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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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
The “MySpace” for the e-Infrastructure projects
Inputs collection facilities for Events Calendar, eConcertation, eMagazine, Symposia, Digital Library
Personalised interface with the Digital Library

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

6. 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

7. New Digital Library outline
Use of interoperable standard protocols and formats for heterogeneous repositories integration
&
A number of improvements built on BELIEF ( ) 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 ( )
Contact:

8. New DL User Inteface

9. DL integration with external portals

10. 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
MUPBED
Native integration
DELOS
DILIGENT
D4Science
On-line submission
6DISS
BioinfoGRID
eConcertation
CONDOR
DRIVER
e-IRGSP
EUChinaGRID
EUIndiaGRID
EUMEDGRID
GridCC
int.eu.grid
ISSeG
LOBSTER
GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit

11. 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)

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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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