Collaborating projects

D4Science is collaborating with other FP6 & FP7 projects and R&D programmes. These collaborations are of different nature, as they range from technical exchanges involving mutual exploitation of technologies to the sharing of e-Infrastructure resources and to the joint organisation of networking and dissemination events.

Collaborations are clustered into:

• Technological projects, which either develop technologies that can be exploited by D4Science or that use the D4Science developed ones (e.g. EGEE III, Health-e-Child, ETICS-2, SAPIR, DRIVER II, NeOn);
• User Communities related projects, which comprise projects and initiatives that have started collaborating with D4Science through the mediation of the scientific communities represented in the project (e.g. FIE, FIM, FIES, CGIAR, NAFO, CWP);
• Other projects and initiatives, which include EU projects and initiatives addressing aspects complementary to the technological one, like exploitation, outreach and sustainability (e.g. OGF-Europe, BELIEF-II, DL.org);
• Standardization working groups, which refers to on-going collaborations with standardization working groups (e.g. OGF Data Working Group, Dublin Core AgMES-Agricultural Metadata Element Set).

The number of collaborations will be increased in the next future as an effect of the availability of the production infrastructure.