BELIEF Project

1. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers BELIEF Project Moacyr Martucci Junior Escola Politécnca Universidade de São Paulo Santiago – September 2006

2. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers Topics • Why BELIEF; • BELIEF Events; • BELIEF Community Member; • Collaboration for Scientific Repositories; • Consortium Partners. Santiago – September 2006

3. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers Why BELIEF Outcome Widespread an effective exploitation and development of e-infrastructure internationally, adding value to industry, research….and society. Santiago – September 2006

4. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers Why BELIEF Aim Create a Natural reference point and a platform for communication and knowledge sharing for e-infrastructure users and providers. Santiago – September 2006

5. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers Why BELIEF Method • An Online Digital Library with search and contact facilities; • An Offline set of activities aiming: • brainstorming to develop ideas; • networking and conferences to create collaborations; • publications to disseminate knowledge on e–infrastructures focusing their trends and implications. Santiago – September 2006

6. BELIEF: to expand frontiers creating Why BELIEF • Synergies and knowledge exchange between the research infrastructure competencies of Europe; • Collaborations between Europe’s e-infrastructure and those in emerging economies, Latin America in particular, and India. Expanding frontiers means also: new user communities; creating awareness of new possibilities that e-infrastructures opens up. Santiago – September 2006

7. Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers Why BELIEF BELIEF Objectives • A Common communication and knowledge Platform for all e-infrastructure Communities; • A portal with access to a digital library of e-infrastructure documentation and facility to Search and Contact members; • Networking and Knowledge Exchange between members (communities from Research and Industry) as well as policy bodies in Europe and beyond. Santiago – September 2006

8. BELIEF Events • 2 International networking events with major potential user communities with focus on Industry; • 2 International conferences in India and Brazil as a platform to exchange experiences, to show results and to learn about the development in emerging economies; • 4 Brainstorming events on strategic multidisciplinary topics. Santiago – September 2006

9. BELIEF Community Member • Your profile may be viewed by other members from the Research & Scientific Communities; • You can access the Digital Library and retrieve e-Infrastructure documentation; • You can access the e-Concertation Fora discussions; • You can download public BELIEF materials, (ie: Research & Industry Handbook. Santiago – September 2006

10. BELIEF Community Member The Latin America role • Exchange knowledge; • Use BELIEF to disseminate your successes and inform the communities; • Be informed of FP7 chances; • BELIEF is fostering the synergize between the research infrastructure and grid projects in Latin America, Europe and India. Santiago – September 2006

11. BELIEF Community Member What BELIEF can do for the other projects • DL Hosting service; • DL Access service; • Exchange knowledge. Santiago – September 2006

12. BELIEF Community Member Why Register • Digital library: Single Information Source for e-infrastructure projects with Precise search returns; Bridging users with providers; and a good Tool for coherent development of e-infrastructure; • Search and Contact many e-infrastructure stakeholders; • Access to the Belief Project and event outputs; • Information on events and news; • Raise Profile of Latin America e-infrastructures and create collaboration opportunities. Santiago – September 2006

13. BELIEF Community Member How Register Access: www.beliefproject.org And you will be able to be itself registered. Santiago – September 2006

14. Collaboration for Scientific Repositories The idea Europe-wide, or even world-wide, content repositories that will serve as infrastructure for scientific (even daily life?) activities across the continent and world. With Content-provision services offered at a large scale by charting a roadmap to establishing large-scale Knowledge Infrastructures: • Technical - large scale knowledge infrastructures; • Organisational – organizational model; • User-oriented – quality and ‘service’. Santiago – September 2006

15. Collaboration for Scientific Repositories Repository system Tool for self-archiving digital documents in a publicly accessible website • Mandatory functionality: • Deposit; • Store and maintain; • Access; • Features: • digital object model; • metadata formats; • policies support; • Functionality. • Additional functionality: • Search; • Preservation; • Users & rights management. Santiago – September 2006

16. Consortium Partners 1 - Metaware SpA (IT); 2 - The Institute of Information Science and Technology CNR – ISTI (IT); 3 - The University of Athens (GR); 4 - The Education & Research Network ERNET (IN); 5 - ENGITECH – (IE); 6 - Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (BR); 7 - University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Santiago – September 2006

17. Contact us oninfo@beliefproject.org and register to become a BELIEF Community member at www.beliefproject.org Thank You Santiago – September 2006