During the second reporting period, the AIP is the central gateway for scientific communities to find, access, and reuse aquatic digital resources. It is built on top of the DDAS and acts as a user-friendly access point to resources from the aquatic realm, such as research data, software, services, and training materials. The AquaINFRA DDAS user manual provides a guidance to the DDAS services.
The AIP assists users in finding, inspecting, and selecting relevant data as an input for an analysis in the VRE. The idea of the VRE is to have a web-based application where users can reuse existing tools, contribute with newly developed tools, and connect them to create readily shareable and reproducible workflows.
The VRE is based on Galaxy, a freely available online platform allowing users to analyse data, create workflows, and share such data and workflows with other Galaxy users and Zenodo. Tutorials on how to utilise the system are available on the frontpage of the AIP from where Data-to-Knowledge-Packages (D2K) stored at Zenodo, can also be accessed.
The AquaINFRA instance has been created at the Galaxy platform, and the Aqua’s Galaxy has been tested and form a key element in the AquaINFRA architecture.
The Hydrography dataset with integrated data, introduced the seamless connectivity framework within the AquaINFRA project. The framework focuses on establishing the connectivity between streams and rivers, as well as lakes, and how freshwater water bodies are connected to the coast and marine realm.
The connectivity framework sets the basis for subsequent aquatic data processing and analysis services across Europe. This seamless connectivity framework provides the foundation for reproducible freshwater geospatial analysis services to the research communities across the aquatic research disciplines.
Datasets will continuously be made available throughout the project, to address evolving needs while working with the use cases. During the socio-economic and biodiversity datasets and their integration to the AquaINFRA data ensemble, the goal is to enable users to capitalise on all these datasets seamlessly.
The use cases has formed the basis for the co-development of workflows has resulted in 41 AquaINFRA processing services / Galaxy tools
Based on user needs, Open Educational Resources (OERs) tailored to the AquaINFRA research infrastructure to enable community engagement and capacity building has been developed.
Explorations and negotiations are going on in order to find the best way to ensure long term sustainability of the AquaINFRA solutions.
