Summary
The VRE4EIC project addresses key data and software challenges in supporting multidisciplinary data driven sciences. These include:1) understanding complex user requirements across domains by closely involving committed user communities;2) improving the quality of VRE user...
Description
The VRE4EIC project addresses key data and software challenges in supporting multidisciplinary data driven sciences. These include:<br/>1) understanding complex user requirements across domains by closely involving committed user communities;<br/>2) improving the quality of VRE user experience by providing user centred, secure, privacy compliant, sustainable environments for accessing data, composing workflows and tracking data publications;<br/>3) increasing VRE usage in multidisciplinary research domains by abstracting and reusing building blocks and workflows from existing VRE initiatives;<br/>4) improving the interoperability of heterogeneous discovery, contextual and detailed metadata across all layers of the VRE; and<br/>5) promoting the exploitation of VRE4EIC solutions to different research communities and commercially.<br/><br/>The project contributes to the Work Programme through innovations in the following areas:<br/>• support of excellent research through improved VREs and interoperation of heterogeneous VREs leading to new multidisciplinary science;<br/>• increased user acceptance through support for trust, security and privacy throughout the VRE architecture;<br/>• a novel VRE architecture, prototypes and enhanced metadata that can be used for future multidisciplinary VREs;<br/>• a semantic web, linked open data view of VRE information allowing cross-linking to open government data enabling heterogeneous discovery;<br/>• interoperable standard software services retro-fitted to enhance existing VREs;<br/>• solutions for societal challenges demonstrated in the environmental and earth science domains (environmental pollution, climate change, earthquakes), building on 25 real use cases;<br/>• increased VRE adoption to other domains and research communities through a training programme and learning environment to empower researchers to utilise the full potential of VRE4EIC and to enhance collaboration.<br/><br/>VRE4EIC covers all EU member states and EFTA countries, and will affect 70,000 researchers all over Europe.
