NKUA

The 3rd GRL2020 workshop, which took place in Taipei, Taiwan on 23-25 February 2009, highlighted Knowledge Infrastructure related activities around the globe with special emphasis on Asia. Insight into domain-specific digital libraries, which might benefit from such Knowledge Infrastructures (KIs), was also given with presentations on Biodiversity, e-Heritage, Multiple Discipline Science and Climate change.

The 6th Technical Committee (TCom) meeting took place between the 17-20 of March in Pisa, Italy. The meeting was hosted by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI).

A D4Science TCom event is a face-to-face meeting which aims to collectively address any technical issues that arise along the course of the project and to define a concrete plan to properly address them. It is open and flexible, i.e. besides technical partners the whole consortium is potentially invited to attend dependent on the topics to be discussed.

The D4Science Service Activities team is pleased to announce the availability of the second version of the D4Science production infrastructure. This upgraded version supports a new scientific user community: the Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management (FARM) represented by FAO and the WorldFish Center.

Three Virtual Organizations (VOs) are part of the infrastructure: the Environmental Monitoring (EM) user community has access to the EM VO while the FARM user community has access to the Fishery Country Profiles Production System (FCPPS) and Integrated Capture Information System (ICIS) VOs. With the availability of this infrastructure new Virtual Research Environments can now be created to satisfy the needs of the distributed scientific communities represented in the project.

The ICIS Technical Specification Meeting will be hosted by FAO in its Rome premises.