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| − | The '''DILIGENT''' project is creating an advanced test-bed that will allow virtual '''e-Science''' communities to '''share knowledge''' and '''collaborate''' in a secure, coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way.
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| − | The DILIGENT test-bed will be built by integrating '''Grid''' and '''Digital Library (DL)''' technologies. Merging of these different technologies will lay the foundations for a next generation e-Science knowledge infrastructure with many different research and industrial applications.
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| − | The test-bed will be demonstrated and validated by two complementary real-life application scenarios: one from the environmental e-science domain and one from the cultural heritage domain. The first user community is composed of representatives from leading organisations that operate in the environmental sector; the second consists of scholars, distributed all over the world working together in a three-year project to merge the medical, humanity, social science and communication research areas.
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| − | The DILIGENT infrastructure, which will build upon the efforts of the '''EGEE''' project, is funded in part by the '''European Community’s Information Society Technologies''' priority of the '''Sixth Framework Programme'''.
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| − | For more information visit the [http://www.diligentproject.org Official Project Web Site]
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Revision as of 12:50, 10 January 2012
gCube is being developed by the gCube Technical Committee as the next generation middleware for data sharing and re-use on grid and private/public cloud infrastructures.
