2023 Report Open Access

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2023 Journal article Open Access

ARIADNE Plus e il D4GNA-Dataset per il Geoportale Nazionale per l'Archeologia
Acconcia V., Boi V., Candela L., Falcone A., Mangiacrapa F., Massara F., Pagano P., Sinibaldi F.
L'articolo racconta l'esperienza del D4GNA - Dataset per il Geoportale Nazionale dell'Archeologia nato nell'ambito del progetto ARIADNEplus (Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe - plus), conclusosi lo scorso 31 dicembre. Il contributo parte dal contesto più ampio del progetto europeo per addentrarsi nel mondo dei dati archeologici italiani; la soluzione tecnologica, la standardizzazione, la dematerializzazione e la condivisione in rete dei dati sono i temi toccati in questo percorso che ci illustra il procedere verso un obiettivo virtuoso: il Geoportale Nazionale per l'Archeologia (GNA). Il GNA, realizzato dall'Istituto Centrale per l'Archeologia (ICA) e che sarà in rete dal 10 luglio 2023, è il punto di accesso nazionale per accogliere e consultare gli interventi archeologici svolti sotto la direzione scientifica del Ministero della Cultura (MiC), le indagini archeologiche condotte da università e altri enti di ricerca, nonché altre banche dati territoriali.Source: Digitalia (Online) 1 (2023): 129–140. doi:10.36181/digitalia-00064
DOI: 10.36181/digitalia-00064
Project(s): ARIADNEplus
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The gCube geoportal platform
Candela L., Cirillo R., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Sinibaldi F., Vannini G. L.
The gCube Geoportal platform is a component of the gCube open source software system conceived to support the creation and publication of georeferenced research objects, i.e. multi-part and multimedia research objects characterised by geospatial and temporal features. The Geoportal platform enables user communities to fully customise the data model characterising their instance by defining the structure, the content and the workflow of the potential research objects to be managed. `this report carefully describes the technology and documents how it was exploited to serve the development of a national catalogue for archaeological artifacts.Source: ISTI Technical Report, ISTI-2023-TR/012, 2023
DOI: 10.32079/isti-tr-2023/012
Project(s): ARIADNEplus , Blue Cloud
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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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2022 Journal article Open Access

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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2022 Report Open Access

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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Blue-Cloud D4.6 - Blue Cloud VRE Operation Report (Release 2)
M. Assante, L. Candela, P. Pagano, R. Cirillo, A. Dell'Amico, L. Frosini, L. Lelii, F. Mangiacrapa, G. Panichi, F. Sinibaldi
The Blue-Cloud project developed a cyber platform bringing together and providing access to multidisciplinary data from observations and models, analytical tools, and computing facilities essential to support research to better understand and manage the many aspects of ocean sustainability. The Blue-Cloud platform architecture consists of two major families of components: (a) the Blue Cloud Data Discovery and Access service to serve federated discovery and access to 'blue data' infrastructures, and (b) the Blue Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) to provide a Blue Cloud VRE as a federation of computing platforms and analytical services. This Deliverable D4.6 "Blue Cloud VRE Operation (Release 2)" is the revised and updated version of the D4.1 "Blue Cloud VRE Operation (Release 1)" [10]. It reports on the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) by complementing the architecture and infrastructure described in [9], where the constituents have been discussed. Specifically, this deliverable focuses on how the components have been exploited and operated to support the development of the Blue-Cloud gateway https://blue-cloud.d4science.org, its underlying infrastructure, and the VLabs. 9 Blue-Cloud VLabs were created and operated in the first period, while an additional 5 Blue-Cloud VLabs were created and operated in the second reporting period, from M17 (February 2021) to M35 (September 2022), bringing the total on 14 operational VLabs. Two VLabs of the second reporting period are specifically conceived to support the developments of the Blue-Cloud Demonstrators: (i) The Plankton Genomics VLab has been developed in the context of the Demonstrator #2, and (ii) The Marine Environmental Indicators Dev VLab has been developed in the context of the Demonstrator #3 - Marine Environmental Indicators. In order to support the Blue-Cloud Hackathon1 event held in February 2022 the (iii) Blue-Cloud Hackathon VLab has been developed. Finally, in the framework of the Blue-Cloud synergies programme two additional VLabs were developed as pilots to support the work of (iv) the JERICO-CORE multi-platform research infrastructure dedicated to a holistic appraisal of coastal marine system changes, and (v) the JONAS initiative, addressing the issue of underwater noise in the Atlantic Seas. These working environments are serving more than 1,300 users in total spread across more than 20 countries. Up to mid of September 2022, a total of more than 25,700 working sessions have been executed, with an average of 1,286 working sessions per month since the start of the Blue-Cloud project in October 2019. A total of more than 2,230 analytics sessions have been executed by the users of the VLabs, with an average of 55 working sessions per month. From M17 (February 2021) to M35 (September 2022), a total of 212 tickets have been created and managed in the Blue-Cloud Project Issue Trackers (85% have been closed). Moreover, 34 tickets related to Blue-Cloud have been created in the D4Science overall context (88% have been closed).Source: ISTI Project report, Blue-Cloud, D4.6, 2022
Project(s): Blue Cloud

