1. www.d4science.org Virtual Research Environments as-a-Service Donatella Castelli CNR-ISTI donatella.castelli@isti.cnr.it EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

2. www.d4science.org Context These emerge dynamically & corresponding activities have a limited lifetime Multidisciplinary team & (re-)use of data, methodologies, model, tools produced in different domains IT support can largely facilitate research work and it can enable research methods that were not possible before The time and the cost of a research activity and of its assessment can be largely influenced by the capabilities & services offered by the IT supporting environment Addressing research problems often requires interdisciplinary approaches Research work is driven by Research Problems/Questions EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

3. www.d4science.org D4Science: an infrastructure ecosystem enabler D4Science own resources Third-party providers www.d4science.org +50 heterogeneous data providers, over a billion quality records +20,000 processes/month 99,7% service availability EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam WPS

4. www.d4science.org D4Science services: supporting the entire data mgmt lifecycle Databases Cloud storage Geospatial data Store Metadata generation and management Harmonisation Sharing Cloud computing Multi-platform: R, Java, Fortran Semantic Data Biodiversi ty data Geospati al data Statistical data Document s EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam Analytics

5. www.d4science.org VRE as-a-Service web-based working environment providing access to services and resources tailored to serve the needs of the research team in addressing a research question open and flexible with respect to service offering and lifetime providing fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results Low cost of creation and operation Virtual Research Environment e-Infrastructure VRE Public Restricted EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

6. www.d4science.org VRE Definition 3. Configure applications 2. Select applications 1. Specify VRE metadata (including policies) 4. Select data collections Hardware setup and software deployment completely hidden Evolving needs of its users completely supported EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

7. www.d4science.org D4Science offer VREs to … Environmental Science, Marine biodiversity, Fisheries&Aquaculture science, Culture Heritage, Social data mining, Geothermal Science, Smart cities +50 VREs 2000 scientists in 44 countries EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

8. www.d4science.org Collaborative Environment Share Updates User news feed VREs user is a member of A single point to Get status and updates from applications and other users they are interested in Get notifications about messages, jobs completion, new generated products, etc. EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

9. www.d4science.org User Workspace  Folders can be shared  Including documents, datasets, software & computations EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

10. www.d4science.org Inside a VRE EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam Species Discovery Processing Tools Visualization Tools Data Trends Search

11. www.d4science.org Data preparation & Processing EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

12. www.d4science.org Store software in a personal workspace EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

13. www.d4science.org Prepare software through a Web interface (JAVA programming is also supported: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/How- to_Implement_Algorithms_for_the_Statistical_Manager) EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

14. www.d4science.org Execute the process and analyse the results EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

15. www.d4science.org Store and share “research objects” EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam

16. www.d4science.org Infrastructure as a “Publisher” EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam VRE Reseach Activity Review Dissemination & access Dissemination & access e-Infrastructure VRE–as-a-service Workspace &sharing (re-)Usage of the “research object” Publishing service

17. www.d4science.org www.bluebridge-vre.eu EGI Conference 2016, 6-8 April 2016, Amsterdam