D4Science empowers you to build and manage customised Virtual Research Environments (VREs) tailored to the specific needs of your research community, fostering collaboration and accelerating scientific discovery. As a community or VRE manager, you can:
- Create and configure your own VREs by selecting the tools and applications needed for specific projects. You can integrate custom applications, define metadata schemas, and configure access control policies to meet the unique requirements of your users.
- Provide a secure and collaborative space for your community to share data, methods, tools, and results seamlessly. D4Science’s VREs include shared workspaces, social networking features, and messaging services to support a collaborative environment.
- Offer a range of services, such as data analytics, social networking, data publishing, and data storage, all within a single platform. The VRE can be extended and customised with community-specific resources to meet unique requirements.
- Utilise a robust infrastructure that ensures high availability and scalability to accommodate the growing needs of your community. D4Science’s platform is designed to be reliable and can manage large datasets.
- Promote open science practices within your community by making data, methods, and results easily discoverable and reusable. D4Science’s VREs are designed to support the entire research lifecycle and facilitate the sharing of research artifacts.
- Benefit from a co-creation approach that ensures the resulting VREs closely match the expectations of your designated communities, promoting community engagement in the development and evolution of VREs.
- Take advantage of the "as-a-Service" paradigm, which helps reduce costs and provide an elastic service. D4Science leverages economies of scale to keep development and operational costs low.
- Leverage the Community Framework to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing within your research community using social networking tools, messaging, wikis, and shared workspaces.
- Use the Data Publishing Framework to streamline the publication, discovery, and management of data, methods, libraries, and tools through a comprehensive set of services like the D4Science Catalogue and GeoNetwork.
- Utilise the Software Framework to support the development, deployment, and management of software projects, including version control and continuous integration/continuous delivery services.
- Manage the community VRE with the help of the Accounting service to track data usage and resource consumption.
- Provide training and educational activities by providing a platform for interactive learning and hands-on experience with advanced analytical tools.