Infrastructures for Science (InfraScience)

Head: Donatella Castelli

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Web Site: https://infrascience.isti.cnr.it

Modern science is heavily data and compute-intensive, AI-assisted, participatory, and multidisciplinary. Similarly, sharing and publishing of scientific results are going to be revolutionized to support openness, transparency and reproducibility, and to enable rewards for scientists who publish results of their work beyond the scientific articles. These approaches are expressions of a profound evolution of science practices that on the one hand is enacted by, and on the other demand for, a continuous innovation in IT instruments and approaches.

The InfraScience Laboratory mission is to contribute to this evolution by investigating, experimenting, and closely connecting research and development of innovative digital infrastructures, information systems, and smart solutions for fostering and empowering data-centered research.

The research topics are organised into three interwoven areas:

  • Data Infrastructures including Systems of Systems architectures; Distributed and fault-tolerant computing platforms; Distributed and efficient multi-platform storage solutions; Elastic, scalable and cross-platform data analytics; FAIR data management;
  • eScience including Collaborative and social computing systems; Virtual Research Environments and Science Gateways; Scientometrics; Scholarly Knowledge Graphs; Computational reproducibility and provenance in scientific workflows; Scientific publishing;
  • Intelligent Systems including Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Statistical Relational Learning; Intelligent Integration and Access to Data; Recommender systems.

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Projects

ATLAS

The ATLAS of Italian Digital Humanities: a dynamic knowledge graph of digital scholarly research on Italian Cultural Heritage

Blue Cloud

Blue-Cloud: Piloting innovative services for Marine Research & the Blue Economy

Blue Cloud 2026

A federated European FAIR and Open Research Ecosystem for oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters

CODECS

Maximising the CO-benefits of agricultural Digitalisation through conducive digital ECoSystems

CRAFT-OA

Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access

D4GNA

D4GNA - Geoportale Nazionale per l’Archeologia

D4Science

D4Science Infrastructure

DESIRA InfraScience

Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts in Rural Areas

EcoScope

Ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems

EOSC Future

EOSC Future

FAIRCORE4EOSC

Core Components Supporting a FAIR EOSC

FOSSR - CUP B83C22003950001

FOSSR - Fostering Open Science in Social Science Research

I-GENE

In-vivo Gene Editing by NanotransducErs

MOVING

Mountain Valorization through Interconnectedness and Green Growth

NAVIGATOR

An Imaging Biobank to Precisely Prevent and Predict cancer, and facilitate the Participation of oncologic patients to Diagnosis and Treatment

OpenAIRE Nexus

OpenAIRE-Nexus Scholarly Communication Services for EOSC users

PE14_RESTART_Spoke2_WN-B53C22003970001

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PE14 - RESTART - RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART Spoke 2

PE_RESTART_Spoke5_SEDC-B53C22003970001

RESTART_RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART Spoke 5

RISIS 2

European Research Infrastructure for Science, technology and Innovation policy Studies 2

Skills4EOSC

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Skills for the European Open Science Commons: Creating a Training Ecosystem for Open and FAIR Science

SoBigData RI PPP

SoBigData RI Preparatory Phase Project

SoBigData++

SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics’ — ‘SoBigData-PlusPlus’

SoBigData.it - CUP B53C22001760006

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SoBigData.it: Strengthening the Italian RI for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics

TAILOR (InfraScience)

Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization

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