The BELIEF-II Project Giovanna Calabrò Metaware SpA, Italy First South Africa Grid Training 26 June 2008, Catania (Italy)

Who we are   Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo – FUSP, Brazil Education and Research Network - ERNET, India Meraka Institute, South Africa Metaware SpA, Italy – Coordinator Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione – CNR-ISTI, Italy  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece  Brunel University, United Kingdom

Facilitate international networking between Project objectives Provide a powerful communications platform (Portal & Digital Library) for e-Infrastructures initiatives Supports your messaging, dissemination, content management Facilitate international networking between e-Infrastructures projects and end-users Discussing common priorities and issues and On & offline networking Explain and promotes global e-Infrastructures among researchers and general public Communications to reinforce e-Infrastructure relevance & sustainability

THE one-stop-shop of the global e-Infrastructure community New Portal outline The BELIEF-II Portal (from August 2008) THE one-stop-shop of the global e-Infrastructure community New interactive community tools (Events calendar, Wiki, Discussion Forum, Profiling tools, Broadcasting) Join the BELIEF Community at http://www.beliefproject.org/createMember The “MySpace” for the e-Infrastructure projects Inputs collection facilities for Events Calendar, eConcertation, eMagazine, Symposia, Digital Library Personalised interface with the Digital Library

New Portal look & feel – Homepage (1/2)

Digital Library (DL) Single channel for projects & users… To manage their content To communicate their documents to users and the public To be a unique access point to find e-Infrastructures documents, multi-media information… To save fundings for the setup and maintenance of a project repository

New Digital Library outline Use of interoperable standard protocols and formats for heterogeneous repositories integration & A number of improvements built on BELIEF (2005-2007) experience: New User Interface Integration with external portals (e.g. D4Science) Integration with new services managed at BELIEF portal level (continual uptake of position papers, presentations, reports, etc.) Document management workflow for eConcertation, eMagazine, Symposia Wiki implementation of the On-line User’s Guide (https://userguide.wiki.belief.research-infrastructures.eu/ ) Contact: dl@beliefproject.org

New DL User Inteface

DL integration with external portals

Currently integrated repositories Automatic Harvesting EELA EGEE DANTE with: ALICE EUMEDCONNECT GEANT, GEANT2 TEIN2 DILIGENT ETICS ICEAGE iSGTW OASIS OGF SEE-GRID, SEE-GRID2 W3C Batch submission via XML- Schema EuQoS AIM@SHAPE MUPBED Native integration DELOS DILIGENT D4Science On-line submission 6DISS BioinfoGRID eConcertation CONDOR DRIVER e-IRGSP EUChinaGRID EUIndiaGRID EUMEDGRID Grid@Asia GridCC int.eu.grid ISSeG LOBSTER GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit

The DL & the standards Use of interoperable standard protocols and formats for heterogeneous repositories integration Metadata encoding protocols: DC, DCQ (recommended) MARC, UNIMARC, MARC21, MARCXML, etc. Metadata harvesting protocols: OAI-PMH - Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (recommended) Any API call returning an XML file containing metadata encoded in one of the above mentioned encoding (CDSware, EDMS, FEDORA, etc.) File formats: XML (recommended) RSS The following character encoding is strongly recommended (virtually mandatory): UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format-8)

International events …for networking, synergy development, dissemination: Two eConcertation meetings To work together on common directions The first one will take place at the ICT 2008 Event in Lyon, France. Two brainstorming workshops Tackling creatively the major issues emerging from eConcertation #1 in March 2009 – Athens, Greece Three international symposia in India, Latin America and South Africa January 2009, India; July 09, Brazil; December 09, South Africa - Join Us! Reinforcing global relevance of e-Infrastructures, Platform regional priorities and projects, policy dialogue to raise importance of sustainability issues

Communications Products …produced with you, for you: e-Infrastructure DVD Continuation from Creative Connections – focus on new major projects and international scope e-Infrastructure Magazine (Zero-In): 4 editions of magazine of expert analysis, visions, news. Inclusive concept: all e-Infrastructures, all regions Supporting content of EC Publications platforming projects & EC Success stories Next steps and sustainability

What BELIEF can do for you Register to the community or contact us to: Profile yourselves on portal - find actors in a network with a wide pool of players from Business and Academia Sign MoUs Submit your documents to DL: Content management and outreach Platform your events on the Event Calendar Submit your articles for the eMagazine Participate in events: jointly create a brighter future

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