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The VOA3R platform aims at re-using existing and mature metadata and semantics technology to deploy an advanced, community-focused integrated service for the retrieval of relevant open content and data that includes explicit models of the scholarly methods and procedures used and of the practical tasks targeted by applied research. http://voa3r.eu/ |
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Organic.Lingua is aiming to enhance an existing Web portal (http://www.organic-edunet.eu) with educational content on Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE), introducing automated multi-lingual services that will further support the uptake of the portal from its targeted audiences, facilitate the multilingual features of the portal, and further extend its geographical and linguistic coverage. http://organic-lingua.eu |
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ViBRANT: Supporting biodiversity research communities "Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy" is a European Union FP7 funded project running December 2010 to 2013 that will support the development of virtual research communities involved in biodiversity science. Our goal is to provide a more integrated and effective framework for those managing biodiversity data on the Web. http://vbrant.eu/ |
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CRESTA a virtual e-laboratory that supports research on biodiversity issues using large amounts of data from cross-disciplinary sources. BioVeL offers the possibility to use computerised "workflows" (series of data analysis steps) to process data, be that from one's own research and/or from existing sources. http://cresta-project.eu/ |
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DEEP is an Exascale project funded by the EU 7th framework programme. The main goal is to develop a novel, Exascale-enabling supercomputing platform. http://www.deep-project.eu/deep-project/EN/Home/home_node.html |
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ICT-AGRI is a cross-thematic ERA-NET spanning three FP7 themes: Agriculture and food supply; Environment and climate; and Information and Communication Technology. The overall goal of ICT-AGRI is to strengthen the European Research Area and develop a common European research agenda concerning ICT and robotics in agriculture. http://db-ictagri.eu/ict-agri/content/home.php |
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LifeWatch is an EUropean infrastructure in development. The first services to users are planned for 2013. Users may benefit from integrated access to a variety of data, analytical and modeling tools as served by a variety of collaborating initiatives. Another service is offered with data and tools in selected workflows for specyfic scientific communities. http://www.lifewatch.eu/ |
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OpenAIRE welcomes the results of the PEER project. Publishers, research libraries and research organisations effectively collaborated in building a controlled research environment to study the effects of green open access. Usage research in this so-called “PEER Observatory” revealed that large-scale deposit of research articles results in increased access and use, including via the publisher website. http://www.openaire.eu/ |
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CIARD aims at making public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to all. To increase the public benefits from investments in agricultural research and innovation for development, the participants in the CIARD movement have agreed to make research outputs truly accessible, based on a common set of Values. http://www.ciard.net/ |
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iMarine is empowering users in the marine community and beyond by providing a highly efficient e-Infrastructure to accelerate data discovery, exchange, and analysis, tools and platforms that facilitates scientific discovery. http://www.i-marine.eu/ |
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Open Discovery Space addresses various challenges that face the eLearning environment in the European context. The interface has been designed with students, teachers, parents and policy makers in mind. ODS will empower stakeholders through a single, integrated access point for eLearning resources from dispersed educational repositories. It will also engage stakeholders in the production of meaningful educational activities by using a social-network style multilingual portal, offering eLearning resources as well as services for the production of educational activities. http://www.opendiscoveryspace.eu/project.html |
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BioVeL is a virtual e-laboratory that supports research on biodiversity issues using large amounts of data from cross-disciplinary sources. BioVeL offers the possibility to use computerised "workflows" (series of data analysis steps) to process data, be that from one's own research and/or from existing sources. A researcher can build his own workflow by selecting and applying successive "services" (data processing techniques). Or, he can re-use existing workflows available from BioVeL's library. This virtual e-laboratory cuts down research time and overhead expenses. BioVeL also provides access to a worldwide network of expert scientists who develop, support, and use workflows and services. http://www.biovel.eu/ |
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The Discover the COSMOS coordination action aims to demonstrate innovative ways to involve teachers and students in e-Science through the use of existing e-infrastructures in order to spark young people’s interest in science and in following scientific careers. http://www.discoverthecosmos.eu/ |
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iPlant Collaborative is a community of researchers, educators, and students working to enrich all plant sciences through the development of cyberinfrastructure - the physical computing resources, collaborative environment, virtual machine resources, and interoperable analysis software and data services– that are essential components of modern biology. http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/ |
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The European Initiative on Agricultural Research for Development (EIARD) isa permanent informal ARD policy coordination platform between the European Commission, Member States of the European Union, Switzerland and Norway. http://www.eiard.org/ |
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DiXa aims to further develop and adopt a robust and sustainable service infrastructure (e.g. data infrastructure and e-science environment) for harboring multiplexed data sets as produced by past, current and future EU research projects on developing non-animal tests for predicting chemical safety, in linkage with other globally available chemical/toxicological data bases and data bases on molecular data of human disease. http://www.dixa-fp7.eu/about |
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The ARIADNE vision and aims have been conceived around 1995. From those days, the ARIADNE infrastructure has been further developed and evolved, both by the contributions of its members but also with significant funding from the European Commission and other sources. http://www.ariadne-eu.org/projects |
