Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory


Data Infrastructures

There is an intense discussion at international level on e-Infrastructures and data infrastructure serving scientific work. The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) presented the first European roadmap for new, large-scale Research Infrastructures. These are modeled as layered hardware and software systems which support sharing of a wide spectrum of resources, spanning from networks, storage, computing resources, and system-level middleware software, to structured information within collections, archives, and databases. The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has proposed a similar vision. In particular, it envisions e-Infrastructures where the principles of global collaboration and shared resources are intended to encompass the sharing needs of all research activities. In the framework of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) e-infrastructure programme, e-Infrastructures are defined in terms of integration of networks, grids, data centers and collaborative environments, and are intended to include supporting operation centers, service registries, credential delegation services, certificate authorities, training and help-desk services. The Cyberinfrastructure programme launched by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to develop new research environments in which advanced computational, collaborative, data acquisition and management services are made available to researchers connected through high-performance networks. More recently, the vision for “global research data infrastructures” has been drawn by identifying a number of recommendations for developers of future research infrastructures. This vision document highlighted the open issues affecting data infrastructures development – both technical and organizational – and identified future research directions. Besides these initiatives targeting “generic” infrastructures there are others oriented to specific domains, e.g. the European commission promotes the INSPIRE initiative for an e-Infrastructure oriented to the sharing of content and service resources of European countries in the ambit of geospatial datasets.

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September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2014
International Collaboration on Research Data Infrastructures
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December 1, 2011 - December 31, 2014
2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
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November 1, 2011 - April 30, 2014
Data eInfrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources
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November 1, 2011 - October 31, 2014
Common Operations fo Environmental Research Infrastructures
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June 1, 2011 - September 30, 2013
EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity
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June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2012
Virtual Multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud Infrastructures
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May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2013
Heritage of the People’s Europe
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February 1, 2010 - January 31, 2012
A Vision for Global Research Data Infrastructures
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November 30, 2009 - November 29, 2012
Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
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September 30, 2009 - September 29, 2011
Data Infrastructure Ecosystem for Science
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August 31, 2009 - December 31, 2011
Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations
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EFG
August 31, 2009 - September 29, 2011
European Film Gateway
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January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2011
DIstributed colLaboratories Infrastructure on Grid ENabled Technology 4 Science
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December 1, 2007 - November 30, 2009
Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research – Phase II
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June 1, 2006 - November 30, 2007
Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
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September 1, 2004 - November 30, 2007
A Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology