2010
Journal article
Open Access
Deploying general-purpose virtual research environments for humanities research
Blanke T, Candela L, Hedges M, Priddy M, Simeoni F
Several virtual research environments (VREs) have been developed to address specific tasks or application domains. Building on the experiences and use cases coming out of these projects, this paper addresses the creation of more general-purpose VREs for the humanities, which move beyond specific, focused tasks, and instead provide services and environments that support more general-purpose humanities research activities. Specifically, we are investigating use cases related to the organization and integration of the dispersed and heterogeneous information on which such research is based. These use cases are highly interactive, interpretative and researcher centric, addressing topics such as annotation environments and support for 'active-reading' processes and scholarly dialogues. We present the background to our work and the technical approach taken, and report the results obtained so far.Source: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS - ROYAL SOCIETY. MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, vol. 368, pp. 3813-3828
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0167
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Blanke T, Candela L, Hedges M, Priddy M, Simeoni F
Several virtual research environments (VREs) have been developed to address specific tasks or application domains. Building on the experiences and use cases coming out of these projects, this paper addresses the creation of more general-purpose VREs for the humanities, which move beyond specific, focused tasks, and instead provide services and environments that support more general-purpose humanities research activities. Specifically, we are investigating use cases related to the organization and integration of the dispersed and heterogeneous information on which such research is based. These use cases are highly interactive, interpretative and researcher centric, addressing topics such as annotation environments and support for 'active-reading' processes and scholarly dialogues. We present the background to our work and the technical approach taken, and report the results obtained so far.Source: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS - ROYAL SOCIETY. MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, vol. 368, pp. 3813-3828
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0167
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2009
Journal article
Open Access
Report on the First DL.org Workshop on digital library interoperability, best practices and modelling foundations
Innocenti P, Toli E, Candela L
The document is the report on the 1st Workshop on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations was held in Corfu, Greece on October 1, 2009, in conjunction with the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2009). The event was dedicated to discuss top-level challenges and priorities for investigating and achieving digital library (DL) interoperability, to analyse the current state of the art and to deliberate top priorities towards global DL infrastructures. Talks included first achievement reports and visions on the six thematic groups of the EU-funded DL.org project, and a brief overview of the DELOS Reference Model for Digital Libraries, the conceptual framework of DL.org. An interactive panel discussion completed the workshop.Source: D-LIB MAGAZINE, vol. 15 (issue 1112), pp. 3-9
DOI: 10.1045/november2009-innocenti
Project(s): DL.ORG
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Innocenti P, Toli E, Candela L
The document is the report on the 1st Workshop on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations was held in Corfu, Greece on October 1, 2009, in conjunction with the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2009). The event was dedicated to discuss top-level challenges and priorities for investigating and achieving digital library (DL) interoperability, to analyse the current state of the art and to deliberate top priorities towards global DL infrastructures. Talks included first achievement reports and visions on the six thematic groups of the EU-funded DL.org project, and a brief overview of the DELOS Reference Model for Digital Libraries, the conceptual framework of DL.org. An interactive panel discussion completed the workshop.Source: D-LIB MAGAZINE, vol. 15 (issue 1112), pp. 3-9
DOI: 10.1045/november2009-innocenti
Project(s): DL.ORG
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2007
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Architecture Model - State of the Art and Open Issues
Candela L
This talk introduces the state of the art with respect to the modeling of the architecture of digital library systems and the open issues.
Candela L
This talk introduces the state of the art with respect to the modeling of the architecture of digital library systems and the open issues.