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AgriXchange is a EU-founded coordinationa and support action to set up a network for developing a system for common data exchange in the articultural sector. http://www.agrixchange.org/ |
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). http://biodiversitylibrary.org/ |
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The Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology (DRIHM) project intends to develop a prototype e-Science environment to facilitate collaboration of predicting the weather and its impact on the climate and provide end-to-end HMR services (models, datasets and post-processing tools) at the European level, with the ability to expand to global scale. http://www.drihms.eu/
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The OpenUp! project offers a free access to virtual resources (over one million items of the world’s biodiversity heritage. The objects made available through OpenUp! consist of high quality photos, videos and sounds, as well as natural history artworks and specimens, and include many items previously inaccessible to visitors. http://open-up.eu/ |
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Natural Europe aims to design and deploy novel graphical interfaces that will facilitate the navigation of educational pathways within digital collections, both from Europeana and the NHMs’ Web sites. It will also adapt and test innovative interactive installations at the NHMs that will allow visitors to follow educational pathways through Europeana’s content on Natural History and Sciences, as part of the Museums’ exhibition. http://www.natural-europe.eu/ |
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The EarthServer Project is establishing open access and ad-hoc analytics on extreme-size Earth Science data, based on and extending leading-edge Array Database technology.The core idea is to use database query languages as client/server interface to achieve barrier-free "mix & match" access to multi-source, any-size, multi-dimensional spatio-temporal data -- in short: "Big Earth Data Analytics" -- based on the open standards of OGC WCPS (aka "XQuery on raster data") and W3C XQuery.http://www.earthserver.eu/ |
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The e-FISCAL project analyses the costs and cost structures of the European High-Throughput and High-Performance Computing (HTC and HPC) e-Infrastructures. These research infrastructures are facilitated by national entities participating in EGI and PRACE, and e-FISCAL will compare their costs and cost structures with similar commercially leased or on-demand offerings. http://efiscal.eu/ |
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The ELLA project is funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union for analysing the feasibility of a submarine communications cable linking Europe and Latin America that would improve collaboration between research and education communities in these countries and bring down connectivity costs. This would provide a direct connection via west Africa, thus releasing users from dependence on existing North Atlantic infrastructures connecting the US and Canada with Europe. http://www.ella-int.eu/index.php/2-home-page/1-the-ella-project |
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The main goal of ENGAGE project is the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data curation, semantic annotation and visualisation tools, capable of supporting scientific collaboration and governance?related research from multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens. http://www.engage-project.eu/engage/wp/ |
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EUBrazilOpenBio aims to ambitiously combine the Biodiversity Science and the Open Access Movement, promoting the concept of the openness for scientific research. The project will deploy an open-access platform from the federation and integration of existing European and Brazilian infrastructures and resources, making significant strides towards fully supporting the needs and requirements of the biodiversity scientific community. |
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EUDAT project aims to contribute to the production of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI). The project´s target is to provide a pan-European solution to the challenge of data proliferation in Europe's scientific and research communities. http://www.eudat.eu/ |
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SPARC Europe is an alliance of European academic and research libraries, national libraries. Library organizations and research institutions. Their mission is to take the Open Access Movement further. http://sparceurope.org/about/ |
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PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the EC eContentplus programme, will investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of European research. http://www.peerproject.eu/ |
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BEST Network (the Biometric European Stakeholders Network) is a thematic network on trusted inf9ormation infrastructures and biometric technologies. To facilitate the largest information and expert opinion, BEST Network has brought togather key stakeholders including experts from across the EU in order to determinate how biometrics can most appriopriately be applied. http://www.best-nw.eu/ |
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EuroRIs-Net+ builds on the Network of National Contact Points for the Research Infrastructures programme (RIs NCPs) to provide value-added services, which will facilitate transnational cooperation of NCPs, promoting the effective implementation of the RI programme, highlighting opportunities offered by Research Infrastructures - at the European and international level - and their impact on e-science. http://www.euroris-net.eu/ |
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One objective within GLOBAL excursion is to enable an ever increasing number of users from all science and engineering disciplines to publish, and effectively disseminate their use of e-infrastructure in order to increase participation levels in research of global relevance and to allow potential users to access and share facilities and instruments. In this context four big areas of science have been selected to be initial use cases for the GLOBAL excursion: nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, volunteer computing and life sciences. http://www.globalexcursion-project.eu/ |
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During the three years of the project lifetime GLORIA consortium will integrate 17 telescopes, with 12 of them currently working in various scientific fields and in dissemination issues; another three instruments will commence operation prior to the start of the project and another two telescopes will be installed during the lifetime of the project. Looking into the future, we plan to provide the needed material so other users could integrate their telescopes into the Network. http://gloria-project.eu/video-transit-en/ |
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Kris Jack
Kris Jack is a senior data mining engineer at Mendeley. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has worked on data systems in academia and industry for the past 10 years. He was invited to give keynote presentations on recommender systems for scientific articles at the I-KNOW 2011 and RecSysTEL 2010 conferences. He also presently sits on the Editorial AdvisoryBoard for the Journal of Open Research Software.
