About eVRE

Written by Pascale Peyrol on 30 September 2017. Posted in eVRE, last updated on 07 November 2018

e-VRE stands for enhanced Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and proposes a reference architecture structured along three logical tiers:

The Application tier: functions to manage and expand the system.
The Interoperability tier: functions to discover and use resources, to publish functionalities and enable applications to interact with each other.
The Resource Access tier: functions to enable e-VRE components to interact with resources.

eVRE Key features

Rich use-case and requirement collection and analysis from existing RIs and VREs
Domain independent, 3-tier Reference Architecture for new VREs and an evolutionary target for existing VREs
Micro-service based Technical Architecture for easy adoption of specific components
Scalability and cross-RI interoperability by Design
Trust, Security and Privacy aware
Rich RI-Resource data model for widest adoption with matching from the main used standards of metadata models
Existing VREs enhancement show case
Open source

The origin of eVRE

The e-VRE platform has been designed and developed by a consortium of 8 members within the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation action VRE4EIC, under the leadership of ERCIM

Read more about the Software (eVRE technical architecture, Canonical Reference Prototype, GUI Design)