Building an e-infrastructure for capture statistics and species distribution modeling: the D4science approach

Fisheries Resources Management has an ever increasing demand for capture data with ever finer geographical resolution, and an ever greater number of environmental variables to take into account. The management information process requires access to relevant documentation and source data. To support such demanding scenarios a promising approach is based on e-Infrastructures. By definition, an e-Infrastructure is a framework enabling secure, cost-effective and on-demand resource sharing across domain boundaries.The potentially unlimited availability of resources allows a new development paradigm based on the notion of Virtual Research Environment, i.e., an integrated environment that provides seamless access to resources and offers facilities for communication, collaboration and interaction among scientists and researchers. This presentation focuses on the implementation of this innovative approach in the context of D4Science.