Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice Overview

This page is dedicated to document the activities of the Ecosystem Approach Community of PracticeA term coined to capture an "activity system" that includes individuals who are united in action and in the meaning that "action" has for them and for the larger collective. The communities of practice are "virtual", ''i.e.'', they are not formal structures, such as departments or project teams. Instead, these communities exist in the minds of their members, are glued together by the connections they have with each other, as well as by their specific shared problems or areas of interest. The generation of knowledge in communities of practice occurs when people participate in problem solving and share the knowledge necessary to solve the problems. (EA-CoPCommunity of Practice.).

It will contain:

• the VRE planning page;
• the EA-COP Cluster collaboration page;
• the EA-CoP Milestones page;
• the EA-CoP Discussion page;

The VREVirtual Research Environment. planning describes the EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. desiderate in terms of a composition of services and resources, delivered as a packaged single unit to the CoPCommunity of Practice..

The cluster collaboration describes how the CoPCommunity of Practice. organizes the requirements collection and discussion on high-level topics in a set of organic, but also technological clusters; geospatial, biodiversity, statistics, and semantic technologies all are supported by technologies that overlap in functionality with other clusters, yet are still easily identifiable as falling within one of the clusters.

The Milestone page here will organize content that relates to the realization of EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. Milestones, and that does not specifically belong to the cluster or requirements sections.

The EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. Discussion page will contain different sections on internal meetings, links to documentation, links to relevant iMarine Board Channel sections etc.