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The objectives of the project will be achieved through the synergetic operation of Networking, Service, and Joint Research Activities.

To learn more about the D4Science activity organisation and the overall project strategy, visit the "Activities" pages. See also the interaction between activities depicted in the activity organisation figure.

The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) recently held its board meeting in FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy.

FAO presented an overview of the D4Science project and the "Integrated capture information system - An opportunity for strengthening Partnerships between Fisheries & Biodiversity communities".

The presentation was followed by an open discussion about possibilities offered by grid technologies and about ways of leveraging synergies through future collaboration between FAO and OBIS.

[ Download FAO's presentation ]

D4Science members will participate in the 23rd Open Grid Forum that will be held on 2-6 June 2008 in Barcelona, Spain.

The Community Resources Inventory Page is a website dedicated to host the list of resources identified by the user communities that have joined the D4Science infrastructure. These resources can be:

• data sources, i.e. repository of data and information of various nature ranging from digital version of documents, to temporal series, data stored in databases, data gathered from satellites or sensors, and, in general, any other source of information the community need to have access to accomplish their tasks;
• tools, i.e. services and instruments providing the communities with facilities needed to accomplish their tasks like web services performing specific data processing.