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    Dear QGIS developers,<br>
    at the National Research Council of Italy in Pisa we have just
    released a free WPS service running in a distributed
    e-Infrastructure and using Cloud computing behind the scenes. The
    name of the service is DataMiner and collects several methods
    developed by computational biology, oceanography and data mining
    communities. We have successfully tested this service with QGIS and
    we would like to make it available among the default WPS services in
    the official distribution of QGIS.<br>
    <br>
    The service usage is free, after obtaining a token on our projects
    Web portal (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://i-marine.d4science.org">http://i-marine.d4science.org</a>)
    and subscribing to one of our Virtual Research Environments. The
    available algorithms change according to the VRE. <br>
    <br>
    The access point to this distributed network of web services is <a
      class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService">http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService</a></a><br>
    <br>
    To make the service work you need to provide a user token. Here is
    one user name and token for testing purposes:
    statistical.manager/2f993647-a724-4f47-abec-968717beaa70<br>
    <br>
    Sample calls:<br>
    <b>Capabilities in the testing VRE:</b>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService?service=WPS&Request=GetCapabilities">http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService?service=WPS&Request=GetCapabilities</a><br>
    <b>Input of the DBScan algorithm:</b>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService?Request=DescribeProcess&Service=WPS&Version=1.0.0&Identifier=org.gcube.dataanalysis.wps.statisticalmanager.synchserver.mappedclasses.clusterers.DBSCAN">http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService?Request=DescribeProcess&Service=WPS&Version=1.0.0&Identifier=org.gcube.dataanalysis.wps.statisticalmanager.synchserver.mappedclasses.clusterers.DBSCAN</a><br>
    <b>Execution of DBScan:</b>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService?request=Execute&service=WPS&Version=1.0.0&lang=en-US&Identifier=org.gcube.dataanalysis.wps.statisticalmanager.synchserver.mappedclasses.clusterers.DBSCAN&DataInputs=OccurrencePointsClusterLabel=OccClustersTest;epsilon=10;min_points=1;OccurrencePointsTable=http://goo.gl/VDzpch;FeaturesColumnNames=depthmean">http://dataminer.d4science.org/wps/WebProcessingService?request=Execute&service=WPS&Version=1.0.0&lang=en-US&Identifier=org.gcube.dataanalysis.wps.statisticalmanager.synchserver.mappedclasses.clusterers.DBSCAN&DataInputs=OccurrencePointsClusterLabel=OccClustersTest;epsilon=10;min_points=1;OccurrencePointsTable=http://goo.gl/VDzpch;FeaturesColumnNames=depthmean</a>|sstmnmax|salinitymean;<br>
    <br>
    Some documentation is available here <a
      class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="https://wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/DataMiner_Installation"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/DataMiner_Installation">https://wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/DataMiner_Installation</a></a><br>
    Surrounding papers about the back-end system are <a
      class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.3030/abstract"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.3030/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.3030/abstract</a></a>
    and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.3435/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.3435/abstract</a><br>
    <br>
    Thank you very much for your attention and I hope you will help me
    understanding how to embed the WPS link within QGIS releases.<br>
    <br>
    Regards,<br>
    Gianpaolo Coro<br>
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