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-The gCube System - spd model library
-
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-
-This work has been partially supported by the following European projects: DILIGENT (FP6-2003-IST-2), 
-D4Science (FP7-INFRA-2007-1.2.2), D4Science-II (FP7-INFRA-2008-1.2.2), iMarine (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2), 
-and EUBrazilOpenBio (FP7-ICT-2011-EU-Brazil).
-
+The gCube System - ${name}
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+${description}
+ 
+ 
+${gcube.description}
+ 
+${gcube.funding}
+ 
+ 
+Version
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+${version} (${buildDate})
+ 
+Please see the file named "changelog.xml" in this directory for the release notes.
+ 
 
 Authors
 -------
 
 * Lucio Lelii (lucio.lelii@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa, 
   Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo".
-  
-  
-Version and Release Date
-------------------------
 
-v. 1.0.0 (17-01-2013)
-        * First release
-    
-        
-Description
+Maintainers
 -----------
 
+* Lucio Lelii (lucio.lelii@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa, 
+  Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo".
   
-  
-  Download information
---------------------
-
 
+Download information
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Source code is available from SVN: 
+    ${scm.url}
+ 
+Binaries can be downloaded from the gCube website: 
+   ${gcube.website}
+ 
+ 
+Installation
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Installation documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
+    ${gcube.wikiRoot}
 
 Documentation 
 -------------
 
 Documentation is available on-line from the Projects Documentation Wiki:
-https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/Biodiversity_Access
-
+ ${gcube.wikiRoot}/Biodiversity_Access
 
+Support 
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Bugs and support requests can be reported in the gCube issue tracking tool:
+    ${gcube.issueTracking}
+ 
+ 
 Licensing
----------
-
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
 This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
-
-
-