gCube is an

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software system specifically designed and developed to enact the building and operation of a

Data Infrastructure A data infrastructure is a digital infrastructure promoting data sharing and consumption. Similarly to other infrastructures, it is a structure needed for the operation of a society as well as the services and facilities necessary for an economy ...

providing their users with a rich array of services suitable for supporting the co-creation of Virtual Research Environments and promoting the implementation of

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workflows and practices. It is at the heart of the D4Science

. It is primarily organised in a number of

web service A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

called to offer functionality supporting the phases of knowledge production and sharing. In addition, it consists of a set of

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supporting service development, service-to-service integration, and service capabilities extension, and a set of

portlet Portlets are Pluggable look and feel, pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal. A portlet responds to requests from a web client with and generates dynamic content. A portlet is managed by a portle ...

s dedicated to realise user interface constituents facilitating the exploitation of one or more services. It is designed and conceived to enact

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. In fact, its gCube services rely on standards and mediators to interact with other services as well as are made available by standard and APIs to make it possible for clients to use them. For instance, the DataMiner service implements the

Web Processing Service The OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard provides rules for standardizing inputs and outputs (requests and responses) for invoking geospatial processing services, such as polygon overlay, as a web service. The WPS standard defines h ...

protocol to facilitate clients to execute processes. The set of components dealing with

Identity and Access Management Identity and access management (IAM or IdAM) or Identity management (IdM), is a framework of policies and technologies to ensure that the right users (that are part of the ecosystem connected to or within an enterprise) have the appropriate acce ...

rely on

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and federates other IDMs thus making the overall

Authentication Authentication (from ''authentikos'', "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης ''authentes'', "author") is the act of proving an Logical assertion, assertion, such as the Digital identity, identity of a computer system user. In contrast with iden ...

and the

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management compliant with open standards such as

OAuth OAuth (short for open authorization) is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords. Th ...

2, User-Managed Access (UMA), and OpenID Connect ( OIDC)protocols. The Catalogue relies on DCAT,

OAI-PMH The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a protocol developed for harvesting metadata descriptions of records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives. An implementation of OAI ...

, and Catalogue Service for the Web to collect contents from other catalogues and data sources and offers its content by DCAT,

, and a proprietary REST API (gCat REST API). Its

Continuous Integration Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of integrating source code changes frequently and ensuring that the integrated codebase is in a workable state. Typically, developers Merge (version control), merge changes to an Branching (revisio ...

Continuous Delivery Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time. It aims at building, testing, and releasing software with greater speed ...

pipeline implemented by

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represents an innovative approach to software delivering conceived to be scalable and easy to maintain and upgrade at a minimal cost.

History

gCube has been developed in the context of the D4Science initiative with the support of several EU projects.

External links

gCube System Website

gCube Releases

gCube on Open Hub

gCube on Zenodo

References

{{Cloud computing E-Science Cloud computing Science software Free software programmed in Java (programming language)

History

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