1. ---- www.d4science.org 10 Oct 2008 RCDL 2008, Dubna, Russian Federation D4Science Tutorial Preface George Kakaletris (NKUA)

2. 2 www.d4science.org RCDL 2008, Dubna, Russian Federation 10 Oct 2008 The D4Science project at a glance  Sequel of DILIGENT FP6 IST Project  EGEE associated project  Funding Entity  European Commission  7 th Framework  ICT – eInfrastructures  Duration: 24 Months  (1/1/2008 – 31/12/2009)  Effort: 400MM  Total cost: ~3.765 K€  Maximum EC funding: 3.150 K€ Full title:DIstributed colLaboratories Infrastructure on Grid ENabled Technology for Science

3. 3 www.d4science.org RCDL 2008, Dubna, Russian Federation 10 Oct 2008 The D4Science Consortium #OrganizationCountry 1 (CO)GEIE ERCIMFR 2Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)IT 3National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGR 4European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)CH 5Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpAIT 6University of StrathclydeUK 7Universität BaselCH 8European Space Agency (ESA)FR 9The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) IT 10International Center for Living Aquatic ResourcesMY 114D SOFT Számítástechnikai KftHU

4. 4 www.d4science.org RCDL 2008, Dubna, Russian Federation 10 Oct 2008 D4Science Implementation Plan in 3 bullets  Consolidate gCube software produced by DILIGENT to reach production-level quality  Release the software for internal and external use  Analyze and implement three distinct application scenarios in two different domains:  Environmental Monitoring  Fishery Resources Management  Deploy the infrastructure and serve the named application scenarios

5. 5 www.d4science.org RCDL 2008, Dubna, Russian Federation 10 Oct 2008 Tutorial Outline  Preface (10’)  From Content Management Systems to VREs (30‘)  The evolution from Digital Libraries to Virtual Research Environments  Creating a VRE (50’)  Description of the current deployment procedure for creation and delivery of VRE enabled e-Infrastructure powered by the gCube System  Using a VRE (80’)  The approach for populating the VREs, accessing services and delivering information to the user in a complex SOA environment  Conclusions – Questions (20’)  Lessons learned throughout DILIGENT and D4Science project

6. 6 www.d4science.org RCDL 2008, Dubna, Russian Federation 10 Oct 2008 Tutorial Presenters  Dr Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI (Pisa, Italy),  Project Technical Director  Andrade Pedro, CERN (Geneva, Switzerland),  Service Activity Manager Deputy  George Kakaletris, University of Athens (Athens, Greece)  Joint Research Activity Manager

7. 7 www.d4science.org RCDL 2008, Dubna, Russian Federation 10 Oct 2008 Resources  D4Science project web site:  http://www.d4science.eu/ http://www.d4science.eu/  The gCube system web site:  http://software.d4science.research-infrastructure.eu/ http://software.d4science.research-infrastructure.eu/

8. 8 www.d4science.org RCDL 2008, Dubna, Russian Federation 10 Oct 2008 Tutorial Outline 30’ From Content Management Systems to VREs 50’ Creating a VRE 80 Using a VRE 20’ Conclusions