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GRDI2020 April 2012 Newsletter - Shaping the future of Global Research Data Infrastructures: GRDI2020 Vision & Impact

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:19:03 GMT

The April 2012 issue of GRDI2020 Newsletter entitled "Shaping the future of Global Research Data Infrastructures-GRDI2020 Vision & Impact" is now available.

This issue's highlights:

GRDI2020 Roadmap Report "Global Research Data Infrastructures: The GRDI2020 Vision" - Final Release March 2012
Technological & Organisational Aspects of a Global Research Data Infrastructure: A view from the experts
GRDI2020 Final Roadmap Report on Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges – Full Version

Follow this link for the online version.

GRDI2020 April 2012 eNews - Shaping the future of Global Research Data Infrastructures: GRDI2020 Vision & Impact

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:02:26 GMT

The April 2012 issue of GRDI2020 Newsletter entitled "Shaping the future of Global Research Data Infrastructures-GRDI2020 Vision & Impact" is now available.

This issue's highlights:

GRDI2020 Roadmap Report "Global Research Data Infrastructures: The GRDI2020 Vision" - Final Release March 2012
Technological & Organisational Aspects of a Global Research Data Infrastructure: A view from the experts
GRDI2020 Final Roadmap Report on Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges – Full Version

Follow this link for the online version.

Full version : GRDI2020 Final Roadmap Report on Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges- Now available for download!

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:54:00 GMT

The full version of the GRDI2020 Final Roadmap Report on Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges is now available for download. The final GRDI2020 roadmap offers several reflections to guide Europe’s role in GRDI development while also defining an organizational model of the science universe together with a core set of functionality that must be provided by Global Research Data Infrastructures to meet the growing number and complexity of requierments.
Follow the links to view both the Short Report and the Full Version of the GRDI2020 Final Roadmap Report on Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges.

Technological & Organisational Aspects of a Global Research Data Infrastructure: A view from the experts - Now available for download!

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:46:45 GMT

GRDI2020 engaged a series of experts to write papers on specific topics focusing on the technological and organisational aspects of a Global Research Data Infrastructure. The full report containing the 13 scientific papers is now available.

Follow this link to download the paper on "Technological & Organisational Aspects of a Global Research Data Infrastructure: A view from the experts".

GRDI2020 Final Roadmap Report on Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges – Full Version

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:04:00 GMT

The availability of huge volumes of data is a big opportunity and at the same time is a big challenge for scientists.This data availability can revolutionize the way research is carried out and lead to a new data-centric way of thinking, organizing and carrying out research activities.
However, in order to be able to exploit these huge volumes of data, new techniques and technologies are needed. A new type of e-infrastructure, the Research Data Infrastructure, must be developed for harnessing the accumulating data and knowledge produced by the communities of research.
In this Report an organizational model of the science universe is defined together with a core set of functionality that must be provided by Global Research Data Infrastructures in order to make the holdings (data collections and data tools) of the science ecosystem components discoverable, interoperable, correlatable and usable.
The publication’s intended audience are policy makers, scientists, engineers, computer scientists and theoreticians as it highlights some of the many difficult technological problems that must be solved in order to make feasible the building of theoretically founded Global Scientific Data Infrastructures.

Follow this link for the Short Version of the GRDI2020 Final Roadmap Report on Global Research Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges.

Technological & Organisational Aspects of a Global Research Data Infrastructure: A view from the experts

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:54:00 GMT

GRDI2020 engaged a series of experts to write papers on specific topics focusing on the technological and organisational aspects of a Global Research Data Infrastructure. Each of these topics, listed below, is analysed in terms of the state-of-the-art, the vision for the future, the challenges faced and the proposed way to overcome them. A list of recommendations for related stakeholders is also provided at the end.

1.   Data Analysis by Aris Gionis
2.   Data Discovery by Gerhard Weikum
3.   Data Interoperability by Pasquale Pagano
4.   Data Linking by Chris Bizer
5.   Data Policy by Mark Parsons
6.   Data Preservation by Carlo Meghini
7.   Data Provenance and Trust, by Stratis Viglas
8.   Data Quality and Curation by Kevin Ashley
9.   Data Security by Diego Lopez
10.   Data Storage by Erwin Laure & Dejan Vitlacil
11.   Data Use – Virtual Research Environments by Leonardo Candela
12.   Education and Training in Data Handling and Analysis at the Interface between e-Infrastructure and Researchers by David Fergusson
13.   Funding, Sustainability, and Governance by Matti Heikkurinen

Papers are also available for individual download on the GRDI2020 Authors page.

Workshop On “Global Scientific Data Infrastructures: The Findability Challenge” Taormina, Italy, 10–11 May 2012

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:22:00 GMT

The Workshop organized by the “Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione of the “Italian National Research Council” (ISTI – CNR) in Taormina, Italy, 10-11 May 2012 will address some of the most important topics enabling findability.

The science world contains an unimaginable vast amount of digital data which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. In a networked science world one big challenge faced by researchers is findability. By findability we mean ease in locating/discovering data/information/knowledge and data tools/services for specific researcher needs while taking into account relevant aspects of data attributes tool/service functionality and deployability context provenance researcher profiles and goals etc. Currently there is a conceptual shift from search to findability as the Internet search paradigm is characterized by a lack of context where the search is conducted in an independent way from professional profiles context provenance and work goals.In the context of a digital science ecosystem discovering data/information/knowledge tools and services is better served by findability.A findability capability should be of paramount importance for the next generation of global research data infrastructures.Such a capability must be supported by semantic data models semantically rich metadata models ontology/logic based language sfor specifying data tool/service functionality personalization and contextualization support data mining algorithms ontology/taxonomy management mapping/matching techniques etc.

Participation to the Workshop is free, but it is limited to highly motivated researchers. The selection of the participants will be based on their scientific interest. Candidate participants must submit a letter motivating their interest in attending the Workshop together with the application form before March 31st, 2012.
Acceptance of the application will be notified to the applicants by April, 15th, 2012.

International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2012), Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 – 23 mar 2012

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:29:00 GMT

The forthcoming International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2012) will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 21- 23 March 2012, under the auspices of the Danish Presidency of the European Council.
ICRI 2012 is co-organized by the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education and the European Commission. This will be the seventh major Conference on Research Infrastructures, and for the first time the Conference will address an international audience.

Keynote and GRDI2020 Presentation at GCOE-NGIT 2012 by Costantino Thanos

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:59:00 GMT

GRDI2020 Roadmap’s principal author, professor Costantino Thanos from the Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (NeMIS), CNR Italy was invited to participate as keynote speaker at the 5th International Symposium on Global COE Program of Center for Next-Generation Information Technology based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Federation (GCOE-NGIT 2012).
View the presentation of the advances made by the GRDI2020 Project that inaugurated on the 16th of January 2012 the 3-day event organized at the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

5th International Symposium on Global COE Program of Center for Next-Generation Information Technology based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Federation (GCOE-NGIT 2012), 16 January 2012, Sapporo, Japan

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:51:00 GMT

During the 5th International Symposium on Global COE Program of Center for Next-Generation Information Technology based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Federation (GCOE-NGIT 2012), 16 January 2012, Sapporo, Japan, professor Costantino Thanos from the Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (NeMIS), CNR Italy, principal author of the GRDI2020 Roadmap, delivered a keynote speech focused on Global Research Data Infrastructures:The GRDI2020 Vision.