June 19th, 2020 11:00 AM CEST

The use of Big Data technologies will pave the way for new solutions. Blue-Cloud is compiling and processing several data resources currently available under different European marine networks, data centers, and research infrastructures, applying big data analysis and machine learning methods in order to obtain FAIR data products (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). However, Blue-Cloud doesn’t simply focus on data storage, discovery and access services, but also on developing and providing analytical frameworks with Virtual Research Environments (VREs) for setting up and running analytical processes by and for users to support their research.

The Blue-Cloud selected five dedicated Demonstrators as Virtual Labs co-designed with top-level marine researchers, to showcase how the Blue Cloud can shorten the time span between research and innovation in the blue economy field. Each service (Virtual Lab) will provide access to datasets, products, and computations routine exploitable to analyse datasets and (re)generate products. This is at core of the open science that is a pillar of the Blue Cloud platform. Each demonstrator is developed in close cooperation between the Blue Cloud technical team and with researchers in order to describe the required analytical workflows and to use these for designing the Virtual Labs. Read more here. Register here.