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Project
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Description
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EURO-VO
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The European Virtual Observatory (EURO-VO) project aims at deploying an operational
VO in Europe. The Virtual Observatory is an international astronomical community-based
initiative. It aims to allow global electronic access to the available astronomical
data archives of space and ground-based observatories, sky survey databases. It
also aims to enable data analysis techniques through a coordinating entity that
will provide common standards, wide-network bandwidth, and state-of-the-art analysis
tools.
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GENESI-DR
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GENESI-DR, (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital
Repositories), has the challenge of establishing open Earth Science Digital Repository
access for European and world-wide science users. GENESI-DR shall operate, validate
and optimise the integrated access and use available digital data repositories to
demonstrate how Europe can best respond to the emerging global needs relating to
the state of the Earth, a demand that is unsatisfied so far.
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Geo-Seas
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Geo-Seas is implementing an e-infrastructure of 26 marine geological and geophysical
data centres, located in 17 European maritime countries. Users will be able to identify,
locate and access pan-European, harmonised and federated marine geological and geophysical
datasets and derived data products held by the data centres through a single common
data portal.
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HELIO
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Heliophysics is a new research field that explores the Sun-Solar System Connection;
it requires the joint exploitation of solar, heliospheric, magnetospheric and ionospheric
observations.
The Heliophysics Integrated Observatory, HELIO, will deploy a distributed network
of services that will address the needs of a broad community of researchers in heliophysics.
HELIO is designed around a Service-oriented Architecture. HELIO will be a key component
of a worldwide effort to integrate heliophysics data and will coordinate closely
with international organizations to exploit synergies with complementary domains.
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IMPACT
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The IMPACT (IMproving Protein Annotation through Coordination and Technology) project
aims to harness existing technologies (such as web services and distributed computing)
and use them to dramatically improve existing information resources. As a result,
the IMPACT consortium will define and adopt new data formats to facilitate information
exchange between partners, as well as enabling delivery of new data to users.
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METAFOR
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The main objective of METAFOR is to develop a Common Information Model (CIM) to
describe climate data and the models that produce it in a standard way, and to ensure
the wide adoption of the CIM. METAFOR will address the fragmentation and gaps in
availability of metadata (data describing data) as well as duplication of information
collection and problems of identifying, accessing or using climate data that are
currently found in existing repositories.
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OpenAIRE
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OpenAIRE aims to support the implementation of Open Access in Europe by establishing
the infrastructure for researchers to support them in complying with the EC OA pilot
and the ERC Guidelines on Open Access. It provides the means to promote and realize
the widespread adoption of the Open Access Policy.
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PARSE.Insight
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PARSE.Insight is a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh
Framework Programme. It is concerned with the preservation of digital information
in science, from primary data through analysis to the final publications resulting
from the research.
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PESI
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PESI is the next step in integrating and securing taxonomically authoritative species
name registers that underpin the management of biodiversity in Europe. PESI will
integrate the three main all-taxon registers in Europe, namely the European Register
of Marine Species, Fauna Europaea, and Euro+Med PlantBase in coordination with EU
based nomenclators and the network of EU based Global Species Databases . It is
a standards based, quality controlled, expert validated, open-access infrastructure
for research, education, and data and resource management.
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SEALS
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The goal of the SEALS project is to provide an independent, open, scalable, extensible
and sustainable infrastructure (the SEALS Platform) that allows the remote evaluation
of semantic technologies thereby providing an objective comparison of the different
existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to effectively
compare the available technologies, helping them to select appropriate technologies
and advancing the state of the art through continuous evaluation.
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VAMDC
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VAMDC aims at building an interoperable e-Infrastructure for the exchange of atomic
and molecular data.
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D4Science-II
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D4Science-II, the follow-up phase of D4Science, will develop the technology to enable
interoperation of data e-Infrastructures that are running autonomously, thereby
creating e-Infrastructure Ecosystems that will serve a significantly expanded set
of communities dealing with multidisciplinary, scientific and societal challenges.
To set up a prototypical instance of such an ecosystem, D4Science-II will bring
together several scientific e-Infrastructures established in areas such as biodiversity,
fishery resources management and high energy physics.
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4D4Life
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4D4Life is a Scientific Data Infrastructures Project of the European Commission's
e-Infrastructure Programme that aims to provide, through the "Catalogue of Life",
a dynamically updated global index of validated scientific names, synonyms and common
names integrated within a single taxonomic hierarchy. In its Networking Activities
4D4Life will strengthen the development of Global Species Databases that provide
the core of the service, and extend the geographical reach of the programme beyond
Europe by realizing a Multi-Hub Network integrating data from China, New Zealand,
Australia, N. America and Brazil.
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