D4Science-II Networking activities
The objective of the D4Science-II Networking Activities (NA) is to coordinate the interoperability needs of the repositories and infrastructures participating in the project, and by extension the scientific communities (e.g., biodiversity, high-energy physics, and fisheries and aquaculture resources management) that use them. The Networking Activities place an emphasis on awareness raising, training, adoption of standards and mitigation/validation of community requirements. The Networking Activities also encompass the administrative and technological coordination of the project at a global level.
To achieve this objective a set of activities are planned and organised into a number of interacting work packages:
- NA1 – Project Management — is dedicated to the overall project administration and finance, with a particular focus on quality assurance. Sustainability is also considered in order to create a community framework that ensures the long term viability of the proposed approach.
- NA2 – Scientific and Technical Coordination — covers the coordination activities to be carried out by the scientific and technical managers, including the operation of the Project Management Board (PMB).
- NA3 – Communication, Dissemination and Training — disseminates project results and knowledge in order to raise awareness within the largest pool of user communities, including the training of software engineers, administrative personnel and end users, from within the project’s user communities as well as from other scientific communities.
- NA4 – E-Infrastructures Interoperability: Requirements and Solutions — develops common approaches and interoperability solutions for promoting an open exchange of resources within and among the ecosystem constituents, namely D4Science and the other main application-level infrastructures the ecosystem federates, GENESI-DR, DRIVER, INSPIRE, and AcquaMaps. Standards cover several levels, from low-level communication protocols and encoding schemes, to data models to classification systems. While performing such an activity the project will set up a forum for the discussion, agreement and promotion of such standards.
- NA5 – Knowledge Ecosystem Usage: Requirements and Validation — involves the D4Science- II target communities and their exploitation of the developed knowledge ecosystem. An iterative process will be put in place, in which requirements feed VREs configuration. VREs will be tested by the communities, and the results will feed back into refinements and improved configurations.
