The document discusses PARTHENOS, a project that aims to integrate digital humanities by providing an underlying e-infrastructure. It describes PARTHENOS as offering services like collection, storage, analysis and access of data. These services are implemented through technical frameworks and can be accessed by users through virtual research environments. Specific examples of communities served include those in archaeology, marine biodiversity and fisheries/aquaculture. Usage statistics for the underlying D4Science infrastructure and early PARTHENOS adoption numbers are also provided.

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Parthenos underlying infrastructure
Introducing PARTHENOS – integrating the digital humanities,
14th December 2016, Prato, Italy
Donatella Castelli
CNR-ISTI

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CONTEXT
e-Infrastructure
Elecronic platform operated by a responsible entity offering an open set
of basic enabling services (including access to resources) to a
distributed Community of Practice
Data infrastructure
“e-Infrastructure” offering services for colletion, deposition, storage,
preservation, access, retrieval, analysis/mining/processing, publication,
etc.
Data infrastructure for research
Data infrastructure offering services for the research communities
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More on Infrastructures
The plumber view
How the services are implemented and
operated
User services
The chef view

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Integrates
WPS
e-Infrastructure commons
External e-Infrastructures, repositories & services
”Physical view”
The way in which
infrastrastructure
services are
implemented
THE PLUMBER VIEW
Analytics
Aggregator
Storage
Mediator Collaboration
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Registry

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THE PLUMBER VIEW: D4Science.org architecture
Mediators / Adapters
Analytics Framework Aggregator Framework
Infrastructures and Service Providers
Collaborative Services Core Services
Resource Mgr.
VRE Mgr.
Authentication, Authorization,
Accounting, Policy Mgmt.
Resource
Registry
Content Cloud
Registry
Social Networking Workspace User Mgmt.
Standard
based
Ad-hoc
mediators
Collect
Transform
Clean
Dashboard
Process
Workflow
Index
Access
Store
Storage Framework
Store Interface Access Interface
Storage and
Computing Resources
Monitoring
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E-services
(Aggregator’s
data sources)
API
ftp
OAI
PMH
http
File
system
OAI
PMH
sftp
Collector
Service
Native
MDStore
Transformator
and cleaner
Service
Transformed
MDStore
Index
Service
OAI store
Service
OAI
store
OAI-PMH API
Metadata inspector
Aggregator Framework
Key components
Resource
Registry
Content
Cloud
Registry
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The Chef View: Virtual Research Environments
WPS
e-Infrastructure commons
Unified Resource Space
Enables
VRE
VRE
VRE
External e-Infrastructures
”Logical view”
The way in which
infrastrastructure
services are
perceived by the
users and how
they are exploited
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OTHER SERVED COMMUNITIES
4. Processing and
management of
heterogeneous
environmental and
Earth system data
www.envriplus.eu
1. Social Mining & Big Data
Ecosystem, a research
infrastructure for ethic-
sensitive scientific discoveries
and advanced applications of
social data mining.
www.sobigdata.eu
5. Used to build a
pan- European
geothermal energy
map
www.egip.d4science.org
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2. Marine Biodiversity
More than 25 000
taxonomic
studies per month
More than 60 000 species
distribution maps
produced and hosted
www.d4science.eu
3. Fisheries & Aquaculture
Increasing scientific
knowledge to enlarge the
spectrum of growth
opportunities as
addressed by the Blue
Growth Societal Challenge

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D4Science: NUMBERS
as on 13 December 2016
+ 430 millions service invocations in the last year
+ 1600 distinct caller hosts
+ 3100 users in 52 countries (133 PARTHENOS users)
+ VREs users belonging to 443 distinct institutions
+ 99.8% service availability

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PARTHENOS: NUMBERS
Archaeology
•• Ariadne
•• 600,000 from Cultura
Italia
Descriptions of
language res, tools,
lexicons, corpora
••~200,000 from CLARIN
•• ~2,000 from LRE Map
(CNR-ILC)
••- ~2,600 from
METASHARE (CNR-ILC)
Archival descriptions
•• 600,000 from
CENDARI
••~200,000 from EHRI
•• CH collections
CH collections
••~1,600 from DARIAH
Description of
resources for Hum&
Social sciences
•• ~4M 500K resources
from HumaNum

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MORE ON VREs
Web-based, community-oriented, comprehensive, flexible, and
secure working environments
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• Define sub-communities
• Allow temporary dedicated assignment of computational, storage, and data
resources
• Simplify the management of accounting, authentication and authorization
• Hide resources configuration and setup
• Facilitate data and information sharing
• Facilitate collaboration

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VRE DEFINITION
Configuration
ServiceMetadata
Data
Simple and effective process
to define a new environment
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CURATION VRE
Inside a VRE
CurationVRE Members ActivityTracker Curation Disambiguation Search
User-shared
News
Application-
shared News
Share News

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SHARED WORKSPACE
ü Files, dataset, workflows, computational anaysis, etc.
ü Shared, disseminated via public URLs
Conferenza DIITET 2016, Rome, 22-23 November 2016
CURATION VRE

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Donatella.castelli@isti.cnr.it
Parthenos: www.parthenos-project.eu
D4Science Web site: http://www.d4science.org; info@d4science.org
gCube Web site: http://www.gcube-system.org
VREs: https://services.d4science.org/web/guest/virtual-research-environments
D-NET web site: http://www.d-net.research-infrastructures.eu