267 research outputs found

    Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences

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    This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single community. It provides readers with a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures and how a ‘reference model guided’ engineering approach can be used to achieve greater interoperability among such infrastructures in the environmental and earth sciences. The 20 contributions in this book are structured in 5 parts on the design, development, deployment, operation and use of research infrastructures. Part one provides an overview of the state of the art of research infrastructure and relevant e-Infrastructure technologies, part two discusses the reference model guided engineering approach, the third part presents the software and tools developed for common data management challenges, the fourth part demonstrates the software via several use cases, and the last part discusses the sustainability and future directions

    Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences

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    This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single community. It provides readers with a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures and how a ‘reference model guided’ engineering approach can be used to achieve greater interoperability among such infrastructures in the environmental and earth sciences. The 20 contributions in this book are structured in 5 parts on the design, development, deployment, operation and use of research infrastructures. Part one provides an overview of the state of the art of research infrastructure and relevant e-Infrastructure technologies, part two discusses the reference model guided engineering approach, the third part presents the software and tools developed for common data management challenges, the fourth part demonstrates the software via several use cases, and the last part discusses the sustainability and future directions

    EPOS Security & GDPR Compliance

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    Since May 2018, companies have been required to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means that many companies had to change their methods of collecting and processing EU citizens’ data. The compliance process can be very expensive, for example, more specialized human resources are needed, who need to study the regulations and then implement the changes in the IT applications and infrastructures. As a result, new measures and methods need to be developed and implemented, making this process expensive. This project is part of the EPOS project. EPOS allows data on earth sciences from various research institutes in Europe to be shared and used. The data is stored in a database and in some file systems and in addition, there is web services for data mining and control. The EPOS project is a complex distributed system and therefore it is important to guarantee not only its security, but also that it is compatible with GDPR. The need to automate and facilitate this compliance and verification process was identified, in particular the need to develop a tool capable of analyzing applications web. This tool can provide companies in general an easier and faster way to check the degree of compliance with the GDPR in order to assess and implement any necessary changes. With this, PADRES was developed that contains the main points of GDPR organized by principles in the form of checklist which are answered manually. When submitted, a security analysis is also performed based on NMAP and ZAP together with the cookie analyzer. Finally, a report is generated with the information obtained together with a set of suggestions based on the responses obtained from the checklist. Applying this tool to EPOS, most of the points related to GDPR were answered as being in compliance although the rest of the suggestions were generated to help improve the level of compliance and also improve general data management. In the exploitation of vulnerabilities, some were found to be classified as high risk, but most were found to be classified as medium risk.Desde maio de 2018 que as empresas precisam de cumprir o Regulamento Geral de Proteção de Dados (GDPR). Isso significa que muitas empresas tiveram que mudar seus métodos de como recolhem e processam os dados dos cidadãos da UE. O processo de conformidade pode ser muito caro, por exemplo, são necessários recursos humanos mais especializados, que precisam estudar os regulamentos e depois implementar as alterações nos aplicativos e infraestruturas de TI. Com isso novas medidas e métodos precisam ser desenvolvidos e implementados, tornando esse processo caro. Este projeto está inserido no projeto European Plate Observing System (EPOS). O EPOS permite que dados sobre ciências da terra de vários institutos de pesquisa na Europa sejam compartilhados e usados. Os dados são armazenados em base de dados e em alguns sistema de ficheiros e além disso, existem web services para controle e mineração de dados. O projeto EPOS é um sistema distribuído complexo e portanto, é importante garantir não apenas sua segurança, mas também que seja compatível com o GDPR. Foi identificada a necessidade de automatizar e facilitar esse processo, em particular a necessidade de desenvolver uma ferramenta capaz de analisar aplicações web. Essa ferramenta, chamada PrivAcy, Data REgulation and Security (PADRES) pode fornecer às empresas uma maneira mais fácil e rápida de verificar o grau de conformidade com o GDPR com o objetivo de avaliar e implementar quaisquer alterações necessárias. Com isto, esta ferramenta contém os pontos principais do General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) organizado por princípios em forma duma lista de verificação, os quais são respondidos manualmente. Como os conceitos de privacidade e segurança se complementam, foi também incluída a procura por vulnerabilidades em aplicações web. Ao integrar as ferramentas de código aberto como o Network Mapper (NMAP) ou Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), é possível então testar a aplicações contra as vulnerabilidades mais frequentes segundo o Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10. Aplicando esta ferramenta no EPOS, a maioria dos pontos relativos ao GDPR foram respondidos como estando em conformidade apesar de nos restantes terem sido geradas as respetivas sugestões para ajudar a melhorar o nível de conformidade e também melhorar o gerenciamento geral dos dados. Na exploração das vulnerabilidades foram encontradas algumas classificadas com risco elevado mas na maioria foram encontradas mais com classificação média

    Lithosphere 2021 : Eleventh symposium on structure, composition and evolution of the lithosphere

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    Programme and extended abstract

    Online development in the Nordic countries : a history of online information from the 1960s to the '00s and NORDINFO's role in its development

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    Some of the contributions to this book have previously been published as unedited manuscripts in 2007 at http://hdl.handle.net/1975/149

    Geosciences Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2025–2028 by the Swiss Geosciences Community

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    This community roadmap presents an integrative approach including the most urgent infrastructure requests for the future development of geosciences in Switzerland. It recommends to strengthen the multidisciplinary nature of the geosciences by putting all activities under the roof of the Integrated Swiss Geosciences supported by four specific research infrastructure pillars. The roadmap represents the view of the Swiss scientific community in the field of geosciences and is a formal element of the process to elaborate the Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2023. This bottom-up contribution to the identification and selection of important national and international research infrastructures has been coordinated by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) on a mandate by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).ISSN:2297-1564ISSN:2297-157

    Analysis of cross-industry interactions to reach a resource-eficient and low-carbon future

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    Emerging Informatics

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    The book on emerging informatics brings together the new concepts and applications that will help define and outline problem solving methods and features in designing business and human systems. It covers international aspects of information systems design in which many relevant technologies are introduced for the welfare of human and business systems. This initiative can be viewed as an emergent area of informatics that helps better conceptualise and design new world-class solutions. The book provides four flexible sections that accommodate total of fourteen chapters. The section specifies learning contexts in emerging fields. Each chapter presents a clear basis through the problem conception and its applicable technological solutions. I hope this will help further exploration of knowledge in the informatics discipline
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