Physics](https://dphep.web.cern.ch/), the work started in summer 2014 by
+devising a metadata schema that would neatly describe the open data from the
+LHC experiments in both their technical and physics-oriented facets. We had to
+design the web site portal (based on the
+[Invenio](https://inveniosoftware.org/) digital repository framework) to
+provide web pages for general public, including visualising collision events,
+all the while ensuring the best data preservation practices to describe, manage
+and disseminate the data for researchers. The data needed to be made searchable
+and downloadable in a way that would be attractive to both general public for
+educational purposes and usable by independent researchers for referencing and
+independent theoretical analysis. (Some of the technical challenges behind the
+CERN Open Data portal were described in a [later
+interview](https://superuser.openinfra.org/articles/cern-open-data-portal/) for
+the SuperUser magazine.)
+
+The efforts concluded in the launch of the CERN Open Data portal on [November
+20th
+2014](https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/accelerators/cern-makes-public-first-data-lhc-experiments).
+The portal managed about 30 terabytes of open data from LHC experiments in a
+ground-breaking service at the time. The [Reddit AskMeAnything
+session](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2nxwkb/a_few_days_ago_cern_launched_an_open_data_portal/)
+organised alongside the release attracted large attention and many tens of
+thousands of portal visitors, more than the total number of particle physicists
+in the world.
+
+Fast-forward ten years to the present time. The CERN Open Data portal now
+disseminates more than 5 petabytes of open data, which is a whopping 200 times
+more data than at launch. More particle physics experiments have joined the
+open data portal, with [DELPHI](https://delphi-www.web.cern.ch/delphi-www/),
+[OPERA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPERA_experiment),
+[PHENIX](https://www.phenix.bnl.gov/), and
+[TOTEM](https://totem-experiment.web.cern.ch/) releasing data samples or even
+full data collections. More experiments are in the pipeline, such as
+[JADE](https://www.mpp.mpg.de/en/research/data-preservation/jade/). The CERN
+Open Data portal is becoming a sort of "HEP Open Data" portal, covering not
+only the LHC experiments, but the particle physics domain at large, further
+demonstrating success of the original idea.
+
+Looking back at the origins and the path travelled in the past ten years, any
+sceptical concerns whether these data would be understandable and usable for
+independent theoretical research have been positively answered. The [leading
+publication](https://news.mit.edu/2017/first-open-access-data-large-collider-subatomic-particle-patterns-0929)
+by Jesse Thaler's team in MIT analysing CMS open data showed that independent
+theoretical publications are not only possible, but that they enrich the
+collaboration research practices themselves, with CMS collaboration starting to
+cite the independent theoretical work in their own publications. There are now
+more than 70 research papers published on the CMS open data and the [number of
+published papers is
+growing](https://cms.cern/news/cms-celebrates-decade-open-data). Matt Strassler
+published a series of blog posts [on the importance of open
+data](https://profmattstrassler.com/2019/03/19/the-importance-and-challenges-of-open-data-at-the-large-hadron-collider/)
+in this realm.
+
+The independent usage of the released data for research has led to the
+strengthening of published data provenance information when releasing the data
+in order to provide physics context and auxiliary information about the data as
+accurately and as completely as possible. The data are being published together
+with analysis examples demonstrating how to extract physics objects out of the
+data and how to use them in one's own analyses. The care about the data usage
+patterns and the further usability and reinterpretability of data [has
+naturally led](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0342-2) to sister
+projects dedicated towards facilitating [reproducible
+analyses](https://www.reana.io) and [continuous
+reuse](https://zenodo.org/records/10263204) of the data.
+
+Besides independent theoretical research, the data are being used in numerous
+masterclasses and education programs to train the next generation of
+scientists, as well as by software engineers in the efforts to benchmark
+software tools to ensure their feasibility in the forthcoming high-luminosity
+experimental data-taking era.
+
+The bottom-up efforts on preparing and releasing open data were complemented by
+the top-down efforts and support from CERN laboratory management towards open
+science. The efforts by CERN as the supporting hosting lab together with LHC
+collaboration management boards as the data producers and owners paved the way
+towards the formal establishment of the [CERN Open Data
+policy](https://cds.cern.ch/record/2745133/files/CERN-OPEN-2020-013.pdf) in
+2020, and, two years later, the [CERN Open Science
+Policy](https://cds.cern.ch/record/2835057/files/CERN-OPEN-2022-013.pdf). It is
+under these auspices that the open data pilot efforts progressively took shape
+to what they are today whilst seeking the long-term sustainability of making
+science open.
+
+Looking into the future, there are clear challenges ahead. The growing number
+of open data releases calls for using more efficient data publishing workflows
+leveraging scientific data managers used in collaborations, such as
+[Rucio](https://rucio.cern.ch/) in ATLAS and CMS and
+[DIRAC](https://dirac.readthedocs.io/) in LHCb. The vast quantities of
+published data calls for implementing an efficient "hot" and "cold" storage
+mechanism behind the portal in order to save on storage costs. All this content
+necessitates efficient tape backups and the on-demand data staging for users
+from the cold storage, when necessary. Finally, the experimental collaborations
+plan to release even more data during the LHC Run-3 phase, which calls for
+novel approaches to open data publishing that are going beyond the digital
+repository domain, such as the nascent system allowing theorists to ask for
+custom LHCb open data production via a dedicated [Ntupling
+Wizard](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.14235v2) service.
+
+It has been a blast working together between software engineers, information
+specialists and particle physicists on fostering open and reproducible science
+practices in particle physics.
+
+Looking forward to working together in the next decennial!