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InfraScience research activity report 2023
Artini M., Assante M., Atzori C., Baglioni M., Bardi A., Bosio C., Bove P., Calanducci A., Candela L., Casini G., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., De Bonis M., Debole F., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Ibrahim A. S. T., La Bruzzo S., Lelii L., Manghi P., Mangiacrapa F., Mangione D., Mannocci A., Molinaro E., Pagano P., Panichi G., Paratore M. T., Pavone G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Straccia U., Vannini G. L.
InfraScience is a research group of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI) based in Pisa, Italy. This report documents the research activity performed by this group in 2023 to highlight the major results. In particular, the InfraScience group engaged in research challenges characterising Data Infrastructures, e-Science, and Intelligent Systems. The group activity is pursued by closely connecting research and development and by promoting and supporting open science. In fact, the group is leading the development of two large scale infrastructures for Open Science, i.e. D4Science and OpenAIRE. During 2023 InfraScience members contributed to the publishing of several papers, to the research and development activities of several research projects (primarily funded by EU), to the organization of conferences and training events, to several working groups and task forces.Source: ISTI Annual Reports, 2023
DOI: 10.32079/isti-ar-2023/002
Project(s): Blue Cloud
, EOSC Future , TAILOR
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Artini M., Assante M., Atzori C., Baglioni M., Bardi A., Bosio C., Bove P., Calanducci A., Candela L., Casini G., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., De Bonis M., Debole F., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Ibrahim A. S. T., La Bruzzo S., Lelii L., Manghi P., Mangiacrapa F., Mangione D., Mannocci A., Molinaro E., Pagano P., Panichi G., Paratore M. T., Pavone G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Straccia U., Vannini G. L.
InfraScience is a research group of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI) based in Pisa, Italy. This report documents the research activity performed by this group in 2023 to highlight the major results. In particular, the InfraScience group engaged in research challenges characterising Data Infrastructures, e-Science, and Intelligent Systems. The group activity is pursued by closely connecting research and development and by promoting and supporting open science. In fact, the group is leading the development of two large scale infrastructures for Open Science, i.e. D4Science and OpenAIRE. During 2023 InfraScience members contributed to the publishing of several papers, to the research and development activities of several research projects (primarily funded by EU), to the organization of conferences and training events, to several working groups and task forces.Source: ISTI Annual Reports, 2023
DOI: 10.32079/isti-ar-2023/002
Project(s): Blue Cloud
, EOSC Future , TAILOR Metrics:
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2023
Report
Open Access
DESIRA D5.3 - Virtual Research Environment operation report years 3-4
Assante M., Candela L., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T.
This deliverable D5.3 "Virtual Research Environment Operation Report years 3-4" is the revised and updated version of deliverable D5.2 "Virtual Research Environment Operation Report years 1-2". It describes the activities carried out during the DESIRA project within Work Package 5. Specifically, in Task 5.1 "Knowledge Infrastructure: the DESIRA Virtual Research Environment" and Task 5.2 "Integration of Services and Tools and Use Reporting". It reports the procedures governing the operation of the VREs as well as the status of the aggregated resources at the end of the project in the DESIRA infrastructure. Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are "systems" specifically conceived to provide their users with a web-based set of facilities (including services, data and computational facilities) to accomplish a set of tasks by dynamically relying on the underlying infrastructure. VREs are among the key products to be developed and delivered by the DESIRA project to support Project coordination, Living Labs activities and Rural Digitization Forums activities. The development of VREs is based on three main activities: (i) the development of software artefacts that realise a set of functions (including those needed for accessing specific datasets), (ii) the deployment of these artefacts in an operational infrastructure following the release procedures and tools, and (iii) the final deployment and operation of well-defined Virtual Research Environments by exploiting the facilities offered by the underlying D4Science infrastructure and its services [1, 2]. This report documents the last of the above three activities - i.e. the exploitation of the services and technologies offered by the underlying infrastructure to serve the needs of defined scenarios - as implemented in the context of the DESIRA project. The DESIRA Infrastructure Gateway offers end-user access to 14 VREs. As of May 2023, 14 VREs were created and operated. Specifically, the DESIRA Project VRE (cf. Sec 3.1.1) was created before the project kick-off. These VREs have served the needs of more than 390 users and more than 10.200 user sessions. This required dealing with 185 tickets (121 related to the project management, 43 requests for tasks, support and enhancements; 7 requests for incidents and bugs; 14 requests for VRE creations).Source: ISTI Project report, DESIRA, D5.3, 2023
Project(s): DESIRA
Assante M., Candela L., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T.
This deliverable D5.3 "Virtual Research Environment Operation Report years 3-4" is the revised and updated version of deliverable D5.2 "Virtual Research Environment Operation Report years 1-2". It describes the activities carried out during the DESIRA project within Work Package 5. Specifically, in Task 5.1 "Knowledge Infrastructure: the DESIRA Virtual Research Environment" and Task 5.2 "Integration of Services and Tools and Use Reporting". It reports the procedures governing the operation of the VREs as well as the status of the aggregated resources at the end of the project in the DESIRA infrastructure. Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are "systems" specifically conceived to provide their users with a web-based set of facilities (including services, data and computational facilities) to accomplish a set of tasks by dynamically relying on the underlying infrastructure. VREs are among the key products to be developed and delivered by the DESIRA project to support Project coordination, Living Labs activities and Rural Digitization Forums activities. The development of VREs is based on three main activities: (i) the development of software artefacts that realise a set of functions (including those needed for accessing specific datasets), (ii) the deployment of these artefacts in an operational infrastructure following the release procedures and tools, and (iii) the final deployment and operation of well-defined Virtual Research Environments by exploiting the facilities offered by the underlying D4Science infrastructure and its services [1, 2]. This report documents the last of the above three activities - i.e. the exploitation of the services and technologies offered by the underlying infrastructure to serve the needs of defined scenarios - as implemented in the context of the DESIRA project. The DESIRA Infrastructure Gateway offers end-user access to 14 VREs. As of May 2023, 14 VREs were created and operated. Specifically, the DESIRA Project VRE (cf. Sec 3.1.1) was created before the project kick-off. These VREs have served the needs of more than 390 users and more than 10.200 user sessions. This required dealing with 185 tickets (121 related to the project management, 43 requests for tasks, support and enhancements; 7 requests for incidents and bugs; 14 requests for VRE creations).Source: ISTI Project report, DESIRA, D5.3, 2023
Project(s): DESIRA
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| CNR ExploRA
2023
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FOSSR D7.2E - Call for tenders for ISTI hardware devices
Assante M., Pagano P., Piccioli T., Versienti L.
