Activity organisation - Overall strategy and general description

The objectives of the D4Science and D4Science-II projects are being achieved through the synergetic operation of Networking, Service, and Joint Research Activities.

D4Science

• D4Science Networking Activities (NA)
  aim at serving the needs of the Environmental Monitoring and Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management communities. The experience gained with these large communities facilitate a future extension of the e-Infrastructure capabilities to other scientific communities. This is being done by: disseminating the project outcomes, training of the various players, and exploiting and collecting feedback to the D4Science e-Infrastructure through the implementation of the communities VREs.
• D4Science Service Activities (SA)
  aim at making available and maintaining a stable, reliable and usable e-Infrastructure to the D4Science user communities and possibly others.
• D4Science Joint Research Activities (JRA)
  address the technical requirements raised by the D4Science user communities against the gCube framework.

NA, SA and JRA activities are organised in cooperating work packages whose interaction is depicted in the D4Science activity organisation figure.

D4Science-II

• D4Science-II Networking Activities (NA)
  aim at promoting the building of the envisaged knowledge ecosystem by establishing cooperation channels with the key players and to foster the exploitation of the resulting ecosystem by scientific communities involved in global research challenges. This objective will be reached by involving key e-Infrastructures and large research communities in the processes governing the development and usage of the knowledge ecosystem, disseminating project outcomes to a large and heterogeneous audience, training the various players and decision makers, and delivering a true and proper knowledge ecosystem built by relying on the knowledge gathered during D4Science, the technology developed and the advices and feedback received by providing the community with it during the project lifetime.
• D4Science-II Service Activities (SA)
  aim at providing the key players and large research communities internal to the project or attracted through the Networking Activities with the services implementing the envisaged Ecosystem and Virtual Research Environments. This will be done by putting in place activities, procedures, mechanisms and resources needed to guarantee a 24/7 service availability. The procedures and mechanisms designed in D4Science to operate the resulting e- Infrastructure will be revised to accommodate the needs of the new scenarios. The activities needed to populate the ecosystem with resources will be enhanced to deal with the large pool of resources resulting from federating the target e-Infrastructures. The mechanisms leading to the definition and operation of VREs will be reinforced to deal with the strong demand for them arising in the target scenarios.
• D4Science-II Joint Research Activities (JRA)
  aim at implementing the technology supporting the vision predicated by the D4Science-II project. This will be done by having the D4Science technology – gCube – as a firm base and expanding it so as to meet the novel expectations emerging from the D4Science-II application scenario. A considerable effort will be invested in implementing the technology needed to bridge the target e-Infrastructures and services with D4Science; at the same time the approaches to render D4Science facilities exploitable by service providers in programmatic way will be empowered. Thus, the innovative services envisaged in the target scenario become possible and will be implemented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the knowledge ecosystem in challenging research scenarios.