A federated European FAIR and Open Research Ecosystem for oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters

Informazioni relative al progetto

Blue-Cloud 2026

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101094227

DOI

10.3030/101094227

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 1 Dicembre 2022

Data di avvio 1 Gennaio 2023

Data di completamento 30 Giugno 2026

Finanziato da

• Research infrastructures

Costo totale

€ 8 845 420,00

Contributo UE

€ 8 845 420,00

Coordinato da

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Italy

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Risultati finali

Documents, reports (15)

Data Management Plan

Plan covering availability to the consultation results, the data format, and methods to protect the availability of the data.

Blue-Cloud Stakeholders engagement and synergies, 1st report

1st overview of all the projects and infrastructures Blue-Cloud has establishedsynergies with.

Blue-Cloud VRE common services, 1st release

Report on the design principles and reference architectures of the released common services.

New Blue Data Infrastructures – Service Analysis ReporT

Detailed descriptions of the new to be connected BDIs (EMSO, EMBRC, SIOS, EMODnet Physics) with details on their local discovery and access mechanisms, types of data, metadata format, data formats, use of vocabularies, possible restrictions, and existing web services.

Individual Exploitation Plans of Virtual Labs

A compilation of the individual Exploitation Plans of each of the Virtual Labs set up in WP4.

Blue Cloud VLabs technical requirements

Report defining the technical requirements to set up the Vlabs.

Individual Exploitation Plans of Workbenches

A compilation of the individual Exploitation Plans of each of the Workbenches set up in WP3.

Existing DD&AS and Blue Data Infrastructures – Review and Specifications for Optimisation Report

Report with FAIRness review of existing BDI web services for discovery and access and existing DD&AS central services.

BDI sub-setting APIs and Data Lakes – Concept and Specifications Report

Report with descriptions and analyses of existing sub-setting services at each of the BDIs, formulation of common requirements for BDI sub-setting APIs, and how BDIs might adapt existing or develop new sub-setting APIs.

Blue-Cloud VRE federated infrastructures, 1st release

Report on the initial set of resources, tools and services federated to the Blue-Cloud VRE.

Tuning between Blue-Cloud Data Lakes and DTO development, 1st report

Progress report about the tuning process and the interfacing between the Blue-Cloud Data Lakes development and the DTO development.

Blue-Cloud VRE operation report

Report on the Blue Cloud VRE operation activity, including a detailed set of usage indicators.

Communication, Dissemination, Outreach and Education Plan, 2nd release

Intermediate version of the plan adopted to define a strategy with objectives and actions aimed at maximising the project impact and visibility.

Blue Cloud VLabs implementation guidelines

Report summarises the technical guidelines to be endorsed by the demonstrators developers.

Communication, Dissemination, Outreach and Education Plan, 1st release

First version of the plan adopted to define a strategy with objectives and actions aimed at maximising the project impact and visibility.

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

1st release of aggregated and harmonised EOV datasets

Preliminary aggregated and harmonised EOV datasets obtained thanks to each workbench.

Pubblicazioni

Other (6)

Applying Open Science principles to make a better use of IOTC data

Autori: Julien Barde, Bastien Grasset, Emmanuel Chassot, Sylvain Bonhommeau, Emmanuel Blondel
Editore: IOTC

CrowdAL: Towards a Blockchain-empowered Active Learning System in Crowd Data Labeling

Autori: Shaojie Hou, Yuandou Wang, Zhiming Zhao
Editore: Semantic Reader
DOI: 10.1109/E-SCIENCE62913.2024.10678683

Following the tuna trail: Contrasting global catch estimates from FAO and RFMOs

Autori: Bastien Grasset, Emmanuel Chassot, Julien Barde, James Geehan, Fabio Fiorellato
Editore: IOTC

Blue-Cloud 2026 - Federating European FAIR and Open Research Ecosystem for Marine Data,Federated Data Discovery and Access Service,Virtual Research environment service

Autori: Rita Meneses, Sara Pittonet, Dick Schaap, Enrico Boldrini, Massimiliano Assante, Luca Frosini, Leonardo Candela, Francesco Mangiacapra, Elisa Molinaro, Pasquale Pagano
Editore: IMDIS - INGV MISCELLANEA journal
DOI: 10.13127/MISC/80

