Research Community. The Genesis II platform is an interoperable (via adherence to community standards), freely available, and flexible platform for developing and evaluating new grid technologies and models. Genesis II serves to vet and validate the standardization efforts within the OGF and OGSA standards communities. Grid research is a dynamic field of study, and many challenges remain. Particular areas that we focus on are data access, security (confidentiality, data integrity, access control, policy negotiation), dependability (availability, SLA’s, policy languages), and grid standards. The UVACSE Director, Xx. Xxxxxxxx, is the co-architect of XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment). XSEDE is the replacement for the TeraGrid project that started more than a decade ago. The XSEDE architecture includes the extensive use of standard protocols including the use of Genesis II implementations of standards to realize both the Global Federated File System (GFFS) and the XSEDE grid queue. Rights and Responsibilities
Research Community. The project results will address the research community active in the area of robotics, and specifically in space and submarine sectors. The expected innovative results are both methodological and technological with a multidisciplinary dimensions, since several research areas can be identified in PULSAR: • autonomous assembly in space, • segmented mirror telescopes, • free-floating manipulation, • attitude and orbit control system (AOCS), • simulation of manipulator arms and orbital environments, • on-orbit tracking of structured objects and visual servoing, • Space-qualified mechanical and electrical interfaces. The results will contribute to the current research effort on this recent issue of on-orbit servicing and will be presented in national and international conferences and workshops.
Research Community. To carry out projects in close collaboration with industry. To support R&D programmes and research in low cost materials.
Research Community. The biodiversity research community at large has a vested interest in online data. Whether data is derived from specimens kept in larger museums or small private collections is much less important than the certainty of high data quality and reliable identifications. The already mentioned survey carried out in another task of the ICEDIG project4 in 2018 showed that the overall size of private collections and the data they contain is impressive and for specific groups or geographic areas unique. The research community is organised in a multitude of programs, platforms and projects both at the national and international level. These platforms (e.g. CETAF, DiSSCo) should be made aware of the importance of private collections as a potential source for biodiversity data. Not only is more communication required but an online tool providing access to high level information of private collections would also be a great asset to raise awareness and to facilitate searching these collections. Once the research community is aware of the (importance of) private collections they may actually be able to contribute to digitisation and online publication for instance by allocating funding, facilities or manpower. More in particular, the roadmap for the research community regarding the digitisation and online publication of private collections could comprise: ● to create an online access portal with information about individual private collections, ● where (inter-)nationally feasible, to look for opportunities to organise stakeholders into setting up a joint approach for aspects related to the digitisation of private collections, ● to develop a communication strategy together with other stakeholders.
