LifeWatch

Title: E-science and technology infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research

Summary: LifeWatch will construct and bring into operation the facilities, hardware, software and governance structures in an e-Infrastructure for research on the protection, management and sustainable use of biodiversity.

The infrastructure includes facilities for data generation and processing; a network of observatories and sensors; facilities for data integration and interoperability; means to create work flows of analytical and modelling tools; and a Service Centre providing special services for scientific and policy users, including training and research opportunities for young scientists.

Its Grid-enabled design supports access to and the integration of external resources such as data from associated infrastructures and distributed computational capacity from high performance clusters. User groups may create their own e-laboratories or e-services within the common architecture of the infrastructure. Any new data will be channeled to the appropriate external resources such as GBIF. LifeWatch enables distributed large scale and collaborative research on complex and multidisciplinary problems.

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