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+# gCube Catalogue Service
+
+This service allows any client to publish on the gCube Catalogue.
+
+## Structure of the project
+
+* Relevant information about how the repository is organized.
+* Description of the Maven modules (if any). 
+* Any information needed to work with the code.
+
+## Built With
+
+* [OpenJDK](https://openjdk.java.net/) - The JDK used
+* [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) - Dependency Management
+
+## Documentation
+
+[gCat Service](https://wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/GCat_Service)
+
+## Change log
+
+See [Releases](https://code-repo.d4science.org/gCubeSystem/gcat/releases).
+
+## Authors
+
+* **Luca Frosini** ([ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3183-2291)) - [ISTI-CNR Infrascience Group](http://nemis.isti.cnr.it/groups/infrascience)
+
+## How to Cite this Software
+
+Tell people how to cite this software. 
+* Cite an associated paper?
+* Use a specific BibTeX entry for the software?
+
+
+    @Manual{,
+        title = {gcat},
+        author = {{Frosini, Luca}},
+        organization = {ISTI - CNR},
+        address = {Pisa, Italy},
+        year = 2019,
+        url = {http://www.gcube-system.org/}
+    } 
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the EUPL V.1.1 License - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details.
+
+
+## About the gCube Framework
+This software is part of the [gCubeFramework](https://www.gcube-system.org/ "gCubeFramework"): an
+open-source software toolkit used for building and operating Hybrid Data
+Infrastructures enabling the dynamic deployment of Virtual Research Environments
+by favouring the realisation of reuse oriented policies.
+ 
+The projects leading to this software have received funding from a series of European Union programmes including:
+
+- the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
+    - DILIGENT (grant no. 004260);
+- the Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration 
+    - D4Science (grant no. 212488), D4Science-II (grant no.239019), ENVRI (grant no. 283465), EUBrazilOpenBio (grant no. 288754), iMarine(grant no. 283644);
+- the H2020 research and innovation programme 
+    - BlueBRIDGE (grant no. 675680), EGIEngage (grant no. 654142), ENVRIplus (grant no. 654182), Parthenos (grant no. 654119), SoBigData (grant no. 654024),DESIRA (grant no. 818194), ARIADNEplus (grant no. 823914), RISIS2 (grant no. 824091), PerformFish (grant no. 727610), AGINFRAplus (grant no. 731001);
+
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