Towards Privacy-, Budget-, and Deadline-Aware Service Optimization for Large Medical Image Processing across Hybrid Clouds

Autori: Yuandou Wang, Neel Kanwal, Kjersti Engan, Chunming Rong, Paola Grosso, Zhiming Zhao
Editore: Computing Research Repository

Towards Seamless Serverless Computing Across an Edge-Cloud Continuum

Autori: Emilian Simion; Yuandou Wang; Hsiang-ling Tai; Uraz Odyurt; Zhiming Zhao
Pubblicato in: Crossref, 2023
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.02271

Conference proceedings (11)

Ocean Data Quality Assessment through Outlier Detection-enhanced Active Learning

Autori: Li, Na; Qi, Yiyang; Xin, Ruyue; Zhao, Zhiming
Pubblicato in: Crossref, 2023
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.10817

CWL-FLOps: A Novel Method for Federated Learning Operations at Scale

Autori: Kontomaris, Chronis; Wang, Yuandou; Zhao, Zhiming
Pubblicato in: 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2023
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/e-science58273.2023.10254788

Interactive and Provenance-aware Search and QA over Documents using LLMs, RAG and Knowledge Graph Verbalization

Autori: Interactive and Provenance-aware Search and QA over Documents using LLMs, RAG and Knowledge Graph Verbalization
Editore: Springer

Monitoring Ocean Currents with High-Frequency Radars along the Portuguese Coast: Overview and Challenges

Autori: Vânia Lima; Luísa Lama
Editore: DSpace JSPUI

Retrieval-augmented Query Reformulation for Heterogeneous Research Asset Retrieval in Virtual Research Environment

Autori: Peide Zhu, Na Li, Zhiming Zhao
Pubblicato in: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2025
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3589335.3651553

PriCE: Privacy-Preserving and Cost-Effective Scheduling for Parallelizing the Large Medical Image Processing Workflow over Hybrid Clouds

Autori: Yuandou Wang, Neel Kanwal, Kjersti Engan, Chunming Rong, Paola Grosso, Zhiming Zhao
Pubblicato in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Euro-Par 2024: Parallel Processing, 2024
Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69577-3_15

Towards a Knowledge Graph Enhanced Automation and Collaboration Framework for Digital Twins

Autori: Christou, Vasileios; Wang, Yuandou; Zhao, Zhiming
Pubblicato in: 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2023
DOI: 10.1109/e-science58273.2023.10254845

Blue-Cloud First Federation Workshop

Autori: Coelho Abrantes, Marta; Moreira, João; Pereira, Filipa; Pagano, Pasquale; Schaap, Dick; Barde, Julien; Munnich, Matthias; Veylit, Lara; D'Onofrio, Claudio; Paneque, Julio; De Roeck, Yann-Hervé; Puillat, Ingrid; Konstantinou, Zoi
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14145698

Building a Global Aquatic Resource Knowledge Base for Fisheries

Autori: Yannis Marketakis, Yannis Tzitzikas, Aureliano Gentile, Anton Ellenbroek, Marc Taconet
Pubblicato in: HAICTA 2024, 2025
Editore: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/PROCEEDINGS2025117004

Towards a Privacy-Preserving Distributed Cloud Service for Preprocessing Very Large Medical Images

Autori: Wang, Yuandou; Kanwal, Neel; Engan, Kjersti; Rong, Chunming; Zhao, Zhiming
Pubblicato in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH), 2023
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.06266

Blue-Cloud Virtual Labs in Support of Sustainable Development Goals

Autori: Cyrielle Delvenne, Julien Barde, Alexander Barth, Abel Dechenne, Steven Pint, Francesco Palermo, João Vitorino, Sara Pittonet Gaiarin
Pubblicato in: OCEANS 2025 Brest, 2025
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS58557.2025.11104725

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Blue-cloud DAB: developing a platform to harmonize, assess and disseminate marine metadata collections

Autori: Boldrini E.; Roncella R.; Papeschi F.; Mazzetti P.; Schaap D.; Thijsse P.; Weerheim P.; Nativi S.
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s41060-024-00664-0

Editorial: data science and AI for marine science and the blue economy

Autori: Leonardo Candela, Pasquale Pagano, Hongsheng Bi, Dick Schaap
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Numero 22, 2026, ISSN 2364-415X
Editore: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S41060-026-01082-0

