Other projects and initiatives

The D4Science project objectives match very closely the ones addressed by GRL2020. D4Science is actually a prototypical realization of a Global Digital Library as defined by the participants in these workshops. D4Science partners are actively involved in the GRL2020 community. The project has been presented at the past workshops and interesting plans for collaboration between D4Science and GRL2020 workshop participants have been established.

D4Science is one of the projects that have agreed to participate in the DL.org working groups. It shares with DL.org a strong interest in all the research topics related to interoperability. By interacting with other projects D4Science can present its solutions and learn about solutions implemented by others. It is expected that from this collaboration common agreements can be established.

Collaboration between D4Science and BELIEF II spans over all the three areas addressed by the project. In particular, D4Science exploits the BELIEF DL as a third-party service which not only disseminates the project's documents but also manages and administers them by providing an appropriate repository service. Through ad-hoc Web submission forms D4Science registered users (authentication and authorization are managed by the BELIEF DL on behalf of D4Science) can upload project documents into the BELIEF repository. These documents become then visible through the BELIEF DL and through the D4Science web site. This feature is enabled by a "plug-and-play" search capability embedded in the D4Science web site which allows users to search for material of interest within the D4Science collection in the BELIEF DL.

D4Science also participated in the events organized by the BELIEF II project. In particular, it participated in the 5th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting "e-Infrastructures as Standardisation Drivers", in June 2008 in Barcelona. This event was dedicated to reinforce and extend the cooperation between the major standard bodies and EU-funded projects for the effective development and wider use of EU e-Infrastructure and to intensify and optimise human interaction and synergies among projects in order to facilitate production, deployment and use of standards. These topics were particularly appreciated by D4Science since building on standards is one of the major D4Science goals.

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OGF-Europe gives D4Science a context where project partners can be informed on the evolution of emerging OGF standards. In this context, D4Science partners can also actively participate in the fine-tuning of these standards by reporting the feedback collected through the experience carried out within the project.

OGF-Europe provides D4Science also with several opportunities for networking with other projects and for performing dissemination. In particular, the participation in the Community Outreach Seminars is particularly meaningful for D4Science. These seminars aim to actively gather people from OGF, OGF-Europe and user groups to explore key technology trends and build a consensus around key requirements.

D4Science representatives gave two presentations at the first Community Outreach seminar "Digital Repositories Interoperability Using Grid Technologies" in Barcelona in June 2008.