Alexander van Opstal
Alexander van Opstal has a Master of Science in Ecology, Soil science and Philosophy of Science. He is an experienced senior policy advisor, leading projects and programmes in the field of programming of research for policy. Alexander is also a member of the ERA-ARD-EIARD-SCAR-Taskforce on Agricultural Research for Development. He has been part of the Dutch delegation to the annual meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for four years. He is chair of the European branch of the Dutch Scientific Landscape Ecological Society. He has been councilor to the Municipality of Rhenen for two years.
Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts is head of the division of Microbiology in London's Natural History Museum. He has a long-standing interest in biodiversity informatics, having introduced the Scratchpads in the EU project EDIT, where he was a work package leader, and is currently project manager for the EU project ViBRANT, seeking to make the Scratchpad mantra 'small pieces loosely joined' a reality.
Erik Duval
Erik Duval chairs the research unit on human-computer interaction, at the computer science department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
His research focuses on massive hyper-personalization (“The Snowflake Effect”), learning analytics, openness and abundance - topics on which I regularly keynote. In practical terms, we research information visualization, mobile information devices, multi-touch displays and personal informatics. We typically apply our results to technology enhanced learning, access to music and ‘research 2.0′.
Wouter Los
Dr Wouter Los is currently Project Leader of LifeWatch, the proposed e-science and technology infrastructure for biodiversity research. By training a theoretical chemist, he has held positions at the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam, as well as being Director of the Institute for Taxonomic Biology. He has also held positions as Chair and Vice-Chair within a number of committees, including the Science Committee of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data.
Peter Ballantyne
Peter began his career working with agricultural information - first at the World Bank, then at a Faculty of Agriculture in Thailand, then in the CGIAR at the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR); he spent the past 15 years working in the international development sector, with the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP).
Dickson Lukose
Dr. Dickson Lukose is the Head of the Knowledge Technology Cluster at MIMOS BHD. Dr Lukose is also the director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as well as the Centre of Excellence in Semantic Technologies. Prior to MIMOS BHD, Dr Lukose worked extensively in Artificial Intelligence Technology, developing software applications in the areas of Risk Management and Knowledge Management. He has done over 10 years of academic research in Artificial Intelligence, supported by research grants from Graphic Directions, Leverhulme Foundation, CSIRO, and Australian Research Council.
Carole Goble
Carole has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the myGrid project, the largest UK e-Science pilot , which has produced the widely-used Taverna open source software. She is also the co-director of the e-Science North West. She has an international reputation in the Semantic Web, e-Science and Grid communities and has led the application of Semantic Web technologies to both the Grid and e-Science, a fusion dubbed the Semantic Grid.
Stefano Cozzini
Stephano Cozzini is a development scientist at INFM (Italian National Institute for Matter Physics) working at National Simulation Center DEMOCRITOS hosted at Sissa (Trieste, Italy). He is presently coordinating all the IT activities within the center and works an external consultant for cluster and grid computing at ICTP (International Center of Theoretical Physics). His main professional interests are in the fields of high-performance computing and grid computing appliced to computational physics.
Samy Gaiji
Samy Gaiji is currently Senior Programme Officer for Science and Scientific Liaison at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. He has extensive experience in delivering agriculture infrastructures for major entities such as the IPGRI, the Convention on Biological Diversity and FAO.
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