Welcome to the D4Science e-Infrastructure portal. By logging to this portal users can access to the D4Science-enabled Virtual Research Environments (VREs) they are register to in order to share knowledge and collaborate in a secure, coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way.

The D4Science e-Infrastructure, built upon the EGEE one, is powered by the gCube system. By integrating Grid and Digital Library technologies this system offers a framework for supporting next generation e-Science knowledge infrastructures able to support a large variety of different research and industrial applications.

The first two clients of such an e-Infrastructure are represented by the communities operating in the scenarios titled Environmental Monitoring (EM) and Fishery and Aquaculture Resources Management (FARM).

The Environmental Monitoring develops and operates VREs to address environmental monitoring issues, i.e. to provide political and technical solutions to global issues, such as climate change adaptation, global environment protection, preservation of natural resources (air quality, marine environment, forest ecosystem) and humanitarian response.

The Fishery and Aquaculture Resources Management develops and operates VREs for creating the first harmonised global view of the state of fishery resources. These systems allow member bodies to upload assessment data that adhere to a common standard; a laudable step which given new technologies can conceivably be taken even further. Virtual research environments hold out the promise of importing and harmonising data at earlier, pre-assessment stages. They also make possible the introduction of new non-traditional data streams such as remote-monitoring, the application of analysis tools and output using powerful reporting systems. VREs can be instrumental in facilitating the move away from traditional assessment models and towards more complex socio-ecosystem models.

You are invited to explore the D4Science website at the address http://www.d4science.eu to learn more about the project, its objectives and the people behind it.

D4Science is partially funded by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework Programme.