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2010
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D4SCIENCE-II - VOs and VREs operation activity report
Panagiota K, Candela L, Kakaletris G
One of the objectives of the D4Science-II project is to serve very different and challenging scientific scenarios by providing the communities involved in them with innovative research environments. These environments will materialise in (i) a set of Virtual Research Environments, i.e. virtual laboratories providing the community they are conceived for with the set of data sources and facilities needed to accomplish their research tasks, and (ii) a set of Virtual Organisations, i.e. organised pool of actors and resources of various genre supporting an highly controlled sharing toward the building of Virtual Research Environments. This deliverable document the activities performed to satisfy the requirements of each available Virtual Organization and Virtual Research Environment so as to lead to a fully functional environment which offers all the available functional provided by the D4Science system.Project(s): D4SCIENCE-II
Panagiota K, Candela L, Kakaletris G
One of the objectives of the D4Science-II project is to serve very different and challenging scientific scenarios by providing the communities involved in them with innovative research environments. These environments will materialise in (i) a set of Virtual Research Environments, i.e. virtual laboratories providing the community they are conceived for with the set of data sources and facilities needed to accomplish their research tasks, and (ii) a set of Virtual Organisations, i.e. organised pool of actors and resources of various genre supporting an highly controlled sharing toward the building of Virtual Research Environments. This deliverable document the activities performed to satisfy the requirements of each available Virtual Organization and Virtual Research Environment so as to lead to a fully functional environment which offers all the available functional provided by the D4Science system.Project(s): D4SCIENCE-II
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2010
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D4SCIENCE-II - Report on Scenario Specific Technology Development
Candela L, Kakaletris G, Papanikos G
D4Science II project aims to serve a set of different scientific communities under five (5) pre-identified scenarios, that consist of a set of users, applications and resources. In order for these scenarios to be realised on an interoperating eInfrastructures landscape, case-specific software implementation is required. This implementation is targeting (a) the migration or full implementation of applications that reside on the "outer" infrastructures in the new landscape and (b) the implementation of new functionality on gCube in order for the latter to cope with user requirements coming from NA5 tasks. The progress of the design and implementation of these components is being reported in this deliverable, which has the form of an on-line document produced by the processing of the thread of tickets managed in the TRAC system of the project that relate to the JRA2 tasksProject(s): D4SCIENCE-II
Candela L, Kakaletris G, Papanikos G
D4Science II project aims to serve a set of different scientific communities under five (5) pre-identified scenarios, that consist of a set of users, applications and resources. In order for these scenarios to be realised on an interoperating eInfrastructures landscape, case-specific software implementation is required. This implementation is targeting (a) the migration or full implementation of applications that reside on the "outer" infrastructures in the new landscape and (b) the implementation of new functionality on gCube in order for the latter to cope with user requirements coming from NA5 tasks. The progress of the design and implementation of these components is being reported in this deliverable, which has the form of an on-line document produced by the processing of the thread of tickets managed in the TRAC system of the project that relate to the JRA2 tasksProject(s): D4SCIENCE-II
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - EU-Brazil open data and cloud computing e-infrastructure for biodiversity - D1.3 periodic report. Version 1.2
Badia R M, Lezzi D, Alexandrov V, Callau P, Rebello V, Candela L, Blanquer I, De Giovanni R, Cardoso V, Pittonet S
This periodic report represents an accurate description of the work carried out in this project for this reporting period.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Badia R M, Lezzi D, Alexandrov V, Callau P, Rebello V, Candela L, Blanquer I, De Giovanni R, Cardoso V, Pittonet S
This periodic report represents an accurate description of the work carried out in this project for this reporting period.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
2012
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ENVRI Assessment of the state of the art
Martin P, Hardisty A, Dal Maso M, Candela L
