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ICIS

Current Situation

The ICIS VREVirtual Research Environment. is a complete data-management suit that exploits many of the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. technologies.

It allows the upload of data from a variety of sources (csv, workspace, SDMX), and offers many data management facilities for sorting, filtering, merging, etc. It also includes advanced work-flow support, with each modification captured as a 'metadata' type information. the resulting TimeSeries are rich objects, which can be:

• geospatially explicit (georeferenced) and diplayed in an integrated MapViewer;
• exported to an integrated R-environment;
• saved and reused in the integrated reporting environment, such as in FCPPS;
• etc.

An extensive description of the requirements is available through the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative.-II wiki: ICIS-Senario

ICIS is accessible throuh the portal if you have been provided with user credentials

The user-guide of ICIS is available here: guide

SPREAD

The SPatial REallocation of Aquatic Data (SPREAD) aims to provide the movement of geospatial explicit data from one resolution to another.

The Use Cases were already descibed in D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative.-II, and can be found under the Advanced Curation Use Case.

It was included there, because in the context of D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative.-II, the starting point for a re-allocation is a TS-Object, and the re-allocation was perceived as a precision of geospatial location of a reported capture without much reasoning or change of the reported values; an advanced type of curation.

A progress report on SPREAD accomplishments and opportunities can be found here.

OpenSDMX

An important feature of ICIS is the growing support of parts of the SDMX standard. To foster a community development effort, FAO initiated the OpenSDMX initiative. For current requirement, read more on the Cluster page for OpenSDMX.