Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice Overview: Clusters

This page is dedicated to document the services and resources expected to be made available, grouped by EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. cluster.

Each clusters is described in its own page:

• the Statistical cluster page;
• the Biodiversity cluster page;
• the Geospatial cluster page;
• the Semantic technologies cluster page;

The cluster pages describes EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. desiderata grouped in terms of a composition of services and resources, delivered as a single unit to the CoPCommunity of Practice.. Such a single unit may be a service, a resource, a VREVirtual Research Environment., a consolidated report or other object, etc. One cluster may contain many of such units. This approach is taken to facilitiate the discussion in the CoPCommunity of Practice.. The requirements collection is completely separated from the implementation discussion, and the CoPCommunity of Practice. retains all freedom to structure its desiderata.

The Requirements page 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 cluster pages are the result of that collection and discussion process.