Release of the Fishery Country Profiles Production System VRE

On 9th March 2009 the Fishery Country Profiles Production System (FCPPS) Virtual Research Environment (VRE) was released. This VRE is available through the project portal: http://portal.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu.

The FCPPS VRE was developed for the Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management Community who is now validating the release and collecting comments to further develop it.

The functionality that FCPPS offers can be summarized as:

Discovery of information through browsing, simple and advanced search;
Collaboration through annotation;
Collaboration through a shared workspace;
Collaborative production of reports;
Automated updating of underlying data by offering dynamic links in the reporting templates.

FCPPS was developed to facilitate the complex reporting process for fisheries and aquaculture authors, managers and researchers allowing them to produce reports containing a wide variety of data that are currently difficult to locate and assess. The VRE offers a trusted environment where data are collected, processed and shared with others enabling truely collaborative reporting workflows. The VRE also manages access to data sources divided by domain and includes high-level data-management capabilities such as annotation and versioning. The documents and reports that are produced can contain structured text, tables, charts and graphs from these sources, and can be saved in a variety of formats. The custom reporting templates provide the community with tools for a seamless access to heterogeneous data sources including:

Current National Aquaculture Sector Overview (NASO) fact sheets;
Cultured Aquatic Species fact sheets;
Introduced Species fact sheets;
Species Distribution maps;
FAO Country maps;
Aquaculture Time Series graphs;
Capture Time Series graphs;
Fleet Time Series graphs;
Production Time Series graphs;
Trade Time Series graphs.

These data sources contain compound objects combining different media, such as gif and jpeg images, plain text and formatted text, and references to html and xml files. Metadata and data are available in multiple languages.

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