CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval) – started as 6th EC Program
Its objectives are research, implement, and disseminate innovative solutions for digital preservation based on the OAIS reference model (ISO:14721:2003), by building a set of tools. http://www.casparpreserves.eu
Climate-G It is a distributed testbed for climate change addressing challenging data and metadata management issues at a very large scale (based on OGC services, CMCC metadata solution leveraging P2P and grid technologies). http://grelc.unile.it:8080/ClimateG-DDC
D4Science (Distributed Collaboratories Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology for Science) It aims at establishing networking, grid-based, and data-centric e-Infrastructures that accelerate multidisciplinary research (focus on data heterogeneity, sustainability and scalability). http:// www.d4science.eu
DEGREE (Dissemination and Exploitation of GRids in Earth science) It aims to build a bridge linking the ES and GRID communities throughout Europe. http://www.eu-degree.eu/
DPE (DigitalPreservationEurope) Building on the earlier successful work of ERPANET, DPE facilitates pooling of the complementary expertise that exists across the academic research, cultural, public administration and industry sectors in Europe. http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/
DRIVERII (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) It establishes a network of relevant experts and Open Access repositories. They use in particular OAI-PMH and OAI-DC (syntactical layer) and vocabularies (semantic layer). http://www.driver-support.eu
enviroGRIDS (Black Sea Catchment project) It aims to bring several emerging information technologies for a sustainable system. A work package is dedicated to spatial data infrastructure (SDI) with particular focus on the specification of interoperability standards to be used in the project. http://www.envirogrids.net/
GEOLAND - Integrated GMES Project on land cover and vegetation It aims to develop and demonstrate a range of reliable, affordable and cost efficient European geo-information services, supporting the implementation of European directives and their national implementation, as well as European and International policies. http://www.gmes-geoland.info/index.php
HIDDRA (Highly Independent Data Distribution and Retrieval Architecture for Earth Observation Missions) It proposes solutions to distribute data to the scientific community by means a novel architecture that solves the problem of the heterogeneity of data, networks and architectures. http://www.springerlink.com/content/p4u544483np5304k/
HMA (Heterogeneous Missions Accessibility) It aims to define the interoperability concept across the ground segments of the European, Canadian and EUMETSAT missions which shall contribute to the initial phase of GMES (following OGC/ISO specifications and standards. http://wiki.services.eoportal.org/tiki-index.php?page=HMA%20Wiki
INSPIRE(Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) was published in the official Journal on the 25th April 2007. The INSPIRE Directive entered into force on the 15th May 2007.The initiative intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial information infrastructure that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services. http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
MERSEA (Marine EnviRonment and Security for the European Area) It aims to develop a European system for operational monitoring and forecasting on global and regional scales of the ocean physics, biogeochemistry and ecosystems (product search facility, product standard ISO19115 descrption) http://www.mersea.eu.org/
OMII (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute)-Europe It has been established to provide key interoperable Grid components for building e-Infrastructures within the European Research Area (ERA). http:// www.omii-europe.org
PARSE (Permanent Access Records Science Europe) A two-year project co-funded by the European Union which aims to develop a roadmap and recommendations for developing the e-infrastructure in order to maintain the long-term accessibility and usability of scientific digital information in Europe. http://www.parse-insight.eu/
SOSI (Spatial Observation Services and Infrastructure) It aims to define an innovative infrastructure within the context of land monitoring initiatives at European level (following Service Oriented Architecture, i.e. SOA principles) http://wiki.services.eoportal.org/tiki-slideshow.php?page=SOSI%20Wiki&slide=1
