BELIEF II (Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers - Phase II)

Collaboration between D4Science and BELIEF II spans over all the three areas addressed by the project. In particular, D4Science exploits the BELIEF DL as a third-party service which not only disseminates the project's documents but also manages and administers them by providing an appropriate repository service. Through ad-hoc Web submission forms D4Science registered users (authentication and authorization are managed by the BELIEF DL on behalf of D4Science) can upload project documents into the BELIEF repository. These documents become then visible through the BELIEF DL and through the D4Science web site. This feature is enabled by a "plug-and-play" search capability embedded in the D4Science web site which allows users to search for material of interest within the D4Science collection in the BELIEF DL.

D4Science also participated in the events organized by the BELIEF II project. In particular, it participated in the 5th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting "e-Infrastructures as Standardisation Drivers", in June 2008 in Barcelona. This event was dedicated to reinforce and extend the cooperation between the major standard bodies and EU-funded projects for the effective development and wider use of EU e-Infrastructure and to intensify and optimise human interaction and synergies among projects in order to facilitate production, deployment and use of standards. These topics were particularly appreciated by D4Science since building on standards is one of the major D4Science goals.