Zero-In Third Issue eMagazine

Dear Readers,

Welcome to this third issue of Zero-In!

I hope you find the contributions as inspiring as I do. We focus this time on e-Research: a fundamental e-Infrastructures application, not only for researchers themselves but for policy-makers who increasingly see it as a platform for enhanced competitiveness.

In e-Research we tend to think of the technology that facilitates our collaborative research across global communities of practice. This technology focus, although fundamental, tends to overshadow two key prerequisites: people and law. In the article about Epikh, we see training exchanges between Africa, Latin America and the EU that promote grids as a means for developing e-Science applications and skills in the future.  As well as people, the law is key. In ‘ERIC’ we see a proposal for a new legal instrument for research infrastructures. The community needs to discuss this and implement it as soon as possible: realising ERIC will uncork the innovative talent bottled up by legal uncertainty in sustained e-Research. How far it be applied globally is the next, very serious question to tackle.

As ever there is a wide range of rich articles from many research domains in this issue. Splash, for instance, is an exciting example of e-Infrastructures. In fact,  the very technology that has helped us discover our history beneath the waves can also prevent more of humanity from disappearing under rising sea levels in the future by enabling climate modelling and forecasting.

Get reading…and be inspired!

Download the magazine in pdf version or read the single articles clicking on the links below:

• Metafor: managing metadata for climate models
• Grid infrastructures in European research: lessons from EGEE
• e-Infrastructure for scientific data in the psycholinguistics: a survey by PARSE.Insight
• Giving computational science a friendly face
• EMOTIVE: the BSC's engine for Cloud solutions
• Outcomes of the BELIEF workshop on Data Provenance
• Climate-G: an international testbed on climate change
  

• The DARIAH e-Infrastructure
• Video Active - European Television Heritage online
• Audiovisual and film archives create futures: the European Film Gateway
• Early human history: waiting under the waves....

• gLite: leading the development and adoptionof standards

• Legal issues in e-Infrastructures
• Going green with e-Infrastructures
• e-Infrastructure for Environment Sustainable Development

• Very high speed research network to boost South Africa's national cyberinfrastructure
• Enabling knowledge transfer with th EPIKH project
• Global e-Infrastructures of IPv6 experimental laboratories
• Cloud computing: an e-Infrastructure for collaborative research