The purpose of this document is to outline the hardware purchasing decisions made for the Pisa data centre. By conducting thorough market research, we have identified the most suitable hardware resources and determined the optimal methods for procurement that align with our requirements. After careful analysis, we have decided to adopt a dual purchasing approach. A portion of the hardware will be acquired through a CONSIP agreement, while the remaining portion (GPUs Server) will be obtained through a competitive bidding process.Source: ISTI Project report, FOSSR, D7.2E, 2023
Assante M., Pagano P., Piccioli T., Versienti L.
The purpose of this document is to outline the hardware purchasing decisions made for the Pisa data centre. By conducting thorough market research, we have identified the most suitable hardware resources and determined the optimal methods for procurement that align with our requirements. After careful analysis, we have decided to adopt a dual purchasing approach. A portion of the hardware will be acquired through a CONSIP agreement, while the remaining portion (GPUs Server) will be obtained through a competitive bidding process.Source: ISTI Project report, FOSSR, D7.2E, 2023
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SoBigData.it D1.2 - Plan for the acquisition and installation of new computational resources
Pagano P., Assante M., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Molinaro E., Piccioli T., Silvestri S., Passarella A., Bruno R., Cicconetti C., Davini M., Di Marco A., Di Pompeo D., Stilo G., Tucci M., Croce D., Palazzo S., Schembra G., Bujari A., Bellavista P., Virone G., Greco E., Gentile A. F.
The SoBigData Research Infrastructure (RI) has the ambition to support the rising demand for cross- disciplinary research and innovation on the multiple aspects of social complexity from combined data and model-driven perspectives and the increasing importance of ethics and data scientists' responsibility as a pillar of trustworthy use of Big Data and analytical technology. Digital traces of human activities offer a considerable opportunity to scrutinise the ground truth of individual and collective behaviour at an unprecedented detail and on a global scale. Work Package 1 (WP1) focuses on the creation of computational nodes within the SoBigData RI by connecting data centres to the RI network. This initiative aims to enhance the RI storage and computing capabilities, ensuring both short and long-term scalability, robustness, availability, and reliability of services. Furthermore, it integrates state-of-the-art nodes in the domains of pervasive computing and networking, as well as beyond 5G networks. These nodes are built using the latest-generation architectures and technologies, encompassing edge and far-edge devices, the Internet of Things (IoT), and next-generation networks. By adopting this comprehensive approach, SoBigData provides access to state-of-the-art data centres while embracing advanced solutions for decentralised data centres of the future. This decentralised infrastructure spans from the cloud to the network periphery, forming a continuum of distributed data processing and networking resources. This Deliverable documents the plan for the acquisition and installation of new computational resources. The deliverable consists of 5 sections: Section 1 briefly introduces the role of this deliverable and highlights the composition of the infrastructure and its organisation in a multi-site, comprising central and peripheral sites. Sections 2, 3, and 4 provide detailed plans for the acquisition and installation of computational and hardware resources related to green data centres, pervasive computing, and beyond 5G networks. Specifically, Section 2 outlines the plan for green data centres. Section 3 focuses on the plan for pervasive computing and networking nodes. Section 4 details the plan for implementing the architectural framework of the infrastructure representing the beyond 5G node. Finally the report concludes with Section 5.Source: ISTI Project report, SoBigData.it, D1.2, 2023
Pagano P., Assante M., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Molinaro E., Piccioli T., Silvestri S., Passarella A., Bruno R., Cicconetti C., Davini M., Di Marco A., Di Pompeo D., Stilo G., Tucci M., Croce D., Palazzo S., Schembra G., Bujari A., Bellavista P., Virone G., Greco E., Gentile A. F.
