Virtual research environments as-a-service by gCube
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Data Science, Digital Libraries, Distributed and Parallel Computing, Network Science and Online Social Networks, Scientific Computing and Simulation
- Keywords
- Virtual Research Environment, Social Networking, Science Gateway
- Copyright
- © 2016 Assante et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Virtual research environments as-a-service by gCube. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2511v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2511v1
Abstract
Science is in continuous evolution and so are the methodologies and approaches scientists tend to apply by calling for appropriate supporting environments. This is in part due to the limitations of the existing practices and in part due to the new possibilities offered by technology advances. gCube is a software system promoting elastic and seamless access to research assets (data, services, computing) across the boundaries of institutions, disciplines and providers to favour collaborative-oriented research tasks. Its primary goal is to enable Hybrid Data Infrastructures facilitating the dynamic definition and operation of Virtual Research Environments. To this end, it offers a comprehensive set of data management commodities on various types of data and a rich array of ``mediators'' to interface well-established Infrastructures and Information Systems from various domains. Its effectiveness has been proved by operating the D4Science.org infrastructure and serving concrete, multidisciplinary, challenging, and large scale scenarios. This paper gives an overview of the gCube system.
Author Comment
This is a submission to PeerJ Computer Science for review.