This report describes the state-of-the-art (as identified so far) of six ESFRI environmental research infrastructures (RIs) chosen as representative of the broad range of ESFRI infrastructures active currently: EISCAT_3D (geo-space monitoring), EMSO (seafloor monitoring), EPOS (solid Earth science), Euro-Argo (ocean monitoring), ICOS (carbon observation) and LifeWatch (biodiversity). For each RI, a description of its mission and status is given, followed by an overview of current activities, data products and technical This report describes the state-of-the-art (as identified so far) of six ESFRI environmental research infrastructures (RIs) chosen as representative of the broad range of ESFRI infrastructures active currently: EISCAT_3D (geo-space monitoring), EMSO (seafloor monitoring), EPOS (solid Earth science), Euro-Argo (ocean monitoring), ICOS (carbon observation) and LifeWatch (biodiversity). For each RI, a description of its mission and status is given, followed by an overview of current activities, data products and technical RIs.Project(s): ENVRI
Martin P, Hardisty A, Dal Maso M, Candela L
This report describes the state-of-the-art (as identified so far) of six ESFRI environmental research infrastructures (RIs) chosen as representative of the broad range of ESFRI infrastructures active currently: EISCAT_3D (geo-space monitoring), EMSO (seafloor monitoring), EPOS (solid Earth science), Euro-Argo (ocean monitoring), ICOS (carbon observation) and LifeWatch (biodiversity). For each RI, a description of its mission and status is given, followed by an overview of current activities, data products and technical This report describes the state-of-the-art (as identified so far) of six ESFRI environmental research infrastructures (RIs) chosen as representative of the broad range of ESFRI infrastructures active currently: EISCAT_3D (geo-space monitoring), EMSO (seafloor monitoring), EPOS (solid Earth science), Euro-Argo (ocean monitoring), ICOS (carbon observation) and LifeWatch (biodiversity). For each RI, a description of its mission and status is given, followed by an overview of current activities, data products and technical RIs.Project(s): ENVRI
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2012
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iMarine Data e-Infrastructure Operation Report
Manzi A, Candela L
The iMarine Data e--Infrastructure is a living system whose development is mainly driven by requirements and feedback produced by the iMarine CoP. This deliverable reports on the activities performed while operating such a system and describes the status of the Data e--Infrastructure in terms of nodes available, software deployed, quality of the service, and usage.Project(s): IMARINE
Manzi A, Candela L
The iMarine Data e--Infrastructure is a living system whose development is mainly driven by requirements and feedback produced by the iMarine CoP. This deliverable reports on the activities performed while operating such a system and describes the status of the Data e--Infrastructure in terms of nodes available, software deployed, quality of the service, and usage.Project(s): IMARINE
2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Use case requirements specifications
Torre E, Blanquer I, Candela L, De Giovanni R
The Use Case Requirements Specification (EuBrazilOpenBio deliverable D2.1) covers the identification, analysis and discussion of use cases and requirements that will drive the implementation, integration and deployment of the EuBrazilOpenBio platform. This deliverable is expected to be a living document and it has been implemented in a form of a wiki which is updated and improved continuously.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Torre E, Blanquer I, Candela L, De Giovanni R
The Use Case Requirements Specification (EuBrazilOpenBio deliverable D2.1) covers the identification, analysis and discussion of use cases and requirements that will drive the implementation, integration and deployment of the EuBrazilOpenBio platform. This deliverable is expected to be a living document and it has been implemented in a form of a wiki which is updated and improved continuously.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Niche modelling services
Rebello V, De Giovanni R, Candela L
This report concerns Ecological Niche Modelling - also known as environmental niche modelling - as used in the EUBrazilOpenBio Project to provide, through the aggregation of various computational and data technologies, a coherent and integrated research environment to be used by scientists and external applications, particularly from the area of biodiversity.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Rebello V, De Giovanni R, Candela L
This report concerns Ecological Niche Modelling - also known as environmental niche modelling - as used in the EUBrazilOpenBio Project to provide, through the aggregation of various computational and data technologies, a coherent and integrated research environment to be used by scientists and external applications, particularly from the area of biodiversity.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Software platform core
Candela L, Rebello V
EUBrazilOpenBio Software Platform Core consists of the collection of software artifacts that will be produced during the project timeframe. According to what is presented in D3.1, the whole software development activity is continuous and governed by an "Agilish" development methodology, meaning that software is produced through a number of subsequent yet short software development methodology. This deliverable is thus expected to be continuously updated. lifecycles.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Candela L, Rebello V
