EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity

نویسندگان

  • Rafael Amaral
  • Rosa M. Badia
  • Ignacio Blanquer
  • Leonardo Candela
  • Donatella Castelli
  • Renato De Giovanni
  • W. Alex Gray
  • Andrew C. Jones
  • Daniele Lezzi
  • Pasquale Pagano
  • Vanderlei Perez Canhos
  • Francisco Quevedo
  • Roger Rafanell
  • Vinod E. F. Rebello
  • Erik Torres
چکیده

EUBrazilOpenBio is a collaborative initiative addressing strategic barriers in biodiversity research by integrating open access data and user-friendly tools widely available in Brazil and Europe. The project deploys the EU-Brazil cloudbased e-infrastructure that allows the sharing of hardware, software and data on-demand. This e-Infrastructure provides access to several integrated services and resources to seamlessly aggregate taxonomic, biodiversity and climate data, used by processing services implementing checklist cross-mapping and ecological niche modelling. The concept of Virtual Research Environments is used to provide the users with a single entry point to processing and data resources. This article describes the architecture, demonstration use cases and initial experimental results. Keywords—Biodiversity, Data Infrastructure, Virtual Research Environments, Cloud, Taxonomy, Ecological niche modelling

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تاریخ انتشار 2013