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Welcome to the D4Science Data e-Infrastructure gateway. By logging to this gateway users can access to the D4Science-enabled Virtual Research Environments (VREs) they are register to in order to share knowledge and collaborate in a secure, coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way.

The D4Science e-Infrastructure, built upon the EGEE one, is powered by the gCube system. By integrating Grid and Digital Library technologies this system offers a framework for supporting next generation e-Science knowledge infrastructures able to support a large variety of different research and industrial applications.

The clients of such a Data e-Infrastructure are represented mainly by the "European Space Agency" , the "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations" (FAO) - Italy , the "International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management" (WorldFish Center) - Malaysia and "Fishbase Information & Research Group Inc" (FIN) - The Philippines.

To serve the needs of these user communities, several distinct Virtual Research Environments operate in the D4Science Data e-Infrastructure. Each one of these VREs, with the associated specific applications, offers:

  • repositories where users can safely store, share and access information
  • a computing environment where users can manipulate information, customize processing algorithms, and execute large or small data simulations
  • a reporting tool to conveniently present the information stored and elaborated in the e-Infrastructure.

New communities of users will soon bring new clients to the D4Science e-Infrastructure. In fact, two additional VREs are currently being designed to interface the e-Infrastructure with existing systems:

  • DRIVER to enhance the on-line services and the off-line capabilities the DRIVER portal , currently aggregating approximately more than 1 million documents from 150 repositories in 20 countries.
  • INSPIRE to extend the INSPIRE High Energy Physics repository with advanced search and retrieval functionality based on computationally intensive processing of bibliometric information.

Finally, the D4Science Data e-Infrastructure hosts the Ecosystem environment where all public available data sources and applications are made available for the benefits of the e-Infrastructure community.

You are invited to explore the D4Science website at the address http://www.d4science.eu to learn more about the project, its objectives and the people behind it.

D4Science is partially funded by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework Programme.

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