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ARIADNEplus D15.2 - Final report on ARIADNEplus services
Marberg J. F., Bardi A., Vlachidis A., Meghini C., Binding C., Tudhope D., Sinibaldi F., Ponchio F., Mangiacrapa F., Radman-Livaja I., Callieri M., Potenziani M., Lamé M., Assante M., Pagano P., Hermon S., Vassallo V.
This deliverable describes the activities carried out within Work Package 15 (WP15) of the ARIADNEplus project by the different partners and describes the results achieved. The work package consists of several individual tasks and subtasks with the overall goal to develop and provide useful services to archaeologists. This means the work package is by nature heterogeneous with stand-alone tasks and services. Efforts have been made to facilitate collaboration between the individual tasks through joint work package meetings. This has resulted in new cross-task contacts being made, and some sharing of expertise to improve services has been done. A service design template aligning the ARIADNEplus services with the requirements from European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has been created. In connection with this, the ARIADNEplus AO-CAT ontology has been adapted to the requirements from EOSC Resource Data Model (Task 15.1). The Visual Media Service (Task 15.2.1) has had a new format added, allowing for 2D visualisation of LIDAR data in DEM format. In addition, three other standards have been added: gITF, ThreeJS and IIIF, supporting various functionality in the service. The service has also been adapted to support integration with the ARIADNEplus infrastructure in D4Science. A visual wizard has been defined to guide Visual Media Service users to add hotspots to a 3D scene easily and quickly. This extension, initially implemented in 3DHOP will allow archaeologists to create interactive links from the digital 3D model to the related documentation without writing any source code (Task 15.2.2). Task 15.2.3 reworked the Online 3D Database System for Endangered architectural and archaeological Heritage in the south Eastern MEditerRAnea area (EpHEMERA). EpHEMERA is a service provided by the Cyprus Institute to visualize in 3D archaeological excavations, ancient buildings, and their related documentation. In EpHEMERA, it is possible to visualise, online and through standard web browsers, 3D architectural and archaeological models (classified according to a specific type of risk), query the database system and retrieve metadata attached to each digital object, and extract geometric and morphological information about the Cultural Heritage asset. The visualisation and annotation tool of the TSS project have been ported to the OpenLime library and integrated into the Visual Media Service (Task 15.2.1). An additional layer of SVG annotations have been developed and added to the service. The Annotation service have been used and improved in three different pilot projects. (Task 15.3.2) Various strands of work have been done improving services for text mining and Natural Language Processing (Task 15.4). One of these efforts has been building upon the outcomes of the preceding ARIADNE project. A set of archaeological Named Entity Recognition NLP pipelines were reconfigured and deployed for easier use on the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) cloud. Another effort has been on extracting temporal archaeological information using two different parallel approaches, normalisation and named entity recognition. A Python development platform has been used to unify the various services. A Vocabulary Annotation Tool (Task 15.3.1) was developed using the same platform, as part of Task 15.4. The tool facilitates the locating and tagging of vocabulary terms within free text and outputs suggested subject annotations in a range of formats. The GeoPortal service (Task 15.5) is a new REST service designed to manage complex spatio-temporal documents defined by metadata profiles. It was released as a component of the gCube framework. A prototype using the service was deployed and operated to manage archaeological excavation projects (Task 15.7). Two services for querying the RDF AO-Cat metadata records aggregated by the ARIADNEplus Infrastructure was established (Task 15.6): a full-text index service and a SPARQL endpoint. The full- text index service is based on OpenSearch and supports the needed query functionality of the ARIADNEplus portal. The SPARQL endpoint allows performance of semantic queries on the RDF records within the ARIADNEplus data and knowledge cloud.Source: ISTI Project report, ARIADNEplus, D15.2, 2022
Project(s): ARIADNEplus

