User's Guide

The User's guide is targeted towards the end-user of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). It focuses on the community portals that provide access to the VRE capabilities for content management and collaboration.

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Basic Facilities

Log in

Organizing your Workspace

Data Management Facilities

Defining and Executing Document Workflows

Producing Reports

Data Consumption Facilities

Accessing and Visualising Geospatial Data

Data Mining via the Statistical Manager

Producing AquaMaps Objects

Browsing AquaMaps Objects

Search for and Browse Information Objects

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1. Introduction
2. Basic Concepts
3. Common Functionality
   1. Workspace
   2. Login to a VO/VRE
   3. Search
      1. Select Collections
      2. Search
         1. Search panel
         2. Browse panel
         3. Refine Search panel
            1. Refine the results of submitted queries
            2. Submit queries from user's workspace
      3. Common Browsing Activities
      4. The Basket
      5. Transforming the selected object
   4. User Profile Management
      1. User Profile Editing
   5. Report Management
      1. Template Creation
      2. Report Generation
   6. Time Series
   7. AquaMaps Suite
   8. Course Management
   9. Document Workflows
      1. Workflow Editor : Create and Manage workflow templates
      2. Document Workflow Manager : Create and Manage document workflows
      3. My Document Workflows : Edit and View your document workflows
   10. Time Series
   11. AquaMaps : Species Distribution and Biodiversity Maps
       1. Species Explorer
       2. Data Management Facility
   12. Scalable Data Mining
       1. Tutorial on Experiments Execution
   13. GeoExplorer : a visualization portlet for geo-spatial data
   14. WebApp Management
       1. Web Application Management
       2. WAR Management
   15. Data Transfer Facility
       1. Scheduler Portlet
       2. Storage Manager Portlet
4. Usage Scenarios
   1. Login to a portal instance and select a VRE
   2. Perform a search and view the metadata of a record
   3. Annotating Information Objects
   4. Send a workspace area item to another user
   5. Acces workspace from Desktop
5. References
6. Bibliography
7. Glossary