The SoBigData Research Infrastructure (RI) has the ambition to support the rising demand for cross- disciplinary research and innovation on the multiple aspects of social complexity from combined data and model-driven perspectives and the increasing importance of ethics and data scientists' responsibility as a pillar of trustworthy use of Big Data and analytical technology. Digital traces of human activities offer a considerable opportunity to scrutinise the ground truth of individual and collective behaviour at an unprecedented detail and on a global scale. Work Package 1 (WP1) focuses on the creation of computational nodes within the SoBigData RI by connecting data centres to the RI network. This initiative aims to enhance the RI storage and computing capabilities, ensuring both short and long-term scalability, robustness, availability, and reliability of services. Furthermore, it integrates state-of-the-art nodes in the domains of pervasive computing and networking, as well as beyond 5G networks. These nodes are built using the latest-generation architectures and technologies, encompassing edge and far-edge devices, the Internet of Things (IoT), and next-generation networks. By adopting this comprehensive approach, SoBigData provides access to state-of-the-art data centres while embracing advanced solutions for decentralised data centres of the future. This decentralised infrastructure spans from the cloud to the network periphery, forming a continuum of distributed data processing and networking resources. This Deliverable documents the plan for the acquisition and installation of new computational resources. The deliverable consists of 5 sections: Section 1 briefly introduces the role of this deliverable and highlights the composition of the infrastructure and its organisation in a multi-site, comprising central and peripheral sites. Sections 2, 3, and 4 provide detailed plans for the acquisition and installation of computational and hardware resources related to green data centres, pervasive computing, and beyond 5G networks. Specifically, Section 2 outlines the plan for green data centres. Section 3 focuses on the plan for pervasive computing and networking nodes. Section 4 details the plan for implementing the architectural framework of the infrastructure representing the beyond 5G node. Finally the report concludes with Section 5.Source: ISTI Project report, SoBigData.it, D1.2, 2023
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2023
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Open Access
SoBigData-PlusPlus D9.2 - SoBigData e-Infrastructure Operation Report 2
Assante M., Candela L., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T.
This Deliverable D9.2 - "SoBigData e-Infrastructure Operation Report 2" is the revised version of the deliverable D9.1 - "SoBigData e-Infrastructure Operation Report 1" [3]. It reports on the activities carried out within Work Package 9 in the period from M19 (January 2021) to M36 (December 2022) for the SoBigData e- Infrastructure operation activity. It includes a detailed set of usage indicators (i.e., the number of users, access to resources, usage of resources from scientists, etc.). It also reports the deployment and procedures governing the operation of the Virtual Research Environments, the catalogue, and the services devoted to data analytics. A total of 17 Virtual Research Environments (VREs) have been created and/or operated to serve the needs arising in the context of the project. The SoBigData gateway (https://sobigdata.d4science.org/) provide its users with: 6 Exploratories VREs paired with the use cases (Demography, Economy & Finance 2.0; Migration Studies; Societal Debates and Misinformation Analysis; Social Impacts of AI and Explainable Machine Learning; Sports Data Science; Sustainable Cities for Citizens); 4 Virtual Lab VREs - SoBigDataLab and the OpenScienceGraphLab to exploit and experiment tools and solutions, the SoBigData-PlusPlus at DSAA 2021 Lab and the XAISS VLab, conceived to be the working environment for Hands-on Tutorials showing the services provided by SoBigData for the new generation of Responsible data scientists; 3 Applications VREs - TagME, SMAPH, M-Atlas; 2 Project Internal VREs - SoBigData.eu VRE for the communications and collaboration among project and initiative members and SBD-InfraCore VRE for supporting SoBigData++ WP9; 2 Literacy And Training VREs - the SoBigDataLiteracy, supporting Critical Data Literacy of task T.2.4, creating a curated collection of literature of interest for the SoBigData Community, and the e-Learning_Area VRE to host training materials developed within the SoBigData project. As of mid-December 2022, the e-infrastructure served more than 10,000 users by a total of more than 47,000 working sessions, with an average of 1350 working sessions per month with stable trend. This required to deal with approximately 130 issue tracker tickets (65 requests for support, 4 requests for incidents and bugs, 22 requests for new features, and 39 requests for Tasks, Virtual Machine or Container creations).Source: ISTI Project report, SoBigData-PlusPlus, D9.2, 2023
Project(s): SoBigData-PlusPlus
Assante M., Candela L., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T.
This Deliverable D9.2 - "SoBigData e-Infrastructure Operation Report 2" is the revised version of the deliverable D9.1 - "SoBigData e-Infrastructure Operation Report 1" [3]. It reports on the activities carried out within Work Package 9 in the period from M19 (January 2021) to M36 (December 2022) for the SoBigData e- Infrastructure operation activity. It includes a detailed set of usage indicators (i.e., the number of users, access to resources, usage of resources from scientists, etc.). It also reports the deployment and procedures governing the operation of the Virtual Research Environments, the catalogue, and the services devoted to data analytics. A total of 17 Virtual Research Environments (VREs) have been created and/or operated to serve the needs arising in the context of the project. The SoBigData gateway (https://sobigdata.d4science.org/) provide its users with: 6 Exploratories VREs paired with the use cases (Demography, Economy & Finance 2.0; Migration Studies; Societal Debates and Misinformation Analysis; Social Impacts of AI and Explainable Machine Learning; Sports Data Science; Sustainable Cities for Citizens); 4 Virtual Lab VREs - SoBigDataLab and the OpenScienceGraphLab to exploit and experiment tools and solutions, the SoBigData-PlusPlus at DSAA 2021 Lab and the XAISS VLab, conceived to be the working environment for Hands-on Tutorials showing the services provided by SoBigData for the new generation of Responsible data scientists; 3 Applications VREs - TagME, SMAPH, M-Atlas; 2 Project Internal VREs - SoBigData.eu VRE for the communications and collaboration among project and initiative members and SBD-InfraCore VRE for supporting SoBigData++ WP9; 2 Literacy And Training VREs - the SoBigDataLiteracy, supporting Critical Data Literacy of task T.2.4, creating a curated collection of literature of interest for the SoBigData Community, and the e-Learning_Area VRE to host training materials developed within the SoBigData project. As of mid-December 2022, the e-infrastructure served more than 10,000 users by a total of more than 47,000 working sessions, with an average of 1350 working sessions per month with stable trend. This required to deal with approximately 130 issue tracker tickets (65 requests for support, 4 requests for incidents and bugs, 22 requests for new features, and 39 requests for Tasks, Virtual Machine or Container creations).Source: ISTI Project report, SoBigData-PlusPlus, D9.2, 2023
Project(s): SoBigData-PlusPlus
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2023
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Blue-Cloud2026 D5.1 - Blue-Cloud VRE Common Services 1st Release
Assante M., Candela L., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Fernandez E., Frosini L., Lelii L., Lettere M., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T.
