ERCIM
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
Today important societal challenges raise questions that are not restricted to a specific sector (Governmental & Intergovernmental organisations, Public authorities, Industry, SMEs, Universities and Research Institutes) or discipline, but span across them.
Nevertheless, most of the data and knowledge exchange still occurs in “silos” by preventing an effective re-use of cross-domain resources and the cross-fertilization of results. BlueBRIDGE fills this gap, by simplifying sharing and re-use of knowledge produced in these sectors and facilitating cross-fertilization and collaboration among their actors on relevant societal challenges or community specific questions. In particular, BlueBRIDGE supports activities contributing to the H2020 Blue Growth Societal challenge with a strong focus on sustainable growth.
BlueBRIDGE provides both a number of service frameworks that can be customised to work with different datasets and a set of target-oriented services whose creation is facilitated by the availability of the former frameworks.
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Virtual Research Environment Builder |
To easily create ready-to-use web-based working environments responding to needs associated with particular scientific or societal questions. It requires only to specify the datasets, services and policies characterising each environment. Operational services and datasets are dynamically and automatically allocated to support it. It realises VREs as-a-Service (VaaS). |
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Data Analytics Framework |
Ready-to-use analytics dashboard to execute a rich and open array of methods (e.g. data clustering, time series analysis, species distribution modeling) to crunch datasets. It supports the production of research objects compliant with open science practices and transparently relies on a distributed computing infrastructure. It allows scientists to upload their analytics methods (e.g. R and Phyton scripts) with very minor adaptations. |
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Data Discovery, Access and Integration Framework |
To seamlessly discover, access and repackage a rich array of datasets (e.g. tabular, geospatial, biodiversity datasets) that are spread across heterogeneous data providers. |
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Data Publishing Framework |
To enact the publication of research objects compliant with open science practices (e.g. enabling validation, repeatability and reuse, and documenting attribution, trustworthy, and uncertainty). |
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Social Networking Framework |
To support collaboration oriented facilities including a shared workspace for research objects and a social networking environment for exchanging posts and comments (on research objects). |
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To facilitate the efficient assessment of fishery stocks and the production of related knowledge and indicators. |
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To give access to evidence based information on the status of marine stocks and fisheries. |
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To effectively and efficiently produce aquaculture products (maps of human activity and natural zones) contributing to an aquaculture atlas compliant with NASO standards. |
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Protected Area Impact Maps Production |
To support the efficient and effective production of maps of vegetation types and human impacts on them to enable ecosystem degradation analysis. |
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To reduce trainers’ effort in preparing platforms for practical experimentation in courses organised by universities, institutions and companies that require multidisciplinary data access, curation and analytics, e.g. Ecosystem modelling, Vessel Monitoring Systems, Fisheries Management, Biodiversity Conservation & Geospatial Data Management. |
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To support performance estimation, benchmarking, decision making and strategic investment analysis in aquaculture. |
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To support efficient identification of strategic locations of interest for investment meeting multifactor selection criteria. |
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BlueBRIDGE services are deployed in the D4Science e-infrastructure (www.d4science.org)