gCube is an

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

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providing their users with a rich array of services suitable for supporting the co-creation of Virtual Research Environments and promoting the implementation of open science workflows and practices. It is at the heart of the

D4Science D4Science is an organisation operating a Data Infrastructure offering a rich array of services by community-driven virtual research environments. In particular, it supports communities of practice willing to implement open science practices. Th ...

. It is primarily organised in a number of web service 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 The Java Portlet Specification defines a contract between the portlet container and portlets and provides a convenient programming model for Java portlet developers. Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and ...

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

system of systems System of systems is a collection of task-oriented or dedicated systems that pool their resources and capabilities together to create a new, more complex system which offers more functionality and performance than simply the sum of the constituent s ...

. 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 ...

protocol to facilitate clients to execute processes. The set of components dealing with Identity and Access Management rely on

Keycloak Keycloak is an open source software product to allow single sign-on with Identity and Access Management aimed at modern applications and services. this WildFly community project is under the stewardship of Red Hat who use it as the upstream p ...

and federates other IDMs thus making the overall

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and the

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management compliant with open standards such as

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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-P ...

, 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/

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pipeline implemented by Jenkins represents an innovative approach to software delivering conceived to be scalable and easy to maintain and upgrade at a minimal cost
see Jenkins Case Study
.

History

gCube has been developed in the context of the

initiative with th
support of several EU projects

External links

gCube System Website

gCube Releases

gCube on Open Hub

gCube on Zenodo

References

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History

See also

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