D5.1 Specification of online collaboration and knowledge sharing environment

This deliverable reflects upon the State-of-the-Art (SoTA) review and most importantly the specifications for the online collaboration and knowledge sharing environment that will be utilized within INSPIRE project.
The core objective of Task 5.1: KSH and CoP collaboration infrastructure, is to setup an online collaboration space for partners, Knowledge Sharing (KSH) and the 12 Communities of Practice (CoPs) of the project based upon a self-hosted open-source project management and cloud storage solution.
This deliverable provides an initial SoTA review of such solutions that have been considered as potential candidates for implementing this infrastructure, and then proceeds with a summary of the final specifications and services that should be available for the support of knowledge sharing and the CoPs of the project which will be implemented and maintained throughout the duration of the project until the end.
Part of the work within this task also includes periodically maintain and update the respective infrastructure and will administrate overall user management, authentication and authorization aspects in order to manage user and group accounts for recruited CoPs, Consortium members, as well as for online support package delivery beyond CoPs.