Interoperable e-Infrastructure Services in Arabia

e-Infrastructures became critical platforms that integrate computational resources, facilities and repositories globally. The coordination and harmonization of advanced e-Infrastructure project developed with partners from Europe, Latin America, Arabia, Africa, China, and India contributed to developing interoperable platforms based on identity federation and science gateway technologies. This paper presents these technologies to support key services in the development of Arabia networking and services platform for research and education. The platform provides scientists, teachers, and students with seamless access to a variety of advanced resources, services, and applications available at regional e-Infrastructures in Europe and elsewhere. Users simply enter the credentials provided by their home institutions to get authenticated and do not need digital certificate-based mechanisms. Twenty applications from five scientific domains were deployed and integrated. Results showed that on average about 35,000 monthly jobs are running for a total of about 17,500 CPU wall-clock hours. Therefore, seamlessly integrated e-Infrastructures for regional e-Science activities are important resources that support scientists, students, and faculty with computational services and linkage to global research communities.

e-infrastructure:为德意志银行保险集团“保险”

目前,集团的200名高级业务分析人员现在可以非常轻松的进行信息的整理,统计和挖掘,而不必再需要IT部门的协助,整个数据处理工程非常的智能并且功能强大,不同来源的数据被快速及时的综合到一起。

Research e-infrastructures for open science: The national example of CSTCloud in China

This paper focuses on research e-infrastructures in the open science era.We analyze some of the challenges and opportunities of cloud-based science and introduce an example of a national solution in the China Science and Technology Cloud(CSTCloud).We selected three CSTCloud use cases in deploying open science modules,including scalable engineering in astronomical data management,integrated Earth-science resources for SDG-13 decision making,and the coupling of citizen science and artificial intelligence(AI)techniques in biodiversity.We conclude with a forecast on the future development of research e-infrastructures and introduce the idea of the Global Open Science Cloud(GOSC).We hope this analysis can provide some insights into the future development of research e-infrastructures in support of open science.

Building a European geothermal information network using a distributed e-Infrastructure

Geothermal data are published using different IT services,formats and content representations,and can refer to both regional and global scale information.Geothermal stakeholders search for information with different aims.E-Infrastructures are collaborative platforms that address this diversity of aims and data representations.In this paper,we present a prototype for a European Geothermal Information Platform that uses INSPIRE recommendations and an e-Infrastructure(D4Science)to collect,aggregate and share data sets from different European data contributors,thus enabling stakeholders to retrieve and process a large amount of data.Our system merges segmented and national realities into one common framework.We demonstrate our approach by describing a platform that collects data from Italian,French,Hungarian,Swiss and Icelandic geothermal data providers.

An Integrated Emergency Response Tool for Developing Countries:Case of Uganda

This paper presents a First responder emergency response tool(EMApp)as a step towards achieving integrated emergency care in developing coun­tries,the case of Uganda.The EMApp prototype has potential to support health emergency response from various emergency stakeholders.This innovation is in line with strategic plans to embrace technologies towards the establishment of integrated social services such as emergency health­care services(EHS)in Uganda.We describe the prototype and provide its functionalities that can be further enhanced to enable access to emergency services and save life.The possible assumptions,potential challenges and recommendations to implement and deployment of such a system are pro­vided.There is currently no such integrated emergency response system in Uganda as is the case in many other developing countries.For future stud­ies,there is need to deploy the tool and assess its impact on the communi­ties.

From unstructured texts to semantic story maps

Digital maps greatly support storytelling about territories,especially when enriched with data describing cultural,societal,and ecological aspects,conveying emotional messages that describe the territory as a whole.Story maps are interactive online digital narratives that can describe a territory beyond its map by enriching the map with text,pictures,videos,and other multimedia information.This paper presents a semi-automatic workflow to produce story maps from textual documents containing territory data.An expertfirst assembles one territory-contextual document containing text and images.Then,automatic processes use natural language processing and Wikidata services to(i)extract key concepts(entities)and geospatial coordinates associated with the territory,(ii)assemble a logically-ordered sequence of enriched story-map events,and(iii)openly publish online story maps and an interoperable Linked Open Data semantic knowledge base for event exploration and inter-story correlation analyses.Our workflow uses an Open Science-oriented methodology to publish all processes and data.Through our workflow,we produced story maps for the value chains and territories of 23 rural European areas of 16 countries.Through numerical evaluation,we demonstrated that territory experts considered the story maps effective in describing their territories,and appropriate for communicating with citizens and stakeholders.