The FishFinder Virtual Research Environment

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Description

The FishFinderVRE is established to elaborate Species Fact Sheets, fill / view their metadata, and select data for download and-or display in a Stand-alone version of the VREVirtual Research Environment..

The explicit purpose is to enable some 50 authors to prepare hundreds of species fact sheets. The tools will be operated by one VREVirtual Research Environment. manager in FAO, and builds heavily on FCPPS.

The FishFinderVRE is a fact-sheet tool, and will allow to define, pre-fill, and elaborate a fact sheet using a template. It will be marshaled by a work flow, with one VREVirtual Research Environment. manager communicating with dozens of authors globally distributed.

A fact-sheet will be given a scientific species name from a controlled list. The structure will rely on a template structure, that governs the structure of each individual fact-sheet / report. The user fill this template, for e.g. taxonomic names, characteristics, etc. Data can be either visible data or invisible metadata. The users will be assigned their tasks on particular fact-sheets through the work-flow features of the reporting environment.

URI: https://portal.i-marine.d4science.org/group/fishfindervre

The FishFinder Virtual Research Environment Homepage

Functionality

The main facilities this VREVirtual Research Environment. offers are:

  • Reporting facilities: to enable users to collaboratively produce reports consisting in complex documents characterised by well defined structures (templates). Via this facility, users can define new templates as well as collaboratively create new reports compliant with defined templates. Reports might contain diverse elements ranging from texts to images and tables, and such constituents can result from objects stored in the user workspace. Reports can be materialised in multiple formats including PDF, HTML and OpenXML;
  • Documents Workflow facilities: to enable users (i) to define complex workflows (including steps and roles users should have to perform certain steps) governing the production of gCube documents, (ii) to instantiate such workflows to actual documents to be collaboratively created, and (iii) to monitor workflow execution;
  • Workspace: to enable every user to store and organise the information objects he/she is interested to work with. In addition to that, the user is allowed to collaborate with other users by sharing objects and messages;
  • VREVirtual Research Environment. Management: to enable authorised users (i.e. VREVirtual Research Environment. Managers) to manage other users using or willing to access the VREVirtual Research Environment.. VREVirtual Research Environment. Managers are enabled to (i) authorise users in accessing the VREVirtual Research Environment., (ii) assign or withdraw roles to users, (iii) remove users, and (iv) send a communication to the current users.

Data

No data.

Software

  • (DONE) gCube 2.13.0 (March '13);
  • (DONE) gCube 2.14.0 (May '13);
  • (DONE) gCube 2.15.0 (June '13);
  • (DONE) gCube 2.16.0 (July '13);
  • (DONE) gCube 2.17.0 (December '13);
  • (DONE) gCube 2.17.1 (December '13);
  • (DONE) gCube 3.0.0 (March '14);