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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

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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
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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
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gCube CMS Suite
Sinibaldi F., Mangiacrapa F.
gCube CMS Suite e' una applicazione gCube distribuita progettata per gestire il ciclo di pubblicazione di documenti spazio-temporali complessi chiamati Project, supportandone materializzazione e indicizzazione su varie piattaforme (Database, Cataloghi, Servizi OGC) all'interno di una VRE . Per massimizzare la sua riusabilita', e' stata concepita come insieme estendibile di moduli altamente configurabili. Nasce dall'esigenza di gestire il flusso di pubblicazione dei Project in scenari eterogenei, e dalla volonta' di mettere a fattor comune le funzionalita' condivise come il supporto al GIS, operazioni CRUD, query e gestione del flusso. E' il motore dietro le soluzioni Geoportale in D4science.Project(s): ARIADNEplus

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2021 Report Open Access

ARIADNEPlus - VREs operation mid-term activity report
Assante M., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Pagano P., Candela L., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Panichi G., Sinibaldi F.
This deliverable D13.2 - "VREs Operation Mid-term Activity Report" describes the activities carried out during the first 24 months of the ARIADNEplus project within Work Package 13. Specifically, in Task 13.1 Infrastructure Operation (JRA2.1) and Task 13.3 VREs Operation (JRA2.3). It reports the procedures governing the operation of the VREs as well as the status of the aggregated resources at mid-term in the ARIADNEplus infrastructure.Source: Project report, ARIADNEplus, D13.2, 2021
Project(s): ARIADNEplus

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2021 Conference article Open Access

Realising a science gateway for the Agri-food: the AGINFRAplus experience
Assante M., Boizet A., Candela L., Castelli D., Cirillo R., Coro G., Fernandez E., Filter M., Frosini L., Kakaletris G., Katsivelis P., Knapen R., Lelii L., Lokers R., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Penev L., Sinibaldi F., Zervas P.
The enhancements in IT solutions and the open science movement are injecting changes in the practices dealing with data collection, collation, processing and analytics, and publishing in all the domains, including agri-food. However, in implementing these changes one of the major issues faced by the agri-food researchers is the fragmentation of the "assets" to be exploited when performing research tasks, e.g. data of interest are heterogeneous and scattered across several repositories, the tools modellers rely on are diverse and often make use of limited computing capacity, the publishing practices are various and rarely aim at making available the "whole story" with datasets, processes, workflows. This paper presents the AGINFRA PLUS endeavour to overcome these limitations by providing researchers in three designated communities with Virtual Research Environments facilitating the use of the "assets" of interest and promote collaboration.Source: 11th International Workshop on Science Gateways, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 12-14/06/2019
Project(s): AGINFRA PLUS