This deliverable document the design principles and software architecture characterising the release and development of the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) common services, namely the analytics computing framework, the catalogue framework, the storage framework and the enabling framework components. This report is the first of two versions, each one describing the design associated with a specific version of the VRE. This deliverable focuses on the design principles and software architecture included in the first release of ththis one as released at M12 (December 2023), while a second release is due at the end of the third year of the project and will be reported in D5.4 Blue-Cloud VRE Common Services 2nd Release (M36), due in December 2025. The deliverable consists of six sections. ? Section 1 briefly introduces the role of this deliverable in the development and delivery of the Blue-Cloud VRE common services. ? Section 2 describes the Blue-Cloud VRE logical architecture of the common services and how they relate to the other services available in the VRE. ? Section 3, 4, 5 and 6 document the first release of the Blue-Cloud VRE common services available at M12, reporting the design principles and reference software architecture of the released solutions. Specifically, Section 3 describes the analytics computing framework which includes the Analytics Engine, the RStudio and the Jupyter Notebooks via JupyterHub. Section 4 presents the VRE Catalogue framework and its components, and section 5 reports on the Storage framework. ? Finally, section 6 concludes the report by illustrating the services composing the Enabling framework, which is used as a common ground for all the above-mentioned frameworks.Source: ISTI Project Report, Blue-Cloud2026, D5.1, 2023
Assante M., Candela L., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Fernandez E., Frosini L., Lelii L., Lettere M., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T.
This deliverable document the design principles and software architecture characterising the release and development of the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) common services, namely the analytics computing framework, the catalogue framework, the storage framework and the enabling framework components. This report is the first of two versions, each one describing the design associated with a specific version of the VRE. This deliverable focuses on the design principles and software architecture included in the first release of ththis one as released at M12 (December 2023), while a second release is due at the end of the third year of the project and will be reported in D5.4 Blue-Cloud VRE Common Services 2nd Release (M36), due in December 2025. The deliverable consists of six sections. ? Section 1 briefly introduces the role of this deliverable in the development and delivery of the Blue-Cloud VRE common services. ? Section 2 describes the Blue-Cloud VRE logical architecture of the common services and how they relate to the other services available in the VRE. ? Section 3, 4, 5 and 6 document the first release of the Blue-Cloud VRE common services available at M12, reporting the design principles and reference software architecture of the released solutions. Specifically, Section 3 describes the analytics computing framework which includes the Analytics Engine, the RStudio and the Jupyter Notebooks via JupyterHub. Section 4 presents the VRE Catalogue framework and its components, and section 5 reports on the Storage framework. ? Finally, section 6 concludes the report by illustrating the services composing the Enabling framework, which is used as a common ground for all the above-mentioned frameworks.Source: ISTI Project Report, Blue-Cloud2026, D5.1, 2023
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Virtual research environments co-creation: the D4Science experience
Assante M., Candela L., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Lettere M., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F.
Virtual research environments are systems called to serve the needs of their designated communities of practice. Every community of practice is a group of people dynamically aggregated by the willingness to collaborate to address a given research question. The virtual research environment provides its users with seamless access to the resources of interest (namely, data and services) no matter what and where they are. Developing a virtual research environment thus to guarantee its uptake from the community of practice is a challenging task. In this article, we advocate how the co-creation driven approach promoted by D4Science has proven to be effective. In particular, we present the co-creation options supported, discuss how diverse communities of practice have exploited these options, and give some usage indicators on the created VREs.Source: Concurrency and computation (Online) (2022). doi:10.1002/cpe.6925
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.6925
Project(s): AGINFRA PLUS, Blue Cloud , EOSC-Pillar , SoBigData-PlusPlus
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Assante M., Candela L., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Lettere M., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F.
Virtual research environments are systems called to serve the needs of their designated communities of practice. Every community of practice is a group of people dynamically aggregated by the willingness to collaborate to address a given research question. The virtual research environment provides its users with seamless access to the resources of interest (namely, data and services) no matter what and where they are. Developing a virtual research environment thus to guarantee its uptake from the community of practice is a challenging task. In this article, we advocate how the co-creation driven approach promoted by D4Science has proven to be effective. In particular, we present the co-creation options supported, discuss how diverse communities of practice have exploited these options, and give some usage indicators on the created VREs.Source: Concurrency and computation (Online) (2022). doi:10.1002/cpe.6925
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.6925
Project(s): AGINFRA PLUS
, Blue Cloud , EOSC-Pillar , SoBigData-PlusPlus Metrics:
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2022
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InfraScience research activity report 2021
Artini M., Assante M., Atzori C., Baglioni M., Bardi A., Bove P., Candela L., Casini G., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., De Bonis M., Debole F., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., La Bruzzo S., Lazzeri E., Lelii L., Manghi P., Mangiacrapa F., Mangione D., Mannocci A., Ottonello E., Pagano P., Panichi G., Pavone G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Straccia U.