EUBrazilOpenBio Software Platform Core consists of the collection of software artifacts that will be produced during the project timeframe. According to what is presented in D3.1, the whole software development activity is continuous and governed by an "Agilish" development methodology, meaning that software is produced through a number of subsequent yet short software development methodology. This deliverable is thus expected to be continuously updated. lifecycles.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Development planning and coordination
Candela L, Rebello V
The objective of this deliverable is to report on the task development and integration plan that will be required to deploy the software platform for the EUBrazilOpenBio e-Infrastructure. This deliverable is expected to be a living document. It is implemented by relying on online tools, namely a wiki and an Issue Tracker (TRAC), which will enable participants to make timely updates, refinements, improvements and monitor the plan. The deliverable is implemented as a wiki linking the planned developmen tasks in a coherent and comprehensive view. It is available at: http://wiki.eubrazilopenbio.eu/index.php/Development_Planning_and_Coordination This document is only intended to provide its readers with a brief overview of the actual deliverable.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Candela L, Rebello V
The objective of this deliverable is to report on the task development and integration plan that will be required to deploy the software platform for the EUBrazilOpenBio e-Infrastructure. This deliverable is expected to be a living document. It is implemented by relying on online tools, namely a wiki and an Issue Tracker (TRAC), which will enable participants to make timely updates, refinements, improvements and monitor the plan. The deliverable is implemented as a wiki linking the planned developmen tasks in a coherent and comprehensive view. It is available at: http://wiki.eubrazilopenbio.eu/index.php/Development_Planning_and_Coordination This document is only intended to provide its readers with a brief overview of the actual deliverable.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Software platform extensions
Candela L
D3.4 'EUBrazilOpenBio Software Platform Extensions' consists of the collection of software artifacts that will be produced during the project timeframe. These software artifacts include mediators interfacing with species data repositories (e.g. speciesLink, OBIS) for discovery purposes and mediators interfacing with cloud 'infrastructures' for executing niche modeling related tasks. These software artifacts together with the other software artifacts resulting from WP3 (Deliverables D3.2 'EUBrazilOpenBio Software Platform Core' and D3.3 'Niche Modeling Services') will realize the EUBrazilOpenBio Software Platform.According to what is presented in D3.1 'Development Planning and Coordination', the whole software development activity is continuous and governed by a flexible, agile-based development methodology, meaning that software is produced through a number of subsequent yet short software development lifecycles.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Candela L
D3.4 'EUBrazilOpenBio Software Platform Extensions' consists of the collection of software artifacts that will be produced during the project timeframe. These software artifacts include mediators interfacing with species data repositories (e.g. speciesLink, OBIS) for discovery purposes and mediators interfacing with cloud 'infrastructures' for executing niche modeling related tasks. These software artifacts together with the other software artifacts resulting from WP3 (Deliverables D3.2 'EUBrazilOpenBio Software Platform Core' and D3.3 'Niche Modeling Services') will realize the EUBrazilOpenBio Software Platform.According to what is presented in D3.1 'Development Planning and Coordination', the whole software development activity is continuous and governed by a flexible, agile-based development methodology, meaning that software is produced through a number of subsequent yet short software development lifecycles.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Quality plan
Callau P, Alexandrov V, Pittonet S, Candela L
This document contains information on core activities, finding and outcomes of EUBrazilOpenBio projectProject(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Callau P, Alexandrov V, Pittonet S, Candela L
This document contains information on core activities, finding and outcomes of EUBrazilOpenBio projectProject(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Infrastructure set-up, planning, and coordination
Boeres C, Rebello V, Candela L
This report aims to identify the technical requirements that will be placed on the EUBrazilOpenBio e-infrastructure in order: to meet the implementation requirements for the Use Cases specified in WP2 and to be easily extensible to other related workflow scenarios in the future; to be able to integrate and interoperate with a broad of set of data sources and repositories, for example, ecological models, experimental results, or scientific publications; to efficiently support biodiversity software, tools and applications.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Boeres C, Rebello V, Candela L
