Who are we talking about? The Role of Person Identifiers in Scholarly Communications

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Laura Paglione

Persistent unique identifiers have been a mainstay in scholarly communication for many years. It would be difficult to think of precisely describing a book without its ISBN or an article without its DOI. Until recently, identifiers most commonly referred to the activities or outcomes of research,...

WS-PGRADE/gUSE: supporting e-Science communities in Europe

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Zoltan Farkas

Scientists without a strong background in IT need user-friendly science gateways to run their experiments on different compute infrastructures using data from diverse types of storage services. A proper core science gateway framework can be used to hide the details of accessing these compute and...