InfraScience is a research group of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI) based in Pisa, Italy. This report documents the research activity performed by this group in 2021 to highlight the major results. In particular, the InfraScience group confronted with research challenges characterising Data Infrastructures, eScience, and Intelligent Systems. The group activity is pursued by closely connecting research and development and by promoting and supporting open science. In fact, the group is leading the development of two large scale infrastructures for Open Science, i.e. D4Science and OpenAIRE. During 2021 InfraScience members contributed to the publishing of 25 papers, to the research and development activities of 18 research projects (15 funded by EU), to the organization of conferences and training events, to several working groups and task forces.Source: ISTI Annual report, 2022
DOI: 10.32079/isti-ar-2022/001
Project(s): ARIADNEplus, Blue Cloud , PerformFISH , EOSC-Pillar , DESIRA , EOSC Future , EOSCsecretariat.eu , EcoScope , RISIS 2 , OpenAIRE-Advance , OpenAIRE Nexus , SoBigData-PlusPlus
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Artini M., Assante M., Atzori C., Baglioni M., Bardi A., Bove P., Candela L., Casini G., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., De Bonis M., Debole F., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., La Bruzzo S., Lazzeri E., Lelii L., Manghi P., Mangiacrapa F., Mangione D., Mannocci A., Ottonello E., Pagano P., Panichi G., Pavone G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Straccia U.
InfraScience is a research group of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI) based in Pisa, Italy. This report documents the research activity performed by this group in 2021 to highlight the major results. In particular, the InfraScience group confronted with research challenges characterising Data Infrastructures, eScience, and Intelligent Systems. The group activity is pursued by closely connecting research and development and by promoting and supporting open science. In fact, the group is leading the development of two large scale infrastructures for Open Science, i.e. D4Science and OpenAIRE. During 2021 InfraScience members contributed to the publishing of 25 papers, to the research and development activities of 18 research projects (15 funded by EU), to the organization of conferences and training events, to several working groups and task forces.Source: ISTI Annual report, 2022
DOI: 10.32079/isti-ar-2022/001
Project(s): ARIADNEplus
, Blue Cloud , PerformFISH , EOSC-Pillar , DESIRA , EOSC Future , EOSCsecretariat.eu , EcoScope , RISIS 2 , OpenAIRE-Advance , OpenAIRE Nexus , SoBigData-PlusPlus Metrics:
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ARIADNEplus D13.4 - VREs Operation Final Activity Report
Assante M., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Pagano P., Candela L., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Panichi G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F.
Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are "systems" specifically conceived to provide their users with a web-based set of facilities (including services, data and computational facilities) to accomplish a set of tasks by dynamically relying on the underlying infrastructure. VREs are among the key products developed and delivered by the ARIADNEplus project to support the target communities and application scenarios in archaeology. The development of VREs is based on three main activities: (i) the development of software artifacts that realise a set of functions (including those needed for accessing certain datasets), (ii) the deployment of these artifacts in an operational infrastructure following the release procedures and tools presented in the deliverable D13.1 "Software Release Procedures and Tools JRA2", and (iii) the final deployment and operation of well-defined Virtual Research Environments by exploiting the facilities offered by the underlying D4Science infrastructure and its services [1]. This deliverable D13.4 - "VREs Operation Final Activity Report'' is the updated version of D13.2 - "VREs Operation Mid-term Activity Report ''. D13.4 documents the last of the above- mentioned three activities - i.e. the exploitation of the services and technologies offered by the underlying infrastructure to serve the needs of defined scenarios - as implemented in the second period, from January 2021 to November 2022 - of the ARIADNEplus project. Specifically, it focuses on how the components have been exploited and operated to support the development of the ARIADNEplus VRE gateway https://ariadne.d4science.org, its underlying infrastructure, and the VREs from M25 (January 2021) to M47 (November 2022). These activities have been carried out within Work Package 13. Specifically in Task 13.1 Infrastructure Operation (JRA2.1) and Task 13.3 VREs Operation (JRA2.3). In addition to the 5 VREs created and operated in the first period, 3 more VREs were created and operated in the second reporting period, for a total of 8 VREs. One VRE of the second reporting period, namely ARIADNEplus Lab (cf. Section 4.6), was created in July 2021 as the virtual laboratory to support developers, researchers, data managers, and data analysts belonging to the archaeological community worldwide. The "Geoportale Nazionale per l'Archeologia (GNA)" VRE (cf. Section 4.7) was created in January 2022, as the evolution of the existing Geoportal Prototype VRE (cf. Section 4.4), which was developed for the integration, validation, harmonization, visualization, and access of archaeological georeferenced datasets collected in Italy. Finally, the Esquiline VRE (cf. Section 4.8) was created in October 2022 for the integration and display of data originating from 19th century excavations and historical cartography in a spatio-temporal database, allowing the reconstruction of the transformation of an urban landscape through the centuries. As of November 2022, the VREs are serving the needs of more than 400 users in total spread across 21 countries and more than 10.000 user sessions. This required to deal with approximately 100 tickets (59 requests for support, 9 requests for incidents and bugs, 9 requests for Virtual Machine or Container creations).Source: ISTI Project report, ARIADNEplus, D13.4, 2022
Project(s): ARIADNEplus
Assante M., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Pagano P., Candela L., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Panichi G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F.
Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are "systems" specifically conceived to provide their users with a web-based set of facilities (including services, data and computational facilities) to accomplish a set of tasks by dynamically relying on the underlying infrastructure. VREs are among the key products developed and delivered by the ARIADNEplus project to support the target communities and application scenarios in archaeology. The development of VREs is based on three main activities: (i) the development of software artifacts that realise a set of functions (including those needed for accessing certain datasets), (ii) the deployment of these artifacts in an operational infrastructure following the release procedures and tools presented in the deliverable D13.1 "Software Release Procedures and Tools JRA2", and (iii) the final deployment and operation of well-defined Virtual Research Environments by exploiting the facilities offered by the underlying D4Science infrastructure and its services [1]. This deliverable D13.4 - "VREs Operation Final Activity Report'' is the updated version of D13.2 - "VREs Operation Mid-term Activity Report ''. D13.4 documents the last of the above- mentioned three activities - i.e. the exploitation of the services and technologies offered by the underlying infrastructure to serve the needs of defined scenarios - as implemented in the second period, from January 2021 to November 2022 - of the ARIADNEplus project. Specifically, it focuses on how the components have been exploited and operated to support the development of the ARIADNEplus VRE gateway https://ariadne.d4science.org, its underlying infrastructure, and the VREs from M25 (January 2021) to M47 (November 2022). These activities have been carried out within Work Package 13. Specifically in Task 13.1 Infrastructure Operation (JRA2.1) and Task 13.3 VREs Operation (JRA2.3). In addition to the 5 VREs created and operated in the first period, 3 more VREs were created and operated in the second reporting period, for a total of 8 VREs. One VRE of the second reporting period, namely ARIADNEplus Lab (cf. Section 4.6), was created in July 2021 as the virtual laboratory to support developers, researchers, data managers, and data analysts belonging to the archaeological community worldwide. The "Geoportale Nazionale per l'Archeologia (GNA)" VRE (cf. Section 4.7) was created in January 2022, as the evolution of the existing Geoportal Prototype VRE (cf. Section 4.4), which was developed for the integration, validation, harmonization, visualization, and access of archaeological georeferenced datasets collected in Italy. Finally, the Esquiline VRE (cf. Section 4.8) was created in October 2022 for the integration and display of data originating from 19th century excavations and historical cartography in a spatio-temporal database, allowing the reconstruction of the transformation of an urban landscape through the centuries. As of November 2022, the VREs are serving the needs of more than 400 users in total spread across 21 countries and more than 10.000 user sessions. This required to deal with approximately 100 tickets (59 requests for support, 9 requests for incidents and bugs, 9 requests for Virtual Machine or Container creations).Source: ISTI Project report, ARIADNEplus, D13.4, 2022
Project(s): ARIADNEplus
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2022
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OPEN-ASFA Final Report
Assante M., Dell'Amico A., Pagano P., Piccioli T.
This document describes the services exploited by the Open-ASFA Virtual Research Environment (OPEN-ASFA VRE) at final term. It reports metrics of usage, the status of the activities, including service upgrades, and a summary of the issues solved or to be solved, from November 1st 2021 to April 30th 2022.Source: ISTI Project report, ASFA, 2022
Assante M., Dell'Amico A., Pagano P., Piccioli T.
This document describes the services exploited by the Open-ASFA Virtual Research Environment (OPEN-ASFA VRE) at final term. It reports metrics of usage, the status of the activities, including service upgrades, and a summary of the issues solved or to be solved, from November 1st 2021 to April 30th 2022.Source: ISTI Project report, ASFA, 2022
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2022
Report
Open Access
ISTI Open Portal activity report 2022
Artini M., Candela L., Dell'Amico A., Molino A., Giannini S., Piccioli T.
ISTI Open Portal is the gateway to the scientific production of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies. It was designed and developed to promote the dissemination of the institute scientific production and its availability according to open access practices. This brief report documents the activities performed in 2022 and gives usage indicators about the service.Source: ISTI Technical Report, ISTI-2022-TR/036, 2022
DOI: 10.32079/isti-tr-2022/036
Metrics:
Artini M., Candela L., Dell'Amico A., Molino A., Giannini S., Piccioli T.
ISTI Open Portal is the gateway to the scientific production of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies. It was designed and developed to promote the dissemination of the institute scientific production and its availability according to open access practices. This brief report documents the activities performed in 2022 and gives usage indicators about the service.Source: ISTI Technical Report, ISTI-2022-TR/036, 2022
DOI: 10.32079/isti-tr-2022/036
Metrics:
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2022
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TAF - Transparent Assessment Framework VRE - Report #1
Assante M., Pagano P., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
This document describes the Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) VRE, the operational training environment available for registered users to use online TAF workflows and e-learning course-ware. The training environment comprises a set of generic cloud services for communication, sharing and storage of information composing the e-learning course-ware, and a set of analytics services for online TAF workflows creation, publishing and execution on the computing resources maintained and operated by the D4Science Infrastructure.Source: ISTI Project report, TAF, 2022
Assante M., Pagano P., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
This document describes the Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) VRE, the operational training environment available for registered users to use online TAF workflows and e-learning course-ware. The training environment comprises a set of generic cloud services for communication, sharing and storage of information composing the e-learning course-ware, and a set of analytics services for online TAF workflows creation, publishing and execution on the computing resources maintained and operated by the D4Science Infrastructure.Source: ISTI Project report, TAF, 2022
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2022
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TAF - Transparent Assessment Framework VRE - Report #2-3
Assante M., Pagano P., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
This document describes the Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) VRE, the operational training environment available for registered users to use online TAF workflows and e-learning course-ware, and includes the usage reports of the latest two events. The training environment comprises a set of generic cloud services for communication, sharing and storage of information composing the e-learning course-ware, and a set of analytics services for online TAF workflows creation, publishing and execution on the computing resources maintained and operated by the D4Science Infrastructure.Source: ISTI Project report, TAF, 2022