This report aims to identify the technical requirements that will be placed on the EUBrazilOpenBio e-infrastructure in order: to meet the implementation requirements for the Use Cases specified in WP2 and to be easily extensible to other related workflow scenarios in the future; to be able to integrate and interoperate with a broad of set of data sources and repositories, for example, ecological models, experimental results, or scientific publications; to efficiently support biodiversity software, tools and applications.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Progress activity report
Callau P, Alexandrov V, Lezzi D, Blanquer I, Pittonet S, De Giovanni R, Candela L, Rebello V
This document contains information on core activities, findings, and outcomes of EUBrazilOpenBio project, and in some instances, distinguished experts forming part of the project's Strategic Advisory Board.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Callau P, Alexandrov V, Lezzi D, Blanquer I, Pittonet S, De Giovanni R, Candela L, Rebello V
This document contains information on core activities, findings, and outcomes of EUBrazilOpenBio project, and in some instances, distinguished experts forming part of the project's Strategic Advisory Board.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
2012
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IMARINE - Applications and tools development plan
Ellenbroek A, Candela L
This report documents the strategy and plan leading to the development of specific applications and tools that in tandem with the rest of gCube technology will be used to realize the Virtual Research Environments that are expected to serve the needs of the Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice.Project(s): IMARINE
Ellenbroek A, Candela L
This report documents the strategy and plan leading to the development of specific applications and tools that in tandem with the rest of gCube technology will be used to realize the Virtual Research Environments that are expected to serve the needs of the Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice.Project(s): IMARINE
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2012
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Data use - Virtual research environments
Candela L
This paper presents the characteristics of virtual research environments and discusses how these environments will contribute to a 10-year envision for global research data infrastructure.Project(s): D4SCIENCE-II
Candela L
This paper presents the characteristics of virtual research environments and discusses how these environments will contribute to a 10-year envision for global research data infrastructure.Project(s): D4SCIENCE-II
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2012
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EUBRAZILOPENBIO - Periodic Report. Version 1.2
Badia Rm, Lezzi D, Alexandrov V, Callau P, Rebello V, Candela L, Blanquer I, De Giovanni R, Cardoso V, Pittonet S
This periodic report represents an accurate description of the work carried out in this project for this reporting period.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
Badia Rm, Lezzi D, Alexandrov V, Callau P, Rebello V, Candela L, Blanquer I, De Giovanni R, Cardoso V, Pittonet S
This periodic report represents an accurate description of the work carried out in this project for this reporting period.Project(s): EUBRAZILOPENBIO
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Integrating heterogeneous and distributed information about marine species through a top level ontology
Tzitzikas Y, Allocca C, Bekiari C, Marketakis Y, Fafalios P, Doerr M, Minadakis N, Patkos T, Candela L
One of the main characteristics of biodiversity data is its cross-disciplinary feature and the extremely broad range of data types, structures, and semantic concepts which encompasses. Moreover, biodiversity data, especially in the marine domain, is widely distributed, with few well-established repositories or standard protocols for their archiving, access, and retrieval. Our research aims at providing models and methods that allow integrating such information either for publishing it, browsing it, or querying it. For providing a valid and reliable knowledge ground for enabling semantic interoperability of marine data, in this paper we motivate a top level ontology, called MarineTLO that we have designed for this purpose, and discuss its use for creating MarineTLO-based warehouses in the context of a research infrastructure.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03437-9_29
Project(s): IMARINE
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Tzitzikas Y, Allocca C, Bekiari C, Marketakis Y, Fafalios P, Doerr M, Minadakis N, Patkos T, Candela L
One of the main characteristics of biodiversity data is its cross-disciplinary feature and the extremely broad range of data types, structures, and semantic concepts which encompasses. Moreover, biodiversity data, especially in the marine domain, is widely distributed, with few well-established repositories or standard protocols for their archiving, access, and retrieval. Our research aims at providing models and methods that allow integrating such information either for publishing it, browsing it, or querying it. For providing a valid and reliable knowledge ground for enabling semantic interoperability of marine data, in this paper we motivate a top level ontology, called MarineTLO that we have designed for this purpose, and discuss its use for creating MarineTLO-based warehouses in the context of a research infrastructure.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03437-9_29
Project(s): IMARINE
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