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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
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Blue Cloud - D4.4: Blue Cloud VRE Common Facilities (Release 2)
Assante M., Candela L., Pagano P., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Lettere M., Mangiacrapa F., Panichi G., Sinibaldi F.
The Blue-Cloud project is piloting a cyber platform bringing together and providing access to multidisciplinary data from observations and models, analytical tools, and computing facilities essential to support research to understand better and manage the many aspects of ocean sustainability. This goal is realised by developing, deploying and operating the Blue-Cloud platform whose architecture consists of two major families of components: (a) the Blue Cloud Data Discovery and Access System to serve federated discovery and access to 'blue data' infrastructures; and (b) the Blue Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) component to provide a Blue Cloud VRE as a federation of computing platforms and analytical services. This Deliverable D4.4 "Blue Cloud VRE Common Facilities (Release 2)" is the revised version of the D4.2 "Blue Cloud VRE Common Facilities (Release 1)". This revised version of the document covers the second period of the project, from M13 up to M27, including the up-to-date information of the services reported on D4.2 and the new services that have been developed and added to the VRE common facilities in the reporting period to serve the needs of the Blue Cloud community. The major changes and new services this deliverable introduces are: an Orchestrator (cf. Sec. 3.3), i.e. a software that allows for a declarative, technology agnostic definition of workflows to coordinate the execution of tasks across diverse services and systems; enhancements to the Workspace service to support tailored storage persistence and satisfy different application scenarios (cf. Sec. 4.1); enhancements in the Publishing Framework (cf. Sec. 6), namely the catalogue extension to deposit catalogue items to Zenodo and the facility to publish geospatial data from the workspace; the facility to interface with the Data Discovery & Access System (cf. Sec. 7.1) to transfer datasets of interest into the workspace for future uses; the notebook to facilitate the exploitation of the WEkEO Harmonised Data Access (HDA) API (cf. Sec. 7.2). This deliverable also updates the Identity and Access Management (cf. Sec. 3.1) and the Analytics Framework (cf. Sec. 5.1 and Sec 5.2) with minor changes reflecting the activities performed in the reporting period. A description of all the services previously documented in D4.2, not modified in the period, is preserved for this document to be self-contained and provide the reader with an overall description of the whole VRE Common Facilities offering. A total of 15 services and components are described in this deliverable by reporting their design principles, architecture and main features. These services and components contribute functionalities to the Blue Cloud VRE Enabling Framework (Identity and Access Management, VRE Management, Orchestrator), Collaborative framework (Workspace and Social Networking), Analytics Framework (Software and Algorithm Importer, Smart Executor), Publishing Framework (Catalogue Service) and improved support for RStudio, JupyterHub, ShinyProxy, and Docker Applications. Additionally, two new VRE services, aiming at bridging two VRE external systems such as the the WEkEO1 catalogue from Copernicus and the Data Discovery and Access from Blue-Cloud with the VRE tools are described. Services and components discussed in this deliverable have contributed to 14 gCube releases, from gCube 4.26 (November 2020) to gCube 5.6.0 (November 2021). They have been used to develop and operate the Virtual Laboratories of the Blue Cloud gateway https://blue-cloud.d4science.org and its underlying infrastructure. At the time of this deliverable the Blue-Cloud gateway and its services are serving more than 730 users with a total of 19000+ working sessions.Source: ISTI Project report, Blue Cloud, D4.4, 2021
Project(s): Blue Cloud

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DESIRA - D5.2: Virtual Research Environment Operation Report years 1-2
Assante M., Candela L., Cirillo R., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Sinibaldi F.
This deliverable D5.2 "Virtual Research Environment Operation Report years 1-2" describes the activities carried out during the first 24 months of 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 mid-term 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 from June 2019 to May 2021. The DESIRA Infrastructure Gateway actually offers end-user access to 14 VREs. As of June 2019, 1 VREs were created and operated. Specifically, the DESIRA Project VRE (cf. Sec 3.1.1) was created before the project kick-off. As of May 2021, these VREs have served the needs of more than 370 users and more than 7.000 user sessions. This required dealing with 177 tickets (103 related to the project management, 28 requests for support and enhancements, five requests for incidents and bugs, 14 requests for VRE creations).Source: ISTI Project report, DESIRA, D5.2, 2021
Project(s): DESIRA

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SoBigData-PlusPlus - D9.1: SoBigData e-Infrastructure Operation Report 1
Assante M., Candela L., Cirilli R., Dell'Amico A., Frosini L., Lelii L., Mangiacrapa F., Pagano P., Panichi G., Sinibaldi F.
This deliverable describes the activities carried out during the first 18 months within Work Package 9 for the SoBigData e-Infrastructure operation activity since its deployment, including a detailed set of usage indicators (i.e. the number of users, accesses 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 ones for the services devoted to Data Analytics. A total of 15 Virtual Research Environments (VREs) have been created and are operational. In particular, the SoBigData gateway 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); 2 Virtual Lab VREs - SoBigDataLab and OpenScienceGraphLab to exploit and experiment tools and solutions; 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-PlusPlus WP9; and 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 June '21, the 15 existing VREs served more than 8,000 users by a total of more than 30,000 working sessions, with an average of 1500 working sessions per month with increasing trend. This required to deal with approximately 40 issue tracker tickets (14 requests for support, 6 requests for incidents and bugs, 9 requests for new features, and 9 requests for Virtual Machine or Container creations).Source: ISTI Project report, SoBigData-PlusPlus, D9.1, 2021
Project(s): SoBigData-PlusPlus

See at: ISTI Repository | CNR ExploRA

Ckan2Zenodo library
Sinibaldi F.
The Java library is a component of gCube framework aimed at translating CKAN items into Zenodo depositions, allowing contextual editing and publication.Project(s): AGINFRA PLUS

See at: code-repo.d4science.org | CNR ExploRA