D4Science

D4Science
NicknameD4Science
HeadquartersIstituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Pisa, Italy
ProductsVirtual Research Environments, Science Gateways, cloud computing, e-infrastructure
Websitewww.d4science.org

D4Science is an organisation operating a Data Infrastructure offering services by community-driven virtual research environments. In particular, it supports communities of practice willing to implement open science practices. The infrastructure follows the system of systems approach, where the constituent systems (Service providers) offer "resources" (namely services and by them data, computing, storage) assembled together to implement the overall set of D4Science services. In particular, D4Science aggregates "domain agnostic" service providers as well as community-specific ones to build a unifying space where the aggregated resources can be exploited via Virtual research Environments and their services.

This organization is hosted by the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione of National Research Council (Italy).

At the earth of this infrastructure there is an Open Source Software named gCube system.

Services

D4Science offers:

The D4Science Infrastructure is serving thousands of users (more than 20,000 registered users in June 2023) by 178 active VREs offered via 20 Science gateways.

History

The D4Science initiative has been developed and supported by several European-funded projects.

DILIGENT (2004-2007) in the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development was the forerunner where a testbed infrastructure built by integrating digital library and grid computing technologies and resources was conceived and developed to serve the needs of communities of practice involved in knowledge development.

In the context of the Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration the development of the D4Science initiative. In this period the infrastructure was established and developed to serve communities of practices from domains ranging from Earth Science to Marine Science with worldwide scope

In the context of the H2020 research and innovation programme the maturity level of the D4Science infrastructure was high enough to allow a large and very diverse set of communities of practice to benefit from it and its services and further contribute to its development. Moreover, the services offered by the infrastructure have been developed to support open science practices.

The operation and improvement of the D4Science infrastructure facilities are still ongoing while its exploitation is progressively growing.

Supported communities and cases range from Agri-food to Social Data Science , Earth Science and Marine Science.

See also

References

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