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DILIGENT Periodic Activity Report - 31 August 2006 (Rapporti progetti di ricerca)
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- DILIGENT Periodic Activity Report - 31 August 2006 (Rapporti progetti di ricerca) (literal)
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- 2006-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- Jessica Michel, Donatella Castelli (literal)
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- DILIGENT Periodic Activity Report - 31 August 2006 (literal)
- Abstract
- The main objective of DILIGENT is to create an advanced testbed knowledge infrastructure that will
allow members of dynamic virtual e-Science organisations to access shared knowledge and to
collaborate in a secure, coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way. This testbed infrastructure is
being built by integrating Grid and Digital Library technologies. The merging of these two different
technologies has the potential to result in an unprecedented level of functionality that can lay the
foundations for a next generation e-Science knowledge infrastructures.
The DILIGENT testbed infrastructure, which will be based on high bandwidth networks and
empowered by WSRF services, aims at serving many different research and industrial applications. In
particular, the testbed will be demonstrated and validated by two complementary real-life application
scenarios: one from the cultural heritage domain and one from the environmental e-Science domain.
The first scenario will show how the DILIGENT infrastructure, by simplifying the processing of
multimedia artefacts and offering support for collaborative multidisciplinary studies, can contribute to
favour faster progress in research and better quality of education, also in research areas traditionally
far from the most advanced computing technologies; the second scenario will show how this
knowledge infrastructure, by integrating distributed multi-type data sources with specialised data
handling services, can improve accessibility, interoperability and usability of environmental data,
models, tools and instruments.
Additional important objectives of the DILIGENT project are:
· to open up Grid technology to the broader range of research and industrial communities which
produce, process and consume knowledge;
· to broaden the diffusion of digital libraries by providing a more cost-effective digital library
creation and operational model and by supporting new types of documents and tools able to satisfy
the communication needs of a larger number of application areas;
· to promote cross-fertilisation between the digital libraries and Grid technology domains that will
foster synergies and advances in both of these areas.
Fourteen contractors participate in the project activities:
1. European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM, France)
2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
3. National and Kapodestrian University of Athens (UoA, Greece)
4. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH, Switzerland; participation terminated 31
March 2005)
5. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (FhG, Germany)
6. University for Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol (UMIT, Austria; participation
terminated 31 March 2006)
7. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Switzerland)
8. Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA (ENG, Italy)
9. University of Strathclyde (USG, United Kingdom)
10. Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST, Norway)
11. European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN, Italy)
12. Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS, Italy)
13. 4D SOFT Software Development Ltd. (4D-Soft, Hungary)
14. RAI Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI, Italy)
15. Universität Basel (UNIBAS, Switzerland)
The project management is jointly carried out by two individuals:
· Jessica Michel - Administrative and Financial Coordinator, and contact point to the European
Community - ERCIM EEIG (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, a European
Economic Interest Grouping)
- Donatella Castelli - Technical and Scientific Co-ordinator
CNR-ISTI (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell'Informazione) Area di Ricerca di Pisa (literal)
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