Integrating R in a Distributed Scientific Workflow via a Jupyter-Based Environment

Autori: La Marra, Mariantonietta; Blanson Henkemans, Diederik; Titocci, Jessica; Koulouzis, Spiros; Rosati, Ilaria; Zhao, Zhiming
Pubblicato in: 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2023, ISSN 2325-3703
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/e-science58273.2023.10254945

FAIR data management practices to introduce circular economy in aquaculture: benefits, barriers and a preliminary roadmap

Autori: Rita Giuffrida, Claudio de Majo, Maria Giuffrida, Ian D. Broadbent
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Numero 20, 2025, ISSN 2364-415X
Editore: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S41060-025-00765-4

Deploying Conversational Agents in Virtual Research Environments: Approaches and Lessons Learned

Autori: Massimiliano Assante, Leonardo Candela, Andrea Dell’Amico, Luca Frosini, Francesco Mangiacrapa, Alfredo Oliviero, Pasquale Pagano, Giancarlo Panichi, Biagio Peccerillo, Tommaso Piccioli, Marco Procaccini
Pubblicato in: SN Computer Science, Numero 7, 2026, ISSN 2661-8907
Editore: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S42979-026-04863-3

Journal of Cloud Computing

Autori: Hongyun Liu; Ruyue Xin; Peng Chen; Hui Gao; Paola Grosso; Zhiming Zhao
Pubblicato in: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2023), 2023, ISSN 2192-113X
Editore: Springer Science + Business Media
DOI: 10.1186/s13677-023-00434-6

Active Learning for Data Quality Control: A Survey

Autori: Na Li, Yiyang Qi, Chaoran Li, Zhiming Zhao
Pubblicato in: Journal of Data and Information Quality, Numero 16, 2025, ISSN 1936-1955
Editore: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3663369

D-VRE: From a Jupyter-enabled private research environment to decentralized collaborative research ecosystem

Autori: Yuandou Wang, Sheejan Tripathi, Siamak Farshidi, Zhiming Zhao
Pubblicato in: Blockchain: Research and Applications, Numero 6, 2025, ISSN 2096-7209
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.BCRA.2024.100244

A fine-grained robust performance diagnosis framework for run-time cloud applications

Autori: Ruyue Xin, Peng Chen, Paola Grosso, Zhiming Zhao
Pubblicato in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Numero 155, 2024, ISSN 0167-739X
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FUTURE.2024.02.014

The European Nucleotide Archive in 2023

Autori: David Yuan; Alisha Ahamed; Josephine Burgin; Carla Cummins; Rajkumar Devraj; Khadim Gueye; Dipayan Gupta; Vikas Gupta; Muhammad Haseeb; Maira Ihsan; Eugene Ivanov; Suran Jayathilaka; Vishnukumar Balavenkataraman Kadhirvelu; Manish Kumar; Ankur Lathi; Rasko Leinonen; Jasmine McKinnon; Lili Meszaros; Colman O’Cathail; Dennis Ouma; Joana Paupério; Stephane Pesant; Nadim Rahman; Gabriele Rinck; Sandeep Selvakumar; Swati Suman; Yanisa Sunthornyotin; Marianna Ventouratou; Senthilnathan Vijayaraja; Zahra Waheed; Peter Woollard; Ahmad Zyoud; Tony Burdett; Guy Cochrane
Pubblicato in: Nucleic Acids Research, 2023, ISSN 1362-4962
Editore: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/NAR/GKAD1067

CFTime.jl: a Julia package for representing time following the Climate and Forecast conventions

Autori: Alexander Barth
Pubblicato in: Journal of Open Source Software, Numero 10, 2025, ISSN 2475-9066
Editore: The Open Journal
DOI: 10.21105/JOSS.08487

CEPHALOPOD, a package to standardize marine habitat‐modelling practices and enhance inter‐comparability across biological observations

Autori: Alexandre Schickele, Corentin Clerc, Fabio Benedetti, Daniele De Angelis, Urs Hofmann Elizondo, Matthias Münnich, Jean‐Olivier Irisson, Meike Vogt
Pubblicato in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Numero 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-210X
Editore: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.70040