Assante M., Pagano P., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
This document describes the Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) VRE, the operational training environment available for registered users to use online TAF workflows and e-learning course-ware, and includes the usage reports of the latest two events. The training environment comprises a set of generic cloud services for communication, sharing and storage of information composing the e-learning course-ware, and a set of analytics services for online TAF workflows creation, publishing and execution on the computing resources maintained and operated by the D4Science Infrastructure.Source: ISTI Project report, TAF, 2022
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2022
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TAF - Transparent Assessment Framework VRE - Final Report
Assante M., Pagano P., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
This document describes the Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) VRE, the operational training environment available for registered users to use online TAF workflows and e-learning course-ware, and includes the usage reports of the latest two events. The training environment comprises a set of generic cloud services for communication, sharing and storage of information composing the e-learning course-ware, and a set of analytics services for online TAF workflows creation, publishing and execution on the computing resources maintained and operated by the D4Science Infrastructure.Source: ISTI Project report, TAF, 2022
Assante M., Pagano P., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
This document describes the Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) VRE, the operational training environment available for registered users to use online TAF workflows and e-learning course-ware, and includes the usage reports of the latest two events. The training environment comprises a set of generic cloud services for communication, sharing and storage of information composing the e-learning course-ware, and a set of analytics services for online TAF workflows creation, publishing and execution on the computing resources maintained and operated by the D4Science Infrastructure.Source: ISTI Project report, TAF, 2022
See at: CNR ExploRA
2022
Report
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SDG14.4.1 VRE exploitation report - 2022 V 1.0
Pagano P., Assante M., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
The SDG 14.4.1 e-training environment enables the conduct of training workshops with hands-on interactive facilities to learn how to use stock assessment data limited methods/algorithms. The operational training environment is also continuously available for trainees using the on-line SDG14.4.1 ·e-learning course. During the workshops requested by FAO, as per requirements described in the SLA, a maximum of 25 participants each by providing the necessary online resources and immediate technical support from at least one week before the start until one week after a workshop. This document reports on usage and consumption of resources. It encompasses usage both during workshops, between and after workshops. The document is accompanied by a Dashboard that can be used to analyse the exploitation of the VRE from its inception to the day before the access date.Source: ISTI Project report, SDG14.4.1, 2022
Pagano P., Assante M., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
The SDG 14.4.1 e-training environment enables the conduct of training workshops with hands-on interactive facilities to learn how to use stock assessment data limited methods/algorithms. The operational training environment is also continuously available for trainees using the on-line SDG14.4.1 ·e-learning course. During the workshops requested by FAO, as per requirements described in the SLA, a maximum of 25 participants each by providing the necessary online resources and immediate technical support from at least one week before the start until one week after a workshop. This document reports on usage and consumption of resources. It encompasses usage both during workshops, between and after workshops. The document is accompanied by a Dashboard that can be used to analyse the exploitation of the VRE from its inception to the day before the access date.Source: ISTI Project report, SDG14.4.1, 2022
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2022
Report
Closed Access
D4Science activity report 2022
Assante M., Candela L., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Zoppi F.
D4Science is an IT infrastructure specifically conceived to support the development and operation of Virtual Research Environments by the as-a-Service provisioning mode. This report documents the activities performed in 2022 to develop this infrastructure and support several projects and exploitations.Source: ISTI Technical Report, ISTI-2022-TR/037, 2022
DOI: 10.32079/isti-tr-2022/037
Project(s): ARIADNEplus, Blue Cloud , EOSC-Pillar , DESIRA , SoBigData-PlusPlus
Metrics:
Assante M., Candela L., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Zoppi F.
D4Science is an IT infrastructure specifically conceived to support the development and operation of Virtual Research Environments by the as-a-Service provisioning mode. This report documents the activities performed in 2022 to develop this infrastructure and support several projects and exploitations.Source: ISTI Technical Report, ISTI-2022-TR/037, 2022
DOI: 10.32079/isti-tr-2022/037
Project(s): ARIADNEplus
, Blue Cloud , EOSC-Pillar , DESIRA , SoBigData-PlusPlus Metrics:
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2022
Report
Open Access
InfraScience research activity report 2022
Artini M., Assante M., Atzori C., Baglioni M., Bardi A., Bove P., Candela L., Casini G., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., De Bonis M., Debole F., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., La Bruzzo S., Lelii L., Manghi P., Mangiacrapa F., Mangione D., Mannocci A., Ottonello E., Pagano P., Panichi G., Pavone G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Straccia U., Zoppi F.
InfraScience is a research group of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI) based in Pisa, Italy. This report documents the research activity performed by this group in 2022 to highlight the major results. In particular, the InfraScience group confronted with research challenges characterising Data Infrastructures, e-Science, and Intelligent Systems. The group activity is pursued by closely connecting research and development and by promoting and supporting open science. In fact, the group is leading the development of two large scale infrastructures for Open Science, i.e. D4Science and OpenAIRE. During 2022 InfraScience members contributed to the publishing of several papers, to the research and development activities of 18 research projects (15 funded by EU), to the organization of conferences and training events, to several working groups and task forces.Source: ISTI Annual reports, 2022
DOI: 10.32079/isti-ar-2022/004
Project(s): ARIADNEplus, Blue Cloud , EOSC-Pillar , DESIRA , EOSC Future , RISIS 2 , TAILOR , SoBigData-PlusPlus
Metrics:
Artini M., Assante M., Atzori C., Baglioni M., Bardi A., Bove P., Candela L., Casini G., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., De Bonis M., Debole F., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., La Bruzzo S., Lelii L., Manghi P., Mangiacrapa F., Mangione D., Mannocci A., Ottonello E., Pagano P., Panichi G., Pavone G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Straccia U., Zoppi F.
