From the infrastructure to the communities

GENESI-DEC is the follower of a previous project called GENESI-DR. The focus of this previous project was enabling the federation different Digital Repositories (the "DR" of "GENESI-DR") and provide a central site which provides search and other facilities in a centralized way.

With the GENESI-DEC the team is trying to go one step further and the focus shifted more to the users rather the infrastructure. The users are the so-called Digitial Earth Communities (DEC).

GENESI-DEC team selected a set of DECs and is working for analizyng their use case and make them feasible improving the infrastructure and/or developing new software that will use the infrastructure.

The role of JRC

JRC is one of the partners participating this project. The project is divided in work packages, we are involved in those packages:

• WP2: Dissemination, Community Bulding, Training and Standardisation
• WP3: Digital Earth Communities, external infrastructure projects and applciations
• WP4: Deployment and Operation
• WP6: Geo-Semantics, Ontology, and Workflows

More specifically JRC is involved in these activities:

• Evolution of the NOR Service developed in the previous GENESI-DR project (NOR stands for Near real ORthorectification)
• Developmemnt of a nor-client
• Integration of Data Repository in the GENESI-DEC central catalogue
• Contributions to the definition of the semantic framework for cataloguing of the data series
• Contribution to the dissemination and standardization activities