The D4science II project was represented at the 5th EGEE User Forum meeting held from 12-16 april by the Uppsala University( Sweden).

1. Building Scientific Workflows for the Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Community based on Virtual Research Environments was presented by Pedro Andrade (CERN).
   The management of resources related to the Fisheries and Aquaculture (FARM) domain is complex and involves different scientific activities. The people involved in the domain are distributed worldwide: scientists in the field, regional statistics departments, national governing bodies, etc. Distributed information must be produced, analyzed, processed, shared, and preserved by all multiple actors through a number of scientific workflows. The D4Science-II project provides a number of Virtual Research Environments (VREs) to address the collaboration needs of this community.
2. Pros and Cons of cloud adoption in the Scientific Data Infrastructures - the D4S-II case was presented by Andrea Manieri (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.)
   The D4Science-II project provides as major product the gCube middleware. It is a grid-enabled service oriented middleware enabling the creation and operation of Virtual Research Environments, to serve the management and exploitation of scientific data. As part of the D4Science-II project a study on the impact of cloud technology (mainly Virtualisation) and cloud capabilities (on-demand availability and scalability) on the gCube software will be performed. The study will also analyse the impact of cloud technology from a commercial point of view (market positioning, possible exploitation strategies).