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Spinotto di connessione telefonica The DILIGENT project is creating an advanced test-bed that will allow virtual e-Science communities to share knowledge and collaborate in a secure, coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way.

The DILIGENT test-bed will be built by integrating Grid and Digital Library (DL) technologies. Merging of these different technologies will lay the foundations for a next generation e-Science knowledge infrastructure with many different research and industrial applications.

The test-bed will be demonstrated and validated by two complementary real-life application scenarios: one from the environmental e-science domain and one from the cultural heritage domain. The first user community is composed of representatives from leading organisations that operate in the environmental sector; the second consists of scholars, distributed all over the world working together in a three-year project to merge the medical, humanity, social science and communication research areas.

The DILIGENT infrastructure, which will build upon the efforts of the EGEE project, is funded in part by the European Community’s Information Society Technologies priority of the Sixth Framework Programme.

You are invited to explore our website to learn more about DILIGENT, the people behind the project and our objectives and activities.

DILIGENT Data Challenge on EGEE Infrastructure

Geneva, December 2007 - The success of DILIGENT's recent data challenge on image feature extraction, executed on the EGEE infrastructure, has enabled one of the world's largest collections of multimedia metadata to be made publicly available for research purposes.
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Diligent releases the gCube system version 1.0

The DILIGENT project is pleased to announce the DILIGENT release Final, the official release of the DILIGENT software. Developed under the intense coordination of 7 geographically distributed teams, and integrated by another 4, DILIGENT is a complex system and the release Final represents the achievement of a major milestone in the project. The release Final is the foundation infrastructure on which DILIGENT will provide on-demand digital libraries to dynamic virtual organizations by exploiting the high-computing capacities of the grid.

82 components were integrated, packaged and made officially available in the release Final, together with the associated documentation. Furthermore, the release Final exploits a number of standards specification and application frameworks. The DILIGENT release Final will be made publicly available.

http://www.gcube-system.org/final/final.html

European Information Space Workshop - Rome, Oct 2007

The European Information Space workshop, organized by DILIGENT with the support of FAO, has taken place in Rome, on the 29th and 30th Oct 2007. The workshop's programme .
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Diligent expands over the GRID

Diligent is further expanding into GRID territory. Three more diligent partners (ENG, UNIBAS and UOA) are entering Pre-Production gLite community.
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DILIGENT workshop at JCDL 2007

DILIGENT organized a joint workshop on Building Digital Libraries on Service Oriented Architectures, together with BRICKS and DELOS projects on Tuesday, June 19, during the JCDL 2007, in Vancouver, Canada.
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gCube

gCube, the middleware that powers the DILIGENT testbed, is currently under the beta release integration phase. More info is available on the gCube web site http://www.gcube-system.org/