VRE Procedure: VRE Creation

Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are the cooperation environments defined in the context of a Virtual Organisation (VOVirtual Organization;) that user communities are provided with, in order to accomplish specific, potentially time-framed, tasks.

The creation of a VREVirtual Research Environment. is a straightforward task that is supported by a dedicated set of user friendly facilities. These facilities are conceived to support the following phases:

• a definition phase during which a user having the role of VREVirtual Research Environment. Designer specifies the characteristics of a new VREVirtual Research Environment. conceived to serve an application scenario;
• an approval phase during which a user having the role of VREVirtual Research Environment. Manager decides whether the specified VREs have to be accepted or rejected. For what is concerned with the accepted VREVirtual Research Environment., the VREVirtual Research Environment. Manager decides also how this VREVirtual Research Environment. has to be deployed, e.g. which hosting nodes will be exploited;
• a verification phase during which a user having the role of VREVirtual Research Environment. Manager validates a VREVirtual Research Environment. resulting from the approval phase;
• a management phase during which a user having the role of VREVirtual Research Environment. Manager operates on a deployed VREVirtual Research Environment. in order to customise specific aspects (e.g. the layout governing the placement of user interfaces constituents a.k.a. portlets) or monitor the operational state of the VREVirtual Research Environment. as a whole.

Additional details are available in the Administrator Guide.