Description:
This document aims to establish the requirements and the technological basis and design of the PANACEA platform. These are the main goals of the document: a) Survey the different technological approaches that can be used in PANACEA, b) Specify some guidelines for the metadata, c) Establish the requirements for the platform, d) Make a Common Interface proposal for the tools, e) Propose a format for the data to be exchanged by the tools (Travelling Object), f) Choose the technologies that will be used to develop the platform, and g) Propose a workplan.