InfraScience is a research group of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI) based in Pisa, Italy. This report documents the research activity performed by this group in 2022 to highlight the major results. In particular, the InfraScience group confronted with research challenges characterising Data Infrastructures, e-Science, and Intelligent Systems. The group activity is pursued by closely connecting research and development and by promoting and supporting open science. In fact, the group is leading the development of two large scale infrastructures for Open Science, i.e. D4Science and OpenAIRE. During 2022 InfraScience members contributed to the publishing of several papers, to the research and development activities of 18 research projects (15 funded by EU), to the organization of conferences and training events, to several working groups and task forces.Source: ISTI Annual reports, 2022
DOI: 10.32079/isti-ar-2022/004
Project(s): ARIADNEplus
, Blue Cloud , EOSC-Pillar , DESIRA , EOSC Future , RISIS 2 , TAILOR , SoBigData-PlusPlus Metrics:
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ISTI Repository | CNR ExploRA
2021
Report
Open Access
InfraScience Research Activity Report 2020
Artini M., Assante M., Atzori C., Baglioni M., Bardi A., Candela L., Casini G., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., Debole F., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., La Bruzzo S., Lazzeri E., Lelii L., Manghi P., Mangiacrapa F., Mannocci A., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Straccia U.
InfraScience is a research group of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI) based in Pisa, Italy. This report documents the research activity performed by this group in 2020 to highlight the major results. In particular, the InfraScience group confronted with research challenges characterising Data Infrastructures, e\-Sci\-ence, and Intelligent Systems. The group activity is pursued by closely connecting research and development and by promoting and supporting open science. In fact, the group is leading the development of two large scale infrastructures for Open Science, \ie D4Science and OpenAIRE. During 2020 InfraScience members contributed to the publishing of 30 papers, to the research and development activities of 12 research projects (11 funded by EU), to the organization of conferences and training events, to several working groups and task forces.Source: ISTI Annual Report, ISTI-2021-AR/002, pp.1–20, 2021
DOI: 10.32079/isti-ar-2021/002
Project(s): ARIADNEplus, Blue Cloud , PerformFISH , EOSC-Pillar , DESIRA , EOSCsecretariat.eu , RISIS 2 , TAILOR , I-GENE , MOVING , OpenAIRE-Advance , SoBigData-PlusPlus
Metrics:
Artini M., Assante M., Atzori C., Baglioni M., Bardi A., Candela L., Casini G., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., Debole F., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., La Bruzzo S., Lazzeri E., Lelii L., Manghi P., Mangiacrapa F., Mannocci A., Pagano P., Panichi G., Piccioli T., Sinibaldi F., Straccia U.
InfraScience is a research group of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI) based in Pisa, Italy. This report documents the research activity performed by this group in 2020 to highlight the major results. In particular, the InfraScience group confronted with research challenges characterising Data Infrastructures, e\-Sci\-ence, and Intelligent Systems. The group activity is pursued by closely connecting research and development and by promoting and supporting open science. In fact, the group is leading the development of two large scale infrastructures for Open Science, \ie D4Science and OpenAIRE. During 2020 InfraScience members contributed to the publishing of 30 papers, to the research and development activities of 12 research projects (11 funded by EU), to the organization of conferences and training events, to several working groups and task forces.Source: ISTI Annual Report, ISTI-2021-AR/002, pp.1–20, 2021
DOI: 10.32079/isti-ar-2021/002
Project(s): ARIADNEplus
, Blue Cloud , PerformFISH , EOSC-Pillar , DESIRA , EOSCsecretariat.eu , RISIS 2 , TAILOR , I-GENE , MOVING , OpenAIRE-Advance , SoBigData-PlusPlus Metrics:
See at:
ISTI Repository | CNR ExploRA
2021
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OPEN-ASFA mid-term report
Assante M., Dell'Amico A., Pagano P., Piccioli T.
This document describes the services exploited by the Open-ASFA Virtual Research Environment (OPEN-ASFA VRE) at mid-term. It reports metrics of usage, the status of the activities, including service upgrades, and a summary of the issues solved or to be solved, from June 1st 2021 to October 31st 2021.Source: ISTI Project report, ASFA, 2021
Assante M., Dell'Amico A., Pagano P., Piccioli T.
This document describes the services exploited by the Open-ASFA Virtual Research Environment (OPEN-ASFA VRE) at mid-term. It reports metrics of usage, the status of the activities, including service upgrades, and a summary of the issues solved or to be solved, from June 1st 2021 to October 31st 2021.Source: ISTI Project report, ASFA, 2021
See at: CNR ExploRA
2021
Report
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SDG14.4.1 VRE exploitation report - 2021 V 1.0
Pagano P., Assante M., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
The SDG 14.4.1 e-training environment enables the conduct of training workshops with hands-on interactive facilities to learn how to use stock assessment data limited methods/algorithms. The operational training environment is also continuously available for trainees using the on-line SDG14.4.1 ·e-learning course. During the workshops requested by FAO, as per requirements described in the SLA, a maximum of 25 participants each by providing the necessary online resources and immediate technical support from at least one week before the start until one week after a workshop. This document reports on usage and consumption of resources. It encompasses usage both during workshops, between and after workshops. The document is accompanied by a Dashboard that can be used to analyse the exploitation of the VRE from its inception to the day before the access date.Source: ISTI Project report, SDG14.4.1, 2021
Pagano P., Assante M., Dell'Amico A., Piccioli T.
The SDG 14.4.1 e-training environment enables the conduct of training workshops with hands-on interactive facilities to learn how to use stock assessment data limited methods/algorithms. The operational training environment is also continuously available for trainees using the on-line SDG14.4.1 ·e-learning course. During the workshops requested by FAO, as per requirements described in the SLA, a maximum of 25 participants each by providing the necessary online resources and immediate technical support from at least one week before the start until one week after a workshop. This document reports on usage and consumption of resources. It encompasses usage both during workshops, between and after workshops. The document is accompanied by a Dashboard that can be used to analyse the exploitation of the VRE from its inception to the day before the access date.Source: ISTI Project report, SDG14.4.1, 2021
See at: CNR ExploRA